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gao tagged me for the Association Meme!

Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this to your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

Here's what I got:

1. Talk about some of your less high-profile/pop-culturey fandoms?
Well. My first fandom -- in the sense of an organized collective of fans, rather than in the sense of the first work of fiction I fell in love with -- was Disney's Gargoyles. The whole deal -- having in-depth discussion on the comment boards, writing fanfic, writing group fanfic, helping organize the first and second annual convention.
The thing about Gargoyles: it was intelligent, it was literary, it didn't talk down to its viewers, it was dark. And it was part of the Disney Afternoon lineup. I will cheerfully admit that it's been surpassed since in some respects, but it's still a damn good two seasons. (We do not talk about the third season, when they got rid of the show's creator and farmed the animation out to Nelvana.)
Let's see, what else. In terms of just canons I love that aren't high-profile ... Life, I suppose. And the animated Teen Titans, and ... see, I'm not at all sure what's considered high-profile and what's not, because I don't follow fanfic.net or any other decent gauge of what's popular. Oh -- I can tell you one very low-profile fandom I'm part of, though. The October Daye books, coming this fall from DAW. Keep an eye out.

2. What is it about filk?
It's the singing together. It's the people who can be counted on to catch my references and groan at my jokes, and it's getting to hear harp and hammered-dulcimer and bodhran and ocarina played by folk who know what they're doing, and it's the community, and it's the belief in the colonization of space, and it's writing and hearing songs on fannish topics, and it's appreciation of really good parody, and it's genre-bending, and it's a hell of a lot of other things ... but I think probably ahead of everything else, it's the singing together.

3. Your neighborhood.
My neighborhood ... is odd. In a lot of ways. The one I'm thinking about right now is the cost-of-housing bubble, because so far as I know it still hasn't gone down despite the economy. It has to eventually, but I worry.
I wonder sometimes whether the economics of a densely Jewish-Orthodox neighborhood make any sense at all to anyone who doesn't know, for instance, why it is seen as crucial and non-negotiable to live within reasonable walking distance of one's synagogue.

4. Cooking.
It's funny; if you ask me to describe myself I'm not likely to say "a good cook" until fairly far down the list, and if you ask me what I enjoy doing I'm not likely to say "cooking" that early either. But cooking is something I enjoy a lot; I find it deeply soothing, and -- I don't know, can I say 'fulfilling'? Is that too hokey? And it's something that I do well, and that I'm (justly, if I do say it) proud of.
I've been known to say, only partly in jest, that I've got a genetic predisposition to feed people. It definitely runs in my family, and it's sufficiently prevalent in my ethnicity to be a stereotype. Ess, ess, mein kind.

5. Alex! I'm interested in marriages today.
... I don't even know where to start. It'll be ten years we've been married come the end of May, and we're still disgustingly in love. Still finishing each other's sentences and capping each other's quotations and anticipating each other's punchlines.
Ten years. What the hell, you guys.

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October Daye books

Toby? Low profile? On this end of the IntarWebs? *chuckle*

filk

it's the *being* together, from more backgrounds than I can count... music is the glue, sure, but a con wouldn't be a con without the conversations long into the night in corners and rooms and lobbies, and filkers wouldn't be filkers without moving parties and fund raisers and...

It's Bigger Than The Both Of Us, that's for sure.

neighborhood

It makes sense to *me*, but then I'm one of those weird folk who think *understanding* one's neighbor is crucial to getting along, much less making friends. So I *get* why the elevator guy takes Ash Wednesday off when most of the folks in the neighborhood are frantically cleaning for Pesach.

cooking

Fulfilling isn't hokey. Particularly when your guests are nomming on your challah french toast and making purring noises. As for needing to feed people, I think it's cultural rather than genetic, since "Southern" is such a genetic melting pot and yet is almost as predisposed to cook for small armies as you are... but yes. Definitely fulfilling.

marriage

Congrats, you two! Is "Mazel Tov!" in order for an auspicious anniversary too?

Oh, and I'll bite. Meme me. (And... I don't often do this, but I'm both curious as to what you'll come up with, and somehow trusting that it will be good...)

Well hey, Toby's low-profile to ... maybe half to two-thirds of my friendslist?

And "Mazel tov" is in order for any joyous event that has already happened. For a joyous event that's upcoming (such as a birth), one says "B'sha-ah tovah", which literally means "in a good hour", in the sense of may it come in good time -- more a wish for good fortune than a congratulation.

And oh, man. Five things. *considers*
1. Living in Seattle
2. Six sigma rightside
3. Being a foodie
4. Great Big Sea
5. Airhugs!

Well... B'sha-ah tovah! And.... I've learned something; here I'd thought "Mazel Tov" meant "good luck"... thank you.

Hmmm. Good things, indeed. *goes to write post*

Literally it does mean "good luck", but its usage is in the sense of "you have had good luck," not "I wish you good luck".

(Which has led to some amusing errors in movie subtitles. Right before the paratrooper leaps from the airplane to land behind enemy lines at horrendous risk to his life, it is not appropriate to clap him on the shoulder and say "Mazal tov!")

Okeydokey!

What five things might you associate with me?

1. Fiddle! (That one was kind of a gimme.)
2. "Hurr hurr hurr."
3. Barfy the Seasick Hedgehog.
4. Cookery.
5. Corsetry.

I'm with you on cooking. My reasons for liking filk are different.

As for 10 years of marriage, Mazel Tov!

So...what are my 5 things?

... I don't know if I can come up with five things. *sad* We only ever really talked the once!

And after nearly ten years, you and Alex still make a delightful couple to hang with.

OK, I can't promise I'll have time, but I'll try. Five things.

1. The SCA
2. Dancing at weddings
3. Fatherhood
4. Being Jewish in fandom
5. Storytelling

Our neighborhood is very much like yours in terms of its being recession-proof (to some extent). It is in high demand by people who want to live within walking distance of a shul (or six), and that keeps the prices higher than you'll find in other regions.

That, yes.

(Did you want the Five Things meme?)

Sure, why not. Meme me. :-)

We haven't chatted in a while: I'll toss my hat in the ring.

Oh man. Half the things I associate with you are paving stones on ~~Melodrama~~ Memory Lane.

1. The original QLT
2. She's dead again? Man.
3. Gorgeous poetry
4. Unexpectedly tasty recipes!
5. Heard from Bombadil lately?

Hope you don't mind that I will elaborate here.

1. Was Dingo the one who originally came up with that phrase? Geez, back in those days of The Tiny Hilarious Board, I was in a magical state: free and safe and under my own power in a way I had never been before. Everything was possible, and everything was funny. Several people have told me that I have disappointed them by not staying that way, but euphoria can't last forever. Those were good days, and I glad I had them.

2. Best part of group-fic! One of my oldest friends once wanted to make a movie that was just shots of my dying terrible deaths all over Chicago. Hilarious! (Probably more hilarious around the kitchen table than in actuality.)

3. Oh, thank you. I have had a rash of rejections lately, so I needed to hear that.

4. Why unexpected? Oh lord, you think I'm totally crass, don't you??? I kid. I plan to try these crustless quiches (http://teach77.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/hermit-no-more/) some time soon.

5. He is so happy. He's shaving his head soon as part of a charity for children with cancer. Do you remember when I posted several weeks ago about a weekend in the country? He was there.

Not at all!

I don't think it was Dingo -- it was either you or Vortex Woman in a wacky superheroes/villains sequence, but I can't recall which. "Well, you'll have to choose between quasi-lesbian titillation and wreaking vengeance, because we don't have time for both."

I try to give Dingo credit for everything funny and good.

Short timer. Mrs. Nerd and I have been married twenty . . . um, lemme see . . . twenty-seven years in April. I think. I ran out of toes a few years ago.

But these days ten seems like forever and over twenty-five is almost an eternity. Here's hoping we both continue to beat the odds.

I'm curious to see where the five things meme goes.

Twenty-seven years! Here's to longevity. :D

Five things... this might be kinda lame, since we only really met the once, so. Here goes.

1. Truly impressive facial hair
2. Banjos
3. "No one gets inspired by the absence of a train." I think that line was in a song you sang; do you agree with it?

... yeah, I ran out of things. *sad* Sorry!

Fair enough, under the circumstances.

Yes, the line is from "Nothing To See Here." Do we elaborate on our own LJ or here?

Whichever you prefer!

I am right there on the cooking front, and I'll add baking as well. There's something so primeval about taking simple ingredients (flour, sugar, raw vegetables, meat, oil, whathaveyou) and turning them into something delicious and nutritious and satiating. And then presenting food to friends and loved ones: "look what I made for you!"

Given that we've met once, feel free to skip the meme. I just love talking about food.

And why not? Talking about food is fun.

I've been vaguely considering posting more recipes on my LJ. It's been a while.

I use a separate journal (http://nothavanas.livejournal.com) just for food-blogging, partly to avoid bothering people who don't care and partly so I can link my family to it. Generally I just give recipe citations and note the changes; it's easier for me to keep track electronically than in a notebook.

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