It's a common misconception that nerds don't have sex. On the contrary. Nerds have more sex, and weirder sex, than you're having. As the filksong goes, we have rich fantasy lives. A taste for science fiction tends to broaden the horizons: to paraphrase Dorothy Allison, after you've read about people having sex with sentient trees, a little bisexual threesome seems halfway mundane.
So it's no surprise that the tribe who build their own Storm Trooper armor would be in the market for, shall we say, fully functional sonic screwdrivers. Once you've seen this bounty, you will never look at your sysop the same way again.
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Fox Mulder totally owned one of these. It's also available in a "travel" size ($15.95), which is good, I guess, in case you're ever abducted by the mother ship.
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- Photos: Arisia 2010
The 21st annual installment of sci-fi convention Arisia
- Where Maine reads
Perhaps the most exciting part of my day working at Longfellow Books was The Spider Incident, which involved said arachnid emerging from a potted plant around 10:30 am to terrorize staff members and scurry, unscathed, underneath a shelf.
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The entire 20th century is crammed into a ballroom in the Sheraton hotel.
- Young Adulteration
In the late 1980s, when I was nine or 10, my mom bought me my own copy of A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Our Children Need To Know .
- Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
How are the kids going to take to preachy C.S. Lewis after the pagan Harry Potter and the titillating Twilight ?
- . . . Just glad to see me?
Phillipe and Jorge's Plaxico Burress Award goes to State Representative Peter Petrarca who was charged Saturday night with illegally firing a gun outside Club Karma, of which he is part owner, in the ProHo district of Our Little Towne.
- Photos: The Slutcracker 2010
The Slutcracker: A Burlesque takes its sexy Nutcracker makeover to the Somerville Theatre through December 24, 2010.
- Workplace weirdness
Some of my co-workers and I have a little problem at out office. One of the people we work with, who has always regarded himself as a real swinging guy, has finally struck gold ...
- The hipster Harry Potter
The inside flap of Wildwood — the new young-adult fantasy novel by Decemberist Colin Meloy — claims that the book is for ages nine and up.
- Don't read these books!!
The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union will host its annual Banned Books event on September 23 at 6 pm at the Providence Athenaeum.
- Dark side of the future
When the University of Rhode Island kicked off its invigorating "Are You Ready For the Future?" speakers series a few weeks back, there was only one man for the job: inventor and provocateur Ray Kurzweil.
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