I'm not big on memes, but since Walaka tagged me with this one, I thought I'd give it a go. But I'm not passing it on because that would be way too much like a chain letter, and I'd feel the need to add something like "don't break the chain or your pet will turn an unexpected colour, and your favourite TV show will be canceled on a cliffhanger ending!"
Anyhow, the rules:
I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
1) I collect cool (anime/goth/scifi/superhero) dolls, but not in any obsessive way, unless you'd consider having twelve goth dolls on your mantelpiece obsessive.
2) Terry Pratchet once gave me a lift in his car. He's a lot less funny in person.
3) My favourite flavour of soda is banana, but I haven't seen one in years. Actually my favourite flavour of most things is banana.
4) I still haven't finished reading Seduction of the Innocent. I'm beginning to think life is too short.
5) I have never seen Gilligan's Island. And not because I don't want to. I've never watched an entire episode of Neighbours either, but that's taken skillful manoevering because it was so ubiquitous on UK TV and I've known lots of people who liked it. I'm vaguely curious about Gilligan because it seems to be part of the American experience and often turns up as a pop culture reference, but it's never been shown on British TV (that I'm aware of). Now I think about it, I could probably find at least a clip of it on YouTube.
6) I bought my first videotape before I had a VCR, my first CD before I had a CD player, and my first DVD before I had a DVD player. I mean I knew I would be getting the player eventually, and it was a bargain/something I'd always wanted.
7) My most hardcore videogame experience was playing Sakura Wars in Japanese (it's an RPG heavy on text that has never been translated).
The oldest comic I own is Wonder Woman #17. That's WW volume one, dated 1946.
2 comments:
Yay, Mari!
Bummer about Terry Pratchett - I love his work.
And in an odd bit of synchronicity, Twinkies, the classic American junk food, recently announced a return to the banana creme filling they abandoned during WW2. Would you like me to send you some?
Yum. Yes please.
Twinkies was the iconic thing I always wanted to try, because of all those ads in the back of seventies comics, so every time I knew someone who was either visiting from or going to America I'd ask them to bring me one back.
Eventually someone brought me a whole box. I was astounded to find they had a sell by date. Aren't they entirely synthetic, created from industrial byproducts?
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