Geeking Out

Ok, I started writing a long, detailed blog about geeks and geek culture, building up to the week-long event going on next week called “Speak Out With your Geek Out”, but I soon realized that every other geekblog was talking about the same thing (a nice, succinct summary can be found here).

Instead, I plan to blog an unprecedented five times next week. Each blog (Monday thru Friday) will feature me talking about a specific geek hobby I have or had, and why I think you should have it too (though many of my readers and casual lurkers will already be involved in one or more of them, I’m sure).

So, what are my topics going to be? I have no idea yet. Well, I have ideas, but nothing concrete. Here is a list off the top of my head of things I could write about:

• Role-Playing games – A geek standard. This is the mother of all geek hobbies, IMHO.
• Comic Books – Probably the second-largest geek hobby, but also probably the most closeted.
• Collectible Card Games – For a while I played a few of these obsessively.
• Video Games – Probably my weakest geek subject. But I guess I could concentrate on MMOs.
• Star Wars/Star Trek Mania – Each of these could be its own subject.

There are probably several other subjects I could come up with, if I gave it some long thought. But, I’m thinking I might just start with a general entry about what it means to be a geek, and how it is (mis)represented and stereotyped.

So, what do you guys think?