*Recklessly driving into a blog* Skkuurrr! So if the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour wasn't crazy enough, now NERD is on the bill. So that means De La Soul, The Gorillaz, Little Dragon, Bobby Womack, and NERD in one tour whoa. Gods of Hip Hop Alternative, how have we pleased you? Tell us so that we can also have another Lupe Fiasco album. Sacrifice your comments to the mighty ADP and perhaps it will grant you another blog post! Furrrrrrooom!
Previously: Gorillaz’ "Plastic Beach" Album Artwork & Tracklist
“If two nerds ever find themselves holding cylindrical objects of at least 9 inches in length they must immediately make lightsaber ignition noises and face each other down in mortal combat. --Bronson”
Thus reads the tenth Nerd Commandment, according to a list of 20 nerd commandments published on Topless Robot. Now imagine 300 people all making lightsaber noises at the same time. Welcome to Nerdnite.
Nerdnites (self-described as the Discovery Channel... with beer) are get togethers for people who want to learn something new, in a social setting. Short lectures on anything from quantum physics to the art of sharpening knives are presented as people mingle, drink, socialize, and learn.
Patrick Gruban started a Nerd Nite tradition in Munich, Germany. (Note: while the American term is one word, the German version is two.) According to an article from the Goethe-Institut, he defines a nerd as, “someone who has put the time and effort into learning a specific subject well enough to have a wealth of knowledge about it that the average person wouldn’t have.”
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High school brings many challenges. Maintaining a friendship seems to be the hardest.
I had my friends from elementary and junior high school. We were ready for the big kids.
But when ninth grade came, I noticed my friends started to treat me differently. I stopped being invited to parties and being told what was going on at school. I didn’t understand that my friends had been giving me a hard time because I started to branch out and do different things, like joining student government, going to class on time and keeping up with my homework.
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