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Slob Story: How I Clean House

Truth time, Nerdship.

I am not a good housekeeper. I have been a slob since nearly day 1. I’m terrible at de-cluttering and having a place for everything. Though, after nearly 9 years out of the nest, I’m starting to get the hang of it. I can have people over with minimal frantic cleanup beforehand, and if the doorbell rings, I won’t be having a panic attack over opening the door on a mess (just…

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So a bunch of my friends were talking about possible places for a battle in the Godzilla sequel, and Dubai came up. Then we realized how much bigger the Burj Khalifa is than he is.

Then we realized how offended he would be.

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Oh my god this is hysterical

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It’ll leave you breathless or with a nasty scar

Marvel's newest superhero team will be all the all-female "A-Force." The book will be written by G. Willow Wilson ("Ms. Marvel") and Marguerite Bennett ("Angela: Asgard’s Assassin") with art by Jorge Molina ("X-Men"). Click the pic for more info! What do you think, Nerdship - will you be adding this title to your pull at your local comic store?

#comics #marvel comics #girl power

The differences are subtle but, nevertheless, foreign. Sugary flavored popcorn outsells its salty seasoned rival nearly 2:1. Moviegoers sip beer from bottles inside the theatre while cigarette commercials dripping with sex appeal interrupt the steady flow of American movie previews dubbed in German. In case you were wondering, Hugh Grant loses his hangdog cuteness when his endearing stammer is replaced with a staccato baritone overdub. And step into the bathroom and you immediately lock eyes with a condom and mini-vibrator dispenser hawking its wares to the presumptuous and swaggish on his way to the 20:00 o’clock showing of the Hugh Grant rom-com ‘Wie Schreibt Man Liebe?’ or better known as (for the smattering of American viewers who might catch this “charmer”) The Rewrite. The intermission, I have to admit, was a nice touch, especially for the guilt free “not-missing-the-slow-part” pee break. But the one addition that felt a tad extravagant and over-the-top, even for ÜbermaxX standards, was the non-traditional theatre exit: a three-story, winding and enclosed slide that would have been better suited for the local water park than the twenty-theatre megaplex in Bremen, Germany.

But for all the slight differences between the German and American film-going experience, one aspect that did not seem foreign was the universal need for film. The throng of eager and excited faces scanning movie times as if they were desperately searching departure flights for the last plane out of Casablanca said it all: get me the hell out of here. Not out of the bone-seeping dampness of the Northern German winter, but away from “here,” in the existential “me-myself-and-I” sense. Film, no matter where on the globe it is being watched, provides the escapist’s delight, that hypnotic trap door, or in the case of the Bremen ÜbermaxX, a winding, enclosed slide, to an alternate universe free from the mundane grind. Film is that ticket, forever-punched, universal in its ability to teach us all to dream bigger dreams, to aspire just out of our reach, to walk in the shoes we never expected to fill, and to fall in love from heights we never imagined love could make us fall from:

For the first time in over a year I pushed through the doors of the local cineplex lobby and immediately basked in the incandescent glow of freedom. Unburdened by the heft of a diaper bag and a 30-pound toddler and strolling nothing other than my eagerness to crunch through a bucket of popcorn (I might even plow through the entire “trough” before the previews’ end – #solomoviegoerproblems) while enjoying my life in an alternate reality. I couldn’t help but tear up and smile. I handed my ticket to the cashier and ready for my nearly three-hour leave. The air conditioner blew back my hair as I slowly rumbled up the three stories on the escalator and walked through the doors of theatre #6: the 20:00 o’clock showing of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in English. At least so I thought …

Clearly I must have entered some sort of wormhole, because after suffering through nearly half my bucket of accidentally ordered sweet popcorn, and arguing with myself that the overdubbed Liam Neeson trailer had to be Tak3n (but I soon learned it was just another Neeson project where he hunts down someone else who was, well … taken) the movie finally began. The dulcet score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross swooned in. Hmm, I thought Hans Zimmer scored Interstellar. Something was off. But when the opening credits listed “A David Fincher Film” I knew this wasn’t right. I was in fucking Gone Girl. But not just me. Half the beer-buzzed theatre groaned with displeasure. Needless to say, chaos ensued. The 17-year old concession stand employee explained to a panicked me, in surprisingly good English I might add, that they moved Interstellar to Theatre #7 and Gone Girl to Theatre #6. “Apparently they forgot to make an announcement,” she shrugged matter-of-factly. I pushed my way through the unruly mob of “Gone Girlers” and “Interstellarers” fighting their way to their proper theatres. I snagged a seat, cracked open my warm beer, and settled in just as Liam Neeson’s trailer began. I am telling you, it is Tak3n.

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Wormholed in Germany | Jason had an adventure in search of the movie Interstellar. The differences are subtle but, nevertheless, foreign. Sugary flavored popcorn outsells its salty seasoned rival nearly 2:1.

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Gluten, Schmuten: Zucchini is the New Linguine!

If you’re anything like me, you hate to boil pasta. If you’re anything like me, you also only have one large pot and have to first cook the pasta, and then the sauce (grrr). If you’re anything like the gluten-free people in my life, you get violently ill when you have pasta. Fear not, GFFs! While spiralizing vegetables isn’t a new concept, the popularity of zucchini noodles (or “zoodles” as…

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#bolognese #delicious #dinner ideas #Eric #Food #gluten free #linquine #Meals #Nerds and Nomsense Official #pasta #recipe #spiralizer #zucchini

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Aragorn is saying “potato” and “wait that’s my horse”

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A Weekend at the International Comics Festival in Angoulême

Brooke was able to attend the 42nd Annual International Comics Festival in Angoulême, France this past weekend! Check it out!

Here’s the thing: I’ve always thought that when it comes to knowledge about the funny pages, I’m no slouch. That’s not tooting my own horn, that’s just what happens when you spend your entire childhood reading the comics religiously. Granted, my expertise on the BAM! POW! world of superhero comics is pretty abysmal; but I’ve read books as thick as dictionaries on the history of American newspaper…

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The Brony | MLP-Inspired Cocktail

The Brony | A MLP-inspired Cocktail that looks like Rainbow Dash and kicks like Nightmare Moon.

Nerdship! It has been so long since I’ve been able to guide you through the adventurous land that is fandom-boozery… too long, in fact. Good news is, I am about to remedy it with this awesome MLP-inspired libation!