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October 16, 2004
I’ve been wrestling with this.
Is there a higher sense of dorkdom than wearing an electronic box on your belt? It’s as though all the kids who weren’t too popular in high school decided they wanted to come back as Darth Vader, ostensibly to wreak havoc on the bigger, more popular boys, who—let’s face it—probably didn’t end up amounting to much anyway.
At least some of them.
That said, I confess to having been a dork in high school and a bit of a geek now. But I also happen to like looking good, or at least stylish. And this is the sort of thing that ends up bugging me, because I end up either wearing my geekdom on my belt if I follow the masses, and with very wide hips if I stuff my phone and Blackberry in my pockets.
Can you look good with these necessary devices? Or have the geeks, in their terrible, misguided tyranny decided to un-cool the only cool ones among them?
This was Geekery , and it appeared on October 16, 2004 7:38 PM.
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all I can say is - the world needs to re-discover Ray Bradbury. A long time ago he wrote a charming little story called: “The Man Who Murdered His House.” The world of Dick Tracy has morphed into a berrythumb existence, but no matter. It’s all the same thing. Anyone can look cool within a manipulated medium. It never did replace the reality of right here and now. Is it live, or is it memorex?
Posted by: jp at February 25, 2006 8:17 AM
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