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    05/11/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    Loving zombies makes me a geek? I had no idea.


    Also, Star Trek is great and guaranteed to be much less offensive than 9/10 blockbusters coming our way. And Spock is super cute.

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    05/11/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    I saw Star Trek last night, in the IMAX theater, with my husband, the King of All Dorks.


    I think he was happier last night than on our wedding day.

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    Image of Cam/ron Cam/ron
    05/11/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    Good post. We know about the stereotypical nerds who worship sci-fi, comics and role-playing games, but I more often run into guys who treat sports games like religious experiences, memorize decades worth of a team's stats, and throw bloodthirsty tantrums whenever their fantasy football teams lose. They're supposed to be "jocks," I guess. I usually get called a "geek" whenever I'm passionate about something that others view as a waste of time and energy (i.e. obscure electronic music, vintage cocktails, Simpsons cartoons, music criticism).


    As for the "Star Trek" movie, it was made to appeal to non-Trekkies and it does the job well. Go catch a matinee.

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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    True confession time. I REALLY love nerds. You wanna know how much? Remember that scene in Apollo 13 where they take a box full of stuff that is as same as the random stuff that is in the capsule with the astronauts and dump it on the engineers' table and tell them they have to build something that will SAVE THE ASTRONAUTS LIVES with it? And they do? I find that scene TOTALLY HOT - like take-me-now you near-sighted god hot. It's true. I don't know what's wrong with me.


    In other news I am a huge Star Trek geek and although TNG is my true love, not the original, and I saw the movie last night and loved it! The cast is super hot and the whole design aesthetic has a very Farscape-ian feel to it - which is fine with me because I LOVE Farscape. Plus I don't think you can take sci fi too seriously - which is why I love my Star Trek - it can't help but be cheesy.

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    05/10/09

    @superjoop: That scene is awesome. Also? The one where all the Mission Control guys are simultaneously double-checking the math and giving their thumbs ups. It's like, woooo, let me help you with you short-sleeved button-down shirt!
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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    I'm a die hard horror nerd. Am i the only one on Jezebel?
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    05/10/09

    @weetziebat: No. I love horror, even though my exposure has been limited in my young life!
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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    I get you, H. My girlfriend is way into Buffy and Angel, but I've never seen a single episode of either. I have an undying love for X-Men, but I couldn't get her to go see Wolverine with me. We both like The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. To each their own.
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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    My geek shame is that I really don't get what people see in anything Joss Whedon has done. I don't think he's bad, but he's never struck me as the nerd messiah he's made out to be.
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    Image of katie.scarlett.o'hara katie.scarlett.o'hara
    05/10/09

    @Recidivistic: I argue with a friend of mine about this all. the. time. He's a big Whedon/Buffy fan and I tried to get him to watch Alias, which he just didn't like. I've watched a few episodes of Buffy, but never really got into it.


    Thank Jeebus we agree on Lost, or else this friendship would have been doomed ages ago.

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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    I like Star Trek okay, but I probably won't see this, at least for a while. I figure, other people's sense of urgency comes from having jobs where they work all day and then come home and don't have to think about it, whereas my work bleeds over into pretty much every other hour of my life, and everything must be done yesterday. I don't need any artificial urgency in my life, particularly not any that's been created by a movie production company. I'll get to it when I feel like it, and not a moment sooner.


    Hey, maybe I'm not missing out on all the cultural moments; maybe everyone else is missing out on my cultural moments. Didn't they ever think of that?!

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    Image of TessDuberville TessDuberville
    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    Re the whole zombie thing as well, I am a very tough nut when it comes to scary movies - I shrugged off The Exorcist like it was High School Musical, and I watched (the Japanese versions) of The Grudge and Ju-On: The Grudge on dark and stormy nights while I was alone in the house.


    But ai yi yi, The Serpent and The Rainbow and 28 Days Later freaked me right out, even Shaun of The Dead skeeved me out a little as well.


    So I'm not hip with all this Zombie mania at all man. Not at all.

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    05/10/09

    @BoomBoomBoo: Me neither. I am admittedly NOT a tough nut when it comes to horror, but the zombies thing is just a shade too far for me. I get scared just looking at the pictures and stuff of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. :( I hate it as a trend and honestly don't really understand it.
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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    I'm a literary AND comic book geek (black superheroines are my SPECIALTY) - but I've never seen an episode of Star Trek.


    SO KILL ME! I was born too late.

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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    My husband is having a dorkasm over this.


    But I love him.

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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    My dad is all into Star Wars and Star Trek, and although I'm totally into Jedis, I never thought much of Star Trek.


    Until I saw the movie last night.


    Seriously, it's so good, that even non-fanboys can enjoy it immensely. Kirk and Spock's pouty lips helped a big. Siiiighh.


    No, but really, it's a good movie, and I don't like many action movies.

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    Image of scarletbegonia scarletbegonia
    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    I have a question, Hortense. Do you draw all these great little graphics every week, or is there some awesome stick figure website where they're archived?
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    05/10/09

    @scarletbegonia: These are drawn by Natalie Dee--her website is linked at the bottom of each post I use her drawings on. Go visit! She's great.
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    05/10/09

    In reply to I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
    Yeah yeah yeah we were all raised on Star Wars (actually my father was a Lord of the Rings geek but my Uncle bought me Star Wars on vhs) but seriously, go see Star Trek. I'm know almost nothing about Star Trek except the catch phrases and I was VERY entertained. It was nothing short of amazing. Plus there's time travel shit in it!! WHO DOESN'T LIKE TIME TRAVEL??
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    05/10/09

    @amowls: I've never seen an episode of Star Trek or any of the movies, but I really want to see this one. The previews look amazing and I'm a big JJ fan (except for Cloverfield, which I just did not get). I did not know there was time travel, but this is even more of an incentive because that's what they're doing on Lost (major Lost nerd here!) and I'm reading the Time Traveler's Wife right now.
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    05/11/09

    @katie.scarlett.o'hara: I just read the Time Traveler's Wife! It's entertaining.
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    05/10/09

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    05/10/09

    @Bohoinparadise: Sorry, that's a threadjack! You might want to repost it in one of the open threads.
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    05/10/09

    @hortense: I'm sooo sorry hortnese. I just realize that seconds after I posted it! A zillion sorries and my mind is so out of it right now.
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    05/10/09

    @Bohoinparadise: No worries, it happens. But I'm sure some commenters would help you out if you posted it in an open thread.
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