vilakins | Five guilts meme

kernezelda tagged me for this, and as she's the second person to do so (the first was jomacmouse) I thought I'd better have a go.

I should point out that the only one I feel even faintly guilty about is the first one, so it's more a 'five odd things I like' meme.

I also changed the background colour because yellow made my eyes hurt.

Guilt	What is yours?	Explain yourself
Culinary:	Chocolate, ginger, marzipan, sometimes even in combination	I love this stuff and when I'm depressed, I need it, even though I know it's bad for me. So I never get unalloyed pleasure from them, and this is sad.
Literary:	Children's books	Some of the most imaginative fiction I've read is for children. If I visit a friend with kids, I make a beeline for their books. People are often surprised that I possess a shelf of kids' books -- and they were bought for my reading pleasure, not visiting children's though they're welcome to enjoy them. Does anyone know the church mice series? I have all of them, plus all the Asterix books from the classic Goscinny and Uderzo years, most of them owned since I was a teenager.
Audiovisual:	Children's series and cartoons	Rocky and Bullwinkle! Reboot! Shrek, Finding Nemo, Toy Story... I'm never growing up.
Musical:	"Snoopy's Christmas" and "Sink the Bismarck"	What can I say? When I hear them, they remind me of my childhood when I was a warlike little girl nicknamed Spitfire at primary school and Rommel at high school, to whom all things were possible.
Celebrity:	Michael Keating	I don't go for celebrities. I fail to see why wealth and fame make someone interesting. I'd still love Vila if MK was an arrogant egotist, but as it happens, he's not. He's a charming and delightful man and I own far too many photos signed by him. :-) But I don't care.

Now I tag:-
no one because I don't like tagging people

to complete this same Quiz, Its HERE.

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This gives me a chance to mention that a friend of ours (the one who did those DVDs in fact) calls Michael Keating 'The Vicar of London', because whenever they go to church in EastEnders, regardless of which bit of London they're in, it's always Michael Keating as the vicar.

What a nice title! :-) I don't watch EastEnders, but I know he's a regular. I assumed he was the local vicar because I heard he does all the weddings, baptisms, and funerals. I keep intending to look at the listings and watch the next time there is one.

I love Asterix - I used to read them when I visited my relatives in Germany. They're hard to get in the states, though.

I also own some in German, and had one in Latin till I lent it to a someone who lost it. :-( I discovered them while babysitting as a teenager, and when the parents came home, begged to be allowed to stay another half-hour to finish the one I was reading. They hired me back and I read all of the ones they had, then started collecting my own. :-D

I think the only ones I've got are in French. Cleopatra, and the British one.

I have far too few. I just recently borrowed some from my father, who'd gotten them for the grandchildren. No, actually, I think my mother thinks he got them for the grandchildren...

:-D

I don't know about the original French, but German doesn't work as well with the names as English, because very few words end in '-us[s]' so you get names like Apfelmus and Kurzschlus (apple mousse and short circuit). Gallic names can end in '-ich' but they still can't compare to the glories of Nervus Illnus the chariot breakdown man, Vexatious Sinusitus, and the guards at the tower in London, Sendervictorius and Appianglorius.

I thought we had one in Latin, but we don't only French and English. We do have Winne the Pooh and Peter Rabbit in Latin though. :-)

Winnie ille Pooh! I don't have it, but I read it once and often quote it when it looks like rain: "Pluvium impendit!"

I'm with you on the children's books and children's TV! The only TV SF/F that gets produced (as distinct from filmed) in Australia is Childrens TV, because that's the only genre where they can get away with it. And they do some good stuff. So does New Zealand (well, I remember two NZ ones with fondness: "Night of the Red Hunter" and "Mirror Mirror").

And I'm still fannishly inclined towards The Tomorrow People.

I never saw "Night of the Red Hunter", but "Mirror Mirror" was great, esp the series with the Russian prince. There's one on now, "Madigan's Quest", based on a Margaret Mahy book, which I'm enjoying.

Isn't it sad that imagination is assumed to be only for children?

It appears to be weirder than that. It's either fantasy because children are to be shielded from reality, or it's issue-heavy stuff because fantasy will warp their ability to cope with real life. Neither allows much scope for the voracious reader who's prepared to take what he or she can get from either.

issue-heavy stuff because fantasy will warp their ability to cope with real life

Augh! Children need imagination, not being made to grow up too quickly. I only ever read (partially) one of those books; it was called 'Nicola' and I got it from the school library purely on those grounds and was both digested and bored to find it was about a 15-year-old unwed mother. Sigh. I much preferred a good war or SF book.

There's a lot of SF and fantasy written for children and adults, but I meant TV in my comment. We (A and NZ) only seem to make imaginative programs for children, not adults. As for books, at least we have Margaret Mahy whose wonderful novels combines fantasy with the issues of growing up; our adult fiction bores and depresses me. I don't need ever to read another book about a failed marriage or a gothically warped family.

I think I've been tagged for this meme twice, myself, and I still haven't done it, in large part because I have no idea what to answer. :)

I like a lot of your choices. But, y'know, I have zero guilt at liking kids' books and cartoons. (Heh. A co-worker and I were discussing Harry Potter once, when another co-worker walked by, looked a bit puzzled, and said, "But aren't those kids's books?" And we both turned to him, simultaneously, and in one voice said, "So?" :))

And thank you, I am now going to have "Sink the Bismark" in my head for ages. :)

Oh, I'm not guilty about that either. I did point out that "the only one I feel even faintly guilty about is the first one". That's why I didn't do it till now, so instead I thought I'd go for things for which most people may regard me as strange.

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And thank you, I am now going to have "Sink the Bismark" in my head for ages. :)

And so am I, now...

We (A and NZ) only seem to make imaginative programs for children, not adults.

It's strange, that. And silly. There must be dozens of talented writers on both sides of the Tasman that could do it, dozens of talented people who would be perfectly happy to do something like this. But I presume there's either no money (as with the ABC of late), or no willingness (it isn't considered profitable, drat them). There's a certain failure of the imagination in there somewhere, and it's not with us...

Yep. :-(

And they'ree not that good at showing us overseas SF either.

That's so. Few are the series that manage to get into primetime slots and stay there. And the rest are shoved from pillar to post, in late night broadcasts almost at whim and depending very much on if there's a blue moon in the sky :(

SG1 is on Saturday afternoon here. :-(

Oddly enough, that very programme was one of the few that got a primetime broadcast slot here.

(I can't type today - that originally came out as boradcast, which, I think, is related more to mutant flippery-thing pushing into space-time corridors by Doctors between Davison and McCoy than it is to what the networks send out over the ether.)

Hee.

SG1 used to be on in prime time, but we haven't had it for about two years. Then suddenly season 8 turned up on Saturday arvo a couple of weeks ago. I'm just glad someone on an SF mailing list spotted it.

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