Colin McEnroe Show: Nerd Conventions 2010
We talk to folks from ConnectiCON and the 2010 Steampunk Bizarre.
Last summer I went to ConnectiCon, the Hartford fantasy convention that drew 7,000 participants, 6,000 of them in wild costumes.
I went as a journalist, but I also went as a kindred spirit, a former lonely kid who grew up feeding like a vampire on comic books and what meager associated pop culture there was.
This, remember, was the era of the hugely disappointing camp Adam West "Batman" series. I discovered the original "Star Trek" as a seventh grader, and I was hooked in it for a long time. And I've never entirely outgrown it all. I'm in the group of people looking forward to "Inception." I watch "The Fifth Element" about once a year. My son and I often celebrate Independence Day by watching Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum take out the Mother Ship with a computer virus. But what I discovered at ConneciCon was a world that had really departed from my boyhood nerdhood.
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E-mail from Jason
I have been fan of yours for years at both the Courant and your beginning days of hating squirrels on WTIC. I was thrilled with your move to WNPR and love the show....but
please....please...please....I beg of you....end the practice of stating the part of Bill Curry was played by... It was funny on WTIC the first few times when you used it for Arnold Dean and was overplayed there and now it is especially long overdue to be retired. Don’t get me wrong I am a Bill Curry fan as well, it's not the subject but the joke. It's just not funny anymore. I cringe every time I hear it.
Keep entertaining us and thanks for listening!
E-mail from Woody
I was thinking a great name for it would be "Echoes" . It brings some things back, and gives a hint (emails) of the surroundings(listeners). Similar to sonar echoes.
Either that or Dewlap, that seemingly useless flap of skin that hangs under your chin. Chicken neck!
Love the show!
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