Bandwagon Time: Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test

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I’ve seen this Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test floating around Facebook for the past day, and gave in to peer pressure.

A square plot with Jock at the top, Nerd at the bottom, Prep to the left, and Goth to the right. A result indicator is placed in the lower right, in the Nerd/Goth confluence.
Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test Results: I am 51.7% Goth, 93.3% Nerd, placing me in the LARP category.

LARP stands for Live Action Role-Playing. It is a form of role-playing where participants physically act out their characters’ actions and interact with one another in a simulated world. In the Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test, LARP should not be understood pejoratively or as exclusively pertaining to role-playing, but as someone who combines the geeky knowledge of nerds with the non-conformity of Goths to engage in gaming, fantasy-worlds and the like.

Sounds about right to me!

Difficult Listening Hour 2023.02.12

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My usual unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants session where I’m just grabbing whatever seems right in the moment. Almost anything goes.

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Difficult Listening Hour 2023.02.05

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My usual unplanned, seat-of-the-pants, anything-goes style. Been a few months since I did this regularly, and I’ve got a gig coming up, so it’s time to get back into practice!

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📚 The Science Fictional Dinosaur edited by Robert Silverberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin Harry Greenberg

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7/2023 – ⭐️⭐️

Dated SF stories (mostly from the ’50s and ’60s) written using now long-outdated science makes for a mostly uninteresting collection of dinosaur adventures. There were two enjoyable entries (Isaac Asimov’s “A Statute for Father” and Robert Silverberg’s “Our Lady of the Sauropods”), the rest are quite forgettable.

Michael holding The Science Fictional Dinosaur

Norwescon 39 Thursday Night Dance

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Now that I’m prepping to DJ the Thursday night dance at Norwescon 45 in a couple months, I realized that I’d never posted my Norwescon 39 Thursday night dance recording here. Whoops! So here it is, a few years late — four and a half hours of music from the opening night of a science-fiction and fantasy convention. As is standard for me, it’s a mix of all sorts of stuff. Enjoy!

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