Lelsey wrote something on Missbehave that basically says, “Fuck the nerds.” I’m inclined to agree but only with a certain type of nerd. Nerds with balls are the reason everything we love exists. It’s wimp nerds that have to go. What’s a nerd with balls? It’s called “a fan.”
Morrissey wanted to be a music journalist and had a few passes at impressing NME before he gave up and became a musician himself.
Iggy Pop was a punk nerd that fanatically followed Detroit music and chose the best musicians from every band to form The Stooges.
Chuck D used to design flyers for local rap shows and eventually decided to form his own band.
Ludacris started his own radio show to talk about all the bands he loved before becoming a rapper himself.
Christy Karacas is a nerd but without him you wouldn’t have Cheeseburger or Superjail. Every good musician has a huge record collection at home and has been carefully making mix tapes since he was a child. You can tell which artists out there don’t have big record collections. They rarely last more than a few weeks. Christy does all this shit because he’s a fan. And every important maker of pop culture is also a voracious consumer of pop culture.
PS I took an Adderall as I started to type this and it’s pretty obvious exactly where it kicked in.
PPS My apartment is fucking freezing right now and I can feel a huge breeze coming in from the air conditioner. Can they not design an air conditioner that is air tight in the winter?
PPPS I know this guy that just lost his home. The pipes froze and he wasn’t there and they exploded so his well was sending 6 gallons a minute into every floor of his house. It’s like Katrina in there. Wetness crawling halfway up every wall in the house. Everything is toast, even the floor. They said it would be cheaper to demolish it and build a new one from scratch. He has insurance but you know, it’s his home.
The thing I don’t get is, can pumps not have a thing that says, “Nobody needs 6 gallons a minute for three days. I’m going to shut myself off now.” I guess people with swimming pools could have a special setting that says: Inordinate Amount of Water Please. Otherwise the shut off kicks in. If I try to spend more than $500 on my credit card they call me to ask what’s going on. Water should be the same way. Houses are not built by fans. Only someone with real passion about their job would have the balls to pioneer a shut off valve.
PooPooS I gotta poo.
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i think you have captured the essence of adderall excellently.
02.24.09 at 12:21 pm
what a waste of an Adderall
02.24.09 at 12:31 pm
take out your air conditioners in the winter.
02.24.09 at 12:43 pm
neld make ruv rike crazy kringon flom the stah tlek. velly, velly good make ruv, wiz gas mask.
02.24.09 at 12:57 pm
that was pretty funny/accurate.
02.24.09 at 1:01 pm
You see, this is what I mean when I say that hipsters don’t stand a chance when the economy takes its final nosedive. You don’t even know to take out the air conditioner in the winter. Holy shit.
02.24.09 at 1:03 pm
This air conditioner weighs about 1,000 lbs and is bolted to the supports outside which are impossible to reach. Something must be done however. I can’t feel my legs.
02.24.09 at 1:05 pm
My company makes emergency shut off valves, yes ferreal. Mostly we do emergency shut off for pipeline fires. Anyway you could use a standard cast ball valve mounted with a flow monitor and a motor operator. Ironically our shop had a pipe burst and we dint have any kind of valve like that. But it was also a 80 yr old pipe with no insulation. Sux for your boy.
02.24.09 at 1:07 pm
Lesley is obviously desperate for kids…next.
02.24.09 at 1:08 pm
Oh Adderall shits. So lovely. So satisfying.
02.24.09 at 1:09 pm
Trust in the power of duct tape.
02.24.09 at 1:11 pm
anyone know how to get a prescription to adderall? i imagine its pretty simple but do you see a shrink? a doctor? what?
02.24.09 at 1:24 pm
Jesus, I can’t imagine a world without Cheeseburger.
02.24.09 at 1:31 pm
Damn, Afrin needs a Birmingham bath.
02.24.09 at 1:37 pm
Best post and worst post. Congrats.
02.24.09 at 2:00 pm
Engineers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians are way fucking smarter than any musician.
02.24.09 at 3:14 pm
Oh ya, put a fucking plastic bag around your ac dip shit. You think you’re so smart but you can’t even keep a draft from coming through your ac!
02.24.09 at 3:17 pm
Gavin: get one of those AC covers to put around your AC. Or you could use tin foil and a garbage bag.
I have to agree that I kinda hate nerd love, but it is ironic that Lesly used a Tina Fey reference to argue against nerds and Star Trek fans since she is pretty much the only thing keeping geek chic alive these days.
Also, what the hell is up with the Missbehave site? Have they ever heard of proper spelling and grammar. I mean, these girls get PAID to WRITE for a living, right? And they aren’t even that funny.
02.24.09 at 4:49 pm
I’m all for real fucking nerds. “Do you want that programmed in C++ or can I freeball this one?”
02.24.09 at 5:33 pm
I don’t think that any of the piss babies you mentioned are actually nerds. More like intelligent and obsessed fans with a tremendous appreciation of art and and ball-out desire to create.
Real nerds critique and froth over the work of others but don’t do spaghetti themselves.
And you can buy covers for your AC or you can take it out of the window for the winter or turn it on opposite so that it makes hot air.
02.24.09 at 6:57 pm
yeah and cartoonist are nerds and pussies but I want them around to
02.24.09 at 8:57 pm
nerds who describe themselves as “gamers” and anime nerds should all be gassed. Also all Dreamtheater fans should go straight into the ovens.
02.24.09 at 9:19 pm
fans are ego obsessed morons. best musicians are inventors and not followers. but you are right, it’s thanks to nerds that bands like the cramps made their way up to us.
anyway, fuck the fans, fuck the heroes. choke on your shit.
02.25.09 at 3:30 am