Category: Geek Cred

Athenae, Books, Epic Blogger Win, Geek Cred3 Comments

In Case You Missed the 7,000 Posts Last Fall

Allison Hantschel

First Draft has a book finally! If you didn’t contribute to the Kickstarter, you missed all the updates about the shipping for the first edition, which is almost done (will you last group of lazy people please fill out your surveys?). Since that’s just about done, additional copies are on sale at Lulu.com, where you can read all about the bad early days of political blogging from me and our benevolent blogfather, relive the time Tena and I got wasted and liveblogged (there WAS NO TWITTER, YOUNGS) a presidential debate, and the origins of the whole “our fate is your … Continue reading In Case You Missed the 7,000 Posts Last Fall

Athenae, Film, Geek Cred1 Comment

Somebody Asked Harrison Ford What He Thought of Donald Trump

Allison Hantschel

And Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and my personal favorite, Mike Pomeroy, was perfect of course:  In a recent interview with the New York Times, Trump praised Ford’s role as a heroic president in thriller Air Force One – and said that he ‘stood up for America.’ But in an interview with Australia’s Channel 10m, Ford jokingly suggested that Trump was unable to differentiate between films and real life. ‘It’s a movie, Donald. It was a movie’, Ford said in a mock patronising tone. ‘It’s not like this in real life. But how would you know?’ (Yes, I am going to … Continue reading Somebody Asked Harrison Ford What He Thought of Donald Trump

Athenae, Geek Cred

Last Chance to Pre-Order the First Draft Book!

Allison Hantschel

Our Kickstarter ends tomorrow morning, so get your book on! Thanks to everybody who’s contributed so far. I’m proud of this blog for lots of stuff, like how often we work “shitbird” into general conversation and how many times we’ve told politicians to suck it, but what I love the most is our ability to do the things we want to do. Instead of just sitting around and bitching, we make things happen. You’re all fantastic. A. Continue reading Last Chance to Pre-Order the First Draft Book!

Athenae, Geek Cred

Some News on the First Draft Book … More than Halfway There!

Allison Hantschel

Couple things. This is our annual fundraiser, so if you haven’t hit it up yet, please do!  Also? Too? This project includes a foreword/intro by the blogfather of this very site, Atrios! And, since we’re more than halfway there with 15 days to go, I offer you an incentive. If we get to our goal, I will publish the best of the OBAMA ELECTION NIGHT CRACK VAN TRANSCRIPT. I’ve been re-reading it for the book and it is hilarious. And video of Claire giving you all kisses. So close, guys. Let’s really kill journalism this time. A. Continue reading Some News on the First Draft Book … More than Halfway There!

Athenae, Ferretblogging, Geek Cred

Friday Ferretblogging: Halfway There, So …

Allison Hantschel

I feel the need to break out the big guns for our Kickstarter. BEHOLD BABY CLAIRE. She was SO FLUFFY. In all seriousness, thank you to everyone who’s contributed so far. And if you haven’t, consider this: I have more baby Claire photos. Also baby Kick photos, and some news I’ll be sharing on Sunday about the project and also A TRANSCRIPT OF THE CRACK VAN FROM ELECTION NIGHT 2008. Yes, it exists. I could be persuaded to post excerpts. If we get close enough. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Halfway There, So …

Athenae, Epic Blogger Win, Geek Cred, So Called Liberal Media10 Comments

90 Percent Funded! One Week to Go!

Allison Hantschel

UPDATE: You all have been incredible! Our Kickstarter for the First Draft Anthology is 90 percent funded, and we have 8 more days to get this thing done. Just ten more backers, ten more copies, and this book will be a reality. I can’t wait to share it with you all. Thanks so much!

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Athenae, Geek Cred3 Comments

Hilarity to Ensue in 5, 4, 3, 2 ….

Allison Hantschel

One. I don’t understand why this is so hard to figure out. If you give the Internet the opportunity to be merry pranksters, the Internet will be merry pranksters. This is what the Internet is really for. It’s for taking Twitter hashtags that suggest we ask over-serious politicians, accused rapists, and racist sports mascots reasonable questions, and asking them which family members they imagine naked. It’s for using those “build your own campaign poster” apps to suggest sexual acts the candidates can perform on goats and Boy Scouts. It’s for crowdsourcing city slogans that include “duck and keep driving.” This … Continue reading Hilarity to Ensue in 5, 4, 3, 2 ….

Athenae, Current Affairs, Geek Cred

Each of Us a Stranger

Allison Hantschel

I’m so, so glad Jacob is writing about this because most of what I’ve read about these fanboys and their tantrums makes me tired, and this doesn’t:  I think if we treated, say, casual litterbugs with the same blacklist techniques that we do unreconstructed idiots like those two above—once tainted, never to be redeemed—we could create a thriving subculture of people within a few days who would spend all their money on proudly buying garbage and spreading it on every lawn they see. Not like children saying “you think I’m bad, I’ll show you bad”—that is just about needing to … Continue reading Each of Us a Stranger

Athenae, Geek Cred2 Comments

For Fuck’s Sake, Learn to Internet

Allison Hantschel

This was predictable:  The New England Patriots became the first NFL team to hit one million followers on Twitter, and it celebrated the milestone Thursday by blasting out images of a Patriots jersey with users’ Twitter handles on the back to those who retweeted the account. The promo ran smoothly until a user with the handle @IHATENIGGERSS got his “custom digital jersey.” This too:  Companies and celebrities who try to get a Twitter hashtag trending often find that it backfires spectacularly. So it was when America’s quack, Dr. Mehmet Oz, tried something yesterday afternoon: @DrOz what kind of fruit juice do you … Continue reading For Fuck’s Sake, Learn to Internet

Athenae, Games, Geek Cred, Kids Today, Twitter4 Comments

On Losing Your Identity and #Gamergate

Allison Hantschel

GamerGate and its bullshit makes the NYT:  These players are so concerned about the fragility of big-budget video games in the face of cultural analysis and criticism that they circulated an online petition last year calling for the website GameSpot to fire a critic, Carolyn Petit, for daring to complain that Grand Theft Auto V “has little room for women except to portray them as strippers, prostitutes, long-suffering wives, humorless girlfriends and goofy, new-age feminists that we’re meant to laugh at.” (There were no such demands for the heads of male critics — including me, writing in The New York Times — who said … Continue reading On Losing Your Identity and #Gamergate

Athenae, Diary, Do Something, Geek Cred, Political Crack, Pony, Bitches!, Propaganda, So Called Liberal Media, Web/Tech, Weblogs8 Comments

Annual Fundraising Drive: TEN YEARS MAN

Allison Hantschel

We are ten years old. We are in fourth grade. We need new corduroys and school supplies. Ten years ago this weekend, Holden and Tena and pie and I decided we'd had a stellar time guestblogging over at the Crack Den while Atrios was off, I dunno, becoming famous and respectable, and we'd set up shop here at this web site that I had that was basically some password-protected Buffy fanfiction and ranting about people who don't turn their radios down at the drive-thru window at Taco Bell.  Those were, of course, good and awful times. Awful: We didn't have … Continue reading Annual Fundraising Drive: TEN YEARS MAN