Yeah, yeah, I know: all these blog entries in a single day make it look like I’ve nothing better to do. Can’t be helped. Some days are just bloggier than others, and anyway, this is too funny not to share.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve just had a co-worker who knows virtually nothing about me come up and ask me a question about the dank underworld of comic books. She said I seemed like the sort of person who “knows [my] way around a comic-book shop.” She approached the whole thing, I might add, with the air of someone about to make her first drug deal, or at least with the concern that she was about to deliver me a grave insult.<\/p>\n
(She needn’t have worried. As it so happens, I have spent quite a bit of time in comic-book shops, although not so much in recent years.)<\/p>\n
Later, I emailed her and asked what it was about me that made her think I might be her go-to guy on this matter. Here’s her reply:<\/p>\n
You seem to have a unsettling command of the detritus of pop culture, an preoccupation I share. Don\u0092t tell me you can\u0092t pick freaks like us out of a crowd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She makes it sound like we fannish types are the Immortals from Highlander<\/i>, sensing one another’s Quickening from across the room. That’s just silly. I like to think I’m perfectly ordinary-looking, when I’m not wearing a t-shirt with an incriminating logo.<\/p>\n
I do, however, like the phrase “unsettling command of the detritus of pop culture.” I’ve been thinking lately of reworking the description at the top of this page; I might have to try and work that in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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