Let Your Geek Light Shine
(or "Coming Out of the Geeking Closet")
Welcome friend. You look as if something is bothering you. Come, pull up a barstool here in the Inn of the Next to Last Home and let ol’Raisted fill your ear with some advice and your belly with some wine. Hurry now, ‘fore yon tender brings me my tab.
I know that look in your eyes. I used to see it reflected back at me in the mirror. Let me guess… You just moved into a new place, and you are afraid to hang your autographed picture of Steve Miller for fear that your new roommates will mock you for your geekdom. Your Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Action Figures with Kung Fu Grip remain safely hidden under your tweed socks. Your copy of Dragon Magazine comes in a discreet brown wrapper. You are a closet geek. I understand, for I was once just like you.
It was common for a time. Some geeks just could not accept their destiny in life. They would go out with their friends, play pool in a smoky bar, and hope they didn’t drink so much Jägermeister that they climbed the bar and shouted "My Half-Orc Fighter crits on a 17-20. I rule!" These are the people that sneak their Players Handbook into the bathroom like a teenager with daddy’s porno mags. Its not healthy to hide one’s true colors.
The important thing to remember is that almost everyone has a Geek Side. Granted, some people choose pastimes with a scope no larger than wearing the right clothes, being seen with the right people, or driving the shiniest Jetta. If this describes you, dear reader, might I suggest you direct your browser here, and be gone from my sight. If this does not describe you, my friend, then you are quite normal. Today’s world accepts and even rewards geeks. Some of the richest people in the world achieved that status by being a geek. Except for professional athletes. And Bill Gates… he sold his soul to the Queen of Darkness herself.
Whatever your inner geek desires, be it to lose yourself in the 1s and 0s of the computer world, to beat Skip Williams at D&D trivia, or to be the most abducted person in the trailer park, embrace it. When it comes down to it all, your geek is what makes you happy. Its where you go when reality bores you. Embrace your geek. Love your geek. Shout it to the heavens. I play D&D! No, not now, man. Are you mad? There are girls in this bar. Who do you think you are? Its not like you’re with Weezer or something. Get your geek on in someone else’s bar. Some people…
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