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Apr. 2nd, 2006 at 7:23 PM

Well that was fun. I nabbed a bunch of comics - mostly horror/zombie/ghost/pseudo-Victorian stuff all on the cheap;* and I finally met up with a coterie of LJers, including (but not limited to)

storms_eye,

lithera, and

rawsocket. I also spied a couple of people sort of staring, and I heard one of them whisper while walking away, "Yeah, that's wicked_wish from LiveJournal, I think." This was definitely the weirdest thing that happened all weekend.

In other news,

moriarty6 got to meet "Tycho and Gabe," from Penny Arcade; who bestowed upon him the nickname of "Dreamcast Guy" (due to his t-shirt emblazoned with that logo). After their panel on web comics, they signed stuff for him - and lo, he was a happy fanboy. It was extremely cute.

Now ... ah, now. Now I'm going to sit down with this fat stack of sig pages from Subterranean and sign myself silly while watching a mindless trashy entertainment** and waiting for my husband to return from coffee with

mecamind. And tomorrow: I write.

* Yesterday I showed up sort of bumming around the place, with my hair in a bun, no make-up, and in a bulky jacket; but today I tarted up a tiny bit and had a much easier time haggling. Honestly. Geek men. I'd be offended or something, if it hadn't worked so damned well.
** Doom.

Current Mood:tired

Comments

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dogens_zen

Apr. 3rd, 2006 03:33 am (UTC)

It was great to meet you and Jym....

...Even if Jym and I wound up gamer-geeking for a bit.

That was tarted up? Yikes are geek guys easy to roll or what! Bat some pretty eyelashes and that's it I guess.

I hope you find more fun everyday things to do here. It really is an amazing place. I know the shock of a sudden transition and an alien environment. I've lived in DC, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, California and other places. I didn't plan on winding up here, but I'm glad I did. Hopefully you'll feel the same at some point.

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dogens_zen

Apr. 3rd, 2006 03:34 am (UTC)

Oh yeah....

I forgot about the "Charisma" tee shirt. I never really appreciated the power of a +1 tee-shirt before.

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cieo

Apr. 3rd, 2006 05:38 am (UTC)

You're the 100th most popular person on the internet, did you know?

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cieo

Apr. 3rd, 2006 05:38 am (UTC)

Well, by internet, I meant LJ.

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dogens_zen

Apr. 3rd, 2006 06:45 am (UTC)

You mean there's more?

Ye gads, I cannot believe there is more to this "web" beyond the safe walls of LJ.... :-)

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cieo

Apr. 3rd, 2006 06:51 am (UTC)

Re: You mean there's more?

Safe walls? With all the melodrama and ruffled feathers I see on LJ, I've always thought of LJ as the Hell's Angels sector of internet territories.

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cynderellie

Apr. 3rd, 2006 08:49 am (UTC)

It sounds like you're settling in well and meeting up with some cool people... I'm glad that your 'new' life seems to be falling into place.

"Yeah, that's wicked_wish from LiveJournal, I think." - Lj Stalkers - they're everywhere... LOL that is so wierd....

hee hee hee - you said "your husband" - I can remember when I was first married and got a little giggley thrill from saying "my husband". Most of the time it was just as easy to say Lars... but it wasn't nearly as fun.

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professoryaffle

Apr. 3rd, 2006 09:40 am (UTC)

Just incase you see a lot of increased traffic over the next day or two

you are being linked to from the bbc news website at the moment

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deannahoak

Apr. 3rd, 2006 10:35 am (UTC)

Geek guys are easy. ;-) When I went to Comic-Con a few years ago, I kept being asked if I was a booth model. "No," I'd say. "I'm a brainy type--copyeditor."

It was funny to watch their eyes widen. :-)

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norda

Apr. 3rd, 2006 03:04 pm (UTC)

I got my first LiveJournal recognition last night at a poetry slam. Very..... interesting.

Sadly, things haven't changed much from the Eighties, when I started doing comics conventions. Tart up even slightly, and the geekmales fall over.

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karzon

Apr. 3rd, 2006 03:34 pm (UTC)

Well shoot. You two should come to PAX '06 and potentially drink beers with the front and I. Close enough to chill with the PA folk, close enough for that!

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