(If next
week's show doesn't work perfect),"what are
you going to do? Throw your playstation controller
at your Stargate Diorama?" - canadian "listener"
"I
prefer to be called a geek so I may not ever call
in :P But the show's great! Can't wait for more"
- an actual listener.
(In response
to my question, where did you get your Skeletor
costume), "In Eternium, there is a great
Joann Fabrics."
- Skeletor
JACKIE KASHIAN FOR PRESIDENT:
"I shall passionately ensure dork suffrage!"-Neima
(I am) a "renaissance" dork.
Not as in ren fest, but a dork of too many interests. -via
IM from bad banana flavo
"I like to compare this show to
Aristophanes."
- I Said That
I'll go ahead and fess up to current
dorky pleasure here. My boyfriend bought a Nintendo Wii... and
aside from all the jokes we've made so far (the wii-mote controllers,
the wii-matches when someone gets beaten, being wii-tards for
making up all the jokes) I've discovered that I am vastly better
at bowling and golf and boxing, when they come with a little
motion-sensor remote. I've only played the sports game, I am
waiting on someone to break down and buy Super Monkey Ball.
Cause nothing could be better than monkeys, in balls, controlled
by my running around in circles and jumping up and down. It
should be wii-lly fun! : ) -Rhiannon
Email regarding DF Radio
from Thursday, January 4th:
"Last week on DF
Radio ... In the interest of full disclosure, I have
been listening to the show for a little while. Sometimes
I find it like watching Jeopardy, in that "I have
the answer you're looking for and am yelling it at the
radio" kind of way. Like when Joe was trying to remember
"Philip K. Dick" a few shows ago.
Today, it was the trivia: the woman who
was the nurse on "Emergency!" was Julie London,
lounge singer and pin-up girl; she didn't record the "Lady
and the Tramp" vocals or win the fair compensation
lawsuit against Disney. That was Peggy Lee, a better known
songbird of the time who also wrote lyrics to the LatT
songs (she was Lady, and also both of the Siamese Cats
in the film) and had a major hit with the song "Fever".
Julie London, though, was married to
Jack Webb, who went on to create "Dragnet".
Divorced by the time Webb created "Emergency!",
Webb still cast London and her new husband -songwriter
and musician Bobby Troup- as nurse Dixie McCall and doctor
Joe Early on staff at the Rampart Medical Center."
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FROM
OUR ASIA-PACIFIC
DORK CORRESPONDANT
The
Stork
and the Dork
Dork Blog – Asia
Pacific Correspondent (February)
Nelly Thomas
You know, sometimes life
cruises along and everything is normal. You eat at your
favourite café, you catch your regular train,
you watch the Biggest Loser and don’t know whether
the contestants will die from obesity or humiliation
– you know, the usual. Then, bang, everything
goes tits up. This can be the result of something bad
happening like getting evicted or The Sopranos being
taken off air, or, as is the case recently for me, it
can be the joyous news of finding out that you’re
growing a human. That’s right fellow dorks I am,
as we say here in Australia, up the duff (pregnant for
those of you who are a bit slow to catch on).
Being up the duff brings
up lots of issues for the host organ, not the least
of which is the idea that you’ll need, at some
point, to squeeze a human out of your vagina. The books
tell you not to worry about this because it “happens
every day” but the same books tell you that in
the third trimester you may experience “engorged
genitals”. I tell you, nothing endeared me more
to the idea of being pregnant than the thought of my
vagina resembling a baboon’s arse. entire
entry...
Don't Help
Unless You're Asked; But When You're Asked, Do it Right
By
Alexis Walsh, Los Angeles
I enjoy fanfic. I like reading it.
I write it. Aside from being an enjoyable way to get
the story you want for your favorite characters when
a TV show's head writers refuse to give it to you,
it's a great writing exercise for people who are honing
their craft as writers. Don't laugh -- if you can
plot out ten different ways your favorite couple can
end up together, then you can certainly pitch several
different stories to a person considering you for
a writing job later on.
And when you have writer's block?
Fanfic can make the time pass a bit more easily.
But I have one deep, burning pet
peeve with fanfic, and that is writers who can't spell
the names of the characters in their stories.
I mean, it's 2007, for crying out
loud. If you're writing fanfic, you have Internet
access to post it. So how hard is it to go to the
official site of the show or movie you're writing
about and look up the spellings of the characters'
names?
The Holidays always get me thinking
about Chaos
Theory.
In simplest terms, here’s how Chaos Theory works.
I want to spend the holidays with my loved ones but
I’ve already promised my family that I’ll
come visit them.
So I go to LAX. But there’s fog in London and
a blizzard in Denver and somebody stepped on a prehistoric
butterfly in the middle of a Jurassic safari so instead
of being emotionally assaulted by my parents in Boston,
I wind up in a plastic chair in Northern Kentucky next
to a sweaty guy with an ipod who thinks I’ll find
his music library endlessly fascinating. I started out
with the best intentions but . . . The
Law of Unintended Consequences took hold.
The old
school way of a simple plastic bag and a bit
of tape is no longer the best way to preserve
your comics. Now there is a Bag & Seal
Vacuum Sealer that Oprah
pushes for her food addiction. (E.D. now
I need a way to put them all under the couch.
Help me Oprah!)
This baby
sucks all the air out of the bag then melts
the end creating a vacumm seal preventing
air into the bag to cause any kind of aging
to your prescious TMNT #1 first printing.
When sealed the book becomes stiff as a board
and frozen in an oddly shaped cracker but
not as brittle. It makes storage a little
different as they don't fit PERFECTLY into
the rectangle comic box, and are not easily
accessable to read when you want to, but it's
great for those VERY rare comics that you
vowed never to read more than once. The upside
is, it's a polite excuse why your greasey
fingered friends can't read it: "well,
it's vacumm sealed and I'd have to cut it
open then reseal it. Sorry. You can gaze at
it and envy me tho."
I like to
eat oreos when reading comics so you can seal
those at the top above sepereately so you
can enjoy both when you want to.
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