Goodbye, Toronto! Thanks for the fabulous time :-) #tcaf
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Day 1 of C2E2 - I was SOOOOOOOOO excited to get my Dungeon book signed by the brilliant Boulet! He was so super-cool, too. :-)
C2E2 Cosplay - Day 2 - Barbara Gordon
Saturday is the big costume day at C2E2. I didn’t want to go way over the top, but I did want to dress up for the booth. Babs was perfect since she’s the most super of super librarians :-)
C2E2 Cosplay Day 1 - The Prisoner
Since I was going to be running around the con all day making sure my programs came off okay and the booth was running smoothly and so on, I chose a costume that would be really easy and not over the top for Friday.
I did sort of wish I had come up with a rover, though. Also, my make-up came off way better than it usually does when I’m just going to work :-P
The Problem With The Big Bang Theory…
I’ve been meaning to post something about The Big Bang Theory for a while now but it’s taken me ‘till now to really understand what it is about the show that makes me uncomfortable. I’m not exactly a believer in the whole “only write about the things you like, don’t trash the things you don’t” trend which seems to be plaguing comments sections in negative articles lately, but I wanted to be able to really examine why I don’t like TBBT rather than just slagging it off. My main questions being - Why don’t I like this anymore? Why do I feel uncomfortable watching it? And why do I get so annoyed when I see people sing its praises online? The thing which really sparked this post was seeing a raft of comments on Facebook, below the last round of voting in Television Without Pity’s Tubey Awards, claiming The Big Bang Theory to be “the best comedy on TV”. This made me angry so instead of posting an impulsive comment calling out their bad taste which I’d probably regret later, I decided to really analyse why seeing comments like that made me so mad when previously, although I didn’t really love the show, I’d never considered myself as disliking The Big Bang Theory.
Hell, I even have season one on dvd, it’s sitting right between Battlestar Galactica and Bored To Death in my alphabetised collection.
And here, I think, is where my problem with The Big Bang Theory lies…
Yes! THIS!
More and more I haven’t been able to make myself sit through Big Bang Theory. I swear the episode where Penny, Amy, and Bernie experiment with “comics” nearly made me tear my hair out. There are so many little really insulting sexist and racist things in the show couched in little nerd-boy jokes that I just can’t stand it anymore. The small laughs are not enough to cover the vague sort of uncomfortable shuffling I get.
