I'm a Veronica.

May. 18, 2011 at 11:29am with 34 notes View comments

blanddiva11 asked: You have been given a chance to date 5 famous men who are no longer alive. (They are alive for the purposes of this inquiry).
Which 5 men would you pick and why?

River Phoenix, because I loved him when I was ten. His was a great talent. Also, he was once on a(n airline?) magazine cover in which his unretouched zits were clearly visible. Middle School me really dug that.

John F. Kennedy, Jr., because I have a thing for troubled yet charismatic eternal boys and because if he’d been with me the day he died, we’d have flown commercial and he’d still be alive.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara, before Cuba but after The Motorcycle Diaries, because the dude was *soulful*. He’d perfect my Spanish and I’d convince him to keep writing and pursue non-violent political revolution.

Jimmy Stewart, because Vertigo is one of my all-time favorite films, and because he oozes a normalcy that I lack and crave. Or at least the appearance thereof, which is good enough for me, because he could teach me to fake it.

I’m hard pressed to pick the fifth. Christobal Colon, so I could keep him in Italy? Cary Grant, because he’d know what to do with my hair? Charles de Gaulle, so I could yell at him about Algeria? Baudelaire, because he’s the original monarch of overwrought purple prose? Thomas Jefferson, because I’d encourage him to make more explicit certain points in the U.S. Constitution?

So many men, so little time.