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My mother’s first date with my father was the Star Wars movie. She told me how he was so into the movie that when Vader was schooling Luke he shouted, “take that junior” aloud in the theater then reeled it in when mom did the this guy slouch down into her seat. Years later when the Star Wars Episode I-III series came out he would take me to see them when he visited. We didn’t bond over this shit at all, for the record. I’m not not that big a Star Wars fan. I appreciate the whole mythos but a bunch of dudes pushing stuff against enemies that can shoot lightning… My biggest gripe with Star Wars is when I was watching the original series and eating a crab salad, enjoying the fuck out of it, I look back up at the screen and see And I didn’t eat seafood or another salad till about 13 years later. My father’s first son (from his previous marriage) George was really big into Star Trek. I remember walking into his room and it looked like MTV Cribs Enterprise. Action figures were lined up everywhere. I think S.S. Enterprise was actually hanging from the ceiling (lets jut go full on nerd for him and say it was). I had to have been about 10-13 at the time when he asked if I was into Star Trek and I responded with a nah. I knew of Star Trek in the same capacity as Star Wars… I just didn’t care for it. Space wasn’t that interesting to me in any capacity. I feel like I should have gravitated toward Star Trek or Star Wars but when it comes to nerd shit I work like Sylar from Heroes. His…
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Omar Holmon
Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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