Comments | fitz_clementine: i'll sing you five-oh, green grow the rushes-oh, what is your five-oh?

fitz_clementine

i'll sing you five-oh, green grow the rushes-oh, what is your five-oh?

Jul 16, 2011 13:01

Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back at me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

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oh those internet memes

Comments 15

spacklegeek July 16 2011, 19:03:20 UTC

Well maybe you think your short stories are shit (I disagree...), but your blog-writing is gold, every time.

I don't read nearly enough of your poetry. Send me some? (And I can't say "poetry", even today, without hearing Gary say "Poultry!" instead.) Me, I'm actually afraid to write poetry. I think I've ended up revering it so much that it's become this untouchable act of creation for me. I feel like I have enough trouble forcing the stories in my head (which are mostly pictures and feelings and sounds) into puny words to make stories on paper -- to attempt poetry seems almost impossible.

I should probably try it again.

You make me want to try absinthe. Is it anything like ouzo? I'm quite fond of that, myself.

And:

keep my feminist certification, my queer certification, and my badass credentials next to my lipstick collection, by the way, and I will punch you if you try to remove either set of items from that drawer on the grounds that they should be mutually exclusive.I want this on a teeshirt. Somehow. I don't wear lipstick ( ... )

fitz_clementine July 17 2011, 01:35:35 UTC

1. Horses, boy problems, cheese, FISH, and travel ( ... )

signifiers July 16 2011, 20:39:03 UTC

(I keep my feminist certification, my queer certification, and my badass credentials next to my lipstick collection, by the way, and I will punch you if you try to remove either set of items from that drawer on the grounds that they should be mutually exclusive.)
This is fantastic, and I would also like a t-shirt. It can be part of the uniform of the We Love Julia Club. (Also, I was just rereading through old LJ entries and found this. HOW YOU'VE CHANGED)

Five things, please! I probably won't write another whole entry just to list them, but you will get a reply.

fitz_clementine July 17 2011, 01:40:05 UTC

I HAVE CHANGED SO MUCH, ALICIA. It's like a belated psychological adolescence.

Cigarettes, libraries, television, striped objects, and the Glass family.

signifiers July 17 2011, 03:30:17 UTC

WHATEVER, I LOVE IT.

Oh, good list! Okay, well, I was going to post it as a comment, but it was three hundred and sixty-four characters too long, so I made it an entry, complete with an icon of Jean Seberg wearing a striped shirt and smoking a cigarette. HAHA.

angerfish July 16 2011, 23:25:36 UTC

One thing I'll keep saying forever is that I think it's important that disabled people be allowed to explain their experiences the way they want to explain their experiences, and to handle their conditions the way they want/need to handle their conditions, without anybody-- even other disabled people-- telling them they're wrong about themselves or giving them shit about, say, taking medication that they need, or think they need, or just fucking choose to take because it makes life slightly easier. Or not taking medication that they perceive as fucking them up worse, not doing anything, or robbing them of some valuable state or experience. Also, crazy people aren't dead. Retarded people aren't dead. We still have brains, even if they aren't firing on all cylinders.

Yes, yes, yes.

fitz_clementine July 17 2011, 01:49:08 UTC

ah ha ha, thank you very much. Glad you liked it. Um, did you want five things? I'll just assume you did, and you can feel free to ignore them, of course, if you like.

Bollywood, graduate school, teeth, the internet, blonde hair. (Also your younger brother pretending to be a whale and then a sea lion, but that's him, not you. You're only involved by association.)

angerfish July 17 2011, 01:51:03 UTC

Oh ahahah I didn't even notice that this was part of a meme. XD Will do though!

Also your younger brother pretending to be a whale and then a sea lion, but that's him, not you.

roflcopter. oh james.

lumiere42 July 17 2011, 04:29:00 UTC

Would it kill NT writers to do some research and read some accounts BY the disabled people who are like their characters? Ugh.

As far as autistics are concerned, there's a scary number of professionals who still think a) autistics are incapable of writing, or b)autistics are incapable of writing anything other than "self-absorbed" memoirs....never mind that there's literally HUNDREDS of books, in numerous genres, by autistic folks out there.
(I have this massive list of titles, which wants to become an annotated bibliography.)

Absinthe is legal in France. If I'd known this, I would have tried it when I was there. The stuff sold now is free of the additives and wormwood ODs that used to poison people.

fitz_clementine July 17 2011, 13:13:14 UTC

According to Wikipedia, absinthe "has never been illegal to import or manufacture in Australia." I've never been to Australia, but for some reason this information is interesting to me.

I'd like to see your list of titles! I can't think of any autistic authors who aren't primarily or exclusively memoirists. And I even like some of those memoirs, but. It gets frustrating how they're always billed as A RARE GLIMPSE INTO THE AUTISTIC MIND or something.

fitz_clementine July 17 2011, 23:09:11 UTC

Oh, wait, did you want five things? Sorry.

Um, let's see, don't know you very well at all...cats, paint color cards, sunglasses, pancakes, odd sleeping patterns.

lumiere42 July 19 2011, 04:17:50 UTC

*thanks*

I sent you the titles list in PM. Enjoy :D

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me, me. slingstone July 17 2011, 18:11:16 UTC

I am a bit curious considering how little I've seen you in person in the past few years; how would the word choices be different if this meme came around in 2006?

Re: me, me. fitz_clementine July 17 2011, 21:02:02 UTC

I'm not sure. I expect we've both changed rather a lot since we were 16-17 and 18-19. Right now I associate you with THE U.S ARMY, for obvious reasons; also beer, Scottish ancestry, urban exploration (that one is maybe more 2006 oriented; I used to have a really hard time finding real-life acquaintances who shared that interest at all), and Pittsburgh.

If I had been giving you this list (when I was) in high school, I'm sure the Barenaked Ladies would have been on it somewhere.

Also that gargoyle LJ icon you've been using forever.