By Amy Ratcliffe – “Kids, don’t forget to get the Yoda Christmas Tree Topper out of the attic when you get the ornaments.” That is a statement you can actually hear in geeky homes across the world nowadays. When I was a kid, it was either an angel or a silver star.
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After seeing Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 you’ve surely realized you need a Hogwarts costume by now, right? The midnight showing I attended was split 50/50 between costumed witches and wizards and muggles. I saw everything from entire costumes with robes to just house scarves paired with everyday clothing. If you put [...]
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By Sonia Aurora – I’d heard whisperings of a Buffy reboot, in film form, which we all know was already done in film form. Badly. Seriously, Hollywood, are you so idea-starved that you can’t scavenge through Twitter or Facebook for other plotlines? Why, why, why are you trying to kill something not only I but so many others love so deeply, while also spitting in the face of its creator and mastery?
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Sometimes, you just need to see a grandmother dressed as the heroine she really is. The result is a photo series cuter than any baby animals out there. Cuter than bulldog puppies, even. And there’s not much in this world cuter than a bulldog puppy.
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I think my laptop became a window into an alternate dimension where comics and couture exist in the same circle of fabulousness. That’s the only explanation for Green Goblin and Carnage to appear alongside gowns by Alexander McQueen and Marchesa in Vogue.
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It’s never been so easy to buy nerdy home décor. I know that items like Batman night lights and Spiderman bedspreads have been around for several years, but now, you can get almost anything in geek flavor. Thanks to Williams-Sonoma you can even stock your kitchen with an entire arsenal of Star Wars tools. Sandwiches [...]
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Dear Steampunk, I haven’t forgotten about you. Frankly, with all the coverage you’re getting these days, it’s hard to ignore you. I did get a little sidetracked, but I’m back. We still have so many costume possibilities to cover. Though some people think that steampunk is a fad, I know that many of us will [...]
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I procrastinate. I embrace it, deal with it, and almost always get by with it. I’ve spent a few late nights and early mornings before conventions finishing props or even whole costumes. So if you haven’t figured our your Halloween costume yet, it’s okay. You still have two whole days, or at least all of [...]
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In some part of the world, October is probably swimsuit season. Even if it’s not, I couldn’t help but share these geek themed bathing suits with you now. I don’t typically look twice at these because despite living near the Pacific ocean, I don’t put a toe in it. There is death in the ocean [...]
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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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If you’d told me in 1982 that Tron would be interpreted into couture in the year 2010, I would have looked at you perplexed and said, “What’s couture?” And I would have pronounced it “co-tore” because, well, I was six. Then I would have asked if, in 2010, I was married to Luke Skywalker because, well, you’d obviously know the future.
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If there’s something strange in your neighborhood (and face it, if you’re out trolling the internet looking for geeky sci-fi pumpkin templates, then that something strange is probably you)… Where was I? Related Stuff:
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by Amy Ratcliffe When you’re faced with racks of bagged, nineteen dollar costumes, it’s easy to lose heart. But keep your chin up, not all hope is lost. You can even turn a ”sexy Chewbacca costume” (I wish I was making it up) into something suitable or at least hilarious. Remember, look beyond the actual [...]
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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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By Sylvia Bond – Apparently, Congress is working on approving a bill that would allow the government, at the behest of media companies, to shut down websites that it doesn’t approve of. Strictly speaking, the bill, if approved, would be focused on shutting down the internet sites of people who counterfeit or pirate copyrighted material. If media companies are allowed to do what they please, and to censor those who displease them, and I can imagine that they’d be quite, quite displeased with fan fiction and fandom as a whole, what will happen to free speech in fandom?
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I left “Rationalizing Comics and Sequential Art in the Classroom” annoyed with First Second for putting together a panel which implied that an education in visual literacy is for affluent kids. I left enraged (again) at public education in this country and how it’s set up to ensure that one segment of the population always succeeds and another segment always stays exactly where they are.
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I think the sexy Halloween costume phenomenon has entered a Sexy Event Horizon wherein “sexy” is spaghettifying into “satire”. (That’s probably not how event horizon and spaghettification work, but this topic makes me want to use smart words).
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