September 2011
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Things I Learned At Dragon*Con
Hurtling across several hundred miles of the South, I found myself in Atlanta and knee-deep in Nerds.
This was not unusual.
For you see, I am a Nerd, a Geek, a pariah of the worst sort, from back in the day. I have won AD&D open roleplaying tournaments, I have written and published fan fiction, I was on the internet and having cybersex in chatrooms with strangers before most of you knew what...
It’s at almost 3:30 in the damn morning, deep into rave #2. Raving to geeks is all pulsing beats and pounding rhythms and costumes and glowing lightsaber battles. In front of me are a dozen people engaged in mock battle, swirling neon lights flashing in the darkness. Do they fight for a better universe? Do the throngs of jumping swaying dancing humans around them spin their bodies to unlock...
