{"id":1779,"date":"2011-07-11T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T09:47:37","slug":"costume-contest-winner-and-dr-horrible-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/11\/costume-contest-winner-and-dr-horrible-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Costume Contest Winner and Dr. Horrible Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Costume Contest (FINALLY)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 2 months ago (holy crap time flies!) I decided it was high time for another HNG photo shoot.\u00a0 As a bit of a change up I focused on fantasy-related costumes and threw out <a href=\"https:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/05\/what-should-i-wear\/\">these options<\/a>.\u00a0 Since then I\u2019ve been insanely busy but I finally got around to tallying the votes and Xena was the overwhelming winner.\u00a0 Sooo, just like with the <a href=\"https:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/10\/bronze-bikini-fund-is-now-closed\/\">Slave Leia costume<\/a>, I\u2019ll wear it and be photographed in it provided that enough donations come in to buy the $50 costume.<\/p>\n<p>That said, a lot of you wanted Xena but didn\u2019t like the costume I found.\u00a0 So if you know of a better one, let me know.\u00a0 I\u2019m open to suggestions.\u00a0 And sorry, but I don\u2019t have the time or talent to make and sew a leather costume.\u00a0 I am gifted in many areas, sewing together strips of leather is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>So donate today! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=Y2LEGU52LM47U&amp;ssrt=1708980115002\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Dr. Horrible\u2019s Sing Along Blog &#8211; Live!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1781\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Turner, Jane Lui and Michael Minto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m still amazed that anyone gives a hoot about what I think so imagine my surprise when I was invited to attend the premier of Dr. Horrible\u2019s Sing Along Blog &#8211; Live in San Diego this weekend. \u00a0It sounded like fun (and I\u2019m a huge theatre nerd) so I\u2019m heading down (and braving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2011\/06\/07\/planned-405-freeway-closure-has-la-motorists-thinking-carmageddo\/\">Carmaggedon<\/a> I might add) to check it out.\u00a0 You should too. \u00a0If you go on Sunday the 17<sup>th<\/sup> I will be there geeking out. \u00a0You can find more information about it here\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/iwanttosingablog.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">HNG is relocating!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1794\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Long and Prosper Los Angeles!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of sunny San Diego\u2026I\u2019m moving there at the end of July.\u00a0Los Angeles certainly has its perks but I\u2019m over it so I\u2019m leaving.\u00a0 The good news is that a relatively quick drive up the freeway will take me right back to Hollyweird so I can still take advantage of those perks without having to inhale smog and deal with hellacious traffic all day every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good thing.\u00a0 I mention this because I\u2019ll be packing, moving and unpacking over the course of the next few weeks and my posts may be a bit sporadic and all over the place.\u00a0 I apologize for this ahead of time.\u00a0 I may even have a couple of guest bloggers come in to pick up the slack a bit.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costume Contest (FINALLY) About 2 months ago (holy crap time flies!) I decided it was high time for another HNG photo shoot.\u00a0 As a bit of a change up I focused on fantasy-related costumes and threw out these options.\u00a0 Since then I\u2019ve been insanely busy but I finally got around to tallying the votes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[272,745,822,1100],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-photoshoot","tag-dr-horrible-sing-a-long-blog-live","tag-photoshoot","tag-san-diego","tag-xena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}