Revenge of the Nerd

As always, sadaday in the Tarryalls is thrilling!

Even in the total absence of dancang

But sitting around quietly listening to Dizzy "Freakin'" Gillespie go me to thinking, "Man I should really be listening to Cat Steven's 'Another Saturday night.'" But after that, the thought train kind of stopped rolling.

But just like a train that has been sitting rusted on a set of tracks in the Arkansas River Valley eventually starts moving again once the river erodes the tracks and the train falls over and begins its long quest to the Mississippi Delta, I some how was able to come up with an adequate subject for this weB LOGular entry.

In this forthcoming entry, I will attempt to combine philosophic musings with the eternal warm-when-wet comedy of the Alpaca

God was joking, right? Except for the softness, that's for real

Some sort of children(s) posed a query to me while guiding. "Why," he proclaimed, "is it that so many people both climb and mountain bike?" (don't worry about the incorrect usage of proclaimed... unless you really want to be both a nerd and 'that guy'). That seemed like an easy answer, they both require a similar level of athletic prowess combined cleverly with constant peril. Sure, quads don't help grabbing things and biceps don't really help going up hills but only nerds really care that much about inconsequential performance. But does music some how fit into that same idea, or am I a music nerd... NO!

With that issue resolved I almost let the subject slide, but then I realized I never resolved anything, I just reaffirmed the fundamental truth of reality (my unnerdlyness). It's pretty obv

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Wait, I just found out that there is going to be a World of Warcraft movie.

NERDS. And not the cool sweet-n-tangy nerds.

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ious that I'm not a nerd, just look at my high school face book (the actual book from high school not the popular website) photo.

Just imagine the resolution if we had 4th generation iPhones

I still, unfortunately, had to prove that music is possibly totally BA. Sure everyone has stage fright, but I've never come close to doing this on a gig. What is it about being totally isolated, being a music nerd practicing that is totally BA (Boastfully Awesome, this blog is no place for either fowl or foul language).

The answer lies in perception of coolness (la perception de la cool, in French), I've top roped climbs in front of clients shortly after essentially soloing a route and they were impressed. I certainly don't see soloing 4th class as 'cool' but that's because I sat down and read Freedom of the Hills, and determined that TRing routes is safe, just like I practiced and found out that jazz is safe (unless you beep when you should bop).

So like any great philosophic work, I leave you with a paradox. I have to be a nerd in order to not be a nerd whether climbing, biking, or bassing. And a picture of a muskrat, I'm also leaving you with that.