Yesterday, to celebrate my esteemed husband's birthday, we went to a Lord of the Rings marathon at the local cinema drafthouse. Sure, the lines were long, the prices elevated, and the beers smaller, but if we hadn't gone we would have never been able to see a grown man dressed as an elf carrying a picketing sign protesting the exclusion of Tom Bombadil from the movie. We valiantly made it through the first two movies by subsisting on buffalo chicken wings, pizza and beer. (I even got to knit the entire increase of the right front side of my mystery sweater!) But faced with the prospect of yet another 4 hour movie that we had both seen innumerable times before, we had to admit defeat. Damn you Peter Jackson!
Now, I'm sure you are thinking, Gary Gygax . . . zombie lectures . . . Lord of the Rings marathon . . . (and quite possibly, who the hell is Tom Bombadil), and are coming away with the conclusion that I'm an enormous nerd. And you're probably right. But look around at the popularity of video games, scifi, fantasy, and horror in the current cultural zeitgeist, and you'll understand what I've known for years. Nerd is the new black!
2 comments:
video games used to only belong to the realm of the nerd, but we all know that's changing. Nerd is catching on, and people can suck on it.
Nerd is the new black....
hahahhahaha.... LOVE it!
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