Isaac Marion Revealed
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. So, so, so, so, so, so, so awesome.
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. A strong, healthy body, all the resources I need to do the things I want, and good people to do them with.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Giant sea monsters lurking under me while I'm swimming. Also, bees.
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. On a beautiful mountaintop with a beautiful woman in my beautiful 1976 GMC motorhome.
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. Gosh, so many to choose from. I empathize with Tesla a lot, because he had a lot of ideas to revolutionize the world, but nobody wanted to hear about it, and he eventually got destroyed by Edison, the living embodiment of everything wrong with American culture. I don't know how to transmit electricity wirelessly or anything, but I have a lot of ideas that run contrary to public consensus, which I am always taking crap for.
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. It's easy for me to find fault with most real people generally regarded as admirable, so....Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. I say "arbitrary" way too much these days. I guess I'm just noticing how many things we take for granted as fact have no real basis in reality. They're just...arbitrarily decided.
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. See my "motto and maxim" answer. Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. The ability to become invisible and/or non-corporeal at will. Oh, you mean like a real actual talent? I'd like to be able to play a guitar without sawing chunks out of it and rearranging the strings.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. Transforming myself from the sour, cynical pessimist I was throughout my teens into someone with a lust for life and hope for the future.
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. I think too much. Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment. Also, my cheeks get really red when I drink.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. I've been told my beard is really soft.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. ANY person or ANY thing?? That's got to be the most general question that's even possible to ask. But....probably a T-Rex.
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. I'm...tall?
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Daniel Plainview.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Daniel Plainview.
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. Eve, of Adam and Eve. And I would say, "Hey. Hey! Put it down. Put it down...and walk away. Good girl."
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. Groupthink.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Assuming you mean occupation as in an activity, not a job, I'd have to say drinking good beer with good people is hard to beat.
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. Well, it used to be"author" but now that I've landed that one...I dunno, maybe running a school for kids that have superpowers due to bizarre genetic mutations? Oh and also I'd have superpowers too.
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. Strength, truthfulness, and curiosity.
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. The 10-item Thali at Poppy in Seattle. Trick answer! It's 10 things in one!
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. I absolutely can't answer this question. My favorite songs change every year. One that has consistently moved me for a long time, though, is "Let Down" by Radiohead.
