5×5 With The Hook: Rarasaur

Her namesake died out long ago, but her writing is alive with manic energy that lights up the blogosphere with 1.21 gigawatts of fun.

She is Rara and she will crush you with her unique brand of tea and madness.

Her blog is a joy to explore – I often just click away without even reading, that’s how cool her cyber-pad is – and it contains some of the best work being done by any writer of any caliber today. Rara can go toe -to-toe with the Big Boys and Girls – and walk away with her head held high.

But enough of my

1)  If you could be any animal for a day, what would you be?  (Obviously, anything dino-related is verboten!)

If it was absolutely just for one day, I’d like to be a simple household cat to see the world through the eyes of my beloved friends.

 2)  Yours is a heart dipped in poetic verse, but who is your favorite poet?

Depending on the day, it always seems to be a toss-up between Hafiz, Shel Silverstein, Pablo Neruda, Shakespeare, and Bukowski.    And though I wouldn’t call them favorites in the traditional sense, I’m most apt to quote from Ella Wheeler Wilcox or e.e. cummings so I can’t leave them out of any favorites list either!

3)  The best thing about being a geek is…

Love.  

There’s often very little connecting one geek to another– the difference between a Trekker and a Tolkein geek is the difference between Kobe steak and Kobe Bryant. But still– there’s a bond between us all because we know what it is to be lovingly devoted to an idea, place, time, hope, or hero.

A short story here:  Nearly 10 years ago, I was working at a hotel that frequently had celebrity guests.  Most walked in and out without any hullabaloo.  One day though, Julie Newmar strolled in — nearly 70 years old, and still astoundingly beautiful.  The boys I worked with were tripping over themselves to help her.  The grumpy elderly hotel concierge had a huge smile on his face.  A family on vacation with all manner of sports and kayak stuff looked her over and asked, “I don’t get it, did she used to be somebody?”

A little girl, born decades after the release of that 1960 television series responded, “She IS somebody.  That. is. Catwoman.  She’s my hero!”

See, geek love doesn’t die.  It just gets pulled into the next generation.

SORRY, LADIES, BUT THE FANBOY IN ME COULDN’T RESIST…

4)  This feature is all about making a positive impact on people through blogging; you’re one of the best and brightest lights on WordPress.  In your humble opinion, which qualities make for a successful blogger?

Aw, thank you kindly. 

By defining “successful” as “finding joy in your work and being sustained by the goodwill of a well-matched community” – I would say:

(1)  Make your house a home. Emphasize regularity of voice, content type, schedule or visual appeal. 

(2)  Be brave.  Ask one more question than you normally would. Make the first move.  Tell the story that’s hard to tell.

(3)  Be as kind and generous to yourself as you are to your readers and fellow bloggers.  The world won’t end if you miss a day, or misspell a word, or forget a link.  Be as grateful for yourself as we are for you.

(I don’t know About you, but that answer gave me chills.  Awesome!)

5)  Besides your artificial dino-skin, what do you like to wrap your human flesh in?  In other words, what are you wearing?  (And no, that didn’t sound any less creepy in my head, but I went with it anyway.)
Haha! Picture attached.

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Do I have the words to follow such positively-charged brilliance?  I think not.

My thanks to Rara for showing me how its done. See you in the lobby, folks…

I WROTE A BOOK.  HERE’S WHAT THE BACK LOOKS LIKE.