How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Hooray!I love a good literary criticism argument - if I'm a nerd about anything at all it'd be on art and literature criticism.
(Actually, the most-commonly held view is that the rise of Mordor and its evil dictator represents the rise of Facism in Hitler's Germany...and IMO it makes a lot more sense to read it that way.)
jennymnemonic
Spot on!
And another thing - criticising creative works and examining the greater resonances within them is one of the great pleasures of life (aside from sex and chocolate of course).
By all means look at a picture, read a book, watch a film and just take from it the simple pleasures - it looks nice, it's a good story, it made me laugh/moved me to tears and so on.
BUT spend a little longer examining that work and the rewards are huge. The connections between art, literature, music and film of any period in history are all there just waiting for the interested audience to simply scratch the surface.
OMG...I *am* a geek! I'm a cultural studies geek....
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:52,
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