50, 50 things. Part 1: In which I go fishing with nets.

This is one of those "50 things about yourself", often found on the Facebook, or a few years ago, Myspace.

1. When life gets me down, i'm comforted by the fact that my favorite author provides me with new material every month.
2. I was going to try to sum up why I love comics so much, but Gail Simone did it for me: "The truth is, I love almost everything about comics as a medium. I love the feel, the format, even the smell of new comics is fun. I love how the short page count meant a high velocity of story-telling, you know? Bam, second page, the Joker’s murdering someone and the Batmobile is racing down the streets of Gotham. That high-energy was really something of an entertainment oddity back then, something you’d only see in imported kung fu films, which usually lacked the compelling characters and plots of comics.
And it wasn’t just superheroes...the funny comics had to be funny WHAM in the first page, the horror comics had to have the icky stuff going on by the fifth panel or so. I love all that, and I think in our rush to tell more ‘adult’ stories, we’ve gone too far in the other directions. Comics CAN tell entire issues where people just talk over coffee, but I am baffled by anyone who really wants that in a superhero comic. You can have fantastic character moments without tying an anchor to the bullet train as so many comics today seem to do.
Comics have the crazy oufits of, say, wrestling or classic opera, they have the intense long-term story elements of a daily soap, and they have the amazing fight scenes of the best action films. I adore them and I don’t apologize for them at all. The depth of the variety of material out there rivals any other medium, really. "
3. When I get nervous I hum Yellow Submarine.
4. Now that i'm living in Chicago to pursue my "dreams" (that's a whooole other blog), I'm getting very nervous about actually achieving them. Good thing my roommate has the complete Beatles discography.
5. Speaking of, I can speak from multiple experiences when I say that living with your best friend is...the best!
6. I'm one of two people from my high school clique who's not in a serious long term relationship. Most of them are married, the others have been dating for at least a year.
7. I love being single. I don't have to answer to anyone or check in, and I can mess around with as many men as will have me.
8. That being said, I might be trading it all in soon :)
9. The two people closest to me are as blonde as blonde can be.
10. I'm severely glad I took a screenwriting class in college, for many reasons.