DeniseWho is this geek magnet?
Meet Denise.
Writer. College English and Speech teacher. Adoptive feline parent. Wanna-be gardner. Pop-culture freak. English teacher. Simpsons fan. Beer drinker. Reader of fiction, non-fiction and Lucky magazine. Writer of a film column.
Chloe and Frida, my two children who look curiously like cats.
I live somewhere in that big open area between New York and Los Angeles called America. I am currently cowriting a pedagogical book called “Schooled by The Simpsons” with my BFF, Karma. I’m a progressive liberal, skeptic and atheist (but I’ll never give up my rosary or my St. Joan of Arc pendant), and it breaks my heart that I’m a sucky singer. Oh, and I’m a hoot.
“So, why is this blog called ‘Geek Magnet’?” you ask? Well, while I’ve never considered myself geeky, I knew I had that special something during my first year of college when a boy asked if I would be interested in playing D&D with him and his friends, and how they didn’t allow girls; but for me, he believed, they’d make an exception. That was the fist time I’d heard of D&D and am happy to say I’ve never played. But there have been many geeks since that first unrequieted encounter: Star Wars geeks, Tolkien geeks, even a Napoloean geek.
And I’ve been told my Simpsons obession and Weird Al fanhood qualifies me as a geek as well. Well, so be it! I embrace it, and you should, too.
Cheers!
knowledgetoday said
I love your site. Keep it up !