Misc
My Geek Wedding
0As you may have noticed, posting has been really light around here for the past couple of months as I have been in the final stages of planning my wedding.
We officially became Mr. and Mrs. Lin Workman on October 29. While we had a traditional ceremony, we couldn’t resist throwing in geek touches, especially since we met thanks to a Star Wars message board and a bad Wampa joke.

Mr. & Mrs. Workman
Lin designed and sculpted our “wedding cake” topper. We opted for cupcakes instead of the traditional wedding cake, but the cupcakes were arranged in tiers similar to a cake. Our baker even provided us with a 6″ cake for the topper to rest on. Early in the wedding planning, Lin joked that we should have Batman and Batgirl as our cake topper. I don’t like the idea of Bruce and Barbara paired romantically, and as much as I love Barbara Gordon, my first and truest superhero love is Wonder Woman. I told Lin that the topper had to be Wonder Woman carrying Batman over the threshold. At first he thought I was joking, but he became really excited when he realized that I was serious.
The line art that Lin created for the cake topper was also used on our programs and our invitations. Lin has posted a series of pictures showing how a few strands of wire became our cake topper on his website.

Our Wedding Cake Topper - Designed & sculpted by Lin Workman
Lin really wanted me to walk down the aisle to a harp version of the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back, but I thought that wouldn’t fit with the traditional ceremony (and I didn’t want to be murdered at the altar by my mother). As a compromise, we played the Throne Room music from Star Wars immediately after we walked back down the aisle as Mr. and Mrs. Workman.
The grooms cake couldn’t have anything else but the Bat Symbol.
Fantastic Opinion Piece on Women in Comics
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Read Comics in Public Day 2011
0This Sunday is International Read Comics in Public Day. The idea is simple: share your love of comics publicly. You can submit pictures of yourself or a loved one celebrating the day to the official Flickr photo pool.
Sue at DC Women Kicking Ass is once again encouraging female comics fans to participate in the festivities with Women Read Comics in Public. It’s a great way to show your love of the medium and to reinforce to publishers, creators and fans that female fans exist and support what they love!
I will be participating again this year. I hope you will as well. Maybe you will encourage a loved one or a complete stranger to give comics a try.
Girls Love Superheroes, Too
0Sue at DC Women Kicking Ass has started a new blog to celebrate the girls who love superheroes at http://girlslovesuperheroes.tumblr.com/. The rules are simple – submit pictures you have the rights to submit of girls dressed as superheroes, playing with superhero toys, meeting superheroes, reading comics, etc. You can read Sue’s thoughts on why she started the new blog here.
Go check it out, and I dare you to leave without a smile on your face.
Baby Vader
0This was, by far, the best Super Bowl commercial this year.
Lin recorded the Today Show segment for me where “Vader” was unmasked, and the kid could play a very young Anakin! Too cute!
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