LAST EDITED ON Jul-26-08 AT 11:35 PM (EDT)
I have mentioned before that my mental model for Dana O'Neill in HL3, and subsequently for Eris in Twilight and her appearance early in Symphony of the Sword No. 1, is the young Meg Ryan, but I don't think I've ever explained exactly why.Part of it is obvious: Like many sons of the '80s, I came of age with a prefabricated crush on Meg Ryan, thanks largely to her appearances in such films as Top Gun, The Presidio, Armed and Dangerous, and Innerspace. (Especially The Presidio. Rawr.)
But a bigger part of it stems from the fact that Zoner knew about the above, and one day in the summer of 1993, while I was working on HL3, he walked up and handed me a random magazine he'd found somewhere.
This magazine.
The rest is history, albeit of a particularly minor sort.
I was digging around in a bunch of old papers and whatnot today, and there was the cover from the July 1993 issue of Premiere, stuck in between a couple of other random things. It's somehow managed to stay with me through... what... seven moves over 15 years, including two cross-country ones and a couple of periods of technical homelessness in between. You can still see where I cut the corners off it with a knife rather than try to remove the tape I'd used to stick it to the wall by my desk in our old apartment on Elm Street in Worcester.
--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Jul-27-08 AT 06:17 PM (EDT) by Gryphon (admin)
[Don't really need to repeat the image, do we? Think of the poor scrollwheels... --G.]>You can still see where I cut the corners
>off it with a knife rather than try to remove the tape I'd used to
>stick it to the wall by my desk in our old apartment on Elm Street in
>Worcester.
>
And here I thought you'd merely acquired it from the same source the Battlestar Galactica uses for their books and papers. ;-p