I have at least three fannish associations for las vegas

[aria]

Tomorrow I am meeting my parents in Vegas -- VEGAS! I have never been; I fully expect it to be surreal and absurd -- and I am mostly delighted about this, though I still haven't quite regained my voice from the Adam Lambert concert. I can at least function for short bursts for things like calling a cab, but more than that is beyond me.

Yesterday's email from my dad, re: Heroes:

Just in case it matters (since you said you're bringing disks), I've gotten through episode 14 or 15 (of 23 in the first season) and am about to feed my addiction again tonight. Claire has just realized that her real parents are selfish pricks and Mohinder has just met Sylar in Virginia Beach and watched him melt a toaster. (Spoiler! To get their names right, I just looked on IMDB and discovered that Sylar appears in sixty episodes, which means that he's not going to die soon.) I expect that Vegas is a pit of decadence. And it doesn't help that lots of nasty things in Heroes happen there. But at least Zion will be nice.

Probably this email is only really great to me, but I love the fact that pretty much in spite of myself I write alarmingly like my dad does. Spoiler! The older I get, the more our nerdiness converges. Seriously, I expect this trip to be all about us talking at each other about Heroes and TOS and weird obscure bits of European history while my mum listens bemusedly.

In other news, Amok Time by ee cummings. I will never get tired of the apparently million billion Trek pastiches lurking out there.

Time to pack! Fuuuuck, I have no hat or sunscreen.

Comments

[oldstarnewshine]

Oh god, Vegas. I went two years ago for my mom's wedding-- the food is AMAZING, but I felt like I was being assaulted 24/7. It is the land of pushy people who want you to buy things.

[aria]

Luckily we are only going to be there for about a day before gallivanting off into the desert to go hiking! I figure Vegas will be one of those places where I am delighted to have gone and even more delighted to leave behind. :D

[oldstarnewshine]

The desert there is really beautiful. (That's where my mom got married, actually.) And seriously, the food-- we somehow got into the breakfast buffet at the Wynn and they had, like, lobster. At the breakfast buffet. I'm pretty sure you could get sushi. And the best cheese danish I have ever eaten, in my life. Eating in Vegas = worth the trip.

[skywaterblue]

How long are you going to be here? Maybe we can do drunken Highlander!

[aria]

Well, I'm getting in around noon tomorrow, but I'm fairly sure we're doing Awful Touristy Things (TM) for most of the afternoon/evening and then leaving the following morning. HOWEVER, drunken Highlander sounds hugely, stupidly fun, so potentially we could get together in the evening? I have no idea, but if you don't mind completely winging it and are not otherwise engaged, we can maybe figure something out. :)

[skywaterblue]

What sort of awful touristy things? You should visit the Neon Boneyard, that's super cool. (See, I should just give Las Vegas tours, mine are pretty epic.)

I am NOT otherwise engaged and this seems hugely dumb fun. PM/email me where you're staying and I'll figure out how I can get there and where the best place would be to hang out. (It sounds like your parents are gonna be using the room to watch Heroes? My house is disgusting because my mom has Hoarding OCD, so not here.)

[nextian]

mumble mumble VISIT LOS ANGELES IT'S ... CLOSER THAN WISCONSIN mumble

You've also seen the Gorey pastiche, right?

[aria]

hahaha no. I mean yes in life! But ... not for a bit. Maybe in like, January, when I HATE ALL THINGS COLD THEY MUST DIE and California sounds like a brilliant alternative.

I assume you mean the tribbles one? YES. An Edward Gorey-esque story is, in fact, the only medium that can properly convey how deeply creepy I find tribbles.

[nextian]

You know what I love about nuTrek and also that one shot of Amy and Eleven, that you can't tell the difference between someone overlaying a horizontal transparent-blue-transparent gradient on an icon and just a lens flare from the actual cinematography.

[aria]

...Both of which I am apparently a sucker for!

[nextian]

I legit couldn't believe that shot was real, I thought it was an icon trend until I saw the episode. It's just such a pitch-perfect beautiful moment and yet slightly ridiculous. As Dr. Who should be! Something blue drifts gently across the screen as she remembers the ~past~! Regeneration magic breaths, foreshadowing, blueing the universe, red everywhere else, SURELY IT MUST BE FANNISH.

[aria]

And once again I remember how much I ADORE the red/blue/green sci-fi theory, even though at any given moment I have a hard time [a] keeping it straight and [b] believing that, say, the Doctor Who people are actually smart enough to consciously (or even subconsciously) realize they're doing it. Sorry, Moff.

*uses Uhura icon again for good measure*

[nextian]

Man I need to go look that up again and remember what the fuck that says about the Rory song--

--oh wait it means that Rory is a possibly dangerous alien masquerading as a human.

YEP

THAT WORKS

[gehayi]

What is the red/blue/green sci-fi theory?

[starlady]

OMG, ee cummings wrote a fanPOEM about Amok Time!?!?!?

and what is this Gorey/Tribbles thing you mention!?!?!

[aria]

Well, don't get too excited, I think it's just some awesome fan doing ee cummings-style poetry about Amok Time. But it's still pretty awesome!

The Gorey/Tribbles thing is this, and AWESOME.

[starlady]

pssh facts, who cares! it's awesome even if it is just a pastiche.

And so is the Gorey thing. XD

[endofthewest]

TRUFAX: Your dad is kind of adorable. XD