{"id":254,"date":"2011-01-09T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T20:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2011-01-09T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T22:11:46","slug":"geek-love-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/geek-love-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Love For Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night J and I went to a kind of \u201cgeek social gathering\u201d at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyofcomics.com\/\">nearby comics shop<\/a>. These are my people, they are of my herd. We played a little\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00112CHCK?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=themooknet-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00112CHCK\">Apples to Apples<\/a> and chatted with a few folks, there were games of Magic: the Gathering and Rock Band going on too, mostly it was just an excuse to get out of the house for a while.<\/p>\n<p>During one of the &#8216;whole group&#8217; games the host of the evening, a pleasant fellow introduced to me as Dino went around the room reading off the answers that people wrote down as part of the game. At one point someone wrote down\/made him say \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9PStC-LNZ2s\">Good news everyone!<\/a>\u201d I commented to the guy next to me, \u201cThat\u2019s a really good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowwiki.com\/Professor_Putricide\">Professor Putricide<\/a> impression,\u201d the good Professor being one of the end bosses from World of Warcraft&#8217;s Icecrown Citadel. The guy laughed and said, \u201cIt should be, <a href=\"http:\/\/wackyvoices.com\/dino\/Resume.htm\">that\u2019s his voice<\/a> in the game.\u201d Most entertaining. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I also won one of the (many) raffle drawings, which allowed me to choose my prize from a shelf of assorted merchandise. As I made my way to the prizes I noticed the word \u201cBuffy\u201d in big letters on a book so I grabbed that without even looking at the other stuff. When I got back to my seat I actually looked at it, and Hooray! It\u2019s the behind-the-scenes and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/068985918X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=themooknet-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=068985918X\">script book<\/a> for the Buffy episode &#8220;Once More With Feeling.&#8221; Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night J and I went to a kind of \u201cgeek social gathering\u201d at a nearby comics shop. These are my people, they are of my herd. We played a little\u00a0Apples to Apples and chatted with a few folks, there were games of Magic: the Gathering and Rock Band going on too, mostly it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}