"Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating." - Simon Pegg
I have started reading Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg this week as I was out of work Tuesday afternoon through Friday following a surgery on my left foot. It's quite gross, the after effects of the surgery and the reasoning for it so I'll spare you the details if only to say once healed, it will leave me with the ability to once again walk without any pain to the bottom of my foot! Oh that shall be the day.
Was my use of a comma in that rather long sentence proper? I've always been confused by commas, sometimes even calling them comas, in fact. I often feared my English teachers in school ran out of red ink when grading my papers. I imagine them rolling their eyes, pulling out a new pen and hoping the ink would last til the end of my bs. I think I might have had good content overall, but would drag it out with said bs, thus completing the required word count.
WOW, you wouldn't have guessed any of that by the paragraph I just wasted your time with there, huh? But yes, I am a geek and I am damn proud! I've always liked bragging about the fact that I like geeking things and talking with friends and family about various shows I watch, regardless of whether or not they too watch them and thus know what I'm talking about. And when I do find a rare soul who watches something I do - FORGET IT YOU ARE MY BFFE ABOVE ALL ELSE!
But it wasn't until I started reading Pegg's autobiography, that I really started to get it and want to embrace it more. I have this silly blog, that I don't update quite enough, and I want to turn it into something that is fantastic and interesting enough to make at least one person read. I'm pretty sure no one knows about it, even though I occasionally link it from my other sites (Twitter, Facebook, Google+...etc), but clearly it's not enough to warrant comments. Not that I need comments to continue to try to find myself in the blog 'verse, as it may be, for I will keep blogging on until I find my niche.
I thought about writing about just shows I watch, but sometimes life happens and I have to delay watching shows, so of course it wouldn't be a regular updated occurrence I can't talk about movies b/c I don't go the theatre enough anymore for that. So really it has turned into me just updating as ideas come to me, albeit it months apart usually, that I can be long winded about.
What does any of this have to do with being a geek? Well, geek's blog just like anybody else, right? I want to turn it more into a passion, where I can't wait to get home and update about something that happened during the course of my day. Or, something so shitty happened that I need to blog to vent about it, and perhaps at the same time reassure someone who may be going through something similar, that they are not alone and can vent right back if need be.
I hope to make this uplifting when needed, funny when it strikes me, and just interesting on some level all around. I may even try to start each entry out with a quote that in some way relates to what I'm about to say.
So please, stay tuned...
