I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

Sara wrote a great post about who she would be friends with if all the circumstances were right and she could actually meet these people.

Following suit, I'd like to make my own post about who I think I would have a natural inclination to befriend. Oddly enough, I'm finding that these people generally fall into two categories: authors or those people I would like to help/save. What does that say about me? There are a couple that don't fall into either of these categories, but for the most part...

Here we go, in no particular order:

Authors:

The Apostle Paul -- such a thinker.

Voltaire -- author of Candide; satirical genius.

J.D. Salinger -- author of Catcher in the Rye; hermit.

Saul Bellow -- GREAT short story writer

Flannery O'Connor -- short story writer from Georgia; transformed the short story; died at the age of 39 from lupus.

Anne Tyler -- author of The Accidental Tourist, A Slipping-Down Life; sort of a hermit.

Of the "I would like to save" variety:

Nick Drake -- musician

Kurt Cobain -- musician

Van Gogh -- painter

Miscellaneous (mostly of the "I would REALLY like to meet" variety):

Jason Lee -- comedic genius (actor)

Sufjan Stevens -- musical genius

Ryan Gosling -- the brooding actor (note the Darfur t-shirt)

Rory Cochran -- think Dazed and Confused, Empire Records (actor)

Johnny Cash -- musician, 8th cousin twice removed

Jason O'Mara -- Irish-born actor; quite the looker

Mr. Darcy -- hero of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Okay, so that was probably more fun for me than it was for you. But I rather enjoyed it.