Facts

[joewithnoname.livejournal.com]

1) I don't want to write a 6 page paper on Chinese Buddhism. Not a bit.

2) It's friggin' cold in my room.

3) [The actually relevant bit] I read Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde today. It would be so fun to play Thursday Next in Milliways... if it weren't for the canon-puncturing. The massive, massive canon-puncturing. And the pseudo-canon-puncturing, meeting people she has already met as characters (like the Cheshire Cat) as real people, which is probably worse.

4) Impromptu micromillicon lunch with Will-mun tomorrow. Yay! Sadly, I will be a zombie, due to number 1 fact.

--John
So cold.

Comments

What's your name? Who's your daddy?

[toddbaby.livejournal.com]

Are you really listening to that song? I've been obsessed with it for weeks now...

(Is he rich?) Is he rich like me?

[joewithnoname.livejournal.com]

I was. Now it's Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison.

Hooray for baseball being over for now so I can listen to the radio again!

Boo for Chinese Buddhism!

And now it's PS I Love You by The Beatles, from that period when they were standing around waiting to be awesome.

--John

Has he taken any time to quote all of the lyrics in the subject line?

[toddbaby.livejournal.com]

Brown Eyed Girl is good too. And so is anything by the Beatles. But, like, duh.

:is a music geek up the wazoo:

[tropes.livejournal.com]

Don't think I haven't longed to play her myself, dear. *whines*

[bloodyrockgod]

I'm very tempted to bring in Stig. How cool to play a Neanderthal.

[joewithnoname.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Viable. Not aware of Jurisfiction in anything but the vaguest way.

Staying in character would be a bit tricky. Mate for life, no personal aggression or aggrandizement, no desire to travel any further than he can walk... might get a bit low on plot.

Landen or Joffy might be easier, but less interesting.

Weird thought... what is the Milliways rule on playing fictional versions of fictional characters, like, say, Hamlet from Something Rotten? What if the character from the canon is already in the bar? Does that fall under the one of each rule, or is it like multiple version of the gods?

--John

[bloodyrockgod]

True, true, it would be difficult to find a plot.

Or, someone could bring in the bad guy from the first one whose name I can't remember. Acheron? One would have to get people's permission to mess with them, but if you coordinated the mayhem it could get very fun indeed.

Choosing a "version" of an iconic character might get difficult in that people could argue they're playing Mel Gibson's Hamlet, or Olivier's, or Kenneth Branagh's.

[spectral-skin.livejournal.com]

Stiiiiig! Do it!

[granny-esme.livejournal.com]

*puts kitties or puppies - your choice - on your feet to help with the cold*

*whistles innocently*

It wasn't me, I swear! *points wildly* Over there!

*runs away*

*has been up for four and a half hours and it's 6:15am*

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

*silently pulls copy of 'The Eyre Affair' from backpack. Just started it today . . .*

[joewithnoname.livejournal.com]

Luckily there are actually no spoilers for Eyre Affair in this thread.

I hope you enjoy it. I can't imagine anyone who enjoys Milliways not liking it, but stranger things have happened.

Jasper Fforde has a really cool website. And I haven't slept since I posted this thread.

--John
Paper's done though.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

The very concept of it is amazing. I was putting it off to get through my Milliways reading pile first(since knowledge of that material is more likely to become relevent) but I had just finished off the last one I had, and I'm not sure when I'll next be able to get to a bookstore or library, so through a double whammy it's now at the top of my list.

Get some sleep, already. *pats* And congrats on the paper!

[ember_eleven]

Oh yes, papers absolutely suck. I have a debate essay due next week. 6 to 8 pages. The only fun part about it are the character names: Esme and Ember. *grins*