Geek-o-rama

[Buffalo Tom]

I am going to meet Mr. Leonard Nimoy and David Prowse (aka Darth Vader) this weekend at Toronto Nerd-opallooza 2003.

How have things been on the ol' homestead?

[mburbank]

Tell Mr. Nimoy that his best work was the "Bildo Baggins" song and Prowse that you really enjoyed him in "Raisin in the Sun"

[glowbelly]

did i ever tell you that i met harlan ellison and that i am going to send him a wedding invitation when i get married?

[mburbank]

Did you tell him that "City on the Edge of forever" was his best work?

[Dole]

...and tell Dave Prowse his best work was as the Green Cross Code man.

Those Leonard Nimoy records (ALL SEVEN ALBUMS) are fucking monumental.

[Anonymous]

Pff, James Earl Jones is Darth Vader, dummy.

[Protoclown]

I too have met David Prowse. :jedi

Have fun, John. :)

[mburbank]

Did you know that Mr. Nimoy was for a time Americas best selling poet?

[FS]

Did you know he was also Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek? Huh?

David Prowse, pssh. That's like meeting Buzz Aldrin.

[Anonymous]

Have fun, John. :)

Shut the hell up!

[mburbank]

Meeting david Prowse is like meeting Pete Best.

[Dole]

Just imagine if Pete Best had been Darth Vader and Dave prowse had drummed for the beatles. JUST IMAGINE!

[mburbank]

I'm doing it now. It's strangely arrousing.

[Protoclown]

Yeah, Prowse was kind of a boring guy.

[mburbank]

Was he bitter? 'Cause that can be kind of fun.

[Protoclown]

Well, my friend asked him why it wasn't his face behind Darth Vader's helmet, and Prowse started going off about how much of an asshole Lucas was and that he WAS Darth Vader and that he wasn't the face of Anakin because Lucas didn't want him to have any power and he had this really intense scary look in his eyes like he was going to snap our necks...so yeah, I'd say he was bitter.

[mburbank]

Ahhhh. Excellent.

[Hobo Renee]

Trekkies II recently filmed a segment on Star Trek punk bands here in Sacramento. Apparently Sacramento has about 5 Star Trek themed punk bands, it's some sort of cosmic nerd force.

[agroskaterik]

http://www.eatonhand.com/handworld/3spock.gif
Do they do the trekkie hand thing instead of the "rock on" hand thing?

[FS]

The sad thing is, yesterday I dreamt I met Leonard Nimoy and made the Vulcan salute, and he was very impressed that I could do it (spreading the fingers like that). All because of this thread.

[Protoclown]

Pshaw. Everybody can do the Vulcan hand thing. :rolleyes

[FS]

Zefram Cochrane can't. :rolleyes

[Hobo Renee]

Star Trek bands are a bunch of drunks, so I don't think that they can to the Vulcan hand salute.

[JenMacca]

Meeting david Prowse is like meeting Pete Best.

Ironic you should mention that. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Best about a month ago :) Nice guy. Awesome accent.

Just imagine if Pete Best had been Darth Vader and Dave prowse had drummed for the beatles. JUST IMAGINE!

Okay....THAT is sort of a disturbing image you went and just conjured up there in my mind...*shudders*[/quote]

[Domo Kun]

Darth Vader makes me hot....

[mburbank]

Oh! Oh! Tom! Go back in time to the begining of this weekend, and when you meet Nimoy, keep calling him "Dr" Nimoy until he's forced to admit he doesn't have a doctorate, and then say "Wait a second... You wrote all that shit about babies and you're not a doctor? No wonder I'm so fucked up."

[Buffalo Tom]

I tried to get a picture with him holding up a sign that said 'I'm a sexy chick and I love Jixby Phillips'. He of course said no. :(

However, he was suitably impressed I could do the Vulcan sign thingie with either hand.

[mburbank]

Yeah, nd the thought balloon next to his head said "I swear to christ one day I'll kill some dork trying to impress me with the vulcan salute. Like I give fuck."

[Buffalo Tom]

Actually, he said, 'Christ, if I see Bill Shatner again, it'll be too soon. Fucking shill.'.

[mburbank]

And then he sang
"Bilbo, BILLLL-bo, Bilbo Shatner;
as fat as he is ta-ALLLLL!
Bilbo, BILLLL-bo, Bilbo Shatner;
Under his hair weave he's as bald as a cue ball!"

[Hobo Renee]

I have that song on my computer, if only I had the music video...