Rhetorical Question

A rhetorical question implies its own answer, as a way of making a point. They are not questions in the usual sense, but statements in the form of a question.

Poser

If I could pose as an author who would it be. There are so many. I mean
sure, Shakespeare, Swift, Chaucer and not to mention that like 85% of
authors in the canon are dead, and as a result off limits, but that
doesn't mean there still aren't authors it would be cool to pretend to
be.

I think that the author I would pose as would be Kurt
Vonnegut. I know he died about a year ago, but e-mails featuring
prescient premonitions could surface elevating him to some sort of
cynical prophet. I also think that it would be easy to pose as him,
when compared to other authors (apart from the being dead part). He had
a very distinctive writing style, and his views on numerous issues were
well known. Who knows that cyber-space does not hold some of his late thinkings, hiding waiting to be revealed. Or who isn't to say that when you die you inhabit the internets, cruzing the web for the rest of eternity.

Apart from these fakely philosophical questions I think he would be fun to impersonate.

Here are some other authors that made the list, but did not win:
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Mark Twain (even more crochety in the Cyber Age) (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson)
H.G. Wells (The Invisible Man, The Time Machine)
Billy Shakes aka William Shakespeare (You know he'd be a rapper nowadays) (Hamlet, Othello, MacBeth)

Location, Location, Location

I have actually thought about this before, however, not in the realm of
books, but in plays. For fun (when I have the time and the drive) I do
a littleplay writing , and I considered doing a murder mystery. Well
more accurately I thought about where I would set one should I write
one. So I decided that I would set it in the last days of the British
Raj in India.

This is weird I know, but I find it interesting
that for centuries their were people of English descent who spent their
whole lives in aforeign land, living like royalty (or at least a lot
better than most other people) who called themselves Indians though
they were clearly Europeans. I think that this world of ambiguities
(especially assovereignty is about to be handed over in 1947) could
make for an intriguing and interesting setting for a mystery (not to
mention that it is exotic and far away, bothgeographically and chronologically).

Seeing is (dis)Believing

I have previously seen and heard Sarah Vowell before, so the video clip did not really add to or change my perception of her work. I had not actually seen David Sedaris before, though I have heard him read some of his essays on tape or on NPR's
"This American Life", seeing him was really interesting. Seeing his well-timed or placed facial expressions bring laughs to moments you might not laugh at if you were just reading his writing. This made me wonder what he would do reading "Chipped Beef", "You Can't Kill the Rooster", or (one of my personal favorites,) "Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist".

The most interesting impression I got was of Chuck Palahniuk.
Admittedly, unlike many people I had never read any of his writing
before the selections from Stranger Than Fiction. I have heard his novels (Fight
Club, Choke, Survivor) tend to be dark,brutal,nihilistic,and disturbing. He is noted for reading stories at his readings that are so vivid and disgusting that they have led audience members to faint.

Considering these facts (even though the selections we read were not the most disturbing) the video we watched was surprising. WatchingPalahniuk tell the sweet and tender (and funny) story about the death of his Grandmother. I would not have
thought that the author of Fight Club would also write (or perhaps moreaccurately tell) a story about stealing the Elves that his Grandparents put up in their house during Christmastime. I was quite surprised and it changed my opinion/idea ofPalahniuk.