A Kinkaid "Baby, You Can Drive My Car" drabble. JP's narrative, because except for "Restless", which is Patrick Ormand talking, it's all about JP.
Top of the Line
I've never learned to drive. Why would I? London, where I grew up, taxis were everywhere. Now I live in San Francisco and I still don't drive. Don't have to - I've got a chauffeuse.
Bree chose the family car. We've got a Jag, an S-type, comfort and power and elegance. The engine has this big-cat throatiness to it; very sexy, if you're into cars.
Nice wheels, yeah? But I'd rather take my driver upstairs, strip her down, get my hands on her gears, turn that engine over.
Because when it comes to making love? My old lady's a Ferrari.
Thanks, Allyson!
Deb, that's fabulous. His voice is so wonderfully distinctive.
I got my first "I don't believe you" and "you're too much of a namedropper" posts.
I'm so glad I did the poll.
Interesting...
But I think it's definately another kind of story, and has no business in this one.
Were they serious?
Because I was soooo tempted to make some very facetious answers -- but refrained.
It seems to me that you 'name drop' him and Fury as often as possible. This seems to be an attempt to increase your own 'rank' in fandoms. And I can't imagine a 'close friend' behaving that way. So just from an outside point of view, since I've never met you in real life, my knee-jerk assumption would be this: You know Tim Minear. Tim Minear knows you. You are probably not actually close friends if you use his fame/name as you do, or at least not to *my* standard of what a close friend(and certainly not family) would be. And everyone has their own standards, but again, I'm going off of my own.
Another:
All said and done, eternally reminding people you have famous friends is bragging. And I just find it hard to be overly fond of people who brag on such a continuous level.
Third one:
I think you rarely miss an opportunity to remind people that you know Tim, and if nothing else, you think this gives you a higher status in the fandom. Granted, access is power, but power tends to go to people's heads. People have fawned on you for your connections, and I don't think you mind. It gets old. Perceived specialness and actual specialness aren't equal.
I can get another 4k words out of this, alone. I think, aside from the initial feeling of "ouch," that it's an interesting perception.
It is an interesting perception.
Is it "bragging" if one was constantly talking about thier spouse or children to someone not married and/or childless?
Annoying, yes. But bragging? I wonder.
If I talk about spending Thanksgiving with ita in Catalina, it's conversation. If I talk about having dinner with Tim, it's bragging.
I find that fascinating.
Huh. I think they're jealous. You only really talk about Tim--in his thread--that I've noticed. You speak for him, occassionally, but if he didn't want you to he would be the first to say so and in no uncertain terms. That speaks for a pretty close friendship, in my mind. You're not his PR person, so there's no benefit in doing so. We know this because he still hasn't bought you a pony. Sour grapes is what I see.
I also wonder, when does it stop being bragging about Tim and just start being like dinner with ita? Or does it, even? ita talks about Colin a lot, sometimes, and sometimes promotes his career, but I don't think anyone thinks of that as bragging. She's his friend. And I've been around them to know that yes, he thinks of her exactly as she thinks of him. Is it that you and Tim became friends after he wrote all those wonderful Buffy episodes that makes the distinction?
