This Is Good Practice For When I'm Famous

Sorry I've been AWOL this week! I've been knee-deep in computer repair, BSG, and going to Body Worlds with Carla & Matt. (P.S. You really owe it to yourself to click through to their blog and see the new banner that Matt designed. It's truly fab.)

You know the interview meme that's going around? All The Wine posted hers yesterday and I couldn't pass up a chance to be interviewed by my favorite anonymous blogger/Liz Lemon twin.

The Rules of the Interview
1. Leave me a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll email you five questions, of my determination not yours!
3. You update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1. What's the ultimate goal of your blog - what direction do you see it going?

Fame and riches. Why are you looking at me like that?
Although I wouldn't complain about those...I would ultimately like to be able to reach as many people as I can through my writing. (And pictures. Blogging unexpectedly re-sparked my love of photography. I feel limited by my camera and knowledge, but getting more involved in the photo blog world is very high on my list of goals.) The blog started as a way to get me writing more and it has certainly served its purpose. I love the blogging community and I'd like to stay active in that, possibly reaching out through more in-person interaction like local meet-ups and larger conferences.

I'm pretty young as far as bloggers go. I see my age as a way for me to gain experience now and apply it to a larger scale later in life. I would like to start a media review/news blog with multiple contributors and also keep a style blog on the side. I don't know when I'm going to find time for this, but I'm gonna make it happen, cap'n!

2. What about your Mormon faith makes you a different blogger than others?

Great question. I obviously don't try to hide my faith. I mean, it's one of the first things you read when you visit my site. However, it's not something I talk about very much in any depth, because I've got other things to discuss like entertainment and my crazy family. But I'd say that my Mormon-ness (Mormonosity?) definitely affects how I approach those things. My family means a great deal to me because family is the center of our faith. With media, I am careful about the things I read and watch and say. And sometimes that is dang hard for me. See what I did there? I said dang instead of damn. Most of the time that takes some major restaint. I do feel like I have to work harder for my jokes (especially on twitter) because I try and keep it clean. While that rarely limits me, it does eliminate a lot of material that I know would be popular. (I'm not perfect at this. I heart making "that's what she said!" jokes and #4 below is the teensiest bit inappropriate.)

I guess I can issue a guarantee that Gretch-a-sketch is always safe for work--AFSW. I realize that I might not get as many readers because of that, but I also hope it attracts people.

3. If you could live anywhere else outside of Utah, where would you go and what appeals to you about that city?
I've recently become enamored with Los Angeles. Part of that may have to do with comparing their warm, sandy beaches to my icy, snowy front porch, yet I've always held a place in my heart for Hollywood. I love how you get the glitz and glamour mixed with the seedy underbelly. New York is the hip, starving artist of cities, but Los Angeles is the up-and-coming, beautiful actor with a rumored coke addiction. Who can resist?

4. Imagine you're walking in a relatively populated downtown area on a chilly day, and you see Lee Pace walking towards you in all black with a smoothie in his hand. He seems to be bopping around to a tune in his head. What do you do? (ATW's note: Replace "Lee Pace" with "Jack White" and you have me, btw)
Short Answer: Jump his bones. That was an easy question.
Long Answer: I'd walk up to him and say something like, "You're Lee Pace!" I'd mention how much I love his work and ask him what kind of smoothie he's drinking, making a lame joke about trading pies for fruit beverages. He'd ask me what my favorite was and I'd tell him that I was partial to Jamba's Orange Dream Machine. Lee (because we're on a first-name basis by this point) would casually-but-nervously say that he makes a really good homemade version of that smoothie and maybe I'd like to stop by sometime to try it? I coyly smile and hand him my card. Turns out he makes a great smoothie and we have the same taste in music.
Oh, and then I'd jump his bones.

5. You've won a walk-on role on your favorite television show and you get to suggest the new character you play. Which show and what type of character?
I can only pick one? Not fair. As far as life experiences go, I have to say 30 Rock. We're just going to say that it starts out as a walk-on role but they liked me so much they expanded my plot. I'd be a guest star on TGS with Tracy Jordan playing a young, talented, red-headed actress. (Essentially I'd be Amy Adams.) My character would steal all the attention away from Jenna and Liz is helpless because she tells Liz that she genuinely likes her writing. They gush about comedy and geek stuff and Rosemary Howard. It's the kind of interaction that Jenna never gives Liz, so Jenna's pleas for attention go unnoticed. It ends with my character going back to L.A. and Jenna making an effort to understand Liz's world because after all, they're best friends. Also, I get a scene with Kenneth.


P.S. I was nominated for Best Cross-Platform Experience in the 20-Something Blogger Bootleg Awards. This award is for bloggers who use multiple sites for their internet identity. (Twitter, tumblr, flickr, etc.) Vote here if you're a member of the 20SB community. I love being a part of so many social sites--I blog, I twitter, and I tumblr. I pour a lot into making my posts insightful, inspiring, and/or humorous. Make sure you answer all of the q's as the cross-platform question is at the very end. Gretch-a-sketch '09!