A Short Bit On Geekiness
Aug. 13th, 2008 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swordmageWatchmen, where have you been!?
Actually, I know exactly where it's been - and I'm regretting not reading it earlier. (Finally stopped beating around the bush and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
domnall picked it up.) I'm currently about half-way through it and thoroughly enjoying. It's well-written, well-done, the usual. Mind you, I love Moore. The small bit I've read of his other stuff is, well, brilliant.
I've joked, on more than one occasion, that I came late to my geekdom. Lots of things I knew about, but for various reasons never really attacked until recently (read: college). This includes a large number of comics/graphic novels, some TV series (most of Whedon's stuff, for a start), and various other bits and pieces. Considering there was never a steady TV in the house until my parents split, was a start.
Mind you, that wasn't the only factor. Far from it. In novel-form, I'd done a large amount of reading elsewhere, particularly in the fantasy/folklore genre. My tastes simply ran a little... different...
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women anyone? It remains, to this day, one of my all-time favorite books. I adore Ricky Jay. (And, on that note, if anyone ever comes across a copy of Cards As Weapons - please, tell me.)
In equally cheerful (movie-related, this time) news:
Zack and Miri Make A Porno Teaser - Kevin Smith, how I love you...
Also, the independent film Cthulhu.
Actually, I know exactly where it's been - and I'm regretting not reading it earlier. (Finally stopped beating around the bush and
domnall picked it up.) I'm currently about half-way through it and thoroughly enjoying. It's well-written, well-done, the usual. Mind you, I love Moore. The small bit I've read of his other stuff is, well, brilliant.I've joked, on more than one occasion, that I came late to my geekdom. Lots of things I knew about, but for various reasons never really attacked until recently (read: college). This includes a large number of comics/graphic novels, some TV series (most of Whedon's stuff, for a start), and various other bits and pieces. Considering there was never a steady TV in the house until my parents split, was a start.
Mind you, that wasn't the only factor. Far from it. In novel-form, I'd done a large amount of reading elsewhere, particularly in the fantasy/folklore genre. My tastes simply ran a little... different...
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women anyone? It remains, to this day, one of my all-time favorite books. I adore Ricky Jay. (And, on that note, if anyone ever comes across a copy of Cards As Weapons - please, tell me.)
In equally cheerful (movie-related, this time) news:
Zack and Miri Make A Porno Teaser - Kevin Smith, how I love you...
Also, the independent film Cthulhu.
