Things I Learned This Morning (Friday Edition)

1)) The difference 15 months can make.

2) Jack Layton has finally stopped pretending that the NDP is anything other than a vehicle for his colossal ego - Jack, honey, you couldn't stand up to Mel Lastman. Go away.

3) Apparently, I am a cool nerd. Although I can totally live with that, as the test seems to correlate ignorance of science and computer programming with being less nerdy, it may not actually be a compliment.





4) Texas - still having a zombie problem. Who knew?

5) - Time suck de jour: Obamiconme (see above - hehehehe).

So...

Twitter - y/n?

(Canadian opinions and critiques of Twiter in particular)

Who Am I?

Snurched from sabaceanbabe:

1. leave me a comment saying, 'interview me'.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. update your LJ with the answers to the questions. (You must do this, even if it's filtered for my eyes only!)
4. include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. when others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions

My Answers:

1. Who is your favorite female character from any tv show, current or past, and why?

ARGH, start with a tough one. I'm tempted to say Sarah Connor, because Sarah Connor was a favourite long before Xena, Scully, Aeryn Sun, Kara Thrace, Rose, Martha and Donna or Buffy and Faith were a glimmer in their creators' eyes. But Sarah is only technically a TV character (but let me pause to acknowledge Lena Headey's work and the remarkable depth she brings to a character that is distant, mistrustful and self-controlled. Headey's Sarah Connor is like a volcano on the edge of eruption - quiet on the surface while destruction boils underneath). I think I'm going to go with Veronica Mars, however, who is very much a heroine in the Sarah Connor mould. Sure, she's a superhero but her heroism is built on her own sweat and tears - no supernatural power or godlike alien gave Veronica her wicked mind and sharp tongue. And her keen sense of justice was forged in the fire of her own pain.

No, she's not perfect - quick to judge, slow to forgive, and graced with an unerring instinct for other people's soft-spots, Veronica Mars isn't always an easy character to love. And on the metatextual level, was the rape really necessary, Rob? I mean, really? And how much more realistic would it have been if Veronica looked more like Tina Majorino and less like Kristen Bell.

That said, smart and courageous, Veronica Mars is a keeper, a heroine for the 21st century who shows us that the only thing to fear is failing to live up to your own ideals.

2. Tell me about your favorite musical artist...

I have to pick one? WOE. There's at least one for every mood - some days I'm a gothy girl and Trent screams along my way to work. Some days, I'm mellow and wistful and it's Margot Timmins or Lucinda Williams explaining the heart that breaks so good to me. Some days, it's classic rock - the Stones, baby - some days its old school punk - Anarchy in the UK, indeed. But if I had to pick one artist ever, over all, I think it might be Beethoven - less playful, somewhat less gifted a composer than Mozart but deeper, darker, more resonant. I could maybe live without other music, if I could have Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

3. What is your favorite book and why?

For the Time Being, Annie Dillard. FtTB changed what I believed a book could be, a novel-length meditation on faith, philosophy, the meaning of life, the origin of humankind. The questions Dillard raises provoked an awakening in me that started me on the path I stand on now.

4. What is your favorite season and why?

Fall. I love the cool evenings, after the summer heat has burned off the humidity, as October begins to turn the leaves and I can walk along along the lake, comfortable in a jacket or sweater watching the sunset bleed into the trees.

5. How many countries have you lived in and what are they?

Two - Canada and Ireland. They are, despite what you might think, strikingly dissimilar