question time

[rm]

Since there are a bazillion new people on the LJ thanks to LJ idol, it's question time. Ask whatever you want, as lots of the crap I rant about can be hard to catch context on.

Yes, am bored.

Comments

[sphinxie.livejournal.com]

What label do you identify with in regards to your sexual orientation?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I prefer queer, strongly, as I am attracted to both men and women and consider myself genderqueer.

I tend use gay, A LOT, possibly even more than queer because it rolls off the tongue easier and I live with a woman. It's also the most effective word when it comes to explaining to someone why their bigotry is unacceptable: "As a gay woman..." -- that's probably what I say the most often.

And yeah, I prefer the phrase "gay woman" over "lesbian" because lesiban is not a melodious sounding word, although again, I do use it for myself and others.

And I'm fine with bisexual, since it's technically accurate and I'm I like to do what I can for bi-visibility, but it doesn't have a lot of relevance to my life these days.

[miep.livejournal.com]

desert island discs (5) and books (5).

Shakespeare and a sacred text of your choice are given.

[miep.livejournal.com]

oh. you want new people to comment. oh well. answer me anyway. ;)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Actually it's that I really loathe this question and need to think about it for a long time.

[miep.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

me, too. That's why I want to hear your answer so I can co-opt it and pass it off as my own. ;)

Yay!

[abbismom.livejournal.com]

Who is your favorite author and why?

Re: Yay!

[rm.livejournal.com]

That's one of those hideously awkward questions in part because of People I Know, some of whom would at least wind up on the contender list.

Luckily, I know a derth of poets, and can comfortably say Lucie Brock-Broido for The Master Letters, particularly the prose pieces in the book. There is a formality, and tightness and an absolute sense of rigor to her words, and the addressing of the prose pieces (which take the form of letters) is uniformly brilliant.

Master, my tinsmith,

Re: Yay!

[lawnrrd]

At this moment, as I read your comment, I am wearing my brand-new t-shirt that reads, "It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack." Coincidence?

Re: Yay!

[abbismom.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

What brings

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

sweetness to your life?

What is your perspective on your own creative process?


Being from a large urban centre...do you find your attention is taken by people , objects or creatures of nature?

[tantra-cat.livejournal.com]

Um okay...sure.

How about your user name--your initials, or some deeper more intriguing meaning?

[rm.livejournal.com]

They are just my initials, however, I decided that was cool when I picked up this journal when I got sick of the old handle I'd had for at least a decade because one of my big heroes, Catherine Martin (designer and costume designer of R+J, Moulin Rouge, etc. and all around creative genius), goes just by her initals, CM. So I thought this was funny. Of course, no one ever calls me RM (eventhough it's what I use on my con badges and stuff) except people I met in Australia, who started doing it of their own accord and never knew about the journal name (and from whom I worked hard to conceal my fannishness for somewhat complex reasons).

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to Russian student lady with Eurotrash pimp boyfriend? You know who I'm talking about.

[wyrdwriter.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to Russian student lady with Eurotrash pimp boyfriend?

OK...that happened before I came to LJ
However
Racheline seems to "draw" those kind of Amazingly INTERESTING Stories...(if they aren't "that" interesting, she makes them so!)

Like Shakespeare said, "The plays the thing..." and Story, Well-Told Interesting Story, is truly THE THING.

I will squander "my" question asking for story about The Russian and the Pimp--which sounds worthy of an episode of Law & Order SVU!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, this story is less funny in text than outloud.

I used to teachEnglish conversation to random people I met on Craiglist -- mostly this korean guy who wanted me to help him write love letters to his Brazillian girlfriend and this Russian woman whose "boyfriend" said she didn't speak any English at all, but spoke quuite decent English when he wasn't around. She was careful not to let him know her own resources basically. He was rich and dressed her in rich things, and she was young, 21, MAYBE, and had a younger sister back in Russia who also wanted to come to America with a boyfriend but her sister would tell her know, she must stay in school. She had a very thick accent and we would meet in the B&N at Licoln Center and drink offee while she woudl tell me about the time she saw a baby get its hand cut off in an escalator and how the blood got all over the mother's white coat. She and the "boyfriend" went back to Russia al teh time to go to big parties in shopping centers that lasted all ngith and involved a lot of drugs. She would rant to me about how Americans were fat and ugly and one day she told me she wanted a dog.

"What type of dog?" I asked.

"I show," she said, and looked for a book, and pointed.

"Oh, a pug!"

"Yes, pooooog!" she said, "but Max no like. He say, pooooog not doguh, poog, goblin!"

That's the best I can render her accent for the tale.

And then one day, she just sort of dissapeared.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I do know who you are talking about. I called a few times to get classes resumed, she siad awkwardly she would call back and I never heard from her again. I suspect she went back to Russia and/or he got arrested there, not here. Sometimes when I am in their part of town I get a nervous sense of running into them, because I probably twigged to more of that situation than I was supposed to.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Man, a sad and awkward situation.

[heykatie.livejournal.com]

Favourite five fictional book characters and why? :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Severus Snape from Harry Potter
Because both his code of honor and sense of humor seem to be entirely personal. Because he believes in rigor. Because he knows who and how and what he is and works it. Because he is a better, harsher, more useful fairy tale than an ugly duckling that becomes a beautiful swan. Because his intelligence da,ms him more than it saves him. Because I'm one of those people who view him as the true hero of the Harry Potter series. Because he taught me that everything about me that I thoguht was undesireable is what makes people want me.

Richard St Vier from Swordspoint et al.
Again with the rigor and order. And talk about someone who can say a great deal without saying very much at all. He may be insane (something people tend to overlook), but he has an inner certitude that's stunning and again, a personal code of honor, although one that's rather dubious in a lot of ways, but I vastly prefer people with codes than people without codes, and most people don't have codes. Richard, like Severus, is one of those personal serendipity nexuses in my life, and my fascination for the character has affected a great deal in my personal and professional life. Among other things, he's why I study swordsmanship and how I met Patty.

I owe you three more, but those were the easy two, so I'll start there.

[cookie-cm.livejournal.com]

How would you define redemption, and is it really possible.