Archive for September, 2010
Is DragonCon just for geeks? no comments
Errrr…. yes. Categorically.
I attended Dragon*Con again, having sworn I never would. In my own geeky way, I had hopes of recapturing my number one position on The Google for “Ladies of DragonCon”. My experience was pretty much the same as last year. It’s like every hero and heroine of literature and film has stopped going to the gym, taken up donuts, and come to Atlanta.
It was actually pretty entertaining, providing you stayed well lubricated throughout (Peachtree Ale and Jaegermeister). There were some VERY naughty little minxes wandering around dressed in pelts and the like, flaunting bodies that screamed defiance of the gym/donut rule. We shall be discussing them in another post shortly. In some detail.
And there were about a million of those white guys from Star Wars. Jedi’s or whatnot.
I arranged that picture. Brilliant, non? As a taster, there were lots of ladies dressed similar to this:
I didn’t get it, but it cheered me up. Watch this space for more ladies of DragonCon.
Nanu nanu, Earthlets.
Why has nobody mentioned La Roux earlier? 2 comments
I don’t get out much, since the fatwa. This has limited my exposure to popular culture a little so i have missed a couple of awesomes that I would usually have “early-adopted”, if you’ll excuse my corporate wankery.
One of these, drawn to my attention by one of my minions, is La Roux. Unbelieveably brilliant. My advice to you, young reader, is to put on your silk kimono, pour yourself a large-ish slug of electric-soup and sit back and listen to this. You might want to line up a flexible floozy of some sort for when its over.
The usual source mentions that La Roux is influenced by 80’s synthpop including Yazoo, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17 and Blancmange. That explains the awesome.
Unfortunately, it then goes on to quote La Roux herself talking about the band’s name in a way that makes her sound like a brainless fucking idiot:
To me, it means “red-haired one” – and it does, vaguely. It’s just a male version of “red-haired one”, which I think is even cooler, because I’m well androgynous anyway. So it kind of makes sense.
More than you do, you ninny. Preserve the mystery. Please.
It’s Pop Star 101. A week one/day one crow knows that……..