Twenty Questions: Malaclypse Fnord
Your favorite virtue
Cooperation. We're social animals, and when we work together we can do so much more than if we're all isolated.
The quality that you most admire in a man
Honesty.
The quality that you most admire in a woman
Perserverance.
What you appreciate the most in your friends
That no matter what happens, how far we get separated, they'll always have my back. And I theirs.
Your main fault
I am an arrogant man. Sometimes this works to my advantage, but not enough to call it a virtue.
Your favourite occupation
Being right in the heart of the vortex.
Your dream of happiness
That everything I've worked for all these years comes out right in the end. All jaded cynics start out believing in the happily ever after, that's why the world hurts us so much. Some of us never quite stop believing.
Your idea of misery
I've already lived it.
If not yourself, what you should like to be
As weird as it sounds, I'd be happy being a busker. Did it for a while in college, and every now and then I get the urge to take a guitar and just light out, play the wandering troubador for a while.
Where you would like to live
On my ship with my girls by my side, free and clear with the Universe at our fingertips.
Your favorite authors
There's so many. Marx of course, but that's almost required. Robert A. Wilson. Hunter Thompson. Vonnegut. Tolkein, naturally. Charlie Stross. Iain Banks. Ken MacLeod that old Trot. Grew up on the old masters: Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein. Grant Morrison. Jon Krakauer. I could be here all day.
Your favorite composers
Robert Johnson. John Lennon. Billy Bragg. Leslie Fish (don't tell her). John Denver - I think there's a law about Coloradoans liking John Denver somewhere. I've always been a fan of movie music: Williams, Horner, Kamen, Giacchino, that sort of thing.
Your favorite artists
Picasso. Jim Steranko. Dali. I like to think I've an appreciation of the Dadaists, but then they'd probably tell me I'm doing it wrong. So it goes.
Your favorite fictional heroes
Hagbard Celine, Superman, Masaq' Orbital, Jean-Luc Picard and Satan.
Your heroes in real life
George Orwell, Emma Goldman, Joe Hill and all the forgotten anarchists who've stood against tyranny.
What you hate most of all
Those who take something noble and twist it to evil ends.
Historical figures that you despise the most
There's the usual suspects: Reagan, Thatcher, fascists in general. The great capitalists of the 19th through 21st centuries. Cecil Rhodes.
How you wish to die
I have absolutely no intention of doing so. I expect that means it'll be a surprise.
Your present state of mind
Bemused.
Faults for which you have the most toleration
Hypocrisy. If you're an evil sonofabitch, own it. Don't hide your slime under weasel words about freedom or God or 'the children.'
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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Your favorite virtue
Cooperation. We're social animals, and when we work together we can do so much more than if we're all isolated.
The quality that you most admire in a man
Honesty.
The quality that you most admire in a woman
Perserverance.
What you appreciate the most in your friends
That no matter what happens, how far we get separated, they'll always have my back. And I theirs.
Your main fault
I am an arrogant man. Sometimes this works to my advantage, but not enough to call it a virtue.
Your favourite occupation
Being right in the heart of the vortex.
Your dream of happiness
That everything I've worked for all these years comes out right in the end. All jaded cynics start out believing in the happily ever after, that's why the world hurts us so much. Some of us never quite stop believing.
Your idea of misery
I've already lived it.
If not yourself, what you should like to be
As weird as it sounds, I'd be happy being a busker. Did it for a while in college, and every now and then I get the urge to take a guitar and just light out, play the wandering troubador for a while.
Where you would like to live
On my ship with my girls by my side, free and clear with the Universe at our fingertips.
Your favorite authors
There's so many. Marx of course, but that's almost required. Robert A. Wilson. Hunter Thompson. Vonnegut. Tolkein, naturally. Charlie Stross. Iain Banks. Ken MacLeod that old Trot. Grew up on the old masters: Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein. Grant Morrison. Jon Krakauer. I could be here all day.
Your favorite composers
Robert Johnson. John Lennon. Billy Bragg. Leslie Fish (don't tell her). John Denver - I think there's a law about Coloradoans liking John Denver somewhere. I've always been a fan of movie music: Williams, Horner, Kamen, Giacchino, that sort of thing.
Your favorite artists
Picasso. Jim Steranko. Dali. I like to think I've an appreciation of the Dadaists, but then they'd probably tell me I'm doing it wrong. So it goes.
Your favorite fictional heroes
Hagbard Celine, Superman, Masaq' Orbital, Jean-Luc Picard and Satan.
Your heroes in real life
George Orwell, Emma Goldman, Joe Hill and all the forgotten anarchists who've stood against tyranny.
What you hate most of all
Those who take something noble and twist it to evil ends.
Historical figures that you despise the most
There's the usual suspects: Reagan, Thatcher, fascists in general. The great capitalists of the 19th through 21st centuries. Cecil Rhodes.
How you wish to die
I have absolutely no intention of doing so. I expect that means it'll be a surprise.
Your present state of mind
Bemused.
Faults for which you have the most toleration
Hypocrisy. If you're an evil sonofabitch, own it. Don't hide your slime under weasel words about freedom or God or 'the children.'
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"