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Part Deux

July 2, 2007 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

So the Beauty and the Geek guy got back to me and told me to send in some pictures of myself. (Couldn’t he just look at my Myspace photos? Weird.) Anyway, I picked the dorkiest-looking pictures I could find and sent them along. (Thanks here to The Slush God, who is something of a virtuoso when it comes to taking unflattering pictures of me.) I never heard back. In the absence of proof to the contrary, I’m forced to conclude that they deemed me just too damn good-looking to make an effective TV geek. Shame really, since otherwise my geek credentials are pretty impeccable. Oh well, I didn’t want to be on your stupid hit TV show anyway.

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David Barr Kirtley

David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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