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mmegaeraWho posted five questions in her LJ for me:
1. How do you feel about Mark Vorkosigan?
"I like the fat little creep." I do. I like how he's overcome his beginnings. I like how he's managed to keep his sense of right and wrong intact. I like how he overcame what happened on his excursion to Jackson's Whole; even though a lot of it was his fault, nobody deserves what Ryoval did to him, and watching him overcome it and its aftereffects was nothing less than triumphant. And his romance with Kareen is just sweet, not to mention a just reward for both of them [g].
2. Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Michaels, or Barbara Mertz?
Well, the Elizabeth Peters persona wrote my second favorite fictional hero of all time (Ramses Emerson). But I have a soft spot in my heart for the early Barbara Michaels gothics (House of Many Shadows and Ammie, Come Home in particular). I'm not a big Egyptology buff (sorry, Emerson), so I haven't read her Mertz books.
3. Swinburne associated lilies with virtue (and "languors" (see Dolores). Do you think of virtue when you smell a Stargazer?
No, not particularly. I tend to think of talcum powder [g].
4. What's your favorite Kenneth Branagh movie?
Probably still Much Ado About Nothing, mainly because it was the first thing I ever saw him in, and I fell head over heels for Benedick. There was a point in my life about 13 years ago where I was watching it once a week whether I needed to or not. But I own copies of just about everything else the man has committed to film, including early obscure BBC Belfast television programmes.
5. What's the most evocative quilt or quilt pattern you've ever seen? (I ask
because the St. Louis Art Museum has one of the Gee's Bend Pine Burr
Quilts, and it's absolutely gorgeous. Every time I see it, I feel as
if I'm transported out of the museum to a tiny Georgia town I've only
read about.)
Wow, what a spectacular variation on a Folded Star pattern! I've done the basic Folded Star, but nothing anywhere near that complicated. The most evocative quilt pattern I've ever seen? The APNQ (Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters -- http://www.apnq.org/quiltfest/2006Winners/index.php) show has some incredible quilts in its show every other year in Seattle, and there was one several years ago that looked like an Egyptian wall-painting (that alas seems to have been taken down from their website for some reason) which had me standing in front of it for quite some time. But I am a quilt show junkie, and I can't count the number of quilts I've been enthralled with over the years, so call it first among equals? Or something like that.
Anyone else want to be tagged? I can and will come up with five questions for you if you're interested...
1. How do you feel about Mark Vorkosigan?
"I like the fat little creep." I do. I like how he's overcome his beginnings. I like how he's managed to keep his sense of right and wrong intact. I like how he overcame what happened on his excursion to Jackson's Whole; even though a lot of it was his fault, nobody deserves what Ryoval did to him, and watching him overcome it and its aftereffects was nothing less than triumphant. And his romance with Kareen is just sweet, not to mention a just reward for both of them [g].
2. Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Michaels, or Barbara Mertz?
Well, the Elizabeth Peters persona wrote my second favorite fictional hero of all time (Ramses Emerson). But I have a soft spot in my heart for the early Barbara Michaels gothics (House of Many Shadows and Ammie, Come Home in particular). I'm not a big Egyptology buff (sorry, Emerson), so I haven't read her Mertz books.
3. Swinburne associated lilies with virtue (and "languors" (see Dolores). Do you think of virtue when you smell a Stargazer?
No, not particularly. I tend to think of talcum powder [g].
4. What's your favorite Kenneth Branagh movie?
Probably still Much Ado About Nothing, mainly because it was the first thing I ever saw him in, and I fell head over heels for Benedick. There was a point in my life about 13 years ago where I was watching it once a week whether I needed to or not. But I own copies of just about everything else the man has committed to film, including early obscure BBC Belfast television programmes.
5. What's the most evocative quilt or quilt pattern you've ever seen? (I ask
because the St. Louis Art Museum has one of the Gee's Bend Pine Burr
Quilts, and it's absolutely gorgeous. Every time I see it, I feel as
if I'm transported out of the museum to a tiny Georgia town I've only
read about.)
Wow, what a spectacular variation on a Folded Star pattern! I've done the basic Folded Star, but nothing anywhere near that complicated. The most evocative quilt pattern I've ever seen? The APNQ (Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters -- http://www.apnq.org/quiltfest/2006Winners/index.php) show has some incredible quilts in its show every other year in Seattle, and there was one several years ago that looked like an Egyptian wall-painting (that alas seems to have been taken down from their website for some reason) which had me standing in front of it for quite some time. But I am a quilt show junkie, and I can't count the number of quilts I've been enthralled with over the years, so call it first among equals? Or something like that.
Anyone else want to be tagged? I can and will come up with five questions for you if you're interested...
