Category Archives: Foul-Mouthed Demagoguery

Nerd Prom 2009 – We (Finally) Control The Horizontal

The American Jerk uses Flickr as its photo dump with pride… pride in saying that its user interface was created by methheads with a grudge against society and a yen to teach us honest people who only want to display … Continue reading

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Nerd Prom 2009 – Impending Doom

Friday is when things start to get serious at Comic-Con. The jet lag has finally begun to fade after two straight nights of slamming into the “I don’t care what the clock says, I’m your body and I say it’s … Continue reading

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Nerd Prom 2009 – Abandon All Hope

Last year we were able to roam around in this condition, taking inappropriate pictures of each other rubbing up on statuary and giggling at the rubes. This year, we stumbled around in a mean funk, mutteringthings like, “Unbelievable,” “Reprehensible”, and “Must… not… stab.” [read more at link] Continue reading

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Nerd Prom Pregame 3 – Impending Doom

Being my fourth year at the San Diego Comic-Con, I have learned that, for good or ill, the airport and airline experience is an inverse bellweather for how the entire experience will go. So I should have known that we were fucked. Continue reading

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Nerd Prom Pregame 2: With Great Vengeance And Furious Anger – A Comic-Con Guide

San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow, and my girl and I are at ground zero in preparations for attending. We fly out in less than twenty-four hours, which means we are at apogee of a high-speed burn of collecting the media players, laptop computers and 4 milligram nicotine gum I’ll need to keep me stupified enough to avoid being jerked out of the airplane in zip-tie handcuffs by air marshalls for a laundry list of charges including Disabling a Smoke Detector and Attempted Suffocation of an Airline Flight Attendant… which technically is also disabling a smoke detector. [read more at link] Continue reading

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