Reality Check
As much as I love comics, movies and various other elements of geek culture, I ever so often have to be reminded of what happens when one loses grip on reality: as such, my weekly visit to 8th St. Comics served this purpose.
I love Pat and some of his patrons, but really, some of these people are beyond hope. Try getting into an argument trying to explain to a guy that his hatred of the Star Wars prequels makes absolutely no frickin' sense in the context of his making a statement to the effect that "Electra was actually pretty good" and "I liked AVP." It defies logic.
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Ah, but there is a third variety that you have left out: the dork. See, nerds are people who are socially inept and belligerent jerks and you want to pinch them. Geeks are people who know ridiculous amounts about obscure subjects (or obscure things about ridiculous subjects), but still have an element of "cool" about what they're interested in. Now, dorks are people who unapologetically, unequivocally adore things that cannot, under any circumstance, be classified as hip or cool. Things that, as people keep telling me, have passed from bad into good right back into bad again. And they're not sorry about it, either.
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