{"id":1711,"date":"2008-02-27T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2008-02-27T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:05:10","slug":"on-wednesday-morning-meme-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"On Wednesday Morning Meme-age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning, James Bow<\/a> tagged me with a meme. What sort of meme? “Share six non-important things\/habits\/quirks about (my)self.”<\/p>\n

1) My eyes change color. They can go from a pale green to a dark grey, with stops in-between at brown and blue. I’ve sometimes wondered if it’s diet. Or, in my stranger moments, I wonder if my consciousness has slipped into a parallel universe. I wrote a Deep Space Nine<\/b> short story for the Strange New Worlds<\/i> contest based on the latter premise a few years ago; then I read Jonatham Letham’s “Five Fucks,” and decided Letham had done that story better than I ever<\/i> could.<\/p>\n

2) Sometimes when I wake at night, I feel like my body isn’t mine<\/i>. It’s not shaped right. Maybe my hair is wrong, or my arms are in the wrong places (or I don’t have enough<\/i> arms). It’s a strange feeling, due probably to the brain being in one place — deep REM sleep — and the body in a different place.<\/p>\n

3) I think sequels to 1980’s movies that were probably never intended to have<\/i> sequels would be a good idea, and feed into Hollywood’s nostalgia kick. I have plots in mind for sequels to Dead Poets Society<\/i> and Three Men and a Baby\/Little Lady<\/i>, for instance. In the former, it’s a school reunion some twenty years after the events of the film. In the latter, Mary goes off to college. And I think the latter film is viable; I mean, just what are Ted Danson, Steve Gutenberg, and Nancy Travis doing this days, hmm? It’s not a bad writing trick; take an old movie, and imagine what the characters are doing twenty years later.<\/p>\n

4) I have never read Watchmen<\/i>. Oh, I’ve started<\/i> Watchmen<\/i>, I’ve started Watchmen<\/i> many<\/i> times, and I find that I. Just. Don’t. Care. I honestly blame the writing, not the artwork. I think Dave Gibbons’ artwork is fine and evocative. There’s something about Alan Moore’s writing that doesn’t click<\/i> with me. Take From Hell<\/i>. I’m quite iffy on From Hell<\/i>, but I may have gone into the book with mistaken intentions. I thought Moore was writing a serious look at the Jack-the-Ripper murders, so when he takes what is roundly considered to be the least<\/i> plausible theory of the murders (so implausible that the writer who came up with the theory admitted years later that it was all a hoax), it’s difficult to take the story at all seriously. Moore is obviously brilliant, but his brilliance doesn’t work for me. I probably wouldn’t have liked his issues of Radioactive Man<\/i>, either.<\/p>\n

4) I’ve never drunk a Budweiser. With so many different beers to choose from in the store, I never gravitated that way. Today, I’d probably look at a Bud and say, “But I can see<\/i> through that! It’s obviously not dark enough! How can anyone<\/i> drink that?” Same with Coors and Miller, though I did sample both of those in college.<\/p>\n

5) When I went to work for EB Games, I didn’t own a video game console. And I didn’t — for eighteen months. Which meant that I didn’t play the games I was selling — because I couldn’t<\/i> play the games I was selling.<\/p>\n

6) I didn’t like The X-Files<\/i>. I’d watch it, but… I didn’t like it.<\/p>\n

Anyone who wants to play, feel free. Six random factoids about you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning, James Bow tagged me with a meme. What sort of meme? “Share six non-important things\/habits\/quirks about (my)self.” 1) My eyes change color. They can go from a pale green to a dark grey, with stops in-between at brown and blue. I’ve sometimes wondered if it’s diet. Or, in my stranger moments, I wonderContinue reading “On Wednesday Morning Meme-age”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[4107],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","tag-memes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}