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March 31, 2005
exclusive hinterview!
Ok, so Cari is doing this fun thing, and even though I am not usually one to participate in fun things on purpose if I can avoid it (and complain about missing out on it later) I couldn't help myself. One can't help but take advantage of an opportunity to carry on about oneself, after all. I mean, really. Plus I seriously enjoyed finding out factoids about Cari and what goes on in her world, especially with regard to her past as goth journalist and her sheer huevos (and cuteness) in interviewing Nick Cave in 1992.
So here is the thing of it~ there is a method to this interview madness!
Here's how it works. After I answer Cari's questions on my blog, then you, legion of Knit-A-Log readers, good sports all, get to post comments saying "Pippy, interview me!" and then I get to think up 5 questions for you, and post them up on here. Then you have to answer on your blog, and post the same rules and whatnot. And if you don't have a blog of your own well, it must mean you live under a rock or something. And plus it means you can't really play. Hey I didn't make it up.
Ok, so here are Cari's questions~
1.What, exactly, is an Egghead? Or who is an Egghead? They seem to lurk around your blog. There must be a story behind this and we, your readers who have never met you in real life, want to know.
Oh gosh, Eggheads! There are several who are near and dear to my heart, and at least one who isn't but I wished might have wanted to be.(sigh) But the ways of Eggheads are mysterious and complicated, because they overthink everything, which you have to do to be one.
In any event, I didn't make up the word. In the dictionary its defined as an intellectual or highbrow, I think of it as more of a 1950s caricature of a rocket scientist, the kind that has thick glasses and a pocket protector. Women eggheads are similar, except sexier and they tend to frighten men. I also think of it as an endearing term, especially in the case of one in particular, whose middle initials just happen to be E. H. and whose head, now that I see it again, is vaguely ovoid, is it not?? A little bit flat on top, maybe.
Eggheads are good to keep around because they are genenrally fonts of information, some of it useful, and will correct one's spelling and grammar if one makes some kind of error, which, ahem, I never do. So I hope that explains it!
2. Give some kind of visual—photo, drawing, painting, collage, whathaveyou—to show us something that would surprise us about you.
Ok, I don't know if there are any surprises here, but these are the best I could come up with on short notice! Some little paintings (sorry the color is kind of odd)
The titles might be revealing in some way. They are called, from the left, Pond Lily, Tricycle Red, and Even The Lucky Have Close Calls.
This drawing is called Sloth.
3. If you could have only one superpower, what would it be?
The ability grow extra limbs, or shed them, as needed. If that can be called a superpower.
4. What did you absolutely believe to be true when you were younger that turned out to be quite false in adulthood? Pick either your favorite, or your most shattering, or your favorite shattering moment of disillusionment.
Gosh, I can't think of anything in particular, aside from the fact that when I was a kid I had the idea that adulthood was somehow better than childhood (!) since you could do whatever you wanted then! Ha!
Like you could stay up until all hours of the night watching garbage on tv, eat all kinds of junk and drive a car. Plus I thought that once I was an adult I would have it all figured out, like I would have a job that I was good at and I would always know what I was doing, and I would always have some kind of cool adult answer for every situation. And I would know how to balance a checkbook and things. Seriously.
So, its not so much a single shattering moment as a process of disillusionment, I guess.
And some of it is not so disappointing because I used to almost always eat cereal for dinner, and I enjoyed it tremendously.
5. What do you look like inside your head with your eyes closed? How do you picture yourself?
Gawd, I have no idea! Its kind of like a jumble of parts. Distorted, flat, and backwards. Usually as much younger than I actually am. Always really really pale, because that's the one thing I know for sure.
Jeepers, those questions were harder than they looked!
Anyway I hope that was fun for somebody besides me! Now its your turn, somebody, anybody! Let me interview you!
The End.
Posted by pippypippy at March 31, 2005 08:36 AM
Comments
It was fun for me too. When are you visiting NYC? We'll have cereal for dinner.
Posted by: Cari at March 31, 2005 09:32 PM
hey who took the pictures?
Posted by: FAB at April 1, 2005 10:58 AM
Just a follow-up on the egghead question. It's true: I've gone to some of the leading craniometrists in the world and received a whole battery of tests. All determined that I am indeed a pure-blooded Egghead, without the faintest trace of creolization through admixture of Nimrodic, Numbskullic, or Yokelian elements. Recent studies in the cutting-edge science of metoposcopy have also shown that, contrary to popular belief, cosmologists are for the most part certifiable low-brows, who may tinker with expensive machinery but in truth enjoy no more forehead space --a direct physiognomic measure of intellectual breadth and insight-- than their etymological kin, the cosmetologists.
Posted by: Egg Head at April 2, 2005 09:01 AM
I'm open to interviewing if you've got the time.
Posted by: David at April 4, 2005 03:52 PM