Once a Geek Not ALWAYS A Geek

OK, so after the amazing performance of The Dark Knight at the Box Office this weekend, it is actually 100% official, I am almost kind of sort of a cool person to know.

No, I had nothing to do with that movie, and in fact, I haven't even seen it yet (though my wife and I WERE able to sneak out to see Hellboy 2 today with my mom in town watching the girls).

The point of this whole post being, a lot can change in a somewhat short amount of time.

Let's go back to 1987. Living in Nova Scotia (just above and to the right of Maine before you ask). Graduating high school with honors and looking towards a degree in Chemical Engineering with a scholarship in Chemistry.

1989. Finally convinced myself that that was not the way to go and to follow my dream of being a comic book artist (after having collected for years...sign 1 of being the aforementioned geek).

1991. Graduated from Art School, still collecting comics with almost seek-help status, and also into computers even more than I was before, hey these Apple computers look cool, let's try those.

Many years of that passed, I was the geek who read comics religiously and was ALWAYS at my Mac (the one with the 120mb hard drive and 8mb processor that still took floppies...my IIFX, it was amazing). I designed t-shirts for people at the beginning of my career...wow...what a Loser. Had a house with 3 other guys and we always tried to party as much as we could, we were kind of popular (probably not as much as we thought) weren't we? We even had all the "magazines" laying around the house with all the "hot" women in them...wow, we were the $#!t.

Now, fast-forward to today, living in Los Angeles surrounded by women (OK, my wife and my 2 little girls, but they are all very cute)...Apple computers are the coolest thing this generation has seen in forever, along with all the i-line of products (and yes, I have them all except Apple TV, and would have had that if there hadn't been a strike). The movie theatres now have about 527 comic book movies playing right now, and they are the ones everyone is going to. 6 of the top 10 this year are comic related. So now I think we can label that cool, which would make knowing the background of all these guys even cooler, right? Not convinced? Well, those girls from the magazine covers? Now they email me to try and get into the magazine that I lead the design for (when I'm not judging them in bikini contests). So without having to even change a thing about myself I am almost, kind-of sort-of a cool guy to know.

Problem with all this is-now it doesn't help me, I have the perfect family, a great job etc, and instead of being the club-hopping, socializing guy I could be I'm still a geek that can't wait for my Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Lost fixes (and don't get me started on the X-Files movie). Just a cool geek now.

I really have gotta go see Dark Knight.

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