Hello Friday: Fiercest Nerds on the Block [August 21-27]

Guys, I’m SO sorry, but we’re at serious sixes and sevens today, so we’ll once again have limited content. But Monday, we’ll totally (okay somewhat) have it together. I super-promise!

That all vowed, here are the best comments and quotes of the week:

HELLO FRIDAY

Photo Credit: Thomas Dwyer

re: FIERCE ANTICIPATION: August 21-23, in which guest-blogger Michael Gutenplan tells us about his solo trip to Vegas.

CH: I agree that it’s fun to gamble but what makes Vegas great is all the other things “restaurants, Broadway shows, etc.” It’s what separates it from the Indian casino’s.

PHILOSOPHICAL MONDAY

Quote from a post you should’ve read: “For now, I want to hold summer’s hand a little longer.” – Kelli Bielema, Fierce in Seattle: Summertime and the Living Is … Over?

OH, IT’S TUESDAY

Semenya and Truth

re: Political Physics: Ain’t I a Woman? The Story of Sojourner Truth and Caster Semenya, in Monique King-Viehland, explained why the gender testing of Caster Semenya is so very offensive.

katrina: Every time I read anything about this I get so angry. Monique, thank you for writing this. The violation of her body and her privacy is enough to infuriate me. I also appreciate you drawing attention to how black women, particularly, are often masculinized. Our sexuality and gender are often twisted into some type of stereotype hyper-sexed, under-sexed, mammy, superwoman, manly, etc… Gender and sex are both so ambiguous that any effort to squeeze either into some norm seems ridiculous to me.

WOW! IT’S WEDNESDAY

re: Wonderfully Awful: Public Service Awesomeness, in which Robin Rosenzweig celebrates the awfulness of PSAs from the 80s and invited you to share your favorite wonderfully awful PSAs.

Constance: I still catch myself singing this sometimes:

Meth! OOOO, Meth!

DEAR THURSDAY

Thanks to everyone that commented and Facebooked about my novel 32 CANDLES getting optioned by Miramax. I’ve got warm fuzzies to last a lifetime. Of course, I loved all the comments equally, but here’s the one that made me laugh out loud.

BabySmiling: Oh my goodness. That is amazing! Congratulations!!! What do you think will be better, the movie or the book? ;)