More to come...

Hello my blog peeps (All 0 to 2 of you...) just letting ya'll know that I plan to have more updates here soon. My life has become very complicated lately as I just moved to San Francisco (but for some reason I'm still straight) and got a new job. Been real busy, but things are starting to smooth out, so I should have some new biracial, geeky, and/or angry truth to lay down for you people soon. Peace out. ;P

The new The Dark Knight Rises Trailer is here!

So stoked for this film. Nolan is my favorite director at the moment and The Dark Knight is my favorite film of all time. Can't get hyped enough for this. I really wanna check out The Avengers this Friday, too, but that feels like more of a fun action packed popcorn flick, compared to this deep engrossing swan song for an epic trilogy. Also, to my fellow Batman nerds out there, it looks like they're taking bits and pieces from both the Knightfall and No Man's Land story arcs, arguably two of the best Batman stories ever! And...


Possible Spoiler:



Is it just me, or at 00:30, does it appear that Bruce may be sitting in a wheelchair...

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Can't wait. I only wish that Nola would stick around to make just another film or two to fix Riddler, Mr. Freeze, and Poison Ivy too after Schumacher butchered them (IMO Burton also butchered Penguin, but I'm not gonna start that flame war... whoops). Oh well, at least we got to see the proper versions of Two-Face and Bane finally. July can't come soon enough! 

You Know You're a Geek When...

Being a geek is way more socially accepted now that it used to be just a few years ago. Unfortunately, there are still some people out there that have yet to embrace their inner geekyness and, instead, are stuck in endless denial. Well, to help these poor bastards come clean and release themselves to the shiny sea that is Geekdom, I have created a list of things that make you, without a Storm Shadow of a doubt (see what it did there?), a genuine grade A Geek. So, if you have done any of the following, relax, let go, and go watch a Joss Whedon show or something. And yes, I myself have done everything on this list at least once and am damn proud of it. So...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A GEEK WHEN...

...you're more interested in what's going on in the current comics than the current world events.


...you get pissed at "Hanging with Friends" for not recognizing "Jawas" as a noun.


...you answer "right after I get to a save point" whenever a friend calls you to hang out, but keep playing a little more anyway. 

...you walk for longer in Skyrim than you have ever walked in real life.

...anytime "The Final Countdown" plays, you instantly have to stop whatever you're doing and either intensely sing along or start quoting Arrested Development for the song's entire duration.

...you hesitate spending over $15 on food, but you instantly drop $20 on a t-shirt with a hybrid Wu-tang/Batman symbol you saw online. 

...you're mad about the ending to Mass Effect 3.

...you confide in other geeks about how much the ending to Mass Effect 3 sucked and bond over your mutual feelings. 

...you actually know who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman.

...you have an hour long PS3 v. X360 debate on Facebook and actually bust out documented facts and charts to back it up.

...when someone asks you what you're doing tonight, you reply "the same thing we do every night", thinking you're clever. 

...any girl that tells you she plays video games suddenly becomes 5x hotter. 10x if it's a shooter.

...you get ALL the jokes in Community.

...you go pay to see a movie you aren't too crazy about just to see the trailer for the movie you are excited for, even though it will be online eventually. 

...you consciously boycott anything made by Joel Schumacher.

...you compile a list of things that make you a geek.

"So... what are you exactly?" PART 2

So a friend of mine recently brought this video to my attention:

This sums up my last post pretty well. Ha Ha.  I've gotten every single one of these at least twice. Thanks to the people that made this! Keep fighting the good fight.

"So... What are you exactly?"

So one of the many awkward about being biracial is that it's kind of a pain in the ass to introduce yourself to someone new. This is mainly because the question that usually first comes up is: "So, what ethnicity are you, exactly?" (there are different, more common ways people ask that question, but this is the nicer, more socially conscious version). Now, if you're most half-black, half-white people (i.e. Halle Berry, Beyonce, President Obama), you can usually get away with just saying "I'm black", because most black and white people look mostly black. It's cool, because it's a quick, simple answer, and you can move forward and move on to a much more interesting subjects, because, quite frankly, speaking about topic of "race/ethnicity" almost always ends up becoming annoyingly awkward or argumentative, unless both people in said conversation are of the exact same race (from personal experience, at least). The same thing happens with topics of conflicting religions, sports teams, video game consoles, or James Bond actors. No good can come of talking about any of these things for extended periods of time..

So when you're a biracial dude, or half-black, half-white, and your appearance doesn't particularly lean towards either of the two ethnicities that you are (i.e. Vin Diesel, The Rock, or yours truly), things can get a little hairy when racially identifying yourself to other people. Especially when you're part white, because that adds yet another annoying part of the identifying process, like "are you Italian, German, Irish, etc"? It turns into you having to speak a very long and weird run-on sentence to someone you barely know. And it gets a little more irritating every time you have to do it.

Personally, I probably could try to get away with just saying "I'm black" and leave it as that, quickly changing the subject to something like how retarded the Twilight movies are (something neutral that we can all see eye-to-eye on), but then said person would most likely pause the riveting conversation about lame movies to ask "hey, if you're black then why do you have extremely light skin and green eyes?" (or they say, "you're so well spoken", but I usually just leave the room after that... unless I'm trying to get laid, but that's another topic) and then the conversation becomes awkward again. So then I have to explain how "I'm actually black and white, with a little german (still not 100% sure about that) and native american splashed in". After I say that, the other guy or gal usually stairs blankly at me for a few seconds processing the weird mixture I just said (not that I blame them) and says either "oh..." followed up with an either longer pause or says "wow, what's that like?".

So, basically, the response to my awkward explanation of why I look the way I do is just as awkward as the explanation yourself, especially when they say "what's that like", because, I mean, what do you say to that? I usually just say "Its cool", because I really want this conversation to move onto something more interesting than my complexion and so I can stop feeling like a piece of lame art at a museum. Though the actual honest answer to that question for me would be "It's cool, until someone like you asks me 'what's that like?', then it's annoying as F**K and makes me lose my train of thought. What ethnicity are you?" I'd probably have no friends and be a virgin if I went with the latter response though.

Really, I just wish we, as a society would stop putting such a huge importance on race and, instead, would just focus on people as...just people. I'll admit, even I do the same thing every once in awhile (yes, I'm a giant hypocrite... Sorry) when I meet someone new, but it's just because the subject of "race/ethnicity" is engraved so far into my mind, in ALL our minds, that I/we can't help it. And I think that's a shame.

On the other hand, "Hey, guess what ethnicity I am!" could be an excellent ice breaker at parties.

Student Strikes

So recently, I temporarily moved back in with my father (NEVER do that), after 6 years of being on my own, in order to save some money while I look for a better job. My dad is a college professor and today we have our annual "student protest" on campus. This is where a bunch of students gather together and block off the entrance of campus (aka my way back home) in order to fight the high rise of tuition fees they are forced to pay. These protests usually last a full day or two.


Let me just be straight up with this. I think these "protests" are dumb. VERY dumb. One day of blocking the entrance to a college doesn't prove anything to anyone except that you are annoying and unemployed (which could also describe me, but at least I'm not messing with people's livelihoods). It's a waste of everyone's time and it just serves to make wannabe hippies and bored cops feel better about themselves without actually changing anything. 


Now before you all start hating on me let me say this: I'm a very liberal guy. I'm also a recent college graduate, myself. I paid my own way through school, so I understand how crappy these fees are. They're ridiculous and they keep getting worse. The only thing probably more outlandish as tuition costs is the price of gas these days (seriously, $4.50 per gallon? Come on, Obama. I thought we was homies).  


The problem is that these kids are not thinking the right way. The only way to hurt the fat-cats that are in charge of Universities is to hit them where it hurts: Their wallet. Here's a suggestion on what you crazy kids should do if you REALLY ACTUALLY want to make a difference with your protest (write this down): Drop out of school for a semester. Collectively. The school will then lose TONS of money from this and will be forced to accommodate to the students' demands. 


Sounds simple, right? Well... maybe you students should do it. And faculty, y'all should do the same thing. Stop teaching for a semester the same time the students drop out. One semester is enough to hurt school cash flow and cause change. Blocking the entrance to a school does not. Plus its dumb and makes you look like a douche.

Assasin's Creed 3 reveal

Glad to see a person of color staring in a video game, which almost never happens. Only two games I remember, in recent memory, where I've played as someone other than a white person or a talking animal are Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Prey. Kinda messed up when you think about it. Makes me feel a slight bit better about movies these days...

This link is via ign.com
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1219789p1.html

Ethnically bilingual

This sketch from Key & Peele is hilarious and I love how these guys bring some awareness to their show on what it's like to be half-black and half-white in America. You got the hard street voice when you want to come off hard to your peers and you got the "mannered" (not my words) voice when you go to a job interview. Dave Chapelle said it best when he said that "every black guy is bilingual". That's even truer for mixed people of color in this still very ethnically divided society. I hope this show does well on Comedy Central and fills that sketch-based comedy void in my heart I've had since the great Chapelle went off the air. These two guys were pretty much the only funny parts of the later years of Mad TV, after all.

What Up

What's up, Blog World. Welcome to my blog. My name is ******* or you can just call me ABG, which is short for "Angry Biracial Geek", which also happens to be the name of my blog. Isn't that lovely?

Anyway, before I start venting, let me tell you all a little about myself. First of all, I am a "geek". Not to be confused with being a "nerd", who are extremely knowledgeable in stuff that is actually useful to society like math, science, and whatever keeps Madonna looking remotely attractive. No, being a "geek" means that I'm knowledgeable in useless crap that is usually only appealing to other geeks like video games, comic books, and Doctor Who. So, basically I am very well informed in stuff that only weird people, like me, care about and none of this knowledge, unless I'm very lucky (which I never am), will ever benefit me in any way. Kinda sad, I know, but hey, at least I can recite every line to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm by heart. Yay for that.

Second of all, I am what you would call "biracial". My mother was white and my father is black. What this means is that my peers like to tease me for not talking black enough, while the mall security follows me around for not looking white enough. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that people still haven't come up with a better name for us instead of "mulatto". Well, we do have the presidency (for now), so I really shouldn't complain about my ethnicity too much... but still, mulatto is the best you guys can do? Really? Even half n half sounds better, and I put that crud in my coffee. But I digress.

Thirdly, growing up as both biracial and a geek, I have seen a lot of dumb things in this world that has made me upset. "Angry", if you will (Examples of this would be: Skyrim's load times, the "Green Lantern" movie, and white people asking me why can't they use the N word). I felt like a blog would help me vent on some of those things that really upset me in life, but also allow me to share some things that are of interest to me too, so that I won't bum you guys out too much. Hence the name of this blog. So without further a do... here's my super geeky blog with mixed race undertones. Enjoy and thanks for listening to my rants. Peace.

-ABG