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About Teresa Jusino

TERESA JUSINO was born on the same day that Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn't think so. As a writer, her work has appeared in Elmont Life newspaper, and on the sadly defunct website, CentralBooking.com. She is a founding member and editor of The Revolving Door Commune Blog, is currently at work on a collection of short stories, and is writing a web series for Pareidolia Films called The Pack, which is set to debut this fall! As a geek, Teresa loves all Star Trek, Lost, Fringe, comics, and anything Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan, and Neil Gaiman ever touched. She is also an aspiring fangbanger.
Website: http://teresajusino.wordpress.com/
Teresa Jusino has written 140 articles so far, you can find them below.

Beginning of Line Continues Caprica Where Syfy Left Off

Filed under Caprica by Teresa Jusino on January 5, 2011 at 8:45 am {one comment}

by Teresa Jusino – It’s so awesome that I’m able to write about this as Sylvia is beginning her wonderful (and much-needed) series on fan fiction. In addition to being a fun and worthwhile pursuit in its own right, it has proven to be the lifeline through which its source material can continue to exist. Before Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, it existed solely as fan fiction for a good sixteen years, and many of the writers of the 2005 Who were products of fandom. People like Steven Moffat (the show’s current showrunner) and Paul Cornell (writer of some of the most popular stories in New Who) were writing fan fiction, keeping their beloved property alive any way they could! And now, Doctor Who is the most popular show on the BBC all these years later. All because fans just wouldn’t leave it alone.

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May the Force Be with Katie

Filed under The Underwire by Teresa Jusino on December 6, 2010 at 8:31 am {4 comments}

by Teresa Jusino – This letter addressed to Katie, a 7-year-old girl from Evanston, IL whom you might have read about at her mother’s original blog post about bullying, or in subsequent news coverage about the fact that she’s been teased at school for carrying a Star Wars water bottle. Apparently, carrying Star Wars merchandise is a “boy” thing to do. Could’ve fooled me.

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Sex and the Single Geek Girl: NYCC Speed Dating!

Filed under Geek and the City by Teresa Jusino on October 22, 2010 at 8:12 am {no comments}

As promised, I’m reporting back about speed-dating at New York Comic Con! Sadly, this account isn’t going to be as first-person as I’d hoped. I didn’t pre-register, and when I went to register on-site, I was told I didn’t have to, because there were so many guys and not enough girls. Great! When I got back, though, the situation had changed drastically. The event had been given a smaller room – to “create demand” according to what Ryan, the guy running the event, was told by NYCC. So now, I (along with five other women) had to compete for one of two remaining women’s spots.

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Geek Theater: Circus of Circus

Filed under Geek and the City by Teresa Jusino on October 14, 2010 at 7:00 am {one comment}

by Teresa Jusino – OK, literature and politics geeks! Raise your hand if you’ve read George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Now, imagine that instead of a farm, it was set in the company of a traveling circus. Imagine that instead of animals getting rid of humans, a group of performers got rid of their ringmaster. Imagine that instead of pigs abusing their power in the barnyard, money-hungry performers sold out their vision of a “circus without a ringmaster” for a quick payday by doing a television commercial.

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The Mysterious Case of Sasha Roiz

Filed under Caprica, Interviews by Teresa Jusino on October 5, 2010 at 9:19 am {4 comments}

From the notes of Detective Teresa A. Jusino – It would’ve been easy to just let this go as just another case of re-fried brain, but the moment I looked at his face, even with the holoband on and under a year’s worth of facial hair, I recognized him. Just like that, the case became personal, and I had to find out what was at the bottom of it. The victim’s name is Sasha Roiz. And I knew him.

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Sex and the Single Geek Girl: Half a Geek Couple?

Filed under Geek and the City by Teresa Jusino on October 2, 2010 at 7:00 am {7 comments}

By Teresa Jusino – I have a profile on OKCupid, and in it I mention that I’m a geek girl who’s into comics, sci-fi, etc. So all it’s done is send guys my way who are into those things. Those things, and nothing else. I’m someone who appreciates people’s differences. I don’t want to be half of a geek couple.

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Sex and the Single Geek Girl: Cee-Lo is a Hater

Filed under Geek and the City by Teresa Jusino on September 24, 2010 at 8:00 am {5 comments}

By Teresa Jusino – Recently, in my Twitter travels, some dude had the nerve to say something to the effect of “I dare you to find me a geek girl who is still single.” While lots of geek girls I know are in great relationships, there are plenty of us who are still looking. Geek guys seem to think that all a geek girl has to do is walk into a con and exist in order to get attention. While it would be nice if that were true, the reality is that most geek girls get ignored unless they’re wrapped in latex and dressed like Harley Quinn, Lee-loo, or Slave Leia.

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Help a Browncoat, Save the World

Filed under The Underwire by Teresa Jusino on August 3, 2010 at 11:05 am {no comments}

By Teresa Jusino – The wonderful thing about geeks is their ability to channel the energy of many people and harness the power of the internet to do great things for the world. A lot of the time, they use this ability in support of their favorite geeky pastimes (Save Our Show! Save Our Comic!), but very often they use it to raise money and/or awareness for a worthy cause.

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Geek Theater: St Nicholas

Filed under Geek and the City by Teresa Jusino on July 7, 2010 at 7:00 am {no comments}

By Teresa Jusino – St. Nicholas is a one-man Irish vampire story. A theater critic tells the tale of his dissatisfaction with his normal life that includes a wife and children, his obsession with a young actress he gave a bad review, and how those things led to a trip from Dublin to London, where he encountered a house full of vampires.

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