Heisted from annlarimer

See, what I plan to do from now on is rip off entries from everyone else, instead of actually writing my own entries. Which is sad, really, because yesterday I joined the circus, this morning I won the lottery, and tomorrow I'm getting married to the dog-faced boy, so let me tell you, things around here are really getting interesting for once. Especially since the fat lady had that litter of two-headed kittens.

Um, sleepy now?

1. If you had to choose an alias, what would it be?
Jennifer Aniston, but only if I get the life, the bank account, the body, and the husband that go with it.

2. Where were you on 9/11?
Geographically, my aunt's house in Raleigh. Mentally, on the right hand of absolutely freaking nuts. (Her house lies right under the flight path of the Raleigh-Durham airport, the perfect place to be when planes are falling out of the sky. Except for, you know, New York and Washington and western Pennsylvania.)

3. What is your ideal vacation?
Sunny, breezy beach? Check. Strawberry daquiri? Check. My Powerball winnings sitting in a big pile next to my chair? Double check.

Hey. Hey, what's that? Is that ... yes, yes, it's Viggo Mortensen, and ... hmm. He seems to have lost his towel. I think I'll go help him look for it. Or perhaps, cover him up by leaping at him and wrapping my legs around his waist.

Mmmmm. Insanity, you are my most beloved friend ever.

4. How many first cousins do you have?
Ten altogether.

5. How do you take your pizza?
Orally. (Seriously, with mushrooms. Lots and loooooooots of mushrooms.

6. If you could be fluent in any foreign language (that you are not already) what would it be?
Gaelic, Esperanto, and whatever alien language it is that Ozzy's speaking.

7. What is your favorite website?
Ogrish.com. Yes, I'm gross and disturbing. Corpses, lovely corpses ... *user prances off to sing lalalala songs like the innocent little thing everybody thinks she is ...*

8. If you could experience another era of history, which would it be?
The Old West would probably be cool. You know, as long as no one shot me or gave me consumption or ate me after we got stranded in the Sierra Nevadas.

9. What is your favorite genre of movies?
Anything Britney Spears isn't starring in and Rob Zombie isn't directing.

10. If you could have any one superpower, what would it be?
Teleportation and the ability to put up with most reality TV shows.

11. Can you whistle?
Sure. I make a really impressive one when the wind blows through my ears. And just think of the breeze the hamster gets! Not like he needs it, the lazy bastard.

12. If you could be any animal for a day, what would it be?
The Muppet.

13. Who is your favorite fictional character?
George W. Bush.

14. Star Wars or Star Trek?
Star Search.

15. What is your favorite beverage?
Human blood. Oh, wait, you meant on days when I'm not sacrificing the innocent to my dark overlord, right? Okay, then I'd have to go with Smirnoff Ice.

16. What brand of toothpaste do you use?
Elmer's.

17. What is your favorite professional sports team?
The Chudley Cannons. (And amazingly enough, no, I'm not just saying that because the day after tomorrow is Saturday. Utopia will be reached as soon as someone figures out how to get broomsticks to fly and I can get my sorry ass into a Chaser's position somewhere.)

18. Are you "indoorsy" or "outdoorsy"?
Indoorsy, unless the house is on fire.

19. What is your earliest childhood memory?
Birth.

Uh, no, wait. Brownies. My first meal of nice, tasty brownies.

I always get those two confused.

20. If you could play any musical instrument, what would it be?
Mark McGrath. (No, wait, that's my answer for "If you could play with any musical tool ..." So I guess I'll have to go with the accordion. I've been told all of the really kick-ass people play the accordion.)

21. What's your favorite accent?
The one in the word "cliche."

22. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Taller. (I didn't ask for much. And, coincidentally, didn't get it, either.)

23. Are you a dog person or a cat person?
No, I'm a person person. Jo-Jo is a dog person. The creepy rich lady who got all the plastic surgery is a cat person. Sheesh, what a silly question ...

24. If they were making a movie or TV show of your life, who would you choose to play you?
I don't know. Are any of the Munchkins still alive?

25. What is your favorite element (earth, fire, water or air)?
Fire. Mmmmmmm ... fire pretty.

26. If you could compete in any event in the Olympics (summer or winter) what would it be?
Why? Are they going to be getting competitive novel writing like in that Monty Python sketch?

27. What is your favorite Sunday comic strip?
In the past few months, the front page.

28. What kind of music do you listen to?
Anything not sung by an American Idol competitor. (Except for Ruben, who's cuddly-wuddly like a chubby little chocolate lab puppy. And except for Justin, who has better hair than me. And except for Kelly, who's funny to listen to just to hear my brother talk about how much he'd like to "do" her. And except for Clay, who I would have started handing over firstborn children to see throw down his "geek-to-chic" haircut and bum-rush Simon. Broadway, my ass. Bitch, hang onto your accent, you're going down.

So okay, maybe that wasn't the best answer in the world ...)

29. What is your favorite breakfast cereal?
Fruity Pebbles. (Which are only good if you eat them within fifteen seconds of the milk hitting their tasty colors-not-found-in-nature goodness.)

30. What is your worst habit?
Breathing.

JKR's suing the Daily News ...

... for spoiling tidbits of the Order of the Phoenix. Argh. Wench, you got all of us hooked on your story and then waited three freaking years to put out book five, and now you're pissy because two days early, someone spoiled some of it?

If I were that judge, I wouldn't bother listening to testimony. I'm ruling immediately that everyone who's been as impatient as I have gets to fling a copy of Order of the Phoenix at JKR's head. The line to use the catapults forms to the right. You know, unless you really want that hernia you're going to get trying to lift and throw the damn thing.

Needed: Two LJ codes

Anybody got two LJ codes lying around that I can heist? I've got two friends who want to join but I don't have any spares left. Email me privately if you do, and thanks!

The Fandom Meme ...

... snagged from jenboo. I don't want to go to work, either, sweetie. I feel your pain. :)

1. What was the very first fandom you got involved in?
Highlander: The Series, in '96. Was into it from the beginning, but it wasn't until second year of college that my friend Aisha got me hooked on the Internet. *sigh* And the addiction continues ...

2. What is the most recent fandom to catch your interest?
I just came back to X-Men (mostly movieverse) after a looooong hiatus since the first movie came out. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- me's a fickle bastisch, me is.

3. Fandom you've stayed loyal to the longest?
Buffy/Angel, definitely. Joss had me from day one, but the last two seasons of Buffy ran me so ragged with Marti Noxon and her Mary-Sue-dom that I didn't watch much, or to be honest hardly any, of seasons six or seven. I can say, however, that now that they've gotten rid of Connor (hopefully forever), I should be back on my Angel jones come next season. (As long as that they don't drag that tired soulmate tripe over there, too.)

4. Fandom(s) you're most passionate about?
Buffy. Hooked since day one and just got more and more pissed the closer to the end they got. An easy way to get me to start ranting is to give me a Buffy-related topic from any season since Riley and the Initiative. But first, make sure your clothes are flame-retardent and you know where all the fire exits are.

5. Fandom(s) you wish you could get into, but can't?
Harry Potter. I'm a nitpicking fool, but I just feel inadequate looking at the little details that go into it. At least with X-Men movieverse, I've got a lot more leeway.

6. Fandoms you're curious about, but never had the chance to get into?
The Shield. Hell, I don't even know if there is much of a fandom, but I love the show so much my hands itch to write something for it. The problem lies in the scheduling -- I've only been able to see Season one, unfortunately.

7. Fandom that's been the most fun to be involved in?
Highlander was fun when I started because it was filled with some great fans, was easy to maneuver, and the show wasn't hard to miss, considering it played about a million times in syndication. But X-Men movieverse is great because I never have to be totally serious. I'm just there to have a good time ...

8. Fandom that's been the least fun to be involved in?
... whereas being a Buffy fan is work. Intense mental struggle that should come with a warning label and your own personal flamethrower. Fun in its own way, but still, it had its downsides. Being a S/B 'shipper alone was just asking for a shower of hammers to rain upon my head. God forbid I should be disgusted by the lack of imagination it takes to write "soulmates" and not really care about the relationship of two characters I know will go own "forevah!!!" Ick. (Note: Not all B/A 'shippers are insane. But some of them have some serious issues. I worry.)

9. Fandom you're ashamed to admit you were involved in?
For about ten minutes, I was in the Tomorrow People fandom. The lame one. The one that was on Nickelodeon with that redheaded guy who took the bomb to the homeworld in "Battlefield Earth." I still like the mythology from that show, just ... blech. Could it have been made with less of a budget? I got the impression after a while that every episode was made with whatever change the cast and crew could dig out from underneath their car seats.

10. Are you looking for a new fandom, or actively avoiding getting sucked into something new?
Not avoiding, not actively looking. I've got my eye open just in case there's a new show I like (I'm going to watch "Dead Like Me" on Showtime tomorrow to see if that's worth anything), but it's not like I'm desperately looking for new material. Got my own original characters to worry about, after all.

11. Are there any fandoms that just don't do it for you at all?
Anime stuff confuses the hell out of me. The last two movies have turned me off ever even thinking about reading Star Wars fic. And Star Trek ... well, can't say as I like it, but the mstings of the Marissa Picard stories are always worth it. :)

12. What fandoms do you think you will probably get into at some point in the future?
Possibly Lord of the Rings, but I'd definitely need to read up on it a bit more.

13. If I could make a movie (or another movie) out of any of my fandoms, what would it be like and who would it star?
I don't think I'd lean toward a movie so much as making a TV show about being a student at Xavier's. A weekly fix of mutants ... mmm. It'd be sort of like Buffy ... a little comedy, a little drama, a little sci-fi. And it'd have all of the students who were in the movies, along with maybe one or two more. (You know, dye my hair back to blond and I could make a pretty good Tabitha ... why not? It's my TV show, I'll cast whatever awful actors -- including me -- that I want.)

14. What squicks you to the point that it would keep you from reading a story?
Mary Sues. Bad grammar and spelling. And two words -- Soul. Mates.