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You are viewing the most recent 18 entries June 30th, 200910:14 pm: Zulu said Fred
1. What is your greatest ambition 1) for today, 2) for the month, 3) for the year?1.1 For today: to compile the email bulletin. 1.2 For June or for July? I could be perverse and say June, which would be the same as for today, wouldn't it? For July: to launch my new website effectively, and to finish writing the latest fanfic. Or I'll get killed. 1.3 To get my photoblogging back on line and to cope with work without losing track of home. 2. You can change one law. What is it, and what does it become?I would amend the 1975 Marriage Act so that same-sex couples could get married. Oh, that's awfully serious. I would change the Hollywood Law that makes it impossible to have two women talking to each other about plot stuff instead of teh menz, and so from now on all films and TV series would pass the Bechdel Test. Is that too frivolous? I think I want to repeal the law of gravity, so that we can all fly whenever we want to. 3. What's your favourite website to visit?I wondered how to answer this one. xkcd because it always makes me smile? www.guardian.co.uk because I habitually turn to it for news? insanejournal.com or redbubble or feministsf - the blog for obvious reasons? No, I think in all honesty it's much simpler than that: www.google.com. Sorry. 4. What's something you are or have been fannish about, and how would you pimp it?Depends what it was. If Blake's 7, probably start with fanfic, and move on to episodes only when actually begged to do so. If Star Trek, probably begin and end with fanfic, plus maybe carefully selected bits of episodes that are genuinely OK, mostly because Spock and McCoy are gazing into each other's eyes. If ST:tng, I'd probably try to start off with "Chain of Command", because that's certainly what hooked me, or possibly just all the Picard/Q episodes. Especially the one where Q licks Picard's ear. Or the one where Q and Picard are tucked up naked in bed together. If The Professionals, same technique as for B7. If MacGyver, make them watch the Murdoc episodes until sufficiently convinced this is the primary pairing, then introduce them to the sincere yet limited M/M fanfic. If M*A*S*H... well, who could fail to melt at the thought of Hawkeye/Mulcahy? They're just too adorable. 5. Beanie caps: height of fashion, or accessory disaster?Disaster. That was easy. You know the rules: if you want to be interviewed, ask me!       Current Mood:  geeky , being queer, blake's 7, fanfic, fred, m*a*s*h, redbubble, star trek
June 9th, 200908:47 pm: Copracat asked Fred
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) copracat asked fred questions (you can too): 1. Were you happy satisfied with the final episode of M.A.S.H.?Yes, on the whole. It did not wrap it up too nicely: it was raw and bloody and embarrassing in places. Awful things happened to the wrong people. It was satisfying to me as a writer, in a way that too nice a way of ending it would not be. (Structurally, one of the peculiarly neat things about it is that every single character who is named in the opening credits leaves the 4077th by a different method of transport - none of them go together, but also none of them leave in the same way.) 2. Best onions for caramelised onion/onion relish?The ones you have in the house, because it's way too meta to use the ones you don't have. Whatever. Really. I like onions. 3. You never post about the Edinburgh festivals in July/August; I wondered if you object to them or if you just don't care?I have no objection to them, really. It's just... I've lived here all my life, well, 90% of it. Every year in August, the city goes slightly insane. Back once a long time ago - twenty years - it used to be entirely possible for anyone, during the Festival, to just spontaneously go look something up and go - tickets would be dirt cheap, concessions were half price (so a show that charged £5 to get in fullprice would be £2.50 if you were under 16, or a student, or unemployed, or a pensioner) and you could take a chance on something that sounded interesting because what did you risk? Nowadays tickets cost £10 and upwards, concessions mean getting £1 off, and anything good is fully booked unless you queue up well in advance. I still go to see something or other most years - last year I went to see RiK in Wyrd Sisters - but it's not something I plan out any more. I do take photographs - you can see some of them from last year - but I don't tend to write about it much, or often, not because I approve or disapprove, but mostly because... I rarely see anything I care about enough to make it the subject of a post, I guess. (Update: No, it's not even that - the Festival(s) in August are just there. Like Arthur's Seat: too big to ignore, but I don't generally write about it much.) 4. Tea Cosy: Yes or No?If you make tea in a pot, yes. If you make tea in a mug, no. 5. Tell me something you've learned from photography.That I can share what I see in other ways that by writing about it, and that sharing is almost as satisfying as writing it out. Current Mood: artistic , fred, m*a*s*h, photos, tea
June 7th, 200909:42 pm: Whatho, said Fred
whatho asked me fred questions: 1. If had a double-decker bus all of your own, to what creative touring purpose would you put it?Well, I would also need a driver. Or I couldn't tour it, I could only camp out in it. Hm. Okay. I will suppose that I have a bus driver. Or that along with running a bus, I hire a driver in each town or city to take me to the next one. Because I think that's what I would do: I would take out all the seats, and upstairs I would have a bed/sitting room/kitchen - it wouldn't need to be much of a kitchen, but enough to make tea and soup and so on - and then downstairs I would have a minature exhibition room, perhaps with a projector or multiple projectors so that instead of photos hanging on walls and people walking around, there would be changing photos on walls and on other people in the room. And I would go around from here to there and so on, taking photographs and having exhibitions. I would also have my laptop so I could write when the bus was moving. The main problem would be bathrooms. Perhaps I could have a toilet upstairs with a septic tank downstairs and get that pumped out every so often. I would need a big water tank, too, but it would be easier to plan stopping at camping grounds or swimming pools for showers. 2. If you could get an animal other than a cat, and assuming your two would for some inexplicable reason fail to object, what would be and what would you call it?I would like to have a tortoise. This wouldn't go very well with two cats. But then neither does a double-decker bus. Tortoises eat clover, and live for a long time. I would call my tortoise Stone. 3. Why does Picard put on that RP accent? Did he maybe go to Rada?Back in the late 20th century/early 21st century, there was an influx of English settlers into the South of France. Then after the British/American economy collapsed in 2012, they all stayed and formed an RP-English enclave, speaking RP-English to each other even though the children had to learn French to go to the state schools. Of course they grew more and more French and less English, even thinking of themselves as the Anglos of France, but they continued to pass on RP English to their children. 4. What do you reckon to Shah Rukh Khan thus far in your education?He has a very pretty mouth, and a lovely voice. I also like his eyes. I am never sure about his acting, until I see him being a doofus, and then I think he can. 5. What is your absolute favourite television series of all time?I can't answer questions like that. I don't have absolute favourites of all time. I really don't. Not for anything. ...at least not yet. Current Mood: thoughtful , nonphotos, star trek, tv addiction
December 9th, 200802:39 pm: Fred: afrai asked me...
( five questions )Ask me for questions if you want them! Current Mood: quixotic October 11th, 200811:01 pm: (It really needs a good name, or we'll have to call it Fred.)
Five years ago, the ravens croaked: "It seems that, as a test of how savvy we all are about judging appropriate behaviours in this strange personal/impersonal world, Fred's a doosie. The potential for variation is the key to its continuance, both because it allows for much more likelihood of reinfection and because the degree of personalization that is possible is a big hook. It's flattering to be asked one's own questions. Those questions have the potential to be more finely tuned to your interests than otherwise. Instead of seeing a meme on something you loathe and simply moving on with the result that you do not carry its payload into your journal and create another node from which it can spread, you see something so open that even were the questions to be outside of your interests or even your ken, there's a possibility, almost a requirement, and an opening to say so in one's own journal, thereby creating the node and the possibility of further transmission." f you want me to interview you--post a comment that simply says, "Interview me." I'll respond with questions for you to take back to your own journal and answer as a post. Of course, they'll be different for each person since this is an interview and not a general survey. At the bottom of your post, after answering the Interviewer's questions, you ask if anyone wants to be interviewed. So it becomes your turn-- in the comments, you ask them any questions you have for them to take back to their journals and answer. And so it becomes the circle. Aka fred. Current Mood: curious January 29th, 200803:53 pm: Ooh, new friends!
*waves hi!* Tea? Or coffee? I will brew up a big cafetiere and a big pot of tea, and there's some decaf tea of various sorts in that cupboard over there. Do you take hot milk with your coffee? Fancy a ginger biscuit? Mmm, me too. Here *offers jar* ( fred the meme )Tags: blake's 7, fanfic, fred, journal housekeeping, meme
February 7th, 200407:55 pm: Fred Resurrected V
I asked cija questions, and she answered: ursule asked for questions: so I circularly perpetuate Fred by asking ursule for questions... and she asks: ( the following good questions )If you want to continue this meme, ask in comments to be interviewed: I'll give you five questions: when you answer them in your journal, ask people if they want to be interviewed by you, and comment here again with a link to your answers. Tags: books are what i read, fred
February 1st, 200411:01 pm: Fred Resurrected IV
( Scarlatti asked questions, and I answered )In theory I should now invite anyone who wants to be interviewed to ask for questions, but I have six people already waiting for questions, so, if you don't mind, I will give that part of the meme a miss for now. Tags: evil american politics, fred
04:55 pm: Fred Resurrected III
( Dougs asked me questions, and I answered )If you want to continue this meme, ask in comments to be interviewed: I'll give you five questions: when you answer them in your journal, ask people if they want to be interviewed by you, and comment here again with a link to your answers. Tags: fanfic, fred
June 11th, 200310:13 pm: Fred's back
brandnewgun asked me Fred:1. If you weren't a fan, who would you be?( Ah. Um. Er. )2. When somebody else is enthusing to you about their passions, is there any interest they might have that would make you think "you really need to get a life"?( No. )3. How much space do you take up?( A two-roomed flat )4. Suppose a 12-year-old Yonmei is standing in front of you. What three pieces of advice/guidance/misinformation do you give her? Does she listen to you? Would it be a good idea if she did?( Oh, dear God. )5. What law of nature would you like to overturn?( None. )Tags: family stuff, fannishness, fred
June 9th, 200307:34 pm: Fred continues to multiply...
mhw interviewed me: 1) Do you still write much slash? and did you ever think, when you showed me the K/S stuff and I was decidedly perplexed and not-at-all-sure, that I might end up years later writing slash?( Yes. I never think. )2) Do you think you'll ever move away from Edinburgh? if you had to leave, where would you move to?( I did. But I came back. )3) How do you think you've changed since we last met?( ten years after )4) How did you select your LJ name, and what, if anything, does it signify?( yonmei is... )5) At the wave of a magic wand, I find myself solvent and mobile again, and shall be able to come up to Edinburgh for a few days. There must be oodles of stuff there we haven't seen or done together: what would you suggest for a splendid day's itinerary?( morning, noon, and night )If you want Fred to continue propagating, ask me to ask you questions. Tags: breakfast is a good meal, fanfic, fred, i write fanfic, imaginary friend meetup, yonmei
June 5th, 200312:23 am: The interview meme
If you want me to interview you--post a comment that simply says, "Interview me." I'll respond with questions for you to take back to your own journal and answer as a post. Of course, they'll be different for each person since this is an interview and not a general survey. At the bottom of your post, after answering the Interviewer's questions, you ask if anyone wants to be interviewed. So it becomes your turn-- in the comments, you ask them any questions you have for them to take back to their journals and answer. And so it becomes the circle.( my answers to hawkida )( my answers to tamaranth )( my answers to scarlatti )Tags: bechdel, being poor, fred, hating my job, m*a*s*h, yonmei
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