Marian Call

If you tell someone to picture a geek or a nerd, chances are you think of some scrawny guy with big glasses, high waist pants, and terribly hunched posture from sitting at a computer or other gaming station. Women being involved in geek culture has been a fairly new thing, publicly, and has gotten a lot of mixed reactions. Some people look down on the girl gamers and geeks, saying that they only got into comics or gaming because it became popular, that they're riding out the mainstream fad of being nerdy. If this is true or not, I'm more than happy to have women involved in nerdy culture and be proud of who they are. One such proud individual is Marian Call, an iconic musician in the nerd world. She's attended many, many, conventions and events throughout North America to perform. 

One of her songs, I'll Still be A Geek, is also known as the Nerd Anthem and with good reason. She calls out the stereotypes that geeky women fight against, proudly stating all the facets of nerd-dom that she enjoys. In addition to incredibly amusing lyrics, Marian Call has a beautiful voice that she uses to captivate her audiences. 

When not singing overtop of typewriters and listing her favourite nerds throughout history, Marian Call also brings a tender side to her music. Dark, Dark Eyes is one of my personal favourite songs on her album Got to Fly. The guitar and clarinet add to the mood of the song perfectly. Just give it a listen.

Geeks of all genders, orientations, and interests should check out this wonderfully talented women. Beautiful, funny, and relatable music is always a welcome addition to the world, especially in the slightly obsessive world of geekiness.

Toodles!

Happy Endings

Something I really enjoy binging on Netflix is comedies. How I Met Your Mother, Friends, Better off Ted, all great shows in my opinion. Another that might be a little less known to some people is Happy Endings.

Focused on the lives of six people in a variety of social dynamics (2 are married, 2 are ex's, 1 is hopelessly single, and 1 is all about hookups), the show quickly establishes each character's relationship with the rest of the group.

Max's mind is a strange place

The comedy is great, with bits of different genres to appeal to many people. There's slapstick, sexual humour, wit, dry humour, sarcasm, and just flat out oddball moments. While each episode is part of the larger story, each one stands alone fairly well (If you are watching it with someone and they cheat an episode or two, you won't be totally lost).

"Bring the guns out!"

With the various personalities of the characters, there's sure to be someone that you'll enjoy watching. The situations the group gets involved in are hilariously outrageous, but you often know "those people" in real life who would totally do stuff like that. The couple who's way to comfortable getting it on with people around, the guy who never listens and is off in his own world, the girl who NEVER understands what's going on. Everybody has friends that act like that, in one way or another. Come on, if you pranked a friend by putting stripper glitter into their body lotion, do you honestly think they wouldn't try putting on a show, just once?

Happy Endings is a great, lighthearted show to watch. It's well worth having a Netflix account, and worth re-watching with people familiar with it or newbies alike.

Toodles!