Comments on: Courage http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/21/courage/ Formerly America's Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist, now independently animating a feature film, "Sita Sings the Blues." Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Mim Redbeard http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/21/courage/#comment-889 Mim Redbeard Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:16:57 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/21/courage/#comment-889 Nina Thanks for posting this. I really needed to hear this. I sit here afraid to write what bounces around my head, and I wasn't sure why. ( ok I know it was probably because I was afraid of what people would think and thats stupid.) So thank you. I guess I should thank Marty as well shouldn't I? Nina
Thanks for posting this. I really needed to hear this. I sit here afraid to write what bounces around my head, and I wasn’t sure why.
( ok I know it was probably because I was afraid of what people would think and thats stupid.)

So thank you.
I guess I should thank Marty as well shouldn’t I?

]]> By: Erick Wujcik http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/21/courage/#comment-898 Erick Wujcik Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:41:00 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/21/courage/#comment-898 Nina, I'm wondering if you ever read / heard the Bruce Sterling speech, wherein he rallies the love of our strangeness: "...Follow your weird, ladies and gentlemen. Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, "woo the muse of the odd..." Link to Speech: http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/comp_game_designers.article Link to index of Speeches: http://www.chriswaltrip.com/sterling/speeches.html Erick Nina,

I’m wondering if you ever read / heard the Bruce Sterling speech, wherein he rallies the love of our strangeness:

“…Follow your weird, ladies and gentlemen. Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “woo the muse of the odd…”

Link to Speech: http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/comp_game_designers.article

Link to index of Speeches:
http://www.chriswaltrip.com/sterling/speeches.html

Erick

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