Letter Meme!

apgeeksout gave me the letter S!

Something I hate: Slugs. I was going to give some reasons, but do I really need to?

Something I love: Sami Zayn, professional wrestler and also professional human sunbeam.

Somewhere I've been: Shinjuku, the super-busy part of Tokyo.

Somewhere I'd like to go: The Seychelles, an island chain off the eastern coast of Africa. Turquoise seas and white beaches fringing tiny emerald islands... *dreamy sigh*

Someone I know: Sascha, my brother-in-law. :D

A film I like: Star Wars: A New Hope. Empire Strikes Back is way up there as well.

A book I like: The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker. Ironically, apgeeksout just asked if I'd read it! :D I have a Google Doc file full of quotes about wrestling, and there are many from this book. Here's one of my favorites, about the horrific murder-suicide of Chris Benoit (which I will put here because it will never be an epigraph for Heroes of the Squared Circle, because nothing like that will happen in that world): Chris Benoit was a world champion, and he murdered his wife and son and killed himself. The latter act doesn’t actually erase the former, but it suffocates it. In the arena of professional wrestling, when all the world’s a stage, when the crowd’s response determines wins, positions, and entire careers, a reprehensible act is enough to purge reality from the record. Benoit was only ever a star because the fans screamed for him to be. Now they withdraw those screams, and Benoit’s legacy is nullified. If any of this made sense, I would say it makes a certain kind of sense. That last sentence is so brutal and sad, and the whole passage sums up the strange paradoxes of wrestling.

Feel free to comment and ask for a letter of your own!