Infinite Variety

[rj_anderson]

Dear Stephen Fry:

You are a very funny and talented man, and I am not at all surprised that you are also an enormous geek. I am amazed, however, by the sheer insane length of your first blog post, and the fact that it is all about electronic gadgetry. I don't know why I expected you to still write everything down on parchment with a fountain pen and use only public telephones, but for some reason I did.

Really, the sheer complexity of people never fails to surprise me.

Which has inspired me to create a meme of sorts:

1. Tell me one thing about yourself that you think I might be really surprised to hear, and/or
2. Tell me one thing about myself that really surprised you when you found out.

And now I must go and unravel part of Chapter Four which isn't working, so that I can feel happy about carrying on with Chapter Five.

Comments

[robinellen.livejournal.com]

1. Um...I've never read an actual adult fantasy book. not even one.

2. There is something that I remember being surprised about...was it that you were really shy? If that's not it, then it was something else you said on Verla's (that I've clearly already forgotten), but it truly was surprising.

Okay, that wasn't really worth it for you, was it? Oops...:)

[newport2newport.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun meme!

Would you be surprised to know that I once performed a dance routine (along with other teachers), as part of a school-wide talent show? We wore gold and black leotards and strutted our stuff to the Dirty Dancing theme song, "The Time of My Life."

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

If you can catch a showing of Stephen Fry's brilliant and honest account of bipolar disorder, there's a scene where a psychiatrist follows him on a shopping trip and he talks about his love of gadgets. It ends with him in one of the Tottenham Court Road stores (sans Death Eaters) and the guy's practically drooling over some gizmo-doodle. It was great. I loved him even more for seeing it.

He's done another documentary on living with HIV and AIDs due out this autumn, which promises to be equally as good. I am such a Stephen Fry fangirl.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I fangirl Stephen Fry so much that I'd probably swoon in an Eighteenth Century manner if I was very in the same room as him.

Love the Fry-guy.

[becominghuman.livejournal.com]

Stephen Fry rocks. He's so right on. I have that mobile-device disease, and I recognize a fellow suffering the same symptoms. Except, I would have both that FOLEO doohickey, the only think ever made he wouldn't buy, just because it's a mobile electronics doohickey.

Warren

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm....

1. I'd be legally blind without my contacts...does that count as surprising? :-)

2. I remember being quite shocked to see photos in which you seemed to be wearing a head covering, because most people I know who do that are extremely (and I do mean to-the-point-of-crazy extremely) opposed to anything that even smells of SF&F fiction, and they wouldn't be caught dead surfing the internet, much less have a blog and use lolcats grammar in their post headings. :-) So it was a very pleasant shock. (and do correct me if my assumption was wrong, btw.)

[alto2.livejournal.com]

::waves:: Hi, here at random from a certain community post, originally to express my admiration for your Five/expletives icon (and to ask if it's swipeable?), but now also to thank you profusely for pointing me to Stephen Fry's blog. I love that man to bits and really want my very own, and, well, it's not quite the same but a blog is better than nothing! Have you seen Kingdom? I've been catching it here and there and just adore it. I also desperately need a Fry icon, and must get to work concocting one...

/random