I am a gigantic dork. But finally, I have a way to measure my geek-dom, as The Onion's AV club has helpfully posted the 20 pop culture obsessions geekier than Monty Python (HEY! Monty Python is not... oh, nevermind). So here's how I stack up in their list:
1 STAR TREK
Actually, I'm not a big Trekkie. though I do know the difference between Trekkies and Trekkers, so that can't be a good sign. And I've seen all of the movies. Well, crap.
2 REN FAIRES
Yup. I've been to Rennaissance Faires. I even knew the beer wench personally. No joke, she dated my best friend. I didn't dress up or anything, though I did eat a gigantic turkey leg, which is always fun.
3 FANTASY SPORTS LEAGUES
Kind of my dork wheelhouse. Let's just move on.
4 MICHAEL JACKSON
I don't even know how this makes the list. I know a lot of geeks, and we have never sat around and talked about Michael Jackson. nor were any of us actually Michael Jackson. So, no geekiness here.
5 WIKIPEDIA
I don't edit entries, but I do spend waaaaaaay too much time on the wiki. Sometimes you just have to look up 18th century French philosophers.
6 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Best show on TV. God, I am a gigantic dork. It's remarkable I've even kissed a girl.
7 ROCKY HORROR
Like I would ever turn down a Barry Bostwick/ Susan Sarandon movie with Tim Curry in drag. And I have thrown toast. This isn't going well for me, is it?
8 JOSS WHEDON
Buffy, no. Firefly, si! Not a huge fan, but i'm still sitting at dork table on this one.
9 MEDIA SPECIFIC ROLE PLAYING
I like my RPG's to enable me to create my own characters. those guys who need an RPG based on Harry Potter are TOTAL dorks. What losers.
10 MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Too dorky even for me, as this is the pyrmaid scheme of dorkiness. The game is won by whoever is most willing to invest the most money into the game. That's not really winning.
11 WORLD OF WARCRAFT
Actually, I don't play any video game. So there. Two straight! I'm not a dork!
12 THE SIMPSONS
Well, they meant Simpsons obsessiveness, which I don't have. Though I do love me Matt Groening.
13 DOCTOR WHO
Now we're getting into the dork underbrush! Huge fan. It was the only reason to watch PBS as a kid.
14 FRANK ZAPPA
Actually, despite my obsessive indie rock geekiness, I do not own a single Frank Zappa album. Not a one. Wow. I suck.
15 GAME SHOW TAPE TRADING
I didn't even know this existed. I'm losing my dork bona fides.
16 ANIME
Not for me. I'll admit it, I like Disney films. Give me a princess followed by small woodland creatures and I'm happy.
17 COSPLAY
I'm not dressing up as a cartoon character. Except maybe, just maybe, Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
18 LIVE ACTION ROLE PLAYING
No comment.
19 FACEBOOK
Baylor Law is doomed.
20 FANFIC
There is nothing good about fanfic. Nothing.
Overall, I'm pretty darn dorky. I'm surprised blogging wasn't counted against me.
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That makes me so immensely happy I am going to write a fanfic about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrShK-NVMIU
I'm not ashamed...
Battlestar Galactica is the greatest show I've ever seen. I'm re-watching the first season and can't believe how awesome it is.
Battlestar Galactica is good, but the plot kinda sputtered in the third season. They need to get back to their roots, which is more of the epic spacebattles and fight for survival than characters and their internal conflicts. And why did they introduce the Pegasus only to destroy it several episodes later? Were they worried it would steal Galactica's thunder?
Alex, I think that the idea of having two ships was cool to the writers, but when you're writing a show about the desperation of the last survivors of the human race, having two hulking battleships instead of one kinda kills you thematically. That, and I think they wanted to make it clear that a big sacrifice (one of the only two ship that can protect them) was required to save everyone from New Caprica (and how awesome was it when Lee showed up in the Pegasus, I mean come on).
I think the fourth season will feature the Galactica stumbling on its last legs as the fleet finally approaches Earth. Will it make it?
cosplay and animal arent dorky subjects!
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