For When the Rewind Button is Stuck

What ho! Yon nave!!!

For the first time in quite some while, my new Star Wars Trilogy DVDs aren't playing in my room. It creates an erie silence. It is in this silence that I decided to pick up my laptop and start writing about myself, my geekdom, and geekdom in general.

Geekdom:adj: The state of or result of being a geek, nerd, loser, pasty white British boy, the one without a girlfriend, scalawag, dingus, or any of a number of slang terms used to describe young to mid-life males with hyperactive imaginations that will die alone.

See also; Michael Moore

No, now really folks. I've been a geek since the golden days. In elementary school all the other kids were playing kickball or "running." Not I. I played Batman and Robin on the jungle gym (those poles are really nifty for entrances to the batcave!) In later elementary school, while the strapping young 9 year olds were "training" for the latest sport their parents made them play, I was reading Goosebumps books and pretending to be Thunder MegaZord in my grandfather's back yard. Middle school rolled along and the "cool" kids started dating each other. I developed a close relationship with Chef Boyardee and my three VHS copies of the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition. Not to mention acquiring a handy amount of game pacs for my N64.

As high school came and I got past my awkward stage to a form that more closely resembles who I am now, I became more aware of who I was in respect to who everyone else was. One thing that I'm glad I was able to grasp before most geeks do is the fact that what is "cool" is defined by the individual. Sometimes it can be hard for geeks to find a definition of "cool" that will get them a spouse...or friends period....but for the most part it works out. In my case I make friends pretty easily. I don't know how or why, because I'm hardcore geek, but it seems to be working ok for me. As for my luck with girls, well, I'll brush over that topic. ((brush))
So as far as I can tell there is no super negative effect of making home sci-fi movies or playing tabletop RPG's (as I so often do.) As long as you know yourself and project a confident image of who you are, you should be just fine. I'm quite happy with being a geek. I see it as being just as interesting of a life, if not more interesting, as being an intellectual or an athlete. It's being a geek that really leads a person to become an artist. As an artist you make it your job to bring enlightenment, any of a full range of emotions, and illumination to lives of the people that will experience your work. The key to doing this is imagination and lots of it. Which all starts with the first seeds of geekdom you plant while sitting in the back seat of your parents car, pretending your fingers are little people fighting each other.
For all that I can tell, us geeks are kind, easy to get along with folks... with a few exceptions...(smelly DanceDanceRevolution guy.) If you're reading this and you aren't a geek, have some compassion. You never know what making friends with different people can lead to and you might just find out that there is a little geek in all of us.

Now I roll d(20) +3 to hit with "Breath of DOOM"