Helen nominated me for a Liebster Award, honoring undeserved obscurity among bloggers. This nomination is similar to President Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize in that I must retroactively earn it. In my case, by answering five questions posed by Helen. Consider my answers five Constitutionally rationalized drone strikes against my competitors!
1. Assuming you are a reader as well as a writer, name two of your favorite protagonists, one male and one female.
My favorite characters are Fanny Price in Mansfield Park, whose intelligence, hilariously, is neither noticed nor cultivated by other characters in her book; Lucy Snow in Villette, for her clenched honor, quiet rage and hope; and Mary Poppins, whose occult allegiances are magically invisible to fundamentalists who burn Harry Potter. Middle class without money, Lucy Snowe, Fanny Price, and Mary Poppins embody the paradoxes of petite bourgeois life—enviable in a global context, yet struggling in their own.
2. What has been the (or one of the) most rewarding experience related to writing your blog?
WINNING THE LIEBSTER AWARD!
3. What is your favorite post in your own blog (or post that makes you proudest)?
Be Your Own Gay, A Purloined Letter, Preservationists, and the ones from our hikes.
4. What are some things you do besides blogging? Home improvement.
5. If you had to give an acceptance
speech for the Liebster award in front of a live audience, who would you
thank and what would you wear?
At the ceremony for the Liebster Award, Helen, who nominated me, would stand on the steps of the Liebster Institute in a long white gown, hang the Leibster medallion around my neck, beam at the masses, and thank me for saving the Blogosphere. I would thank Helen, and after coyly and cryptically coming out, thank my boyfriend Qui-Gon Jinn because—I would be wearing Ewan MacGregor in his fully bearded Obi Wan mode, eyes sparkling with beneficence, earthtone bathrobe over linen tunic, faux suede boots, lightsaber, and the boxers Qui-Gon bought me, fairly traded, handmade by Ewoks from their own soft wool.
I'll go with thee to the lane's end... I am a kind of burr, I shall stick. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
I write not to teach but to learn. Rebecca West
drew's writing:
- "Always Forever Now," Ideomancer volume 13, issue 2
- "Black Sun," Black Static # 32
- "Bread or Cake" and "Pride/Shame,"2nd Annual Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival
- "Copper Heart," Polluto Magazine issue 5, A Steampunk Orange
- "The Accomplished Birder's Guide to Overcoming Rejection," Last Drink Bird Head, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- "Another Night With the Henriksens," Player's Theater Halloween One-Act Festival NYC 2008
- "Hating the Lovers," and "Pipe Down!" Geez Magazine: Thirty Sermons You Would Never Hear in Church
- "Beth/slash/Nathan," Paper Fruit Blogiversary Contest
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
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3 comments:
I saw that Helen is leading a writing workshop soon, which made me think of that writing group you, Jon, Anna, and Chris had ages ago. which led me to your blog. what a treat to get a glimpse into that brilliant mind of yours again. Hope all is well with you. Would love to reconnect sometime. You're living in NJ these days, right?
Thank you for getting in touch. I would love to hear how you, John, and your family are doing. Will you email me?
Hi Drew!!
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