stunt_muppet

1. What disgusts you the most about humanity today, and why?
What disgusts me most about humanity today is that nobody seems to care about anything but themselves. Nobody's willing to look at the big picture, nobody cares about anything that won't directly affect them, and everyone's got this huge entitlement complex. Of course, I'm guilty of this as well, and it's probably more a function of the suburb where I grew up than anything else, but still...

2. Do you see yourself taking your writing anywhere in the form of a career?
Most definetly. No matter what I do, I'm going to find a way to work in writing somehow. Even if I don't become a journalist/writer/editor specifically, I want writing to be a part of my career. Of course, my dream would be to become a bestselling novelist, but I figure I should have more stable career options.

3. What is your favorite episode of CSI or CSI: Miami, and why?
I'm gonna pretend that "or" is an "and", kay? Kay good.

My favorite episode of CSI is "Pledging Mr. Johnson", from the first season. The case that Grissom and Catherine were working on ended in an unexpected way (the death was an accident), which made the ending all the more tragic and shocking. However, I think my real reason for liking this episode is the dialogue between Grissom and Catherine. When Grissom tells Catherine that she's letting her relationships interfere with the case, she snaps back, "So what do I do? Stay in my apartment all day, watching the Discovery Channel and doing expert-level crosswords and never having any relationships?" Grissom responds, "Technically, it's a townhouse. And the crosswords are advanced, not expert." And that's not the only exchange they get. 

My favorite CSI: Miami episode is "Freaks and Tweaks", also from the first season. Not only does this episode introduce Suzie Barnum, it also contains my favorite Horatio-ism ever. Also, this episode gave us our first bit of backstory about Raymond Caine, and parts of it (like the last shot and Horatio's conversations with Suzie) were actually quite moving. Oh, and Frank's in it. I love Frank. :)

4. Who was your first celebrity crush, and how did you come to find them?
Hmm...I'm not sure I remember my first celebrity crush. Dorky as this sounds, I think it might have been Mark Hamill, and I obviously came to know him via the Star Wars movies.

I know that my first actor crush was a stage actor: Patrick Paige, who played Lumiere in the Kennedy Center's performance of Beauty and the Beast that my parents took me to see when I was in grade school. I don't know why I became mildly obsessed with him, but I did. It must have been the accent. XD

5. What is the origin of your default user pic?
My userpic comes from my username. As I was poking around the Muppet wiki (yes, I do that in my spare time), I came across a section on Muppets based on real people. One of those Muppets was Sparky, the guy in my icon. Apparently, in the "Elmopalooza" special, Jon Stewart and Prarie Dawn become stuck in Jon Stewart's dressing room (all filthy comments can stop right now). At some point, Richard Belzer comes along and tries to free them from the dressing room; when he can't so it, he calls in Sparky, his "stunt muppet", who tries to bust down the door by slamming himself into it. Aside from my amusement that "Detective Munch" had ever been in a Muppet special, the very concept of a stunt muppet entertained me so deeply that I decided it would make the perfect LJ username. And since I had named my account after Sparky, I figured I should at least pay tribute to him in my default icon.