I am waiting for work people to get back to me with things (how’s that for unspecific), here’s some stuff ...

The Big Event of Geekiness that I went to Saturday? A Veronica Mars cast appearance at Macy’s, of course! And not just a Veronica Mars signing, but one at which I arranged to meet up with people I met over the Internet! (At TWoP, of course – and I’d link to the forums themselves but they are down today.) My pictures – mostly blurry but with two definite keepers – are here.

Anyway, it was fun. But between that and the fact that this week’s VM was pretty wild, I got a bit carried away with my obsessiveness. Then mid-morning yesterday, when I was starting to check the forums again, it suddenly occurred to me that I am twenty-five years old, this is a TV show, and I need to get a grip. So I am dialing it back a notch. Not that I wouldn’t go to another cast appearance, or TWoP event, just that I’m not going to become one of those people whose lives revolve around the length of Kristen Bell’s hair. Besides, now that there will officially be another season, I don’t have to worry that it will all be over in five weeks.

By some bizarre coincidence, on Monday Mariah Carey was making a public appearance at the new Best Buy across the street from my work (or the rear of my work building, anyway). So there were those metal gates up along one side of the street and all these people lined up outside from about one in the afternoon on, and I don’t think she was supposed to be there until six or seven. I only knew about it because curiosity led me to read the NY Times’ article about her and it mentioned the appearance at the end. For the record, we got to stand inside for the Veronica Mars thing. And we were only in line for about an hour before the cast showed up, and only another half hour or so after that. If Kristen Bell ever becomes a high-strung pop diva (girl can sing, though Broadway’s more her genre), I’m not sure I would be willing to give up an entire day and stand outside in the cold(ish) weather. Especially since they probably made you buy her CD. (I, on the other hand, now have a DVD of the Veronica Mars pilot, which they gave out for free at the cast appearance.)

I guess you never know what will trigger that switch between “liking” a show/actor/singer and “liking to the point of eating lunch with complete strangers just because you have the liked item in common.” Case in point: this fansite for a fansite. I love Batgirl, but wow. That is geeky fandom at its purest, love-is-blindest form.

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