GeekChic.com is an online blog about geek culture
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Geek Chic: a chronicle of geek culture and journal of the geek fandom phenomenon
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I woke up early one day last week with a throbbing brain-boner (the feeling that your brain has filled with fluid and expanded to twice its normal size). It must have been before noon. I tripped over my black sequined mini-dress on the way to the bathroom and nearly knocked over my Steuben floor vase; I guess the Power Builder user's group meeting got a little out of control the night before. From the flashing of the answering machine I knew the phone must have been ringing like mad all morning -- clients, colleagues, columnists, cocktails at 7.... My laptop linked in and transcribed the whole list, automatically pencilling in commitments on my electonic calendar. Thank God the coffee was brewed and hot.
As I scanned the day's schedule, I noticed the name of the last person who called, a Bryce Ridgeley. Was he that reporter who was after me for an interview? No, I remember -- the C++ Charity Benefit bash last weekend. He'd seemed dazed and somewhat lost, but not bad looking, so I struck up a conversation. Turned out he was an artist, of all things -- a painter, I think, who had been invited because half the attendees had funded his work through a regional arts commission. Don't know how he got my number, but now he was calling, desperate to speak with me. I auto-dialed him.
We ended up at the Très Bouffée Café over cappuccino and sundried tomato foccacia discussing his future. The geek gathering had been the final straw for Bryce. He bemoaned the wasted meaninglessness of his career, the endless monotony of egotistical, self-absorbed pursuit of personal glory. I'd heard the same chat a hundred times from actors, authors, politicians. Once they get a taste of cyberspace, they become obsessed.
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