Torontoist » nerds http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:39:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Star Trek Day Comes to the Toronto Underground Cinema Costume-contest participants line up for judgment at Star Trek Day 2011.

Sunday was Star Trek Day at the Toronto Underground Cinema. The event, hosted by The Nerd Mafia, was conceived as a kind of foil for the Star Wars Day celebrations that happened, for the first time in Toronto, at the Underground last May. Star Trek Day, whose organizers are hoping to stage it again next [...]

]]> http://torontoist.com/2011/10/star-trek-day-comes-to-the-toronto-underground-cinema/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=star-trek-day-comes-to-the-toronto-underground-cinema A Fan Expo Debriefing Torontoist sent Christopher Bird to it, because nerds are his people.

We swear to God we did not get him to pose this way. It just happened.

Every year tons of people show up to Fan Expo in costume. Some are amazing; many are not, but are at least still charming in their way. We were deeply impressed by a Strong Bad who stayed in character by lounging around and telling all the “ladies” to admire his “rock hard abdominals.” (Which he [...]

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