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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 [...]

By |November 28th, 2012|Breed Geeks|3 Comments

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 [...]

By |November 21st, 2012|Gaming Addicts Anonymous|1 Comment

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. [...]

By |November 14th, 2012|Memoirs of a Geeksha|0 Comments

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 [...]

By |November 5th, 2012|Nerd Kitchen|0 Comments

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 [...]

By |October 30th, 2012|Breed Geeks|3 Comments

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 [...]

By |October 27th, 2012|Gaming Addicts Anonymous|1 Comment

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 [...]

By |October 18th, 2012|Memoirs of a Geeksha|8 Comments

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 [...]

By |October 8th, 2012|Gaming Addicts Anonymous|3 Comments

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 [...]

By |September 25th, 2012|Memoirs of a Geeksha|0 Comments

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 [...]

By |September 17th, 2012|Memoirs of a Geeksha|5 Comments