{"id":1717,"date":"2005-11-28T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2005-11-28T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T00:22:00","slug":"1717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

While I hate for this to become nothing but a meme depository — and while I have done this one before — here are Five Questions from Eric<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. How and when did you first encounter Monty Python<\/i>, and what was it that “clicked” with you?<\/strong>
    I actually answered this back in 2003     in an issue of Completely Different<\/i><\/a> (PDF), the Penn State Monty Python Society newsletter. It was around that time that I first discovered this here meme. What I wrote was:
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    The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excali\u00e2\u20ac\u201doh, sorry, wrong story. Well, like a lot of people, I discovered Monty Python in the strangest of places — junior high school. I had friends who quoted this movie of which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never heard, Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/i>. I listened, I investigated, and, lo and behold, it turned out to actually be funny! So I rented the movies, and I bought the albums, I read some of the books, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until I came to Penn State that I actually saw an episode of the TV show. I discovered the Python Society quite by accident at the Fall Involvement Fair. The table was empty, but there was a sign-up sheet and a weird poster informing passersby that this was the organization the University was afraid to let you join. (Or something like that.) Naturally, I signed up. The rest, as they say, is history. Not very interesting<\/i> history, but there you have that all the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Which still seems about right.<\/li>\n

  2. What is your favorite geeky activity?<\/strong>
    While writing and reading can both qualify as geeky, especially when you toss in my penchant for science-fiction stories, people don’t exactly look at you weirdly when you try to describe them.     Capping<\/a> on the other hand… I’ve probably been capping for just shy of a decade now, and it shows no sign of getting old. (Even if the jokes themselves do.)<\/li>\n
  3. What are the best and worst things about working in the publishing field?<\/strong>
    This is my first official job in the field, and the first job I got after living in Pennsylvania on my own for five years. So I doubt I have enough perspective to accurately answer that one. The things that sometimes annoy me about this job don’t really bear repeating, and I don’t know that they’d apply across the board in other publishing jobs. I like books, though. And I like being in a job that gets me around them.<\/li>\n
  4. If you had the choice of being remembered as a novelist, a poet, or a critic (but only one of those), which would it be and why?<\/strong>
    I’m not a very good critic — as my almost-never-updated     book log<\/a> and now-almost-half-a-year-out-of-date film review list<\/a> can attest. And while I’ve written some poems I’ve enjoyed, I don’t think I’ll ever think of myself as a poet. Can I be remembered as a novelist without actually writing<\/i> a novel? I’d like to be remembered as, among other things, a writer.<\/li>\n
  5. Coleman Francis, Ed Wood and Ray Dennis Steckler: Compare, contrast, or vilify.<\/strong>
    There’s a PUMAT cap in there, I just know it! I’d actually never heard of Steckler before (although I have seen The Incredibly Strange Creatures…<\/i>). Of the two that I know, I’d much rather watch Ed Wood’s films. They’re just as awful, but they’re enthusiastically awful. Francis’ films, on the other hand, are just a wee bit depressing. Although he did inspire     a toe-tapping musical<\/a>…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you’d like to play along on your own weblog, and you’re looking for questions, feel free to say so in the comments and I’ll see what I can do.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While I hate for this to become nothing but a meme depository — and while I have done this one before — here are Five Questions from Eric: How and when did you first encounter Monty Python, and what was it that “clicked” with you?I actually answered this back in 2003 in an issue of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}