So you've got your Harry Potter fandom, your Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom, your Pirates of the Caribbean fandom and your Star Trek fandom.* Isn't it about time for an Evolutionist/Rationalist fandom? Well, isn't it? Check out my answers to the meme** that's sweeping the fan-i-verse!
Note added in proof: The responses to this meme may readily be extended to any scientist-fandom, e.g., see comment #1. Have at it!
01. The first character I first fell in love with.
Charles Darwin. Sweeeeeet!
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now.
Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog. Woof! (It's the sideburns.)
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't.
Sam Harris: the sweetheart of all rationalist fangurls. I mean, c'mon. . . this guy is the Orlando Bloom of atheism.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates.
Richard Lewontin just 'cause of those spunky spandrels.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer.
Richard Dawkins - the man sounds like a crazy cat lady at times.
06. The character I would shag anytime.
Richard Dawkins - love him or hate him, he's still highly shaggable.
07. The character I'd want to be like. (except for the dead part)
The late Carl Sagan - the reasons for my admiration number in the billll-yuns!
08. The character I'd slap.
Daniel Dennett - Dawkins' Rottweiler needs to stop humping his master's leg.
09. A pairing that I love.
Neil deGrasse Tyson/Lawrence Krauss - physicist slash at its best. Oh, baby!
(Psssst. I think Lawrence Krauss might be a fan of some kind of pop cultural icon.)
10. A pairing that I despise.
Pat Robertson/Ted Haggard. Truly unholy.
*For the non-cognoscenti, i.e., normal people, examples of fannishness may be found here: Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom.
**My head almost exploded from having to use that...that meme word.
Hat tip to...well, you know who you are.
Comments
The first character I first fell in love with: Bill Nye (Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!)
Posted by: matthew | August 24, 2007 8:51 AM
10. A pairing that I despise: G.W. Bush & Billy Graham
Posted by: matthew | August 24, 2007 9:03 AM
Interesting, but who will play them in the movie.
Posted by: mg | August 24, 2007 12:14 PM
Sam Harris: the sweetheart of all rationalist fangurls.
*blushes*
Ok, the secret's out...
Posted by: Shalini | August 24, 2007 4:14 PM