Cocking it up

Now listening to: Radiohead (I might be wrong)
Preparing to read: Salvatore (The Thousand Orcs)

Soo it's been a relatively uneventful day, sat around watched a little football, beat all the goals on THUG on the normal difficulty. Woo. After I did that, I went over to Corb's were Trip, Corb and I had pizza and played video games. Playing on Corb's ginormous TV was cool, although F-Zero for the SNES did show its age a bit. Mostly we played Super Mario 3 (where whoever was played was lambasted with rants against them...accusing them of "Cocking it up" ...I can't imagine who started that), although there was a little Tony Hawk and a little Soul Caliber 2 thrown in.

Anyway now I'm considering mixing a drink, or getting some wine and settling in to read. I haven't delved far into "The 1,000 Orcs" but it seems up to scratch. This of course is one of the books that Trip describes as "Books with dragons on the cover." That description encompasses all fantasy novels, when in reality most of them don't have dragons. They have elves or wizards or orcs. Hehe, a fine distinction, I know. Still his bias is only part of a larger PR problem for fantasy novels. I'm not sure why fantasy has this stigma, the Dungeons and Dragons nerd thing. It's really bothersome. Just because I like swords and sorcery I get branded nerd. Why not do the same thing to people who read spy novels or that silly overly militarized Tom Clancy crap, or even Stephen King. It's all just an attempt to escape from reality anyway.

OK I admit many of the D&D types are intolerably nerdy, but there plenty of us Fantasy fans who aren't lost causes. I can have a conversation about other things and I don't like the stigma. I'm going to start my Nerd rights political action committe any day now.