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[lotus0kid]

Weirded out my co-workers today. At lunch I was listening through earbuds to a Nerdist podcast on my phone and playing Spider Solitaire and generally having an excellent time. The episode was the audio recording of all five Mythbusters at Comic Con 2010 and it was delightful and lovely and also very, very funny. Therefore, to my co-workers, who were standing around outside my little work area, what I appeared to be doing was playing Spider Solitaire and shaking with laughter every so often for no apparent reason. This must have added an interesting element to their conversation, which was explaining to our new receptionist just how many of my immediate and extended family members work at the company and how we're all related.

The Nerdist is kind of awesome though. I'm catching up on it now, because just scrolling through the past episodes has sent me into paroxysms of geeky joy as I've spotted name after name of someone I adore. Folks like the Rifftrax guys, and Nathan Fillion, and Matt Smith, and Alison Brie, and Weird Al Yankovic, and Simon Pegg, and Maria Bamford, and Neil Gaiman, and Patton Oswalt, and Danny Pudi- all who apparently come on the show and just have a nice chat with the other guys on it whose names I haven't quite learned yet. It's not as structured as A Damn Movie Podcast, but that's okay. It can actually be really fascinating. In one episode they had an amazing intellectual discussion with Jim Gaffigan about stand-up comedy. Great stuff.

Anyway, so that's happening. Otherwise, there's this thing I want to do, but I'll need a little help. It's something I've talked about doing, but I haven't had as good an opportunity to give it a shot until now. I'd like to try writing while drunk. Or, considering the resources at hand (my last two Woodchucks), writing while decently buzzed. So, I'm gonna need some prompts. I'm tempted to say the weirder the better, but then, this is the Internet, so I guess I'll go with use your best judgment. The experiment won't commence until Saturday, so you have until then. Hit me.

Comments

[eronela.livejournal.com]

I love The Nerdist too. I listen to it while walking to work at the hospital through the cemetery. ( it's connected to a field next to my backyard). I don't usually see any mourners there when I'm walking, but if there are any I hope they don't see me laughing.

I just started listening to The Nerdist a few months ago, and I've listened to a lot of the one's you mentioned. I just finished listening to the one they recorded at ComiCon 2011 with Wil Wheaton, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, that would be awkward.

I just squeezed in the Matt Smith episode before Eureka. Wonderful, of course. I'll definitely be listening to the one you mentioned later.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to say the weirder the better, but then, this is the Internet, so I guess I'll go with use your best judgment.

Does that mean no Death/Satan sexytimes prompts? Because I'm seriously tempted.

Otherwise I'm not in a fully prompting mood at the moment, but mayhaps this will provide some inspiration, and before Saturday I'll try to be helpful and come up with actual prompts.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

LOL, oh dear, I really don't know what I would come up with there.

Ooh! Nice work, my friend.