blerdin’ out
Guten Tag, y’all!
Today I’m geekily excited to tell you that I’m today’s Featured Blerd over at BlerdNation.com! I’m guessing most of you had one of these reactions:
1)Yay blerds! 2)Umm…what’s a blerd?
What’s a blerd? Well, the simple version is “black nerd = blerd.” But I love Geek Soul Brother’s take on the word, if you want to get a little more in-depth. Anywho–back to BlerdNation. It’s a cool site “where we, Black Nerds (Blerds), find out what other Blerds are up to and into.” I love that it highlights the type of black folks you don’t see in the dominant media narrative; I also love all this cool stuff I’ve discovered there. So in the spirit of blerdiness, let me tell y’all about all the ways I blerded out this weekend.
1)I spent a few hours in an English bookstore. This is one of my absolute favorite things to do! The English section in our local bookstore is really small, so whenever I go in there it feels like I’m stuck at sea without provisions: water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. Not so on Saturday. There were so many good books that I had a hard time choosing which ones to take home, but I ended up leaving with The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri; Open City by Teju Cole; and Granta’s latest Best of Young British Novelists.
2)I watched Star Trek: Into Darkness. I came to Star Trek late, because I’d always thought Star Wars was much cooler. But then JJ Abrams got involved (he of Lost and Alias), and I had to check it out. So far, I’m liking the films, though I think the first one was better than this follow up. (Random fact: Bones is called “Pills” in German. Chris Pine is fine in both languages, though.)
3)I spent most of the weekend reading A Storm of Swords, the third book in the Game of Thrones series. Y’all. It’s SO addictive! Lady Catelyn keeps making bad choices, Arya keeps being gangsta, and Joffrey’s still crazier than a mug. And the wedding…!
So that was my nerdtastic weekend.
What about y’all–do anything geeky over the weekend?
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