Ask Me Anything

I swear that I must have the most polite readers of anyone in all of Blogistan, because I solicited questions for a round of Ask Me Anything! way back in February, and then I only answered a little more than half of them; and still, no one has said to me anything along the lines of “Hey, turkey, howzabout answering those questions!” You all knew I’d get round to it sometime, after all. And here I am, because in these parts, it’s all about you! :: From Roger: What 2006 death affected you most deeply? Well, we’re now sufficiently farDown the rabbit hole….

More answers to recent questions posed by Persons Who Reade Thysse Blogge: :: A couple of queries from Roger: If you were to live anywhere else, where would you be? What are your favorite 5 or 10 cities? Call me crazy, but I really like Upstate NY. So I’d be happy in Rochester, and I could probably even live happily in Syracuse. Longtime readers will recall that for a time we did live in Syracuse, from September ’02 until April ’03. I didn’t find that a long enough period living there to really form an impression of the place, butDown the rabbit hole….

Here we go with the second bout of answers for Ask Me Anything! version 2.0…. :: Starting with something Star Wars, Simon asks: While I, too, will rally to the defense of the Prequel trilogy, who would have been better suited to write dialogue for the scripts so that they didn’t sound like a smarmy high school drama class production? Unsurprisingly, I don’t grant Simon’s premise; I never found the dialogue in the Prequel trilogy all that bad. It’s true that Anakin sounded like a smarmy high-school drama kid, but I always figured that was intentional, since he is aDown the rabbit hole….

OK, the time has come to start answering the questions posed in Ask Me Anything! version 2.0. I’m answering these in Order By My Whim, which means, in whatever order I want to. So there! :: Someone going by the handle “Opus” asks this technical film music question: I just found your blog via google, as I was searching for some comment on James Horner’s Apollo 13 score. So as long as you’re entertaining questions, here’s mine: Have you ever noticed that, in the last moments of the last scene of the movie (on the Iwo Jima), Horner moves chromaticallyDown the rabbit hole….

I’m still soliciting submissions for Ask Me Anything!, version 2.0. Leave ’em here. I’m planning to start answering questions this weekend, so get ’em in! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

I’m gearing up for Ask Me Anything! version 2.0, so get your questions in! Anything goes. There are no stupid questions! (Well, OK, there’s a few, but I think my readership is smart enough to avoid those, right?) Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

In honor of this blog’s fast-approaching (this coming Thursday!) five-year blogiversary, I’m doing Round Two of Ask Me Anything!. Details here. (Anonymous questions are fine, although nothing…dirty. This blog is PG-13 at worst!) Oh, and there’s no limit on questions, either. Ask one or ten, if you must. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….