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The Modern Geek Chronicles:
What I Learned from Video Games & Comics
I saw a writing prompt on a certain website–which shall remain nameless because I’ve got a few bones to pick with them–that posed the question: What have we learned from video games & comic books?
Well, here’s what I have to say about that:
Asking what the modern geek has learned from video games and comic books is like asking what the A-Team learned from having plan. In the realm of Geek, video games and comic books are the whole reason for uprooting our wife and son and heading to Arrakis.
Modern Geek Rule #1: “The Geek must flow!”
I can still remember waking up on that fateful Christmas morning long, long ago, a morning drenched in the swarthy scent of Nintendo Entertainment System. A morning of sore thumbs and blurred vision and my mother yelling that I was on my way to becoming a zombie. Decades later I’m a poet and a fiction writer, but still no closer to zombiedom.
Modern Geek Rule # 211: Dammit, Ma!
When I was nine years old the Silver Surfer showed up in the laundry room of my aunt’s house Dive deeper…
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Let’s Make a Geek
The Modern Geek Chronicles:
Breed(ing) Geek
As I was having steaks with a very good friend and her precious geekling a few days ago I got to thinking: How does one raise a geek?
On the surface, it seems like a simple question. After all, as geeks ourselves, we know how to care for ourselves and so, intuitively, we assume that the raising of a geek is just a matter of transferring the means and methods of our own biological requirements onto them. In other words:
Feed your geek. (Soylent Green on Tuesdays)
Water your geek. (Brawndo’s got electrolytes)
Provide an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere at an optimal temperature of 25 C. (sunlight optional)
Follow these steps and your geekling will grow like the mighty oak! Right?
Hell no, actually.
Food, water and shelter do not a geek make Dive deeper…
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She Geeked All Over Me
She Geeked All Over Me
There I was, geeking it up at a poetry reading in Atlanta. My weapon of choice? A suite of superhero poems that smacked the crowd in the face like a twenty-pound halibut. None of them saw it coming—including the guy that had the job of going on after me. After I’d geeked all over the stage and blown the crowd’s mind like so much raw Spice, he stepped hesitantly up to the microphone and managed a few laughs during his 15 minutes of reading time. But when the applause ended and the house lights came up and he and I found ourselves alone in the far corner of the venue—giving one another the obligatory “Good job” pep talks—he couldn’t wipe the Geek off of his face.
I’d just Geek-bombed him and broken his sprit a little. Dive deeper…
Comments: 2 | Tags: Geek-bomb, Geek-gasm, Modern Geek, Poetry, superhero poetry
The 1100 Tenets of Geek
In my continuing exploration of my own Geek, I came to realize I needed a code, an ethos, pillars upon which I may become a better geek and, ultimately, further Geek as a whole. Thus was born the 1100 Tenets of Geek.
Through these words, may the Geek flow for you as it has flowed for me.
1: Admit that you are a geek and that you are powerless against your particular denomination(s) of Geek.
2: Believe that there is a power greater than you, and it is called Geek. And though Geek takes many forms, always strive to recognize it.
3: Make the decision to turn your life over to Geek.
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