25 Writers Who Influence(d) Me

Shar tagged me with this. Given the MeMe's rules -- "These are not necessarily your favorite writers or those you most admire, but writers who have influenced you" -- and a slight OCD tendency towards constant revision, shall do my best to keep the list as-is (i.e. alphabetized but otherwise unabridged):

1. Hans Christian Anderson
2. Gloria Anzaldua
3. Aphra Behn
4. Enid Blyton
5. Mikhail Bulgakov
6. Philip Caputo
7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
8. Joseph Conrad
9. Roald Dahl
10. Angela Davis
11. Frantz Fanon
12. Nadine Gordimer
13. Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. Henrik Ibsen
15. June Jordan
16. R Zamora Linmark
17. Carson McCullers
18. Terry Pratchett
19. Ninotchka Rosca
2o. Christina Rossetti
21. Arundhati Roy
22. Zitkala Sa
23. Mary Shelley
24. John Steinbeck
25. Virginia Woolf

Like the sorcerer in Disney's Fantasia - except sexy and with dykier fanfare

I'm really fucking annoyed. As an alternative to musings on the time, energy and money required to accomplish a myriad tasks, I spent the evening ogling local celebrities. If I were just (a lot) more theatrically inclined, I might have crushed on the white-hot talented Carolyn Kuan eons ago. Ah well, as the old saying goes, "better late than never".

Associate Conductor Carolyn Kuan traveled to Geneva in late October [of 2008] to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator in the world, built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to study the origins of the universe. Kuan led the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in a performance of ORIGINS, a multimedia presentation featuring the music of contemporary composer Philip Glass and both earthly and outer-space images projected on a cinema-sized screen.