GUD meme
* What was the last story you read?

I'm currently reading Vanessa Gebbie's short-story collection "Words From Glass Bubbles", which she was kind enough to send to GUD as a review book, and the most recent story I read was "On the Edge". Vanessa writes apparently straightforward stories that are full of meaning, and I usually find I need to put the book down after each one, and have a think, then come back to it :).

* What was the last poem you read?

I recently read a poem by John Masefield because it was quoted in G.H.P. Muhlhauser's "The Voyage of the Amaryllis". Muhlhauser doesn't give the title...lemme see...ah yes. Roadways.

* What was the last comic you read?

I have xkcd's feed on my friends page, and the latest one was this.

* What was the last movie you watched?

Uh, the Amityville Horror remake, last night on tv :). No, I'm not proud of it! But it was better than the original in many ways. More, umm, believable?

* What song are you listening to now? Say something about it--what it means to you, who introduced you to it, something like that.

After some months if not years of wilfully hiding from me, my Reveal album (REM) suddenly turned up today. I slammed it in and it's been on infinipeat ever since. The current track is "All The Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)". I discovered REM when Automatic for the People was released, and "Everybody Hurts" was constantly playing. After buying the album, I discovered that there were other songs on it that I liked better. And I've been a solid REM fan ever since. Their music batters my brain until it stops thinking about things it shouldn't, or gets me up and dancing around, or makes me think, or sometimes all three at once (and more). I'm even a "friend" of theirs on MySpace--how fangirly can you get!

* What's your guilty-reading pleasure?

Umm?

Er?

I don't have to own up, do I?

(in very small letters: Georgette Heyer's Regency Romances)

* Say something about the last poem you wrote!

I don't write much poetry, but it just so happens that Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) recently published my poem "The Bankside". Unfortunately, I don't have a working link to it at the moment! But that was the first poem I'd written in years, so it was especially gratifying to find a home for it.

* Say something about a story you're writing now!

I wish I could.

* If you were a fictional character, who would be writing you?

Thomas Hardy. The bastard.

* Last story you recommended to someone?

Honestly, I can't remember. I sent my dad a copy of Connie Willis's "To Say Nothing of the Dog" recently--because I loved it so much, and thought he would, too--does that count?

* And a link to your favorite magazine, because they probably need your help. ;)

You know who that has to be, don't you? GUD!

* Lastly, link to a friend's copy of this quiz!

Here be kaolin