Geeky Girl Gabbings

Well, after more than two years of Geeky Girl Gabbing’s fun, I’ve kind of decided to just blog at Ladamania.com, I just really like my pinky picture of Long’s Peak that I created for a header, and the address is easier.

But I’m too lazy to move the posts, so I’m just going to keep GGG as is, and who knows, maybe I’ll have a lot to say one day where I’ll need another blog.

Yep, I updated my “art” website for the first time since, um, January. Check it out:

DelinquentDoodles.com

On a side random note, Firefly was an awesome show.

More Randomness, this is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever encountered on all the Internets.

My favorite manga is Hot Gimmick, it just alway held my attention through the many volumes. As I slowly stopped buying other manga, I still looked forward the the weeks that a new Hot Gimmick Volume would come out. Volume 12 is the final volume, so I was excited to see who the heroine would end up with. Her controling boyfriend? Her (adoptive) brother? Her supermodel-friend who has sworn revenge on her family?

Okay, so first off, the final chapters only account for about half of the book’s content, the rest is devoted to a quick side story and a preview of Miki Aihara’s next manga. Second, the ending was totally lame. Like I would have been more satisfied if everyone was abducted by aliens and never heard from again kind of lame. The main character, Hatsumi, ended up with who I thought she would end up with, but that didn’t mean I liked it. And the actions the other two guys take are also completely tack on kind of endings. Hot Gimmick is still overall a really good manga, but do expect to be dissappointed at the end.

First off, how did I not know there was a congressman named Chocola! Too bad he lost his seat tonight.

Secondly, while the country made it clear it wants change, or at least finally figured out having one party control virtually every branch of government is a bad idea, my lovely state of Colorado has sent it’s own message: leave our corrupted congressmen alone! I know Rolling Stone is liberal, but it’s kind of embarrassing when two of the “10 Worst Congressmen” are from my homestate, and one just happens the congresswoman from my district. One was reelected easily, the other is fixing to be reelected once the votes come in.

Colorado apparently hates gay marrige, like a lot. Sorry, everyone, I still like you.

I have to give Arizona some credit for being creative with their ballot measures. How do you encourage a higher voter turn out? Why, cold hard cash, of course! There was a proposition to reward one lucky voter every 2 years with a million dollar prize. WTF?

Um, yeah, that’s it, I’m tired.

Is my 15 minutes of Internets fame finally here?

Alls I did was post this “The Office” fanvideo to the tune of SexyBack at YouTube:

I told a few people on LiveJournal about it, the folks at both Life in the Office and OfficeTally posted it, and then the folks at the Best Week Ever posted it in their video section as well. That’s correct, Best Week Ever, the best satirical pop culture review show on tv!

The Prestige

So the whole time he . . . and then he wouldn’t . . .and so he was . . . what the hell just happened?

This has been a Geeky Girl Flash Movie Review.

National Novel Writing Month is upon us, and I think for the 3rd year in a row I’m going to go for it. If you don’t know about Nanowrimo, it’s a yearly challange to write a 50,000 word novel, the catch is that you (are suppose to) start the novel on November 1st, and reach the goal by November 30th, so you have to avergae only about 1667 words a day, but who’s counting?

I passed the challenge in a, let’s say, creative way in 2004, and didn’t even bother in 2005. The problem was November was quite possibly the worst month for me to attempt something like that, it was usually when all my school procrastinating finally bit me in the butt and I had to make an effort to get my grades up. Then I’d say “hey, I can do this during my break, right?” Wrong! Anyway, I am going to see how I do this year, and maybe I can make it on my own merit.

Or quit by Friday, we’ll see.

It’s October 23rd, known to some as Mole Day, but better known within my household as my birthday. The most famous celebrity I share a birthday with is probably “Weird” Al Yankovic, and his most recent video is histerical. So I posted it, Happy Birthday Us!

A couple weeks ago, the outing of lonelygirl15’s videos on YouTube.com as fake overtook Oprah announcing she’s not gay as the non-news story of the year. If you’re just joining us, let me catch you up on lonelygirl15. I should also tell you that you may also want to stop eating that spinach.

Lonelygirl15 was a supposedly a home-schooled teenager named Bree who recorded vlogs without her parents knowing, and her buddy Daniel would edit them for her. That is if you want to call randomly speeding up and slowing down the video “editing.” But after some fishy details (like where the IP address was located) and someone recognizing Bree as an actress, it was revealed to be made up: Bree was actually 19-year-old New Zealand actress Jessica Rose, and the videos were actually scripted and produced by two aspiring filmakers. You may be thinking what I’m thinking, which is that this all barely qualifies as news.

This certainly isn’t the first time something billed as “reality” has been exposed to be as scripted as a Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster. “Blair Witch Project” used night vision and shakey camera work to convince viewers people in the movie were encountering something weirld. Heck, even the drama on “Laguna Beach” was revealed to be mostly at the suggestion of the producers. Now when these things are revealed to be scripted, people get outraged. But why? It’s a perfect solution to the problem with “reality.” People love movies/tv shows/books that are based on or showing “true events,” (hence the initial success of ‘A Million Little Pieces’) but the problem is 95% of reality is boring.

Should we be mad when we find out these things are set up? Or should we be happy that a little scripting provides us with the entertainment. With all the reality stuff out there, maybe it’s nice to be reminded why we need writers and actors in the first place.

Oh wow, you guys, SR-71 Lit Simple Plan Yellowcard New Found Glory’s new Album, “Coming Home,” came out today.

But wait, last week, Lionel Ritchie put out an album called “Coming Home.”

Wow, what an embarrassing coincidence. For some free publicity, New Found Glory decided to release an open letter.

Congrats this week on the release of your new CD Coming Home- what an awesome title! Sounds familiar though, where did we hear that before? Oh yeah, it’s the name of our new CD which drops Tues Sept 19th. Together we have the same CD title out in the same month. Pure genius!

Anyway, we know it is too late for you to change your album title, but we expect a call before your next album comes out. If you don’t, our follow up to Coming Home may be entitled “Dancing On The Ceiling” with such original punk rock songs as “Say You, Say Me” & “All Night Long.” Our new single and video is “It’s Not Your Fault”. Hey…we haven’t heard your song yet…Send us a copy.

Sorry to break this to you, NFG, but number 1, Lionel’s album came out first and number 2, lame aging R&B stars have dibs on lame, generic album titles like “Coming Home,” so it’s advantage: Lionel Ritchie.