[the radio is sucking my butt today, by the way.]

[minervacat]

Thing 1: Dear Chicago Sun Times and also the Chicago Tribune: Sammy Sosa no longer plays in Chicago. Get him off your front back SPORTS pages RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Did you now get the memo? Chicago doesn't give a fuck anymore. If I wanted to read about how Sammy's doing in Baltimore, I'd read the bloody Baltimore Sun. No love, Min

Thing 2: The

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[febrile]

How many Cameron Crowe protagonists can you name...?

Jerry McGuire
Lloyd Dobler
William Miller

Also...

Tanis Half-Elven, from the Dragonlance books. Yes, I just lost cool points, I know, but I was young.

Treplev, from The Seagull, except more sane.

I am the Treplev.. no! That's not right.

[g_m_s]

I have a different view of Treplev from when I first felt the Treplev-connection after having spent about a year obsessing over him and studying him both in the US and Moscow. Perhaps it is more that I focused on the differences between myself and Kostya, in order to remain sane myself.

I am still a big fan of the "Treplev would have become Trigorin is he hadn't killed himself" theory of character development. In fact, it kind of led to my not-a-senior-project-but-might-as-well-have-been in college which basically de-characterized Treplev, in that he had no character of his own and lived through the fantasy of his Art.

[minervacat]

you would have made a great teenaged rolling stone correspondant. :D

[insidian]

1. Elizabeth Bennet. No, seriously. Not an "I wanna be her and marry Mr. Darcy" sort of way, but in an "I'm different from the 'normal marriagable girls' and that's fine by me" sort of way. I avoided Pride & Prejudice for the longest time on the pretext that I hated Austen. When I finally read this (after college), I did a complete 180 because Lizzy resonated so strongly with my own sense of self.

2. Hannah from Arcadia. She's got her head screwed on straight.

3. Madame de Tourvel from Les Liaisons Dangereuses. This one's harder to explain. In the novel, you never really get inside her head, but I've read my copy to death because she's so compelling. What is it that she has that the Marquise doesn't? If she were really just a pure woman, Valmont wouldn't have fallen for her, would he? She has these principles, she has a world built up around them, and she suspends it all of her own volition

[minervacat]

make michael get you tickets to see quartet at the court, okay? email him today and say, i want a comp (or two, hey, take your mom on saturday!) and go. because it made some things in les liaisons dangereuses sort of click for me, and i think you'd dig it.

you know what stoppard character i associate with? annie from the real thing. i was rereading it the other day, and that whole speech about feeling hoist? yeah. man. anyway. i'm babbling.

[aussie_nyc]

1. Alibi Ike, from Alibi Ike by Ring Lardner, Jr. Because I can rationalize an excuse for almost anything. No, I'm not really proud of that.

2-5. There would have been more, but work's been hell today. Really. I had to completely revise one survey that was this close to being printed and sent out by the vendor and rush it to them, and now I'm dealing with translations for a survey in a language that doesn't even have an alphabet I recognise and there's a candidate for a new position hanging around whom I am supposed to interview at some stage and really I just don't have the time or the energy or the creativity to think up any more than that first one, but really, it's apropos in a way, isn't it, so I think this should do for a complete list, if that's alright with you, really I'm sorry, I'll make sure this doesn't happen again.

[minervacat]

You win at life.

[ludditerobot]

1. Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
   
2. Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
   
3. David Lightman, WarGames
   
4. Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon Dynamite
   
5. Xander Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
   

[minervacat]

Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
i hope you never wake up to find your house being bulldozed. that is my sincerest wish for you. :D

[penguingal]

1. Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing: Utterly convinced that I will never get married because men are a lower life form than myself. Quite happy to see others go down that merry road. I one day hope to be blindsided by love, too

[minervacat]

if there's a woman in the world who doesn't occasionally feel like bridget jones ... well, they probably exist, but i don't know many of them. i mean, i have a boyfriend of four years and i still feel like that some days. :D