Things We Saw Today: The Presidential Inauguration From Space

U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station were having fun the last few days taking images of Washington D.C. This one is from January 20th, the actual day President Obama was sworn in. (via LiveScience) 

• This is not a drill: The Groundlings in Los Angeles are going to perform a Teen Witch musical. (via Jezebel)
• True Story: My Boyfriend Proposed By Putting The Ring In The Toilet via The Frisky.
• Have you ever cosplayed? Dr. Andrea Letamendi (writer of The Psychology of the Fake Geek Girl) has put together a Psychology of Cosplay survey she’d love for you to take.

Agnes Garbowska has this adorable Fantastic Four #600 up for auction on Ebay to benefit the Heroes Initiative.

• Watch an 86-year-old woman play Grand Theft Auto IV. (via Kotaku)
• Star Wars meets the Power Puff Girls. (via Big Shiny Robot)
• George Takei teams up with Dick Tracy and his real-life husband. (via Robot 6)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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