The world is full of interesting people.

None more interesting than the Geek world. Just thin k about it: which film has a larger variety of interesting and colourful characters?

She's all that or Revenge of the Nerds?

To me: She's all that is probably one of the most insulting and weakly formulatic movies of all time. Think about it: a potentially pretty girl (okay- they just found a girl from a magazine cover and put glasses on her!) is transformed into a much "better" person by being made into one of the "popular people" Ugh! Then it tries to pass off some weak morality theme of "just be yourself". Jimmeny Jillickers Radioactive Man!!!

I was watching this today: (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog graces Star Wars geeks with his beautifully attuned humour!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cc_8LdJ9Ghs

And I was proud of how many people are okay with their own geekdom. ( I love triumph!) I was thinking what would happen if Triumph had trumped over to our Mortal Enemies- such as... I dunno: a Beauty Pageant, or a College Football Jock event- and started ripping into them. I can't see a beauty pageant contestant being too happy about being ribbed like that!

It just goes to show how much happier we generally are than everyone else! If you think about it- one of the biggest things to get us down would have to be things that arise from us aspiring to be accepted in their fake smiley- let's hold hands and go see a Reese Witherspoon Rom Com world!

It's like we're the Morlocks and they're the Eloi- except we don't feast on their flesh occasionally.

I'll say this- if you don't have much geek backup with you at the time- high school is just the worst, because 9 times out of ten High School is the perfect place for these morons to use their "popularity powers"

BUT: once high school is over- you're fine and happy and they don't know what to do because they're been yanked from that warm gooey womb that is high school and sent into the real world where the value of their "popularity" quickly diminishes!

I'm writing this because one of my Nerdy friends is in that period where you feel like the opinions of all these "normal people" really matter. All you have to do is to just worry about what YOU want to do. Come out of the geek closet: play Dungeons and Dragons openly. Wear that cool Ghostbusters T-shirt you still have. Dress up as a Jedi Knight and have large scale plastic lightsaber battles in your capital city.

At the end of the day- deafen yourself to the opinions of those other simians- because you are probably 100 times more happy than they'll ever be in their limited lives.

Be the Geek.