OMFG

I don’t normally use dewdspeak. Given my advancing years – which make me pretty much a wizened old fart in the world of high-tech geeks and computers – and my love of language, I’m sure you understand my stomach’s retching reaction at shorthand such as “wtf”, “rofl”, “imho” and so on¹.

Today, I’m making an exception. I am, in fact, not only going to say “OMFG”, but I am going to type it in capitals and embolden it. I might even add an exclamation mark afterwards.

“What,” you ask, “has so possessed our poor, reliably-grammar-nazi-esque old bugger of a blogger? What could possibly affect him to the point where he produces such nonsensical gibberish?”

Well, I’ll tell you.

Carrie Fisher blogs and tweets.

OMFG!

This has to be one of the best days of my geeky life. Not only is my Princess Leia obsession fed (yes, I know she’d probably hate me saying that), but one of the best, funniest, smartest writers I’ve had the good fortune to be obsessed with is online.

You cannot possibly imagine how long I have been waiting for this. How many Google searches in the past have just turned up a bunch of slave-bikini pictures² and out-of-date news.

The only bad thing is that – from what I can gather – she started blogging in January last year and I only just found out. Poopy bottoms, I say. Poopy bottoms.

And with that, I shall leave you with a link or two, because I’m going to be spending my day reading the most absolutely freakin’ hilarious (and other superlatives) web content.

Carrie Fisher on Twitter

Carrie Fisher, the website and blog

¹ By far the worst of the dewdspeak is the batch of second-generation terms, including “zomg” and “1337″. That last one particularly gets my goat (or okapi, whichever you prefer), since the original “l33t” was quite bad enough.

² Not that I minded the pictures, though I always preferred her author shots. She wears glasses in those. Rawr. And no, Miss @Speedmouse, you are not being replaced by the original. Even Ms. Fisher cannot compare with your TweetLeianess.