Senator Andrew Bartlett
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
 
My first blog meme
One of the features of blogging which I have regularly witnessed but not engaged in myself is the circulating of memes, which, at least in the blogosphere, is a sort of internet phenomenon where one person posts an answer to a question or series of questions, and then 'tags' other bloggers to do the same.

One of the reasons I haven’t done this is because (sob) nobody liked me enough to tag me. However, in a sign of my spiralling popularity in all the hippest places, I have been tagged by Kim, with a meme that I've traced back to here.

So, who would I like to play me in a movie based on my life?

One is tempted to go with Mr President:




















Then again, if I hadn't diverted into politics and stayed with radio, I probably would have ended up like John Cusack in High Fidelity, hanging round alternative record stores all day and reordering my record collection every other month.





Although he's probably still a bit too dashing to be credible playing me. Perhaps I could get away with this guy……?





Bill Murray ….. maybe…. but come on, who would really end up playing me in a movie of my life?





Which reminds me of one of my "great moments in public speaking" stories. Around the mid 90s, before I was in the Senate but when I was Qld President of the Democrats, I gave a speech at a forum at Brisbane City Hall. I can't remember what the topic was, but afterwards I saw a person who I knew from when I had studied social work some years earlier. She was working with some kids with mild intellectual disabilities, who were there for the forum. She introduced me to one of the kids, who said hello and then looked at me, and with a straight face said "I really liked your Elliot Goblet impersonation". A great confidence builder.

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