I can't deny my co-blogger here is a sexy geek. Heck, even if I tried, I'd have no case--it's been documented. Well, the west coast is starting to seem like a parallel universe because now I have this other co-blogger named Chris who's also a sexy geek with WIRED and they even live in the same town!
Remember MTV's Singled Out? That Chris - host of PBS's WIRED Science - is the newest member of our family over at the Correlations Compound and let me be the first to say welcome! Make yourself at home...
Okay, admittedly I never imagined I'd be blogging. Back in 2005, I promised some students at UMaine I'd get started if the Dems took the House and Senate. As if that would ever happen! So by the end of last November, I had my first post up on a private site where I'd write one or two times a month. I didn't actually begin in earnest until Chris #1 brought me on about five months ago. And would you know it, I discovered writing isn't only fun, it's healthy and even cathartic. I'm having a blast alongside my favorite scibling as we explore ideas here with all of you!
Not long after unpacking at The Intersection, I signed on with the new WIRED/PBS science blog Correlations shared by a 'Real World' mix of scientists and media folks. And now that Chris #2 has arrived, I expect he brings the perspective to shake things up... Hardwick graduated from UCLA where he studied math, science and philosophy, but the best part is I now have a blogging counterpart who was also a radio personality like me! He did a four year stint for at KROQ in Los Angeles meaning double jocks on one science blog! Things are gonna get interesting...
So that's the big news... Now I've got two smart, sexy, funny guys out in LA named Chris sharing my blogosphere... A girl can get used to this.
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The sexiest geek in this mix is the one with two X chromosomes. Congrats to the guys.
Sounds like a very interesting place to be situated...
Make sure that they learn a thing or two from you.
Your post, MIss Sheril, leads to a much larger question - why now, that I'm in my 30's and with kids - are geeks suddenly the "In thing?" I remember all too well my formative years, when I read way too much about the space program (even as my eyes were going blind), had all the sea shells in my collection catalogues by scientific name (in middle school), didn't miss an episode of ANY Start Trek show. And couldn't get a date for a cherry Coke, much less a movie. Why weren't geeks popular then?
Ah but wait, one of your earlier blog posts - about the attractiveness study - may hold the key (http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/09/boys_are_easy.php). We geeks only rose to social prominence when we realized that clothes (and hair, and shoes, and sunglasses, . . .) make the man. And it probably doesn't hurt that we've now got a really funny comedy on network TV.
So enjoy your intellectual stimulation from your Wired Science co-blogger. We're glad we could step into the limelight.
Singled Out! Ahahahaha. I never would've guessed it if you hadn't said so. I just YouTubed an old clip from that show, and wow, the '90s were a deplorable decade for male appearance. The guy looks orders of magnitude sexier now, if you'll permit me a crypto-homo observation.
In the clip (which I won't show, out of respect), he had extremely baggy olive green pants and an oatmeal shirt -- untucked -- that fit him as well as an industrial-sized garbage bag would have. Not to riff on the guy -- we all dressed that way, at best. *Shudder*. And now look at him!
The slovenly look doesn't work well for guys, and we really fell for it in the '90s. Attractive girls can at least not sink in attractiveness by wearing pajama pants and sweatshirts in public, as questionable of a move as it is, and even if it's not the best choice. Guys totally cannot pull that look off. We look like 12 year-old boys waiting for our mommies to pick us up at the mall.
Hopefully he serves as a positive role model for the geeks who are stubborn about growing up.
Wired Science is a great new addition to PBS. I just checked Correlations and I like that there's so much diversity. I'm glad to find out he'll be a new co-blogger and look forward to following. Blogs like these allow us to feel some connection to the real science world.
So when are you going to explicitly declare your undying love for Chris #!?
Mister Philip,
I've always said it's hip to be geek. And on a more personal note, on the dating front you've done quite well for yourself ;)
Agnostic,
I wonder what we'll all be thinking of those crazy styles of the 2000's in another decade...
Mo,
You can't possibly expect me to single out a Chris! My adoration as a co-blogger need not be mutually exclusive.
First of all, I would like to marry this post and it's wonderful comment thread. Sheril, you are a delight! And it's true--in the 90's we boys dressed like dolts. I would like to blame MTV for that and also Seattle for making MTV think that it was okay to wear gas station attendant shirts. And Philip, I shot a news show pilot for Fox about four years ago and the story I wrote was about how pop culture TOTALLY co-opted Geek culture. I got my ass kicked in grade school for being into computers, the chess club and D&D, but now some twenty year old ironic hipster puts on an Atari shirt and gets to bask in "coolness." We suffered so they could be free. Little bastards.
but now some twenty year old ironic hipster puts on an Atari shirt and gets to bask in "coolness." We suffered so they could be free. Little bastards.
hahaha.
I wonder what we'll all be thinking of those crazy styles of the 2000's in another decade...
I think guys did OK in the 2000s; at least, we beat expectation. Now it's females who are going nuts -- if you had to name two distinctive items to wear to a "2000s party," wouldn't they be extremely low-rise jeans w/ underwear showing, and a juicy couture-ish tracksuit? Very unflattering, especially on the non-college coeds who attempt this look (suburban moms especially -- yikes).