Geek Chic
Why is being a geek now cool? My take on it, check it out. 
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since when do nerds have to earn new respect for anything? what a curious title for an article. geeks vs nerds(?) nope. saying right here and now this isn’t going to be a message that continues to be pushed on the eraserheads or the literati.
new respect
now that’s a laugh!
nerds don’t need this either
or nerds will write articulate articles about peeps who define class difference and have some laffs about sly observations such as pointing out spinach stains on pastel colored ties
geeks don’t need to be told this
geeks will tell you how to dress
This is so unfair. I’ve spent half of my life trying to de-geek and de-nerd myself because no women would touch me with a 200 foot pole! Now geek is sexy? Aarrrggg!! I’m not going back! To all those women who shunned me back then can just kiss my white hairy arse! Wait… They might like that. Damn I can’t win
Well then they will never get a chance to appear with me under my arm while I strut with my captains uniform on.
I guess I never really got a chance to realize my ultimate geek potential.
right on
Paris Hilton was immortalized this week when the new edition of the “Oxford Book of Quotations” hit shelves, and her contribution wasn’t simply “That’s hot.” The book includes her quote: “Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in.”
Aloe! Aloe! Geek Teach
Marina, I really appreciate your “intelligence is sexy” theme. There’s a strong anti-intellectual streak in America (witness the election of GW Bush). I grew up being harrassed for being too bright in my classes and socially inept. I see your success as a sort of validation of my placing the love of knowledge above being considered “cool” by my peers.
What class is that?…low or high…touched or untouched…Hear the man from WALes. John Cale – I´m Waiting For The Man …So school classed you and peer pressure made you a man…play ball and scratch my buck…sex and Bush and a bush with sex…love of knowledge is rugged individualism sucking up to upper classed institutions with ways of means….comb your hair at the booth to vote for show offs like all the policies and actions of a law…GOD BLESS WALES and bring her the coffee
be nice and not a classed [star]
Wotta? Geek chick look? Geek now cool?
Wow wow wow. Methinks the geekdom has its limits, and perchance it would be best that these limits and borders be respected and not pushed too far away from the already very thick-rimmed glasses, marching band jackets’n argyle sweater vests. I say wow wow wow and wow. What belongs to the wardrobe must stay inside the wardrobe, and strict policies should be put in place to enforce this basic rule of good understanding and mutual respect between geeks and non-geeks, so a constructive and peaceful dialog may be established in the future. Ugh… and mwwuuuaaahahaha.
Hi neuroway,
That gravatar’s a new look for you. Has PK started a trend? Chess has been called a game for geeks.
Ummm, emoticons aren’t up yet…let’s see if this works:
Yes, Evan, I’m still in shock and I can’t believe I have allowed myself to be caught at trend following and influenced like a meek! Looks like someone left the geekdom’s door open. Time for me to march towards the wardrobe I guess.
It’s just another swing of the fashion pendulum. For how many years now have we seen people wandering around looking like down-and-outs and street-urchins, shirt-tails hanging out, ragged jeans with holes in the knees and arse?
Now it’s time for something different – but maybe not too different – out with the down-and-out look and in with the brainy, but socially inept, look and still with a questionable fashion sense.
“No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.”
– Milan Kundera (1929 – )
Was he being unbearably light again?
Bob’s quite a heavy ponderer, I tell you it is true!
Oh! You noticed. I was hoping this baggy monks habit would hide my overweightyness.
Cucullus non facit monachum.
I Know too much…
good times, party
…virgo pArtY
I read the article when PK tweeted about it … and noticed mention of your “Los Angeles penthouse”!
Funhouse
hows American life been treating you?
Quote
“I think it would be a good idea.” – Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, when asked what he thought of Western civilization…ps the arrows work!!!
miceWhy isn’t YouTube counting these views?
According to bitly, my tweet with a link to my latest video has 10 clicks: http://i29.tinypic.com/mskwid.jpg
However, YouTube did not count any of them: http://i32.tinypic.com/nfjp3.jpg (The 1 view reported by YouTube is the test view I did before making the video public.)
Any idea why the twitter and bit.ly based clicks to view the video are not being counted by YouTube?
(The current view count of 5 are my experiments — when I clicked on the bit.ly link from TweetDeck and from the bit.ly page, my view did get counted!)
Is there a place on YouTube where I might ask this question?
I submitted a bug report: http://bit.ly/qt3Aj
Marina, I liked the interview and
how you described the popularity of geeks
and how it relates to fashion.
Why not? There’s a band-wagon to jump on, so people will.