Spam as Art
Aug 28This popped up in the comments of a post from about four months ago. I don’t know what to do with it in my brain. It’s resisting inclusion in my synapses, like a scalpel jammed into my ear.
Many Nerds won’t be returning. Some old timers I remember from last year, people like
Trenchcoat Mafia, Silk Dragon Shirt, probably won’t be coming back next year.
Spamming blogs I put their names up, immortalizing them, if only until the blog owner
erases everything::::
1. Trenchcoat Mafia
2. Silk Dragon Shirt
3. The Distinguished English Gentleman
4. Beta Nerd, and of course
5. Rosie The Transsexual
Rosie’s original name was just Rosie, due to his rosie cheeks. They shared he has a high
level of knowledge, a tactic the gods employ to create a false sense of security. This of
course is the segment which they dump so many transsexuals into.
I too enjoy irony, and therefore Rosie has now become Rosie The Transsexual.
Who else has a nickname in the NerdRoom?I’d like to remind you many of the people in the NerdRoom are good men. I hope this is
reflected in what they are allowed to learn and the progress they’re allowed to make.
I’d also like to remind you their predecessors, REAL nerds from a generation ago who fill
the computer swap meet, are WONDERFUL men, and since I likely won’t be going again I want
to remember them as well.Actually the comparison of the two is a testiment to the devolution of society which will
be used as justification for the Apocalypse:::
Today’s nerds are NOT wonderful men. They grew up with the internet and many consider
pornography as an acceptable vice. They gamble freely, enjoy evil imagry in video games
and engage in sexual pursuits their predicessors never did.
This issue is a microcosim of our deterioration.
Doctor Who, this is your life.
Aug 24Between listening to the Big Finish radio plays and sharing the new series of Dr. Who with my nieces (not to mention catching up on Torchwood, myself) I’m on a bit of a Whovian kick. This lead me to stumble upon this little YouTube nugget;
Peter Davison, this is your life.
The Invasion
Aug 24When you have a one-year-old, escaping that adorable being’s clutches for even just a couple hours suddenly takes on a level of discussion and negotiation rivaling a middle east peace summit.
For example, my in-laws kindly offered of their own free will to baby “sit” our daughter Cate so my wife and I could see a movie. With Cate, baby “sitting” is actually more like baby “running around the house like a maniac so Cate doesn’t stick her fingers in a socket or find a knife and WHERE DID THOSE SCISSORS COME FROM? NO! NO! PUT THOSE DOWN!”
So, yes, it was a beautiful gesture.
That was the easy part. The hard part: WHICH MOVIE? We batted around titles like Superbad, The Simpsons Movie, and Transformers (okay, Transformers was just in my head) while carefully weighing the variables. What did our mood dictate? Which films were suitable for DVD viewing in the home, and which seemed to dictate a big-screen viewing? And perhaps most importantly, in the words of my personal spiritual guru Shmi Skywalker:
“What does your heart tell you?”
My wife’s heart screamed “The Invasion!” Because she loves her those thriller movies, and because she was kind enough to go see Harry Potter with me a few weeks ago, I went along for the ride.
I experienced a movie that was not quite good, but definitely “good enough,” if that makes any sense.
Blind Genre Item: Pervy Pavel
Aug 23Which aging cast member of a much-loved sixties sci-fi series was seen slipping behind the curtain of an adults-only booth at the San Diego Comic-Con several years ago????
Naughty boy, Monkee man!
(That’s my best Ted Casablanca, and a very poor Ted Casablanca it is.)
Peter Linklage
Aug 22A fascinating, glowing report on that cool Joss Whedon charity dinner at San Diego.
Occasional Superheroine delivers a crippling critical blow to the DiDio era at DC Comics.
The oddly compelling eighties cartoon obsession mag cereal:geek has a blog.
