Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die -- Patton Oswalt
I'm not a nerd. I used to be one, back 30 years ago when nerd meant something. I entered the '80s immersed, variously, in science fiction, Dungeons & Dragons, and Stephen King. Except for the multiple-player aspect of D&D, these pursuits were not 'passions from a common spring,- to quote Poe. I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast. I had a circle of friends who were similarly drawn to the exotica of pop culture (or, at least, what was considered pop culture at the time in northern Virginia)-Monty Python, post-punk music, comic books, slasher films, and videogames. We were a sizable clique. The terms nerd and geek were convenient shorthand used by other cliques to categorize us. But they were thin descriptors.
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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Bob Welch is DED by a shot to his own chest.
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So true. Having access to everything that ever was isn't inspiring much exciting new media. I miss the feeling that came with discovering something like House of Leaves. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ain't quite the same experience.
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It would be pretty tough to do as an e-book since the page layout is so important. But it would be beyond awesome if they could do an e-version where all the references/ citations/ footnotes were hyperlinked in the text.