Meeting your heroes
 

Today i did just that.

I'm a very big fan of the books of Iain M. Banks (i consider him to prolly be the best sci-fi writer around) so when the opportunity to meet him came up i decided to take it.

There's a 'festival' in Glasgow called 'Aye Write'. Anyway Banks was speaking at it tonight with Ken MacLeod so i bought a ticket for me and one for the burd and went along.

In short banks came across as something of a smart arse (<Interviewer> Do you think writing's important in school? <Banks> Yeah, definitely. Especially when it comes to exam time. They're not big on people miming their answers.) but my kind of smart arse so it was all good.

Question and answer was also good. I have aspirations to be a writer so got some insight into the writing processes of both authors.

I didn't bother getting any of my books signed by him because why would i want to deface any of them. I also didn't have a nice bon mot lined up for the 'making small talk' bit. Would quite like to go for a pint with him though.

Anyway, have any of you guys met your hero? How did it go? Did they live up to your expectations?

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you met me

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I met Timmy Mallet as a kid. When Whackaday was still on TV.

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Roy Walker

Legend.

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No more heroes.

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Last year I got to meet Neil Jenkins and Dafydd James at a Pontypridd RFC event for all their Lions players which was pretty cool. They gave quite interesting speeches and even though I only got to talk to them for a few minutes but they were really friendly.

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neither would i

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I have no heroes

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Save the cheerleader, save the world :cool:

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I never got to meet Evel Knievel. He died a few months ago. He was my hero when I was a kid. Now my hero is Hugh Hefner. Not really I just envy how many women he comes into contact with.

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There's not much need to be envious about a wrinkly old man and high price hookers.

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Atleast he doesnt loose his job and risk going to jail, like Eliot Spitzer is doing right now.

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I used to work in a video store Toby Gard, rented from when he was creating Lara Croft, nice guy.

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The guy who created Tomb Raider is your hero? Aim higher*.


* Meaning, head shot gives double points.

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Speaking of my heros......whatever happened to Pig?

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He wasn't Horn? Damn man, I need to pay more attention

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the avatar maketh the man

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I met Shaq at a B-ball game.

Not really my hero but he was big as a ****ing oak tree.

Nice guy too, bought me a beer.

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.. And?

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He's moved into a flat and doesn't have the internet. A few of us met up a month or so ago. He's doing fine :cool:

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Has he date-raped anyone recently?

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Ofcourse you can be an anal prick about glorification of sport stars and such but in my tiny world it's still a cool enough thing to tell people that you've been given a beer by someone like Shaquile O'neill :(

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He woke up bleeding from the anus with no recollection of the previous evening, after drinknig the beer bought for him by Shaquile 'big as a ****ing oak tree' O'neill.

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I don't care for basketball, but there are some cool points because he was in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Rohypenol FTW!

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Honey.

The only reason someone buys another person a beer is because they want to pick them up.

The only reason.

The fact that he accepted the beer in question just adds to my suspicion.

Also, I believe that I am onto something when I say there may be a reason why he is called 'Shaq.'

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Btw, my heroes are John (You don't know him) and Pab. So I have not yet all my heroes.

Oh and Belgy as well. \0/