[HPFGU-OTChatter] And *I* met....was Re: Amanda's pics

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 6:23 PM -0600 11/16/03, Iggy McSnurd wrote:
>
>Who are the top 10 people you'd want to hang out with for a weekend, and
>why?  (In no particular order... And guys... you can leave the porn starlets
>off the list.  *laugh*)  At least 6 must be living, but up to 4 can be alive
>or dead, language will be no barrier... and no fictional characters.  (We'll
>save that for another topic later...)

1) Hypatia.  To have been a female scholar, and such a respected one, 
in an era more misogynistic than even the Victorian one - you must 
have had guts.  Plus, we hear so little about the Pagan martyrs . . .

2) Carl Freidrich Gauss.  I want to learn as much as I can from the 
greatest mathematician who ever lived.  He wasn't terribly 
personable, but on the other hand, he was the one who encouraged 
Sophie Germain to continue her work - even once he found out her 
gender.

3) Dorothy Clutterbuck.  I want to know the *real* story of the Old 
Forest Coven.

4) William Blake.  Everything anyone else wrote about him while he 
was alive suggests he was a very sweet guy, if a bit of a 
space-cadet.  Most people who are such potent channels for the 
creative force end up getting /twisted/ by it somehow - he never did.


Oh, dear.  I've run out of my dead people already.  The rest of this 
list is going to be much harder . . . and very much colored by what 
I've been doing this weekend.

5) Sean Astin.  Having listened to the cast commentary on both the 
Fellowship and Two Towers LoTR Extended Edition DVDs, he seems to 
both be a really good actor and a knowledgable history buff - I 
suspect he'd be great fun to discuss philosophy and politics with.

6) Howard Shore.  I want to hear about the process of creating music 
for movies in general and the LoTR movies in particular.  How do you 
come up with themes for people and places?  How do you choose 
instrumental "voices" for different locations and moments?

7) Molly Ivins.  She's one of the few people who really understands 
what goes on in Texas politics, and she's not afraid to tell 
everyone.  And these days, Texas politics is national politics in the 
US . . .  Plus, she's so funny!

8) Judith Marin.  I want to have a proper four-course meal with all 
the proper silver with the woman who can give the correct etiquette 
for every occasion and never slip into elitism . . .

9) Andy Partridge (of XTC).  Because I'm a screaming fangirl.  ;)

10) Phil Foglio.  I'm an incredible fan of his artwork and the sense 
of humor he brings to his original works.  Plus, he's a roleplayer 
and an SF/fantasy geek in his own right - I'd love to get a chance to 
play a session of GURPS with him.


Oh, boy.  Geek check; I lose.  ;)

-- 

  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles(at)earthlink.net
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the 
act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "
	- Gauss, in a Letter to Bolyai, 1808.