I know I've called myself a nerd before, but at the same time I'm not really sure if I am really am a nerd. For one thing my wife is was to hot. Which might not be a true test to see if you're a nerd or not, but I believe it is one thing that might make me less nerdy than other people. I've never really had any nerd friends either, all my friends have been normal with a punk here and there. Plus I try not to fly my nerd flag in "real life." That means I don't go around telling people I read comics and make comics. I don't jump into conversations about Star Wars and Star Trek with people, even people I know. It's been this way for a long time. Since high school really. I got rid of my Magic the Gathering Cards in Jr. High. Then my junior year I transformed my look to a 90's punk rocker. I shed as much nerdiness as I could. Sure I read comics here and there, but I didn't associate with people that did that kind of thing.
Fast-forward to 2013, everywhere on the internet people are claiming to be nerds. They're throwing on glasses and seeing superhero movies. They scream that they are nerds because they've seen all the "comic" movies, which I doubt, because that means seeing all these little film too. Yet, I still feel like being a nerd is a bad thing. Sure I can tell you almost complete history of most of Marvel Comics characters. I watch reruns of Babylon 5, Star Trekn (all series), Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica. I play with Lego bricks. I even draw my own webcomics, but don't call me a nerd. Most people I met don't know about any of those things. I try to tell people about them, but no one has ever been interested in my hobbies. I always keep them quite and try to blend in with other people at work. My shyness makes that hard too. Still even though I feel like maybe nerd culture is accepted on the internet, no one in the real world has heard.
So what do you guys think? Am I nerd? Should I be proud and fly the nerd flag even if it makes me an outcast? Plus what should my nerd flag look like? And what do you think a nerd is? Allison and I don't totally agree on what a nerd is. Allison thinks she's a nerd and I don't think she is. Once again, she's just to hot to be a nerd in my mind.
Now here's the song from Adam Warrock that made me think about all these deep nerdy thoughts.
