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Last Temptation of the Geek

May 2, 2008 · 22 Comments

From Joel Watson’s Hijinks Ensue webcomic:

Is it wrong that I think the idea of Katee Sackhoff stabbing and then making out with a hobo is really hot?  Yeah…it probably is.

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  • Chris // May 2, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    A little less hipsteresque-looking (I don’t do the beard-thing) in the first frame and you’re pretty much looking at me in this one. OUCH! I hate mirrors!

  • Dan // May 2, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    I was on a flight to Denver the weekend they played all three movies in a row, so I caught most of the first two. I don’t know if I could watch all three back-to-back in one sitting.

  • max // May 2, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    “I don’t know if I could watch all three back-to-back in one sitting.”

    Clearly the force is weak in you Dansun.

  • Dan // May 2, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Is that a challenge, Max?

  • max // May 2, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Gosh no I would not want to be responsible for you injuring yourself.

  • Dan // May 2, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    Aww, well aren’t you just the sweetest.

  • Kym // May 3, 2008 at 12:39 am

    Chris, Come on, I love Lord of the Rings but I’m with Dan on this one.

    Joss Whedon with Nathan Fillion–I’d be outside in a flash trying to look casual and trying not to ask plaintively, “Any chance of Firefly returning?”

  • Dan // May 3, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Good luck with that. When I met Joss, all I could do was titter like a school girl and say “I like Xander.”

    Not my finest moment.

  • Kym // May 3, 2008 at 11:45 am

    I fear I would say something ultimately cool like, “are Jayne’s arms really that sexy?”

    Actually, now that I think about it, if I heard Joss Whedon was in the vicinity I’d run like hell to avoid making a fool of myself.

  • Chris // May 3, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Actually, I was speaking generally to my overall geekiness and not any narrow geek tendencies to hold LOtR above Joss or the others mentioned. I would almost certainly go see Joss if given the opportunity no matter what I was watching. It did remind me of myself in the sense that I am obsessed (to some degree) with nearly all the films, TV shows, and personalities mentioned in the comic.

    On the other hand, when The Return of the King came out, my friends and I were refering to it as “My Precious” as we made plans to see it opening night. Hey…these were the first books that I ever read virtually in one sitting when I was 10!

  • Kym // May 3, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    The Hobbit was my first real novel. My mom started reading it to us when I was in fourth grade. I couldn’t wait to hear the rest and snuck the book into my bedroom. Eventually, completing it twice before she finished reading it aloud.

  • max // May 3, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    Hmm. This is not the place to mention I had finished the Tolkien trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia before I hit Kindergaten, right?

    Silly late bloomers.

  • Kym // May 3, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    I would have read it in my mother’s womb but it was a bit damp in there.

  • Dan // May 3, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    Eww, Kym.

    I was a horrible reader as a kid…hated doing it. I’m pretty sure the first real novel I read was The Hound of the Baskervilles, though.

    I didn’t read LOTR until I was in college.

  • Kym // May 4, 2008 at 12:27 am

    I was just trying to one up Max, Dan. It’s my way of flirting.

    Actually, I didn’t learn to read until I was in 2nd grade. By the time I was in 4th grade I was a great reader though.

  • max // May 4, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Technically, I learned to read following along while my mother read the Tolkien trilogy out loud. She had just had enough of Go Dog Go I think. That did not make me popular with teachers who did not approve of a child who showed for kindergarten writing a’s the way they appeared in print. But it sure sped up the reading process.

  • Dan // May 4, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    A woman of never-ending talent.

  • Chris // May 4, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    I too was a late-bloomer for reading, but Tolkien was definitely the turning point. My daughter is a bit like you were, Max…she started early and reads constantly. Today, I had to tell her to stop reading and go outside and play (weird parenting moment).

  • Kym // May 4, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    When my mom used to punish me, she would forbid me to read. Sometimes she would find me cheating and reading the back of the Cheerio box.

    I predict a long and lovely life as a nerd for your daughter.

  • Dan // May 4, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    If there’s anything better than being a nerd, I don’t know what it is.

  • Chris // May 4, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    This is all true…

  • Kym // May 4, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    One of the best things about the blogsphere for me has been the releasing of my inner nerd. I was bookworm from 3rd grade on and that made other kids disgusted so I hid that part of me.

    On the internet, it’s great to be a geek.

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