This was a request from a friend of mine, but the target of his actual request, the “re-branding” of the more feminine of the Dell products as “Della” has gone the way of the Dodo. It seems the lazer precise skewering that campaign garnered from the Feminist blogosphere hit home. And kudos to Dell for… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #87 – Dell’s New Marketing Campaign
Yours truly is a guest blogger at the blog for the California Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Woot! http://www.canow.org/canoworg/ I would like to thank Elena Perez for inviting me to goob all over their website. I get to be the edgy guest blogger. Eeee! I’ve never been “edgy” before. I’m very excited. Some… Read More NEWS!!!
Partially cross-posted from my personal journal. I have seen the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes trailer, and DO NOT WANT!! * That is not Holmes. I’m sure it will be a lovely, action-packed period piece by Mr. Ritchie, full of cinematically pleasing anachronisms, and more CGI than you can stick up your butt and waddle home… Read More Geek Girls Rule #86 – Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.
*This is in no way endorsed by Marvel, Mr. Quesada or anyone else officially linked to either Marvel or Mr. Quesada. It is satirical in purpose. Equipment: Your favorite booze (with chasers if desired) The internet When Fangirls Attack, Newsarama or another comics news site Rules: 1. If Mr. Quesada points to an amazingly cheesecaked… Read More The Joe Quesada* Drinking Game: Official Rules
New shirt design!!! This was inspired by a dear friend’s tattoo. Here’s the design: I have it up at the Zazzle store, and I believe you can put it on any product they have. Let me know what you think.
When a friend of ours does something particularly boneheaded, say, getting back together with a disastrous ex, that’s usually how we start the conversation. Just imagine a lot of headshaking. As I said in the last quick post, I really should know better than to try to read any interview, press release or article about… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #85 – Joe, Joe, Joe, f*ckin’ Joe.
Never, ever, ever read any press release from Joe Quesada without a fifth of whiskey at hand. The hurting… Thank you, that is all.
I’m not even talking about your average, run of the mill bodice-ripper heroines. Those are actually pretty spunky most of the time, and getting spunkier and more self-reliant by the minute. I’m talking about the “kick ass” heroines of Paranormal Romance. Yes, I realize that admitting that I read Romance is akin to telling you… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #84 – Why I get so bloody sick of Paranormal Romance Heroines.
I’m sorry for the dearth of GGR posts here recently, but between NorWesCon, the deaths of two pets, our fifteenth anniversary, my birthday, and the subsequent birthday purchase of “Animal Crossing: City Folk,” I’ve been a little preoccupied. I’ve only played City Folk for about two hours, and haven’t actually gone to the city yet, but… Read More An update of Sorts.
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the day that the Geek Girl What Rules married the Geek Husband What Rules, and thence began the Geek Household What Rules! I think our Geek lives are even more intertwined now than they were when we first got married. I love you, sweetheart. I’m looking forward to many,… Read More Better News!
Geek Girls Rule!!! 