The Cake Saga Continues!

Oh, how I love the Internet.

If you saw my last post, you know that I recently had a few seconds of Internet fame that has stretched to approximately half a minute of fame by this point. The people behind the Food Network show Ace of Cakes — a show I’ve seen a few times, thought was sort of interesting, and then promptly forgot to continue watching — made a really great original series Star Trek cake. Being a Trekkie and one who thinks obsessive Trekkies are hilarious, I made a little joke in the vein of obsessive Trekkies which was promptly misread by a bunch of people, carried over to io9, and a few other places.

I’m still a bit flabbergasted by this — how in the world did “THIS IS A DISASTER I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY PUT SCOTTY IN THE NAVIGATOR’S POSITION I CAN’T BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE ARE SO CLUELESS ABOUT THE BASICS OF STAR TREK THIS IS A DISASTER” sound at all like a serious post to these people? For the majority of people on Trekmovie.com (where the comment was posted) — including the dude who runs the blog — it was an obvious joke. But, for others, they either have impaired senses of humor, or my fake-out was entirely too close to what many schmucks think Trekkies really talk like online.

Anyway, I’m having fun cataloging where else this little thing has ended up, and will share a few with y’alls:

First of all, Trekmovie felt the need to clarify that, yes, it was a joke, and graciously linked to my previous blog post.

Next, it seems Geekologie carried the story — though they attempted to get a dig in at me personally, they couldn’t spell my name correctly, oops!

Then, a bunch of others picked it up: Horrorthon repeated the Geekologie story, Joseph Dickerson (a very serious looking guy) linked to it, as did “Grinning Skull” (I kinda like the blog name, if not the blog itself), and Tweaks the Limbs. Tim posted an apology (being that he was one of the Trekmovie posters who replied to me in that thread), and Food Network Addict had a rather funny post about it (and the pic above), notable mainly because Mary Alice (one of the Ace of Cakes peeps) chimed in.

Then there’s the LA Times blog linking to it, and, of course, it got Dugg and promptly went nowhere. Oh, and I’ve seen it linked a few times on Livejournal, but Livejournal’s a cesspool, so I barely bother reading or commenting on those, I guess, other than this one, notable because of the awesome animated series LJ icon linked here:

Anyway, it’s amusing to see that, for a few people I don’t know out there, the phrase “THIS IS A DISASTER” became something of a mini-meme on Trekmovie for a day or so. And, I’m left with the conflicting emotions that a bunch of people eager to point fingers at nerds pointed them at me, when, uh, I was trying to do the same thing! Hoist with my own petard, I suppose.

One more comment from the io9 post made me laugh a ton:

OletheaEurystheus at 12:37 PM
@Box-of-Rain:
Actually it seems like half the internet didnt get the joke. Trekmovie has had to post a story specifically TELLING the rest of the people who picked it up it was a joke by a guy with a known sense of humor. This is the problem with the internet sometimes, blogs pick up on things that are in the know to only those people who post there and spread it around the internet like its fact… Its especially problematic of blogs that try to be “hip” by making fun of everyone else. IO9 (and Gawker blogs in general) is well known to be one of those types of blogs who try to manufacture hipness..

The bolded emphasis was mine and not the original poster’s, as I’m always going to emphasize when someone out there describes me as “a guy with a known sense of humor.” No one on Trekmovie knows me, and this OletheaEurystheus person is unknown to me, too. Yet, I have a “known sense of humor!” I’ve made it! I beat the Internet!

Finally, just to remind everyone the only proper and correct reaction to nerds, I leave you with the immortal words of John Goodman: