ok, thanks for answering the vampire question.
it was sort of an unofficial(and egregiously unscientific)poll, but the results are in:
98% of respondents would not choose to be a vampire.
reasons given:
a-immortality seems lonely
b-the sun is nice
2% of respondents would choose to be a vampire.
reasons given:
a-immortality seems excellent
b-vampires seem to be pretty excellent, too
i have to say that i fall into the 2% category.
not sure how i could reconcile vampirism with veganism, though.
my friend conchetta did ask a good question.
basically: what if immortality doesn’t involve personal jet packs and unlocking the secrets of dna and food in pill form, but rather involved a blasted, desolate earth with only cockroaches and pigeons for friends?
i guess then you have to learn to love cockroaches and pigeons.
maybe assemble an unholy army of the living dead(who just happen to be cockroaches and pigeons. see, someone should make a zombie movie involving bugs. ‘zombie bugs’ is a title that springs to mind, for example.
(‘bug zombies’ also could work.)
my brain also does this odd thing where it takes whole words and breaks them into random, disparate parts.
like ‘pigeon’.
i read it as ‘pig eon’.
‘together’ becomes ‘to get her’.
and so on.
maybe i’m just predisposed to arbitrary compartmentalizing.
i don’t know.
ok, back to vampires.
yes, call me crazy, but i think that being a vampire would be fantastic.
thanks for all of your help in my unscientific vampire poll.
and have a nice weekend.
-moby