But it’s such a sweet love story. Boy can’t work up the courage to talk to girls, finally manages to have a special moment against all odds… a real Cinderella story!
thank you lol
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I am going to see Scott Pilgrim tonite and I think Ill enjoy it. I read one of the books and it didnt appeal to me but it might have been the manga look that wasnt my cup of tea. But looking at the trailers Im alot more interested in the story so well see.
When Chuck mentioned that he’s currently watching Enterprise, I had a bit of a yay! moment, as I’m doing the same. All I have left is season 4… I have to say that I have a hard time remembering what happened in season 1 vs season 2, but I’ve generally found the Vulcans interesting, particularly vis a vis their relationship to Earth’s development (and from some stuff later on, in other worlds’ development as well?). So I guess it makes sense that when they aren’t talking about emotions, they’re railing against the Vulcans holding them back.
I had the same attitude towards comics as a kid as Chuck - but I was also a pretty elitist little kid. The only ones I read as a child were Tintin, which I enjoyed but wasn’t enamored of. I guess I always just preferred using my imagination for the images if I were to read something (never really liked picture books, either). I like the idea of comics now, but with so much else going on in life, I don’t know that I’ll ever get in to them.
Canada! I’m actually going to be in Canada for the first time in a few months for a professional conference, and I am really, really excited (well for the conference itself, which is cool, but also - it’s in Canada!) Any tips for visiting Toronto that people want to share, PM me!
As I nearly shouted on Twitter when I realized it – Fraggle Rock is on IW!
High school is oppressive – yes. and Yes. And Yes. I hated high school with the power of an infinity of suns. (I liked middle school, though, and I loved college) Part of why I haven’t called in a memory has to do with the fact that I’ve managed to forcibly forget most of my first two years of high school (except for a few fragmented images, I draw a blank), and my junior and senior years, my positive memories were focused upon learning cool stuff in classrooms. And a few very negative experiences with people being terrible. It was not fun to be a smart and talented young lady in a school that was all about making everyone mediocre.
And for Sean, I was also late to the party on Torchwood but it was indeed AWESOME, well actually awesome barely describes it. 
I did the same thing, but I gave gave the books another try after I saw the trailers. I’m glad I did. If you looked at the first book (Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life) it does a bit to get going. He picks up the pace in the next five.
I won a Paris! Yay! I want to thank all of my team! Come on up here guys! No, wait, Toonces, get out of that cart, that is for beverages. Oh, no. Run, run for your lives!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Torchwood is great and imho only gets better as the show goes on. MIght have to do a rewatch.
Ok I finally saw Scott Pilgrim last night and my first reaction was that its a cute film. I didnt laugh at all the jokes but i did laugh at quite a few scenes. Now I know the story revolves around Scott but I think the character that stood out to me the most was Knives Chau the actress Ellen Wong really did a great job especially how she portrayed so many different emotions through her eyes. Overall it is a movie worth seeing and Ill give the books another try.
when i was growing up my mom bought me some subscriptions to Spiderman and Hulk. She wanted to get me into reading and from there I started reading novels but the gateway drug for me was definately comics which I still read to this day. I even podcast about comics and ive met alot of other people because of comics. I think like the sci fi commmunity that the comic community is so open and brings together so many different people from all walks of life. I enjoy getting other people into comics that were not into comics as a kid.There are so many great stories in comics that Im glad more people are starting to be exposed to it.
A geeky high school/jr high school story:
In 7th grade I joined a Star Trek club —it was a group of about 7 trekkies.
I don’t think it lasted more than a couple months.
My older sister was in 9th grade and she was totally mortified. As a freshman she was so upset that my geekiness would reflect poorly on her.
In honor of the Futurama arc I offer this-
The love child of Cthulhu?
In honor of Team Sideways Victory I offer-
Wash as a Hairdresser!
And in honor of the Scott Pilgram plug-
Lucas Lee: What? You did’nt get my email about the ‘League of Evil Ex Podcasters’ who seek to control the destiny of Galactic Watercooler?
Sean: Noooooo…
Lucas Lee: (shrugs) Oh, that’s cool. Never mind. (offers to help him up, and then sucker punches him) AH HA! Sucker!
Sean: Ow… (rubs chin) What a douche…
Audra: He’s cute… Shame he’s such a douchebag.
Chuck: (smiling) He’s heard of us!
And for Talo’s FSL submission during the ‘Intermission’-
The first rule of Talo’s Fight Club is,
(makes a zipper motion across his lips)
No one talks about Talo’s Fight Club!
I give you:
So true! I did not love the character but the actress did do a fantastic job acting “big” with small gestures, esp in her eyes.
Uh… are you sure that’s a zipper motion? I’m getting more of a puff/puff/pass…
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That’s why I chose it as me avatar for the High School arc.
I have just spent most of my evening trying to track down the article where I read about some of the people who wrote for Farscape being hired to work on scripts for the live action Star Wars show a while back, and lo and behold it’s nowhere to be found. I know I didn’t make it up. Maybe I heard it on the Forcecast? I dunno, I remember gushing about it elsewhere and freaking out because it’s two of my great loves.
(Also, I have yet to make a meet-up because I had only just discovered the podcast a little before the first one and had blown my travel budget on Aggiecon in College Station just before the one this year 
I will make it one day!)
Listening to this got me really, really wanting to watch Dazed & Confused, which I haven’t seen in a few years. I wasn’t alive in the seventies, and didn’t end up in high school until the late nineties/early 2000s, but I loved this movie–one of my much older cousins thought it would cheer me up after our grandpa died when I was in eighth grade, and he was right. I was kind of a sheltered kid and grew up on the music, movies, and TV of a generation or two before me, so even if it wasn’t my generation, I still felt like I got it some, especially after I actually went through high school. I think it’s kind of a universal thing, no matter the decade, you’re always going to have the upperclassmen who take the newbies under their wing. I remember mine, a colorguard senior named Kim, fondly. (We didn’t really do the hazing thing, unless you count one of the band juniors making my friend Serge sing the B-52’s “Love Shack” during a lunch break during summer band and the freshman olympics, which were more an opportunity for everyone to goof off than hazing.)
I may not miss high school much, but I love me some good high school movies. Which reminds me, I need to get this, Sixteen Candles, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Not Another Teen Movie on DVD.
The rumor I heard was that they were looking in Australia for writers. Someone might have assumed Farscape, since it was based there.
ETA: Here is the link.
Freshman year: Repressed memory, I was hit by a basketball too often to keep track of after having lunch in the gym. not very nice at all.
Junior Year: Member of the state’s largest chess club. It was like 100 students in a 500 student school. Even had the capitol city paper do a story on us.
Senior Year: AP History group video. Our group did a piece on Lewis and Clark. We had Jefferson being “Bill Clinton’d”. Clark having fun with two native ladies. Oh what fun, if only we could still find a copy.
I think the “information booth” Virtual Intelligence on board the Citadel in Mass Effect was Avina.