I certainly hope she was identified as a reporter, and not a real participant.
Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2009 4:57:28 pm PST #21022 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Nov 23, 2009 5:03:07 pm PST #21023 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
someone who thinks they're too cool for the room by the room's own definition.
It didn't seem like she went in with that attitude. Or even developed it while there. More realized that these were not her people after thinking that maybe they possibly could be.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 5:08:58 pm PST #21024 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I dunno. Comments like:
I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the dudes there
I mean, like, do you really even indetify as a nerd? / Uh-oh.
There was no way around that: He was a bona-fide, heavy-duty nerd of the first degree.
Then she sees other women she thinks are more attractive than her and her reaction is:
You people are not nerds! Get the heck out of here!
Get out of town. A gorgeous nerd, or a nerd in a nice dress. Who'd have thunk it.
Doesn't sound like what she was describing as adult nerdiness at the start of her piece.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 23, 2009 5:10:38 pm PST #21025 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd like to say it was big of her to go anyway, but I don't quite think so.
Perhaps if she'd gone just out of curiosity rather than to find fodder for her blog?
I'm not sure if I formed an immediate dislike of her over the backhanded dis of Tom, or the superior attitude toward my people in general.
-t - Nov 23, 2009 5:12:25 pm PST #21026 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's true.
Aims - Nov 23, 2009 5:15:59 pm PST #21027 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time not wanting to flame the eff out of her blog. A) You do NOT dis The Tom. At all. Two things that are not done: Do not dis The Tom, Do not dis The Nilly. B) You do NOT dis our people in general. If for no other reason than our people make a lot of the money out there and you need that money.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 5:18:24 pm PST #21028 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Iffen you don't grok nerds, stay away from groups of nerds. Don't be startled or imply disappointment when you see one AT NERD NITE. @@.
Trudy Booth - Nov 23, 2009 5:20:51 pm PST #21029 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My thought is, "They sound like some nice dudes and Bitch TOOK MY SPOT".
bon bon - Nov 23, 2009 5:24:11 pm PST #21030 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Props to Tom for keeping his cool with this girl. I am totally [totes!] outraged on everyone's behalf that she goes to nerd night and has a problem with, of all GD things, comic books. I guess she didn't go to Dark Knight or Spiderman or Iron Man? Because comic books are WEIRD! I want to internet flame her ass for being a judgmental goddamn hypocrite.
erikaj - Nov 23, 2009 5:29:49 pm PST #21031 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think people think TV nerd, ala Screech. Like what Joss said about the Willow casting call where all the actresses looked so weird.Because I like to think I'm intellectual and I'm not hip but I really don't have a pocket protector, you know? And even I read Gotham Central.Well, I'm behind now, but, you know.