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30 Oct 2009 08:44
30 October 2009
cenobyte answers #7
10/30/2009 08:52:00 AM 0 CommentsAs part of the Ask cenobyte Experiment, Silent Winged Coyote asks:I've always wondered this and I'm curious as to how you'd answer so here's my question: Seeing as how you've been offered the chance to, what would be the required situation for you to run for a public office at any political level?
First, let me just say that the idea of a "winged coyote" is somewhat disturbing. Never mind a "silent winged coyote". I mean, whether it's 'silent-winged coyote', which prompts images of a hungry, mangy, slightly deranged predator mammal/carrion eater that you can't hear coming through the air until you hear the smack and slurp of its cracked, sharpened teeth against your throat; or whether it's 'silent winged-coyote', which brings to mind the same beast, but it's completely *undetectable* when it hovers until you a) smell it, or b) see it upon you...well...just unsettling. That's all. Also: "Humber" is an AWESOME name/word/place name. It sounds like what bears do when they're walking down a hill - they don't quite "lumber", because they get up to quite a clip. So they "humber". Anyway. For me to run for political office at any level, the following requirements would need to be met: 1) My children would have to be grown up. Er. Adults. Um. Responsible people over the age of 18. 2) My husband would have to be in full support. Running for political office at any level at the moment could make things uncomfortable for him, as the nature of his job usually places his work within the context of having to work with government and/or government officials. It could be a conflict of interest. 3) I would have to be 100% debt-free (it won't be long now!!!) 4) A political party would have to actually understand that I would not 'toe the party line'. While there are some things I can keep my opinion to myself about, there are other things I would not do so for. 5) I would probably have to take down this bournal. And any other super secret bournals that may or may not be in existence. 6) Realistically, I would need an awful lot of fundraising to be done. 7) On a very personal note, I would have to quash my own feelings about (and dislike for) popularity contests in all their forms. None of these are unmeetable requirements, and holding representative office is not an unreachable goal. While I'm sure I'd be okay with the death threats, public scrutiny, and word-mangling that happens to elected officials, I'm not sure I'd be okay with the huge responsibility it would be to represent the people whose interests I would be representing. Oh. 8) John Gormley would have to buy me an expensive dinner and talk books and literature all night. He would know, and I know, that I would be (and am) one of the "left wing-nuts" he ridicules, but I would really like to talk about art and culture with him at the restaurant of his choosing. Actually, I'd really like that *anyway*, even if I weren't going to be running for elected office. I'd bring him a gift, maybe something from my personal library, and I think that would be a really fun night.29 October 2009
cenobyte answers #6
10/29/2009 11:51:00 AM 5 CommentsAs part of the Ask cenobyte Experiment, Brille also asked:I have another but if you don't get to it that's all right. What is,..simply..the scariest book you have ever read. Could be a one line answer...which I will then further research.
Hm. Ever? Hm. Well, a lot of it is subjective, right? I mean, when I was eight, I read a novel called "Coma", which is a terrible book, but the opening scene is horrific. But I was WAY TOO YOUNG to read that book. I read a book whose title I can't remember now about two sisters, one of whom develops leukemia. THAT was scary, because I read it and assumed that every time I got a nosebleed, I had leukemia. I made the stupid decision to read "It" when I was fourteen. I thought it would cure me of my perfectly healthy and reasonable fear of clowns. It did not. I couldn't sleep while reading "The Tommyknockers". "The Vanishing Country" by Mel Hurtig scared me, but in an entirely different way. So did "A Doctor's Compendium of Childhood Illnesses and Diseases". Dumb, cenobyte. Real dumb. Hmmm...is there a book that was/is *so scary* I couldn't actually finish it? I don't think so. I've been a fan of horror since I was about two, according to my mother. I used to get horror comics (there was one where a brother and sister went to the chocolate easter bunny factory and were eaten by a giant chocolate easter bunny. They went head first. Lots of blood and gore). On this topic, there are *many* extremely creepy stories in Edge Science Fiction/Fantasy Publishing's Tesseracts Thirteen. The Tesseracts series are anthologies of Canadian S/F short stories, poems, and even novellas sometimes. In fact, I'm interviewing the editors of Tesseracts Thirteen tonight (Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell. You might remember David Morrell as the Canadian author of First Blood, the book that was turned into the movie "Rambo"). Yeah. LOTS of creepy stuff that makes you hear noises in the dark when you're at home reading them after the kids have gone to bed. Dumb, cenobyte, dumb. I think Edgar Allen Poe's "The Telltale Heart" is still one of the best 'horror' stories out there. That and "The Cask of Amontillado". If you haven't read Poe, go do it. Right now. I'll wait. ... See!? GOLD. But mostly I've only talked about fiction (with the exception of The Vanishing Country). I've read some court transcripts that would scare the eggs out of dead chickens. And all the "non-fiction" haunting books are good....but...OH!!!Mysteries of the Unexplained was an encyclopaedic-style book put out by Reader's Digest. There are stories in that thing that STILL give me the heebie-jeebies. Particularly the story of Skippy the Wonder Horse who was found eviscerated in a field. *shudder* Oh. OOOH. Whitney Strieber's Communion. Hhhhnnnnnnniggggnnnnhhnnnn.Labels: questions
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