Context:

At Holly's talking Sci-Fi heroines
          Reading a monologue for Molly Millions of Neuromancer
          Playing Vase and Vase's younger cover-self

We've been waiting in the café for it to show up. Me and a few other humans. I embody the Scruffy Bastard, the P.I. with my trench and my hair and my posture, my attitude. I jam ( Read more... )

I want to get back into geekery - especially sci-fi and roleplaying. I find geek spaces are intellectually engaging in a way which I find few other spaces to be. The problem I find is that a lot of geek spaces are disinterested in applying the intellectual vigour they value so highly to social justice and/or anti-oppression. This said, geekery is ( Read more... )

I've been listening to music by "Heather Alexander;" a California filk artist (example) and geek folk musician.

When I looked up this name on Wikipedia, I was automatically redirected to "Alexander James Adams."

Turns out, this awesomely geeky musician transitioned after a quarter-century career. And he seems to have become and even goofier geek in ( Read more... )

I just sent this email off to a queer speed-friending/dating site ( Read more... )

Consider the heroic cycle.
Then consider what the American Monomyth says about America.

An interesting point came up during my conversation with my Sweetie, and it has many implications fr applying narrative psychotherapy to geeks. It is "What do the stories we tell say about whe we are, and how do amateur (or professional) writing, storytelling and ( Read more... )