From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/remembrance-of-geeks-pas   
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   Felicia Day: Less Weird Than She Thinks She Is (Actually)   
   The Buffy Actress' New Memoir is Fascinating, But Not For the Reasons She   
   Thinks   
   By Suzette Smith   
      
   FELICIA DAY'S WRITING reads like a chat log. She wanders through stories,   
   using all caps and italics. She drops tangentially relevant memes onto the   
   page. The name of her autobiography, You're Never Weird on the Internet   
   (Almost), is as cumbersome as that of an emo band. But those things work on   
   the internet and—as she will explain at length—Felicia Day is mostly about   
   the internet.   
      
   Like other autobiographies, YNWI(A) focuses heavily on Day's childhood. Day   
   thinks that she "was raised incredibly weird," and a huge portion of her   
   book focuses on her mother's inconsistent attempts at homeschooling (and an   
   over-reliance on community college art classes for educational structure).   
   As Day puts it, "[M]y mom basically trained me to become a geisha."   
      
   Day loses her reliable narrator credit early on, when, despite her   
   complaints, she reveals she enrolled in college at the precocious age of 16,   
   double-majoring in math and music before going on to write, direct, produce   
   and star in a popular web series, The Guild. That's the thing you probably   
   know her from—if not Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, or Dr.   
   Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. At times, it's hard to read all of these   
   humblebrags. And it's difficult not to cringe when Day attempts to sum up   
   her fairly privileged childhood with the socially tone-deaf "Boy, do I have   
   some excuses!"   
      
   I like a lot of Day's videos and humor, but her online persona has never   
   struck me as valuable for its weirdness. She's at her best not when she's   
   trying to show how weird she is, but when she's straightforward,   
   and—interestingly enough—appealing to a group that often thinks of itself   
   as   
   different: gamer women. Day's essay about her perspective on 2014's   
   Gamergate, her hesitation to speak out about it, and the subsequent privacy   
   violations she experienced when she did is especially potent.   
      
   Here, Felicia Day shows she can tell a good yarn that has nothing to do with   
   her wacky youthful gamerhood. She's real people, with insight on a culture   
   recently exploding into fireballs of misogyny and misinformation. These   
   pieces of her autobiography are fascinating. If only there could've been   
   more of them.   
      
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