Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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Things Seanan Isn't Allowed To Discuss With the Reporter.

So I have a reporter from the Contra Costa Times coming over this afternoon to interview me and take some pictures for a local author profile piece. This is pretty cool. I've never been profiled in the newspaper before. We've cleaned the whole house (for values of "we" that mean "mostly my mother"), my room is slightly less of an EPA hazard zone than usual, and the cats have been thoroughly lectured on not throwing up in front of the cameraman. After a great deal of discussion, I have agreed to the following list of Things Seanan Isn't Allowed To Discuss With the Reporter (unless she starts it):

1. The Black Death.
2. Parasites.
3. How parasites caused us to evolve gender.
4. Endemic bubonic plague in California's ground squirrels.
5. The X-Men.
6. Crazy Australian mermaid shows.
7. Anything involving venom.
8. Dinosaurs.
9. The inevitability of the zombie apocalypse.
10. Anything that involves socially unacceptable hand gestures.
11. The ineffective nature of H1N1 as a slatewiper pandemic.
12. How my pandemic would be better.
13. Pandemics, period.
14. My collection of My Little Ponies.
15. My collection of plush weaponry.
16. My collection of plush viruses.
17. Banana slugs.
18. How to evolve a society of pseudo-mammal telepaths from parasitic wasps.
19. Why you would want to do that in the first place.
20. Giant squid.
21. Reality television.
22. Bedbug reproduction.
23. Anything Kate won't let me talk about during dinner.
24. Necrosis.
25. The slow conversion of aspartame into formaldehyde.
26. Monkeyspheres.
27. The fact that the turtle couldn't help us.
28. My limited and specialized knowledge of ASL.
29. The virtues of the machete vs. the meat cleaver.
30. That vial of liquid mercury I bought at a garage sale.
31. Tarantulas.
32. Cheese.
33. Jerusalem crickets.
34. What I did last summer.
35. The vast disparity between women's "appropriate" weight and the things women eat in television commercials.
36. Evil Dead: the Musical.
37. Why you should turn to cannibalism immediately when stranded on a desert island.
38. Kuru.
39. Flensing.
40. Parthenogenic reproduction.
41. Reasons to go crawling around in a sewer.
42. Observing autopsies.
43. Why yoga is better with Rob Zombie.
44. SyFy Original Movies.
45. The drinking games that accompany same.
46. Why I went to Waverly Place last time I was in Manhattan.
47. Pie.
48. Pi.
49. Structured poetry.
50. People as an available source of protein.
Tags: interviews, magazines and me, pandemic time, silliness, so the marilyn
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You have piqued my curiousity

ladyqkat

January 7 2010, 19:37:20 UTC 7 years ago

I want to know more about 3. How parasites caused us to evolve gender.
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Congratulations on getting interviewed. FWIW, I think all of the best subjects are being sidelined. Just don't rave about cupcake cakes or you might end up being laughed at on CakeWrecks.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

maniakes

January 7 2010, 19:42:04 UTC 7 years ago

I also want to know more about #3.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

sheistheweather

January 7 2010, 20:09:22 UTC 7 years ago

Me three!

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Re: You have piqued my curiousity

seanan_mcguire

January 7 2010, 23:00:40 UTC 7 years ago

Prions are awesome.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

arielstarshadow

January 8 2010, 00:46:48 UTC 7 years ago

OK, my Biology is basic at best. While I know what prions are, I don't understand the connection to vampirism.

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Re: You have piqued my curiousity

madtom_o_bedlam

January 7 2010, 22:38:39 UTC 7 years ago

Me too! Re: question 3. Huh? Wow? Really?

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

seanan_mcguire

January 7 2010, 23:01:04 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah, really. Parasites kinda rule.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

quettalinde

January 7 2010, 22:55:17 UTC 7 years ago

There seems to be great interest in this topic. I vote for Seanan writing a post on it. Please?

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

seanan_mcguire

January 7 2010, 23:01:27 UTC 7 years ago

I shall Put It On The List. It's relevant to InCryptid, anyway.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

arielstarshadow

January 8 2010, 00:45:50 UTC 7 years ago

I vote for Seanan writing a post on each of the 50...but that's just me.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

seanan_mcguire

January 7 2010, 23:00:18 UTC 7 years ago

Cupcake cakes aren't cupcakes. They're big, weirdly shaped cakes. I mean, come on, people.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

ladyqkat

January 7 2010, 23:05:15 UTC 7 years ago

Which is why the author of the blog makes fun of them whenever someone tries to pass one off as a "real" cake. That is one of my look-at-it-daily sites. I take my amusement very seriously.

Re: You have piqued my curiousity

dimloep_suum

January 8 2010, 01:28:59 UTC 7 years ago

Oh yes, Cakewrecks *rocks*.