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gamera_spinning wins! He came up with the absolutley most graphic and WRONG descriptive text ever envisioned today! CHECK IT OUT!!!Dec. 14th, 2005
gamera_spinning wins! He came up with the absolutley most graphic and WRONG descriptive text ever envisioned today! CHECK IT OUT!!!
For the past 9 or ten years, I have been sternly encouraged to avoid tainting my brothers children with my weird nerdosity. Nothing personal - they just don't want their kids to be social misfits like *I* was all through adolescence. And really, I can't blame them. Lunch hours and wasted playing D&D with the Band Dorks and Drama Club Freaks, Weekend-long Monty Python/Star Trek/Doctor Who marathons, and staying up till the wee hours of the morning just so you can listen to the Canadian broadcast of The Dr. Demento Show doesn't really lead to being considered as "good breeding stock". I sometimes wonder how much different my life would have been had it not been for my Sister buying me a copy of Weird Al Yankovic's "In 3-D" album for my birthday.
So far in life I have had to make do with just tainting poor little Brittany (my best friends kid), but really it's already in her blood. The mother is a bit of a closet geek and the father... well, the father was one of the Drama Club Freaks I gamed with in high school. And I must say that Britt has grown in to quite the admirable freak in her pre-teen years; an excellent appreciation for Punk Rock, fine taste in Science Fiction, and greater desire to learn about Comic Books than any girl who hopes to reproduce should ever have.
But back to my Brother's kids, Haley and Hannah. Or more specifically, Haley. I have had little or no influence on poor Haley, as I am just "Uncle Brian"; the guy who shows up on Christmas/Thanksgiving. Haley is a super-inteligent little girl with all sorts of weird quirks all her own. In her 10 years on this earth, she has never eaten anything other than potato chips, plain noodles (no sauce), berries, some vegetables and Turkey Ham (won't eat turkey, won't eat ham. But turkey-ham? Oh hell yeah, she's all up on that).
I have just learned that through my VERY subtle influence on her, Haley is now a RAVENOUS fan of Archie Comics and Weird Al Yankovic. HOW DID I DO IT?!?!?
So far in life I have had to make do with just tainting poor little Brittany (my best friends kid), but really it's already in her blood. The mother is a bit of a closet geek and the father... well, the father was one of the Drama Club Freaks I gamed with in high school. And I must say that Britt has grown in to quite the admirable freak in her pre-teen years; an excellent appreciation for Punk Rock, fine taste in Science Fiction, and greater desire to learn about Comic Books than any girl who hopes to reproduce should ever have.
But back to my Brother's kids, Haley and Hannah. Or more specifically, Haley. I have had little or no influence on poor Haley, as I am just "Uncle Brian"; the guy who shows up on Christmas/Thanksgiving. Haley is a super-inteligent little girl with all sorts of weird quirks all her own. In her 10 years on this earth, she has never eaten anything other than potato chips, plain noodles (no sauce), berries, some vegetables and Turkey Ham (won't eat turkey, won't eat ham. But turkey-ham? Oh hell yeah, she's all up on that).
I have just learned that through my VERY subtle influence on her, Haley is now a RAVENOUS fan of Archie Comics and Weird Al Yankovic. HOW DID I DO IT?!?!?