Wordperfect Alchemist

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

I'm honestly pretty tickled. . .I've always had a great respect for the Supreme Emperor of these United States.  Congress is hereby dissolved.  And both the Republican and Democratic parties shall come together and resolve their differences via rugby.  Also, anyone found to be using the deplorable epitaph of "Madtown" for my home city will be forced to render monies sufficient for the purchase of five manga to the Imperial Treasury (about fifty bucks, for those uncultured among you).

Sometimes I think my geekery and general nerdism descends to lower depths with every passing month.

Take a couple examples from the last week.  First I went to see TMNT with my siblings last Friday, to kick off spring break.  I grew up watching the old 80s series on videotape, so I went in really hoping to like it...and by golly I did.  It was cheesy.  The animation wasn't quite top notch.  Some of the dialogue was pretty bad and the jokes occasionally fell flat.  But I still enjoyed it.  More than I was expecting to.  The characters were charming, the action excellent, and I'll be darned if I don't like seeing humanoid turtles w/ ninjitsu skills and their rodent sensei trashing evil ninjas and ancient monsters.

Then, last night I went out and bought another childhood favorite on DVD: The first season of Gargoyles.  I just finished re-watching the first five-episode intro story, and I enjoyed that...a lot.  A couple of the characters and their relationships seem surprisingly deep, and from what I've heard about the rest of it, that only improves.  It also pretty decent cartoon-style action, good voice acting and animation, and jokes that made me chuckle a few times.

But although I can list reasons why, I wonder if the very fact that I enjoy cartoons about gargoyles and mutant turtles so much firmly establishes myself as a hopeless nerd of some variety.  My interests also encompass opera, manga, Dostoevsky, military history, other kinds of history, theology, Mozart, anime, chess, Star Wars, F/SF books, Celtic/Irish music, cartoons, Shakespeare, J-pop, webcomics, quarter-staff fighting, kung-fu movies, strategy games, Coleridge poems, economics, and, of course, writing.

I gotta say, sometimes I feel fairly eccentric.  I'm a little surprised that putting "opera" and "J-pop" or "Dostoevsky" and "Star Wars" in the same list isn't crashing my computer.

Maybe it just comes with being a creative type.

Feel free to list some of your own eccentricities in the combox!  I'm sure someone out there is odder than me....

You scored as William Wallace. The great Scottish warrior William Wallace led his people against their English oppressors in a campaign that won independence for Scotland and immortalized him in the hearts of his countrymen. With his warrior's heart, tactician's mind, and poet's soul, Wallace was a brilliant leader. He just wanted to live a simple life on his farm, but he gave it up to help his country in its time of need. </td> William Wallace 75% Batman, the Dark Knight 71% Maximus 63% Indiana Jones 63% Neo, the "One" 58% The Amazing Spider-Man 46% Lara Croft 33% The Terminator 33% El Zorro 33% James Bond, Agent 007 29% Captain Jack Sparrow 29% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

I gotta admit, I'm rather pleased with the result...although, in a perfect world, The Fox would have been much higher up.

Anyway, Braveheart is a great movie, one which I'm going to watch again real soon. I gotta say, everything I've seen from him has made me a Gibson fan.