Randomness (or, the Mean Meme)
I was tagged by MEK.
The Rules:
- Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
- At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
- Don’t forget to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them they’ve been tagged, and to come back and read your blog for the whole story.
Oh, boy! So let me think of 8 random facts or habits...
1. My name means "Town of Peace." I've been accused of being a lot of things in my lifetime, but I've never been confused for a town. A village, once, but that's another story. Makes you wonder what my Mom was smoking. Nevermind.
2. I have prehensile toes. I can pick things up with them. I'm told my father could write with his feet. I can't write with my feet, but my handwriting is so bad, I might as well.
3. I'm thinking about taking up smoking to age my appearance, just so people will quit thinking I'm still in high school.
4. I don't speak a word of Klingon. I thought I was speaking Klingon once, but I just had some chest congestion.
5. I used to pretend I was a cat when I was a kid. Sometimes I still wish I was. I'd love to have nothing to do but eat, sleep, snort catnip, and lick myself.
6. I think stories of Phillip K. Dick are highly overrated.
7. My cholesterol is higher than a hard boiled egg. I have a very short shelf-life - better use me up now.
8. I love my wife. ::smooch::
Okay, I tag: 8gurl, Artzy Carmen, Cat, Chezz, Christina <3, Laura Raven, QFB, and Strix.
Comments
Re: #3 - if you do, I shall slap you.
Re: #5 - cats have such superb attitude. Once I had disturbed a cat in the middle of her morning ablutions. She stared at me - in mid-lick - as if to say, "Well, are you just going to stand there or are you going to get me my bathrobe?"
Re: #8 - Yes. Utterly sweet.
No. 2: & No. 5 - is the extent of your prehensile feet limited to picking up socks, or can you flush the toilet (like Mr. Jinx)!
I WILL FIGHT YOU.
No. 2: & No. 5 - is the extent of your prehensile feet limited to picking up socks, or can you flush the toilet (like Mr. Jinx)!
Yes, I could flush the toilet with my feet, but I don't want to.
Re: #6-- I WILL FIGHT YOU.
Yes, but will really be fighting me, or will it all be a false memory implanted to make you think you are fighting me, and even if it isn't a false memory, might it actually be a robot version of me? And if you try to fight me, a precog will warn the police before it ever happens, so don't even try it.
Having read several of the stories upon which the films were based, I have to agree with Pax. For example, I didn't much care for the movie Minority Report, but in many ways, the original story was even worse. PKD had some great concepts, but the execution was sorely lacking.
The Variable Man, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS (my favorites)...these are great stories, powerfully told.
Been there done that Paxton. I thought I would do it again but apparently my life has been so boring I can't come up with another 8.
My niece pretends she is a cat. She has a special cat voice and won't talk to you unless you pretend she's a cat.
I think maybe your feelings about P.K. Dick are influence by the pile of terrible movies adapted from his work.
You may be right. The movies certainly haven't helped.
I kinda liked "Paycheck," though. Haven't seen the movie.
In the car I'm listening to A Scanner Darkly on CD. It's kind of blah, but I've only listened to the first disc so far. I'll keep going and see if it picks up any.