Update: A cute memory
Jul. 25th, 2006 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyI remember once stopping off at a convenience store on the way to larp. I was in my Children of Osiris costume (ie a robe) and asked what my compatriots were stopping to get. Chris replied "smokes and road beers."
I laughed and laughed, and shot my fingers into the air chanting "fire it up!" Ah, Alex Proyas. What wonders have you wrought?
The first piece of trivia I ever learned as trivia, and not as the normal passage of knowledge through my prodigous skull, was the identity of the actor who played Kato on the Green Hornet show (Bruce Lee).
I learned this at my local comics shop, who had adopted the habit of a down the street UBS of offering a trivia question in exchange for a discount on merchandise.
Up until then, trivia (even though it was the dawning days of Trivial Pursuit) was an unknown to me. Everything I knew up until that point, every piece of knowledge, seemed to be part of a cohesive whole. Everything fit together seamlessly.
The characters in Star Wars and the history of Wonder Woman, all gleaned from issues of Starlog or massive compilation tomes of the bondage prone superheroine at my local library, all seemed to be just part and parcel of things I KNEW, and they all related together.
Then, one day, my FLCS owner took a hammer and shattered my worldview. That individual pieces of data could have distinct value, even if in such situations as something as simple as 5% off my new issue of X-Men stunned me.
Okay, as life changing epiphanies go, it's not really I Think, Therefore I Am.
I laughed and laughed, and shot my fingers into the air chanting "fire it up!" Ah, Alex Proyas. What wonders have you wrought?
The first piece of trivia I ever learned as trivia, and not as the normal passage of knowledge through my prodigous skull, was the identity of the actor who played Kato on the Green Hornet show (Bruce Lee).
I learned this at my local comics shop, who had adopted the habit of a down the street UBS of offering a trivia question in exchange for a discount on merchandise.
Up until then, trivia (even though it was the dawning days of Trivial Pursuit) was an unknown to me. Everything I knew up until that point, every piece of knowledge, seemed to be part of a cohesive whole. Everything fit together seamlessly.
The characters in Star Wars and the history of Wonder Woman, all gleaned from issues of Starlog or massive compilation tomes of the bondage prone superheroine at my local library, all seemed to be just part and parcel of things I KNEW, and they all related together.
Then, one day, my FLCS owner took a hammer and shattered my worldview. That individual pieces of data could have distinct value, even if in such situations as something as simple as 5% off my new issue of X-Men stunned me.
Okay, as life changing epiphanies go, it's not really I Think, Therefore I Am.
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Date: 2006-07-25 08:59 pm (UTC)