Eureka Seven

[Sky Soldiers of Vietnam, 'The Agony of War', 173rdairborne.com]

I have been exhorted by His Excellency Safranski to propagate the ‘randomness meme’ …

Here are the rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
5. Present an image of martial discord from whatever period or situation you’d like.

Here goes:

One: Prior to my current career, I was a professional archaeologist.

Two: As an archaeologist, I once excavated a six-foot Mayan. His teeth were sharpened to points and inlaid with jade and haematite. His skull had been bound into a conical shape, and he was buried with an enema assemblage consisting of a jaguar pot and bird bone tubes. The dude was seriously whacked out.

Three: I used to collect typewriters. All three of them.

Four: In the early ’90s I was an extra in a Christmas ‘Scotland Against Drugs’ video.

Five: For all his nuttiness, my hero is still Hunter S. Thompson (RIP). Man, did he hate Nixon.

Six: Many years ago I fell off the roof of a house in Belize. Onto my head.

Seven: I have seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

Hmm, who to tag? How about this lot?

Matt Armstrong

Michael Innes

Helmut

Cati Vaucelle

Hrafn Thorri Thórisson

Drew Conway

Justin Boland

Update: undoubtedly the best response to the whole tag shebang.