Whether you split atoms or infinitives...

You know you're a geek when you wake up to four texts and three messages full of friends squeeing the fact that an extremely minor character on last night's Big Bang Theory is a carbon copy of you. (Martha appears at the 2:16 mark. While not nearly as tall as the actress, it has been pointed out that we also dress alike. The later scene where Martha discusses Victorian mores is the one that really spurred the message. It's somewhere on youtube but I gave up trying to find it).

Leverage returns Wednesday!!!! Finally!!

(still trying to decide whether or not I can swing Portland this March)

fangirls should not be allowed around technology

now that LJ and I are mac buddies we're addicted to ichat... and out-geeking each other in that medium... meaning action figure fights (and the age old question: who would win in a fight between Captain Planet and the Master?) and having a sing-off to Commentary the Musical! (BTW: we sing the shit out of Ninja Ropes). Seriously those songs need to be itunes. And dear Qmx: I want a Zoe marquette. Like now.

So that's what's been going on between migraines and cleaning the apartment. Huh. Sad sad little life fangirl... Oh, and trying to figure out if I can swing tix to Con-con in March. I hearby declare 2010 my year of the cons. And three days of the hottness that is the cast of Leverage? Niiice.

Dear Sanctuary writers & cast

(except you, Amanda Tapping who I would follow to the ends of the earth).

This last episode, "Pavor Nacturnus," is an example of why it's hard to support you.

Let's be honest, it was your wannabe "Epitaph One." But you are not a Whedon and it just came off cheesy. Mostly because Robin (don't worry you're still bang-able) with his mullet seemed to be channeling the mirror Middleman in "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome."

P.S. I love you, Robin Dunne, but you're no Matt Keeslar.

Octoberness

If you haven't watched "Mazes and Monsters" in a while, netflix it. With a score to rival "Ice Castles" and the computerized voice of a mynah bird you can't go wrong. It does make me miss D&D though. (Note: for as much as I enjoy it and occasionally wished for pointy ears, adventure, and magical powers, I have never thought I was really in such a land. I doubt anyone not on drugs has).

Securing my Geek title over LJ

by getting the Astonishing X-Men omnibus & Middleman comix today.
Also wore my new Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back) dress (courtesy of etsy) w/ my d20 earrings.
I got up at 7:45 am today (I sleep late, so sue me) to secure a hotel room for next years' Dragon*Con.
Hah hah. I reign supreme!

In case you were curious...

I took a commanding lead in the geek-off today due to these reasons:

• asking the hairdresser at Vidal Sassoon to make me look like Claudia on Warehouse 13.
• geeking out over my Tardis USB hub
• while wearing my snappy new D20 earrings
• and reading Top Ten (on the train, in public, oh yes).

Between my rise in the rankings and new Frye boots all have to say is... suck it, LJ!

Happiness in the whedonverse

Buffyfest issued a joking-ish list of 'happy' times in the Whedonverse.
I beg to differ--there are some profoundly happy moments in Joss' shows. And in response I offer this list, which came to me in the middle of the night:

Happy Moments in the Whedonverse

• Tara and Willow so happy dancing that they float off the floor (in Family, I believe). Sure we all know (now) their miserable fate, but it's a transcendentally beautiful moment.
• As is Tara and Willow singing in OMWF (though, admittedly, Tara is under a spell)
• Zoe and Wash in bed discussing Zoe's death. Adorableness.
• Inara and Mal enjoying a cup of 'engine wine' at the end of Shindig.
  
• The whole crew of Serenity eating dinner together like a happy (if slightly dysfunctional) family at the end of Safe.

Almost-could-be-considered-Happy:

• Anya all adorable pre-wedding (though we know how that turned out...)
• Fred. In general, but especially when she got all excited about tacos. She was such a spark of happy in the dark show.
• Spike's sacrifice at the end of Buffy season 7. He's ready to go and seems happy (kind of) to give up his life (so he thinks). And it's just so fitting it's almost happy.
• Can I count the 'We are as gods' fantasy? Please? It makes me happy every time.
  

Convalescing with Chachi

Thing of the Day:

Pitting Miss Marple & Hercule Poirot against one another in a bout of fisticuffs.
(LJ took the latter) I maintain that Jane would win simply because of the knitting needles. Where are your little gray cells now, f***er?
The things we do to kill time...

Geekness & Season Six

From a conversation with LJ earlier today:
"If Buffy season 6 is your happy place you are seriously twisted."
I tried to explain (as I do often, as a s6 apologist) that s6 has everything I love: Spike, Clem, Once More With Feeling!, Tara, Tabla Rasa... it's excellence is highly overlooked.
Let's just admit it: I love Clem. The bugle taste-test? Parcheesi? Count me in.

LJ and I have been having a 'geek off' all this year and most of last. It started as a joke and has turned into... I'm not quite sure what.
Mostly it consists of us flaunting geek cred to each other, whether it be in sheer number of dvds, t-shirts, bizarre trivia, etc.
A quite memorable round of 'How Geek are you right this second?' went to me with: kaylee hair buns, dinosaur earrings, writing a grocery list with my Sonic Screwdriver, wearing a Back to the Future shirt, all while watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
Beat that.