Twitter!!!....?

So, after weeks and months of resisting, I have opened up a Twitter for Perks of Quirk. I definitely have some reservations about it, but I think it will be a fun extension of the blog! It will mostly deal with the goings on of my blog, and any pop culture related items and events. If you have twitter, let me know, and please follow me and my blog. :)

Also, stay tuned for the next post, where I will hopefully have super fancy stories about an Evening with Kevin Smith which I will be attending on Thursday. And maybe some other cool stuff? Hmm...

The 2009 Halloween Costume Drinking Game/Scavenger Hunt

Hey kiddies!

So in the past few weeks, most of you are bound to have had or overheard this conversation:

Person 1: How about I go as ______ for Halloween?

Person 2: No way. Everyone is gonna do that!

Well, Person 1 and Person 2, you and your new age hippie names can harness the lameness and/or inevitability of people donning these costumes to enhance your Halloween festivities. While you are making your rounds to many a costume party or trick-or-treating friendly neighborhood, you and your friends take note of how many times these getups cross your path and create a point system. Or a drinking game. Whoever ends up with the most points by the end of night wins something shiny. Or a nice buzz. Either way good times are had. Here are a few of the costumes that will very likely plague the haunted streets on All Hallows Eve:

1. A Wild Thing

This is an especially lucrative find for high school and college students, who tend to have more contact with hipsters and wannabe trendsetters. That's not to say that this wouldn't be a good costume or that the source material(s) are nothing short of brilliant, but it would be a pretty good bet that the majority of people dressed as Wild Things will be quoting lines from the movie and not the book. Just follow the howling and tally your points.



2. The Watchmen



Are you a geek? Do you congregate with fellow geeks? Then this item should sit ominously and with tremendous angst brought on by a world gone mad at the top of your list. Here is another case of a movie adaptation giving a book a new or revitalized following and, in turn, leading to a line of ready-made Rorschach and Silk Spectre II costumes which makes a fanboy/girl's Halloween experience a helluva lot easier. Unless they're hardcore cosplayers. If the costumes are handmade, double the points or drinks.




3. Dead Celebrities



A morbid goldmine of questionable taste, this year has produced a plethora of dearly departed celebrities that will either be the fallback option for people working last minute or the costume someone works really hard on only to receive lukewarm amusement. This would be a great category to create a point system within a point system, and the more obscure or random the celebrity is, the more points (drinks) will be awarded to the finder. For example, a dead Walter Cronkite will be vastly more valuable than a dead Michael Jackson.


4. Twilight/Vampire

This category excludes the old school cape and fangs vampire costume, a clear staple of the Halloween season. No, vampires have a lot more angst these days, which is weird considering they are usually over one hundred years old and must have forgotten whatever they were angsty about as teenagers. ANYway, Edward, Bella, Jacob, Charlie, Linus, and Snoopy, or whatever their names are will most definitely frequent your neighborhood streets this year. True Blood and other modern day vampire references work here too.

5. NEW Disney

Princesses and friendly woodland creatures be damned! There's a new Disney in town and, much like the past few years, kids have been buying up any merch from Hannah Montana and High School Musical they can get their hands on. Certainly Halloween will be no different. Expect many blonde wigs and WildCats jerseys parading around. Hopefully with a parent or a parole officer in toe.


5. COUPLE COSTUME: Kanye West and Taylor Swift

The one rule you must make for this scavenger hunt is: if you see this couple costume, you automatically win it all. Even though Edward and Bella will probably be one of the most popular couples this year, West and Swift may be the most topical. And the most mismatched, but that can't be helped. Fate and idiocy brought them together. Props like the Moon Man or the microphone will enhance the costume and bring fellow partiers/trick-or-treaters back to simpler, more awkward times. This entry is really more of a speedy tutorial for how to go about assembling such a costume, mostly because I have to learn to be less in love with my own ideas.

Well, there you go! I'm sure I've missed some good ones, but comment below if you have any suggestions and have a Happy Halloween! :)

Why Fake Weddings Are Better Than Real Ones

Congrats, you crazy kids ;)

Link

Trucker Trailer

Well, for anyone who knows me, it's not hard to figure out how I found this trailer. But for anyone who has seen it or been to the film's website, it's even easier to figure out why I'm posting it now. The story revolves around a female trucker whose estranged 11 year old son returns to her because his father has cancer. This is an extremely promising plot, so I'm hoping it delivers all the intense, funny, and complicated moments and conversations that are bound to take place within this strange dynamic.

Anyway enough of my blabbering, here's the trailer:

DEN OF GEEK: Top 10 X Files Episodes

Nina offers her selection of the 10 best X-Files episodes of all time...

Published on Sep 22, 2009

Science fiction on television has been making a big comeback in the past few years with shows like Fringe, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost, and recently with brand new shows like V, Flash Forward, and Stargate Universe. But as this new era of otherworldly entertainment slips back into the mainstream, it seems rather appropriate to take a look back at The X-Files, a program that can be cemented as more than just a passing influence on the televised sci-fi we see today.......

Read more at DenofGeek.com!!!

Emmys FTW

Award shows? Lame? Yea, about 99% of the time....

Yay!

The best bits in no particular order:

Neil Patrick Harris Opening Number

Best Supporting Actress Nominees (Comedy)/Acceptance Speech

Doctor Horrible Sketch

Jimmy Fallon

As far as award shows go, it was quite entertaining. Good job, NPH. :)

...I swear my next post will not be Emmy related...

Dr. Horrible Wins an Emmy!

MWAHAHAHA!!!!

At the (sadly underappreciated) Creative Arts Emmys held on Saturday, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog took home an Emmy for Outstanding Special Class - Short Format Live-Action Entertainment Program. If only I knew what that meant.

To be honest, I was surprised to see that this category wasn't going to be on the Primetime Emmys next Sunday. Then again, if the Academy had gone through with cutting the writing awards from the telecast, nothing would've surprised me. I'll be watching the CA Emmys eagerly next Friday, it's where all the cool people will be. :)

Congrats to everyone involved with Dr. Horrible. Next stop, world domination.