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    BECAUSE YOU ASKED: "Tony Skratchere Edition"

    The second in a short series that expounds upon some Formspring questions to me. [http://www.formspring.me/champsuperstar]

    I have answered every single question posed to me on Formspring. Sometimes seriously, mostly jokingly. So, I was surprised when I got this declarative attempting to parade as an interrogative:

    "i will take you ignoring my question as a yes. you do have a crush on tony s"

    I responded as soon as I saw it. I had not seen a question previously about Tony S (who I automatically assumed was Tony Skratchere and not Tony's pizza or the Tony awards) and I felt a little bit disturbed by it.  I answered immediately because I wanted whomever had asked the question to know that Tony Skratchere and I are just friends. Good friends, in fact. Such good friends that I only call him Tony Skratchere in a public forum and even then, only because that's how people recognize him. Otherwise, I would/do just call him by his real name.

    I was pretty put off right away, and a little defensive, so my answer was not the one I would have given had I not wanted to clear the air so quickly.  So, here's the answer I should have given:

    Why, yes. I do, in fact, have a crush on Tony Skratchere. It's a HUGE geek crush. I have them all over the place.  I tend to show high levels of interest in people who continually challenge me and a lot of times they come off rather coquettish or flirtatious or even outright salacious.  I'm ok with this behavior. I don't get to project it upon too many people.  Hell, I have a Twitter list of untouchable people I gush over all the time, but I certainly wouldn't consider those normal I'm-trying-to-lay-you crushes.

    I have a crush like I have a crush on a lot of my friends. Girls, guys, whatever.  I fawn all over and promote like hell my two best friends in the world, @lizmoney and @sheri_nola. But, I also trip all over @seangunn and @whurley and @jonahevans, with no expectations of how they are going to react. I would hope they would be flattered rather than creeped out. I crush on smarts. I crush on genius. I crush on passionate. I crush on funny and clever and self-effacing. I crush on nerds and geeks and rock stars. I crush on people who are all of those things and, fuck yes, Tony Skratchere happens to be one of those people who is quite sincerely every single one of those things. A person who appreciates any of those qualities would be risking massive self-deprivation to NOT crush on someone like that. I mean, did you even SEE his #webrapgroups hashtag? That alone...crushworthy. 

    But, I guess getting down to brass tacks, what the submitter wanted to know was that by having this crush was I trying to pursue more by retweeting or pseudo-worshiping whomever the recipient (not just tony s)? Not really. Most likely not. I won't totally say no, because who knows when in the future I'm going to find someone that I do want to worship in a hey-lets-make-out-and-get-married kinda way.  I hope I do eventually find someone who has all those Tony Skratchere-esque qualities that I adore so much.  I hope I do find someone who is some sort of dynamo combination of him and all the people that I love and adore and crush on so much. Someone to challenge my brain right out of my head. Someone who cracks me up like every 30 seconds.  And someone who, when I text him to inquire about the hateration that showed up on my Formspring will respond with "WELL THEN, THEY DON'T GET TO COME TO OUR CATALINA WINE MIXER." 

    Hellz yes. Viva la Tony Skratchere. And everyone like him. 
    • 13 February 2010
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    Feb 13, 2010
    sheri_nola said...
    #cosign #yes #vivalaskratchere
    Feb 13, 2010
    shercole said...
    I crush on smarts to and extremely geeky as well.

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    I'm one in 2 million. Literally.

    I live life as a libertine.

    I love books, beers and bands.

    I drink Smithwick's and Jager shots.

    I love and miss my Grandma and My Best Girl Bigsby.

    I like geeks, writers and responsible people.

    I like dangerously clever people with multisyllabic vocabularies and twisted logic.

    I like to fall sleep in the Whedonverse and wake up on my own.

    I like kickin' it old school. I like the Doctor on Friday nights and Zach Morris on Saturday mornings. I like tat'd greasers with bad attitudes and soft hands. I like epic books and shifts in the paradigm. I like Centro-Matic at midnight and a full moon view from my front porch.

    I like my cocktail hour to start at noon. I like Lester Bangs and the rock writer ethos. I like bad movies and gossip sites. But, I loathe bad writing and insincere fandom.

    I like Ernie Cline and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I like sidewalk orgasms and rock overload in spring.

    I like Elvis Costello and My Name is John Michael. I love Kathleen Edwards. I like F U songs with bitter lyrics. A lot. I like words: well spoken, well written and well justified.

    I like epidemiology. I like late nights in dark rooms in a self-conscious haze. I loathe the daylight. I like cozy bars and strong cocktails. I like making lists. I love Saints football, cold days and hot toddies.

    I like people who don't question my motives.

    I like beans and rice at Juan's and Torchy's tacos. I like socialist theory and the history of salt. I like being guided by Robert Pollard. I like dirty, rotten scoundrels. The movie and the rogue class.

    I like playing unfair. I like holding grudges. I like to rage. I like to make out in random places. I like to wake up in my own bed. I like the occasional karmic kick in the head.

    I like to find out how people who got married in high school are doing these days. I like people who f**k for validation. I like cribbage and farkle and games with interpretable rules.

    I like when the universe tells me to jump already.

    I like Chicago. The city, not the band. I like New York and Nashvegas.

    I love New Orleans.

    I like expensive hotels and cheap drinks with men of dubious character.

    I like random magic tricks, well-practiced bad jokes and short road trips with people who listen to good music. I like vampires, the Chupacabra and Roberto Clemente. I like Bigfoot and Godzilla and UFOs and Jandek.

    I like to change my mind. I like when others don't.

    I like a sincere laugh. I like irony not defined by Americans or Emo kids. I like screw-ups and screwing with people. I like being serenaded by boys who sing me Death Cab songs.

    I like to try and hide the pain for the things I can't explain.

    I like WILCO.

    I like to geek out.

    I like the slow descent into a life I never meant.

    I do not like hugs. I am never bored.

    STALK ME:

    Twitter: @champsuperstar

    Email: champsuperstar@gmail.com

    Google Voice: 504.383.4277

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