Since we were on the subject of geeks earlier…<\/p>\n
What makes you a geek?<\/b><\/p>\n
Robert describes it as (and I like this a lot):<\/p>\n
So here and now I am going to come out of the geek closet and list a few things about which I am pretty passionate, about which I know at least slightly more than the average person and about which I am constantly in fear of talking too much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ah yes, that “talking too much” thing. We all probably know that feeling.<\/p>\n
“Ooops, I know wayyyyyyy too much about [fill in the blank] right now.”<\/p>\n
People are listing what it is that they know “slightly more than the average person” … They’re great fun to read. Like I said: I love to encounter people who are passionate about stuff, and know stuff – however random!<\/p>\n
Okay, so I’ll list ten of mine:<\/p>\n
1. Anything to do with Lucy Maud Montgomery (her life, or her books). If I don’t know it, it’s not worth knowing.<\/p>\n
2. The Charles Manson murders. Helter Skelter<\/i> is a dog-eared book, let’s just say that.<\/p>\n
3. Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n
4. The American Revolution. I feel like I was there, and that I could describe it to you personally, like a personal anecdote.<\/p>\n
5. Sylvia Plath. Do not even get me started. I am ONLY comfortable talking about Sylvia Plath with another “Plath geek”. Otherwise I just feel too damn crazy.<\/p>\n
6. The novel Mating<\/i>, by Norman Rush. If you pulled a random sentence out of that book, not only would I be able to tell you, “Oh, that’s from the chapter titled….”, I would also be able to tell you the placement of the sentence on the page<\/i>. “Oh, yeah, that one goes at the top of the page.” “That sentence wraps around from bottom of one page to top of another.” It’s crazy. I don’t know anyone else who has read that book, so I have no one to talk to about it. Which is probably just as well.<\/p>\n
7. The films of John Cassavetes. Again, I am pretty much only comfortable talking about Cassavetes to other Cassavetes freaks. One of my three marriage proposals came after the guy had gone to a Cassavetes film festival, and realized that there was only “one girl on earth who would ‘get’ what I’m going through right now, and that would be you.” THAT’S the kind of Cassavetes freak I am talking about.<\/p>\n
8. Anything that has to do with Russell Crowe, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor or Eminem.<\/p>\n
9. I know slightly more than the average person about the Central Asian “stans”, but I don’t know more than this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I can only come up with 9 at the moment. Not 10. Also, there’s another thunderstorm raging right now, and I have to leave.<\/p>\n
Buh-bye.<\/p>\n
Be well. Please add your own geek-cred below.<\/p>\n
Update<\/i>: Here are Big Stupid Tommy’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n
My favorite one?<\/p>\n
5. I have to see any movie that feature disaster footage on a grand scale. Independence Day, when Los Angeles, Washington and New York are getting obliterated? I’m there. Tidal wave sweeping over New York, in Deep Impact? Oh yeah. Paris getting blown to bits in Armageddon? Truly great film making. In fact, if you need me to go see your movie, there are two shots you need to put in your trailer: 1.) Some famous landmark getting swept away, smashed by a comet or being climbed by a giant monster, and 2.) A bunch of people running away from it. It doesn’t even have to be on that grand a scale…my favorite scene is the Marshmallow Man scene in Ghostbusters, especially when he steps on the church to get at the Ghostbusters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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