Nerd Anxiety

So about a month ago, maybe two, I followed a link on my friend's Facebook page to a Vlogbrothers video. For those of you who don't know, Vlogbrothers, a.k.a. Brotherhood 2.0 was a project started by John and Hank Green when they went an entire year (2007) communicating only by video blogs on Youtube. Anyway, their videos are made of awesome, I loved them and immediately became a nerdfighter. Or, not exactly. Here's the "anxiety" part of this post. See, I've worked hard for the last year or so to build up a reputation as a nerd. I read books a lot, I work hard in school, I drop Doctor Who, The Hunger Games and 24 inside jokes like they're going out of style, I have a plan (and a backup plan) for the zombie apocalypse and I can't wait to use them, and I write a lot.

But then I went to the Nerdfighters website and read some of the profiles and posts and the little haters in my head immediately started to tell me that there was no way I was nerdy enough to do this. "You listen to pop music, and other music considered "lame" by the wider community of people with good taste" they shouted. "You're just a little 8th grade wannabe." "You will have no friends!" "They will judge you on your spelling" "You haven't even watched all of any of the shows you claim to be obsessed with! Joan of Arcadia doesn't count" "You watch Glee every week (or whenever it comes out)" finally, with a triumphant shout "Go back to your blog that nobody will ever read and complain about not being a nerd!"

But guess what, little haters? In blogging this out, I'm reminded of something that John Green said in a video once "If you want to be a nerdfighter, you are a nerdfighter." So you know what? I'm going to make a nerdfighters account right now.

DFTBA.

UPDATE: Ha. I did it. Evie24601. Take that, little haters!!! OFF TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK!!!!

Is it just me, or did the Green Hornet movie kind of suck?

I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a superhero geek. Dystopian fiction geek, yes. Science Fiction geek, yes. History geek, totally. Superheroes... I just never got into them. So when I went to see the Green Hornet with my friend, my expectations were pretty low.

Obviously, not low enough. Yes, there were funny parts, and I liked how it made fun of superheroes, and there were explosions and ridiculous bad guys, but... eh. It was pretty dumb, predictable, about three hours too long, and the main bad guy had a Russian last name, but no accent. Both his sidekicks had accents. (Aside: I like it when villians have Russian accents, because due to my general love for 24 and my specific love for Renee Walker, this makes it much easier to hate them. This can occasionally cause a problem when I watch something like Star Trek with my Trekker friend, where the guy with the Russian accent is the adorably geeky Chekov ((in the movie at least)) who happens to have the name Pavel, which makes me kind of want to shoot him. Anyway.)

But the blood guy didn't. That was annoying. Also, the main character got on my nerves. Best thing about the movie was totally the ninja sidekick guy. Who has a name. But not a superhero name. His name is *pause for dramatic effect, and so I can go on wikipedia*

Kato! Oh, like in the Hunger Games!

Only not. At all.

Never mind.