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fpb1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going....
1. Is there a particular work (book, song, play, poem, painting, anything vaguely creative) that you can say has influenced you in your life?
2. Are you a day bird or a night owl?
3. How far do you resemble your star sign, if at all, regardless of whether you believe in astrology or not?
4. Is there any one ambition that you can single out which you want to achieve, over and above all the others?
5. Rice Krispies chocolate cakes... good or bad? :p
1. Oh my goodness... many, many. The work of Georges Dumezil, the greatest historian in the twentieth century, determined the direction of my own research; and that of generations of great comics artists, a mountain range crowned by the titanic peaks of Jack Kirby and Hayao Miyazaki, made me a cartoonist. Then there are the great classical musicians: Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi, Mozart, Bach, Haendel, Rossini, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Palestrina and so on and so forth and so following. Popular music: Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Francesco Guccini, Edith Piaf. Movies... Oh my God, where do I begin? And then Keats, Virgil, Dante (the greatest poet I ever read), Goethe, Shakespeare, Dickens, Dr.Johnson, Sappho, Aeschylus, Homer, Thomas Mann, Kalidasa, Horace, Rabindranath Tagore.... I do not think that there is a place at which I can stop. I have read and seen and listened to and watched many, many things that I have loved, and I have learned from everything I have loved. And yes, there were Cathy, Ruth, Clare and Debbie, too. They do not count as works of art, except of course from God's hand, but they taught me what life was about.
2. Hard to tell. It depends on how much I ate the previous day, really.
3. Quite a bit, especially if you take in the Chinese year system. I was born in the month of the Lion of the year of the Tiger. Figures, does it not?
4. Depends what you mean. That I would like to achieve and think I can: to become well known as a historian (preferably without prostituting my views or my professionality). That I dream of: to marry the woman I love.
5. Good: for the taste. And bad: they probably have the nutritional value of dirty water.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going....
1. Is there a particular work (book, song, play, poem, painting, anything vaguely creative) that you can say has influenced you in your life?
2. Are you a day bird or a night owl?
3. How far do you resemble your star sign, if at all, regardless of whether you believe in astrology or not?
4. Is there any one ambition that you can single out which you want to achieve, over and above all the others?
5. Rice Krispies chocolate cakes... good or bad? :p
1. Oh my goodness... many, many. The work of Georges Dumezil, the greatest historian in the twentieth century, determined the direction of my own research; and that of generations of great comics artists, a mountain range crowned by the titanic peaks of Jack Kirby and Hayao Miyazaki, made me a cartoonist. Then there are the great classical musicians: Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi, Mozart, Bach, Haendel, Rossini, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Palestrina and so on and so forth and so following. Popular music: Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Francesco Guccini, Edith Piaf. Movies... Oh my God, where do I begin? And then Keats, Virgil, Dante (the greatest poet I ever read), Goethe, Shakespeare, Dickens, Dr.Johnson, Sappho, Aeschylus, Homer, Thomas Mann, Kalidasa, Horace, Rabindranath Tagore.... I do not think that there is a place at which I can stop. I have read and seen and listened to and watched many, many things that I have loved, and I have learned from everything I have loved. And yes, there were Cathy, Ruth, Clare and Debbie, too. They do not count as works of art, except of course from God's hand, but they taught me what life was about.
2. Hard to tell. It depends on how much I ate the previous day, really.
3. Quite a bit, especially if you take in the Chinese year system. I was born in the month of the Lion of the year of the Tiger. Figures, does it not?
4. Depends what you mean. That I would like to achieve and think I can: to become well known as a historian (preferably without prostituting my views or my professionality). That I dream of: to marry the woman I love.
5. Good: for the taste. And bad: they probably have the nutritional value of dirty water.
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Date: 2006-01-08 11:26 pm (UTC)Except dirty water doesn't have so many calories....
Wanna ask me some questions?
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From:1. Why Malta?
From:2. About my children (Part One)
From:2. About my children (Part Two)
From:3. About my wife
From:Re: 3. About my wife
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From:4. Show business
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Date: 2006-01-11 02:07 am (UTC)1. One of the girls who beta-ed for me gave me a code. At first I just read what she posted, then I fell in love with my Flist, then I got involved with the Witching Hour Harry Potter conference and became hopelessly addicted.
2. Just HP, but some of the writers are so good I'll read whatever they rec or write. Through them, I even met some published writers in real life and read their books. (Roxanne Conrad and Holly Black and Nancy Farmer and Holly Black and George Plitnik.)
3. I define genius differently, as someone who shows the world a different way to see itself. Heroic in the "brought back the elixer" way. I don't think JRK did that, though she did singlehandedly save the independent bookstore and for that she has my undying love. But I don't think HP will survive into the next century. I can't even see fire at FA surviving a decade after the last book is published. I hope it does, but people find the next craze and move on.
4. I could drop a bucket of names - Gandhi, Bowditch, Donne, Descartes, Pythagoras, Feynman, Laughlin - but to be honest Mom influenced me the most and it's her example I try hardest to follow. She taught us to live in the world, but not let it trap us.
5. I'm into comfort food - almost anything tastes great on a saltine cracker (from sardines to peanut butter). But this is the great-great-grandmother-made soup I need when I feel like I'm at Death's Door. It'll grow hair, a new lung, cure blindness - I know this for a fact - and everything else from flu to anthrax (if it doesn't kill you first). The herbs are the basic "Chinese Winter Chest Cold" mix:
LAMB AND LEEKS WITH DAIKONS
· 1/2 lb lean lamb pieces with bones
· 3 large leeks
· 4 slices ginger
· 3 garlic cloves (crushed)
· 1 cup sliced Daikon radish
· 1 tsp black pepper
· 2 tsp sesame oil
· 1 oz Chinese Angelica root,
· 1 oz Rehmannia root
· 1 oz Polygoni Multiflore root
· 2 pieces Dioscorea yam root
· 2 pieces Peony Alba root
· 2 pieces Poria Fungus
· 1 small cinnamon stick
· 1 piece tangerine peel
· 1 oz Astragalus root
· 2 oz Chinese Barley Job’s Tears
Saute the ginger and garlic in the oil until fragrant. Add the leek slices and lamb and saute 5 minutes. Add the daikon, herbs, bones, pepper, and enough water to cover the ingredients generously. Bring to a boil and then cook on medium-low for an hour, adding more water as needed.
This is a winter blood-building soup that fights damp. I love it because it is magic You won't see it next to the cans of Chicken Noodle any time soon.