Smartly Sarah’s Christmas List: Kid Edition
Every year since I was a child, my mom has asked me to write out a Christmas list. At first, we “mailed” it to Santa. Now, I usually e-mail her a link to my Amazon [...]
Gone Fishin’
I don’t feel like writing this week. I have a lot of papers due for school before the Thanksgiving break, and whenever I have a free hour I basically want to do nothing but watch Sherlock or [...]
Balancing the Geek Girl with the Greek Girl
Most people have a very clear image of what a Geek Girl is in their head. She is either very fat or clumsy and skinny. There’s an 80% chance that she wears glasses and has brown hair. [...]
Smartly Sarah’s Better than Coffee and Morning Sex Smoothie
I grew up in a coffee household. Both of my parents required multiple cups of coffee to begin their day, and my father had a hot cup of java at hand nearly twenty-four hours a day. It [...]
Good Geeks Have Manners (Or: No PSP at the Dinner Table!)
My sister and I got our first gaming console for Christmas in 1991. Our Godparents gave us the coveted Super Nintendo. We never had to make due with a moldy old regular Nintendo like our cousins; ours [...]
The Girls of Windrunner
We even had a logo and a MySpace page. In 2012, being a “girl gamer” isn’t particularly revolutionary. Millions of women and girls around the world fire up their PlayStations or play a round of Angry Birds [...]
Growing Up Disney
Disney Princesses. You know the names: Snow, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle and Jasmine. The current generation of girls can add Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana and Rapunzel to that list. The trope is simple. A beautiful princess [...]
Falling off the Wagon
Hello, my name is Sarah and it’s been…well, actually I currently have World of Warcraft running in the background while I write this so technically I’m in the middle of a relapse right now and I’d really [...]
How Joss Whedon Changed my Outlook on Film (or Why I Saw the Avengers Six Times at the Theater)
This article originally ran on Smartly Sarah’s personal blog on June 19th, 2012, and gained recognition when Tom Hiddleston (Loki himself!) read and responded to it on Twitter. We’re re-running it today to celebrate the [...]
Discovering the Doctor
“It's a strange breed of nerd who's never seen Doctor Who.” – My friend James A month ago, if you had showed me a photograph of a blue police box, I would have been able [...]
