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December 4, 2006

Scorpia Is a B.A.D. Blogger

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:31 pm

Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Scorpia there?

The first words I heard were “Hi Liz! Here we are again.” And sure enough, there we were. Only this time we weren’t trying to figure out why I couldn’t find my way into her chat room (crazy software issue she resolved in no time at all). This time we were up for a real conversation, and a real conversation is exactly what took place

I started with a question that I had been wondering — What are the folks who visit Scorpia’s Gaming Lair like? Scorpia told me that by twist of fate, luck, and technology, the people that have been her readers have always been grown-ups. She said that in the beginning, the adults had the computers; now they’re the ones who have the CPU/RAM/VIDEO to run the games. It was clear that no Playstations or X-box conversations are happening at the Lair. Scorpia serves up solid information — reviews, hints, and conversation on real gamers’ games.

We spent some time talking about podcasting and blogging. We did a while on business. We even talked about my inability to see what I type. Somehow Scorpia and I got to talking about words on the web that we’ve read and never heard said. That brought us back to words from high school facade, canape, and faux pas and the first time we heard someone say them.

Next thing you know we’re discussing how we don’t watch television and what we say when people ask us if we saw some show or other. Then we got quite involved in discussing videos. She said she had only bought eight. I told her I had only bought one. We talked about which they were and came to the same conclusion — we couldn’t see why we would buy them, if we didn’t plan to watch them many more times than once.

Scorpia said she felt the same way about books. Then she went on to say that she had shelves and shelves of them. She said that she goes to the library unless she plans to read a book more than once. I said that tied me to someone else’s schedule.

When we got to talking about what books we like, Scorpia mentioned Erle Stanley Gardner. I mentioned my mother’s index card of his titles. She knew it was so that my mom didn’t buy a copy of The Case of the Velvet Claws twice. We both agreed that his Perry Mason novels weren’t his best stuff. Then Scorpia went on to tell me that mysteries from that era were her favorite reads. When she can’t find those, she said she likes history. I said I like that rare fact-based historical fiction. Scorpia answered that she preferred the real thing.

I didn’t find that surprising. Everything about Scorpia is the real thing.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

Game bloggers are like everyone else who cares about what they do, they’re serious about it.–Scorpia

Stop by Scorpia’s Blog, Scorpia’s Gaming Lair, and say hi!

Thanks, Scorpia, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.





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7 Comments to “Scorpia Is a B.A.D. Blogger”

  1. December 4th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
    Scorpia said

    Heh. pretty good rendition there, Liz. However, I don’t go to the library; I just said you could go to one if you only planned to read a book once.

    And I miscounted there. My extensive collection of DVD’s was actually nine at the time we talked; it grew to ten this morning when I received the “Call Of Cthulhu” movie made by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. A very impressive production. Anyone interested in Lovecraft’s work should check it out at:

    http://www.cthulhulives.org

    Oh, and I believe that it should be “Game bloggers are like everyone else” up there in the quote box. After all, that’s we started ;)

    Thanks again, Liz. It really was fun chatting with you. We must do this again sometime. We didn’t even get to my collection of old-time radio shows!

  2. December 4th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Scorpia,
    I should have figured out that you didn’t go to the library when you started talking about all of the books you actually have. Sometimes I’m slow on the uptake. :)

    Getting greedy are ya with those movies? 10 now? Whoa . . . some folks might call that downright decadent. You’re still set for any desert island that has a video set up. heh-heh

    I’ll go in and edit that quote. It does sound more like you to say it that way. ;)

    Radio shows! Oh my!

  3. December 4th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
    Scorpia said

    Radio shows? You bet. Just imagine a half-hour show with only three commercials. Some of them don’t have any (obviously removed, for whatever reason. Can’t say I mind ;)

    As for the library, well, you were pretty close there, so I won’t dock you any points ;)

  4. December 4th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Old radio shows are so cool. Theater of the mind, oh yeah!

    Thanks for the pass on the points. Whew! What relief! :)

  5. December 4th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
    Phil Gerbyshak said

    Quite an overview, as usual, Liz. Scorpia looks like another fun person we all must get to know better. ;)

  6. December 4th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Phil,
    The more I get to know about each of you, the more I want to know. Bloggers are fascinating people!

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