Everything we do tonight is wrong, wrong, wrong

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From kraada, a meme. I will be out of town for the weekend and potentially AWOI (absent without internet), so my replies may take a few days, but—

Comment and I will:

1. Tell you why I added you to my friends list and/or why I keep you there.

2. Associate you with something. A song, a color, a work of art, a character in a play, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.

3. Tell you something I like about you.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you/us.

5. Associate you with a character from a book or a film.

6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)

7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

8. In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

Comments

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1. You write interestingly. Do I need a better reason?

2. Lal Waterson, "The Flight of the Pelican."

3. You wrote an entire verse play about the redemption of Iago and it was good.

4. Our nightlong e-mail conversations.

5. BZ Gundhalinu, from Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen, World's End, The Summer Queen.

6. How many of your poems do you consider autobiographical?

7. "I WRITE LIKE A MOFO!"

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

*heart* OK, must reply to these. ;)

1. Awww.

2. I have no idea who/what this is.

3. I do wish at least one theatre in the country agreed with you ;_;

4. We have to do those again.

5. I had to look this one up, too. I think this is a complement? It seems people like him *g*.

6. Oh my, that's tricky to explain. A lot of my work deals with, or is deeply informed by, mental illness, so in that sense, most of it. But when when we're talking about the ones that center on a father and daughter pair, that number gets raised to all. Either the poem is about my relationship to my father, or it is about how I wish that relationship had been. Of all my poems, "Elise" and "Harpagon's Coffin" are the most autobiographical in a sense; even though my father was never physically abusive, for example, he was still a miser, and a very angry man, and I often felt as conflicted and terrified as Elise. I don't really know if that answered anything.

7. Haha. I stole this one from kittydesade, who stole it from someone else, I believe. Do you know what comic it comes from? It's called Sinfest.

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2. I have no idea who/what this is.

It's a song. It contains the phrase "upstart old crow," which I associate more with your livejournal handle than with you, but some of the lyrics also seemed to apply.

5. I had to look this one up, too. I think this is a complement? It seems people like him

Heh. He is a terrific character. You might like the book; it is a very close far-future retelling of The Snow Queen, with lots of solstitial myth. And none of its characters are flat.

7. Haha. I stole this one from kittydesade, who stole it from someone else, I believe. Do you know what comic it comes from? It's called Sinfest.

I've never heard of it. Should I read it?