First Blog... Introductions Are in Order

WARNING: Contains gratuitous use of parenthetical expressions. NSFEM (Not Safe For English Majors.)

Well hello there.

I have decided, in what may well be the greatest ego trip of my life, to join the ranks of many of my geek friends and fellow derby girls and start a blog.

Ego trip? Me? I know, it seems unlikely. But I think it takes a certain amount of ego to assume that anyone wants to hear what you have to say... whether you're posting on your Facebook wall that you made spaghetti for dinner or you're sky writing your proposal to your girlfriend above Spring Mobile Ballpark... you have to assume that people put stuff out into the world thinking, or perhaps rather hoping, that someone will go "Oh, that's interesting." And so I too will be competing for that same span of attention that you give to YouTube cat videos and scathing movie reviews in between phone calls at work. And hopefully I can give you something fulfilling, entertaining, or at the very least less boring than your work day, to insert into that little moment in time.

Ladies and gentlemen, please keep the expectation bar low and on your lap until the blog comes to a complete stop.

So having established that indeed I have now become an amateur blogger, now we must establish plot. So what the hell is this thing about? Well here again is the ego trip, since its mostly going to be about me. I am a girl geek, which gives me some interesting perspective I feel. I like comic books, anime, sci-fi, fantasy, Dr. Who, Firefly, Star Wars, movies, podcasts, and some gaming (HeroClix, role playing, board, not so much video). I consider myself a Jack of all trades and a master of none... I know a little about a lot but I don't know everything about really anything. The only comic books I have read from start to current are Sweet Tooth, Walking Dead, and Fables. I only saw two episodes of the Walking Dead tv show so I can't debate continuity with you, though I do know some of the details of the show and I'm happy to compare what I know. That's a perfect example of my level of knowledge on most things that I'm a geek about. I love Star Wars and have tattoos of the Empire and Rebel symbols (don't tell me to pick a side! I don't have to!) but sometimes I mix up the names of Jawas and Sand People. And one time I forgot the name of the thing in Jabba's palace that tries to kill Luke... you know... the big ugly thing... the Octomom. Yeah, that's it. (Clearly I mean the Rancor... that's my sad attempt at topical humor. See that's a joke within a joke cuz the Octomom is so last year... hmmm. Anyway, I digress. Probably ought to close out these parenthesis too... ok here we go...) And I've seen all of the Harry Potter movies a million times (even went to the advance screening of Deathly Hallows 2... nerdgasm btw... it was awesome.) but I have only read the first two books. I'm not a purist on many things, I'm not an expert on anything. But I am a little obsessed with Firefly and Serenity and I know about as much as a person can know about it. Hence the title of this blog.

I am also a recreational roller derby girl (The Red Rockettes woot woot!), musician (i.e. singer, for the most part. see also: Radio Courtesy on iTunes), and an active podcast listener.  I get most of my geek news from thegeekshowpodcast.com and nerdist.com. For the record I also listen to wtfpod.com with Marc Maron and Stuff You Should Know podcast. And of course, since my slightly geeky, very musical hubby has a podcast, I am a listener and advocate of his show The Punk N Pie Fraudcast Podcast which can be found on facebook here and can be listened to either by linking from Facebook or at punknpiefraudcast.podomatic.com.

So... introductions aside, the basic content of this blog... thingy... will be me, my life, my experiences, and commentaries on all of the above. I am not a movie reviewer but I do go to a lot of advance movie screenings (courtesy of my friends at Big Movie Mouth-Off) and may put up my opinions on said movies every now and again. Same goes with comics, tv, or anything else I may or may not consume. (I do have passes for the advance screening of Captain America for Wednesday, so plan to hear from me on what I thought about that.)

I do have roller derby tonight, which will be interesting since I fell (up the stairs... cuz I'm hard core that way.) and exploded my knee last week. Its still a little tender so hopefully some ibuprofin and adrenaline will stave off the pain at least until after the scrimmage. More on that later.

Well boys and girls, this should prove to be an interesting journey. Lets take it together and see where the hell we go. I'm Charity Vasquez, geek, derby girl, wife, musician, and I aim to misbehave.