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C2E2 2011 Recaps: The Panels

| March 27, 2011

Tiny Intro: this is one of (hopefully) several bits of recaps from my experiences at the 2011 Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo. Most of this was written on the train home. The rest has been tweaked a week or so later as I found a bit of time to post things. Saturday: Panel-Hopping The panel [...]

echos

| April 15, 2009

Today at Starbucks I found a man who might have been my father. He was too young by almost a decade, the wrong height, and his pale skin was more like mine than my father’s year-round tan. My father never would have ordered a white chocolate mocha, either. They did share the same shaved bald [...]

dear extroverts,

| August 11, 2008

when you run into an introvert unexpectedly do not just say “hi ^introvertnamehere!” and then wait for the introvert to respond. say “hi ^introvertnamehere! it’s me, ^extrovertnamehere! we last saw each other at ^placewhereintrovertlastsawyou. i’m ^wayintrovertisconnectedtoyou.” this allows the introvert to say “yes, of course i remember you.” even though we can’t, because we’re an [...]

we interrupt talking about nothing to talk about something trivial

| May 24, 2007

i love this site: go fug yoursef the women (the fuggirls) who run the site post pictures of celebrities making horribly, awful choices in terms of fashion and then write very entertaining words about what’s wrong with them. to be fair, when they find something well done (especially if it’s someone they’ve recently bashed), they [...]

you should be reading this blog

| May 15, 2006

i think the reason why i like jesus’ favorite so much is because when she started writing (on a dare from her uber-geek friends), she sounded like me, only with actual talent.  she wrote mostly about what geeks all her friends were, and even though she was mocking you could read the love underneath…or at [...]

before i forget

| July 4, 2005

sitting near us at tonight’s fireworks show was a young couple who could not have been dating more than a few weeks. how do i know? because he was saying inane things and she was acting amused/interested when really, she shouldn’t be at all. at all. it started with him “confessing” the fact that he’s [...]