{"id":589,"date":"2007-07-24T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2007-07-24T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:55:26","slug":"geek-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Geek Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, so I am not going to Comic-Con. I know all of you who listened to our podcast (Matt&#8217;s mom, my husband, etc.) were anxiously awaiting the outcome of that little debate. I am totally OK with it, though, and plan to refresh <a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/\">The Beat<\/a> hourly for updates. I am especially OK with it because Saturday sold out already and the prospect of entering that hot &#8216;n&#8217; sweaty fray is not a pleasant one.<\/p>\n<p>I am, however, making my Friday as nerdy as possible to compensate. First up is a showing of <em>The Simpsons Movie<\/em> at the Arclight with a big gang of people. My friend Jenelle, who is the most passionate Simps fan I know, is leading the charge. Incidentally, Jenelle and I are both Oregonians and we are pissed that the Oregon Springfield was not named as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_news\/2007\/07\/10\/828999-vt-town-named-simpsons-official-home\">the &#8220;official&#8221; Springfield<\/a>. Matt Groening was <em>born<\/em> in Oregon. There should be no question!<\/p>\n<p>After that, some of us are heading to a midnight screening of <em>Wet Hot American Summer<\/em>. David Wain and assorted cast members are supposed to be in attendance. That movie made me a Paul Rudd fan for life. It&#8217;s also the reason that I respond to stuff I don&#8217;t like with a hearty &#8220;BOOOOOOOOOO!!!&#8221; Should I go in costume? I could totally pull off Janeane Garofalo&#8217;s awkward camp counselor thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, so I am not going to Comic-Con. I know all of you who listened to our podcast (Matt&#8217;s mom, my husband, etc.) were anxiously awaiting the outcome of that little debate. I am totally OK with it, though, and plan to refresh The Beat hourly for updates. I am especially OK with it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-misc","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}