John M. Scalzi's Weekend Assignment #156: Your Favorite Weekend Assignment Entry
|
“Today marks the 156th Weekend Assignment, which means -- using the powers of math! -- that we've been at this thing for three years now (more or less; lazy sod that I am, I may have skipped a sequential number here and there along the way. Even so). Three years is a long time to do anything, and yet I know that many of you have been plugging along doing the Weekend Assignments, if not every week, at least often enough to have built up a small library of assignments. So, let's plunge into those: |
I was on hiatus when you first started the Weekend Assignment, so can't go back any farther on them than June, 2005. By the way, I'd vote for continuation. You haven't scratched the surface yet! After looking them over, I decided on this one:
Weekend Assignment #52(!): Going Hollywood
This Week's Weekend Assignment marks its one-year anniversary -- a whole year! That's a lot of assignments and some of you have done nearly every single one. I want to thank all of you for playing along, and here's to another year of interesting assignments for weekend Journaling fun.
For this week, we go west for the star treatment:
Weekend Assignment #52: Congratulations! Hollywood is making a movie of your life, and you get to choose any actor you want to play you -- yes, even if they're dead (the things they can do with special effects!) Who do you choose and why?
Extra credit: Name the musician/band who will play the theme song to the movie.
Me ~~~~~~~~~~~ Kris
See the resemblance?
What do you mean, no?
Easter Weekend, 2005
Dear John,
First, allow me to congratulate you on a years run of the Weekend Assignment. Propagating a meme for that long is a testament to your staying power. No wonder Krissy married you! :)
Also, it is good to hear your far-reaching intellect is searching out the answers to the important questions. 'Good equals Holy '- OK, I'll buy that. Now explain why Congress declares an Easter recess when the governmental promotion of religion is specifically enjoined by the Constitution? Or why those same numbnuts think THEY have what it takes to resolve a dispute even Solomon would abstain from deciding? Nah, I didn't think you'd know, either.
I do know this, however: if Hollywood ever chose to make a movie, or actually, a series of movies a la Gene Autrey or Lassie, the fellow I see playing me would be Kris Kristofferson. Starting from Kris's return from Germany to the present, he epitomizes the wastrel lifestyle I have pursued, the rugged good looks, craggy countenance and whiskey-soured voice I have. And the man can sing, something I am so completely unable to do...
I think a nice three-parter ought to do it. Unlike the theme of this weekend, my life story ends with the whimpers of an old man, not some jazzy holy ghost flitting hither and yon. But the music... I think "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" writer Michael McDowell would be great for bringing my story to the screen, while Danny Elfman's score and Tim Burton's lyrics would do the right amount of justice to my checkered past.
Have a great holiday weekend. Teach Athena the true meaning of the celebrations around the spring solstice ~ returning fecundity to the fields and the fillies after the barren winter of the soul has passed ~ That is the true meaning of the Easter Bunny's celebration. The Church long ago realized that to contradict it was a guarantee the Church would fail, while rites of fertility would survive, so the least offensive of the symbols and rites were adopted as a sop to the common woman -- the true leader of home, hearth and society.
As always, our best to you and your ladies. May the weather gods smile upon your venue and offer blue skies, warm sunbeams and silky breezes to accompany your Easter bonnets.
Grins and giggles,
wil
<>
No comments:
Post a Comment