Hello friends.  Look, I’ve been doing this for a while now and its about time we had that talk.  There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m just going to say it.  You’re a geek.  If you’re reading this, then there is some part of you that is a geek, plain and simple.  Don’t bother denying it.  Its ok, there’s nothing wrong with it.  I certainly don’t mean it as a pejorative.  After all if you are simply a geek for reading this, what does that say about the guy writing it?  So today we’re going to tackle The Geek Question.  That question is of course what super powers would you want to have?  Lift them from books, movies or comics, or simply make your own.  No rules here.  Hit the jump to see mine, and don’t be shy in the comments about yours.

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As many of you know, Tony Scott recently passed away.  I figured I’d throw this High 5 out in tribute to him and his work.  Before we get started I do want to say that I am not a Tony Scott fan.  I know going into his movies that I am going to get his editing style, his aerial views, and his grainy footage. Despite my distaste for his cinematography, the man always entertained me.  So here we go, hit the jump for the highway to the danger zone.

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I hate August.  It is my least favorite month.  It’s hot, it’s sticky, and worst of all, no holidays.  There’s no prebuilt excuse to engage in revelry.  So while we find ourselves in the center of this horrid month, let’s look fondly towards days of celebration.  You’ll notice a distinct lack of gift giving holidays on my list.  Some people think it’s because I hate fun.  Other people guess it’s because I was hatched a fully formed adult and have never been a wide-eyed child, anxiously awaiting treats.  My response to those claims is that they are false.  It’s because I hate the bullshit pretense that is built around them, especially when I am in no way affiliated with the religion that spawned them. Also I have no family.  I will never stop hating the pretense built into gift giving holidays, but if I did have a family, I’d suck it up and deal with it for them.

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Curiosity has landed!  It will now spend the next two plus year rolling around Mars’ surface killing cats.  With that, this High 5 will take a look at my favorite facts and uses about Mars fiction.  So here we go.

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Remember when sketch comedy was all the rage?  You don’t?  It wasn’t that long ago … ok, maybe it was the mid 90’s, but that’s what 15 years ago.  Fuck I’m old.  Well, today’s High 5 will be looking over some of my (and your) favorite skits from the various skit shows out there.

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If you’re like me, you hate the heat.  Well up here in New England we got ourselves a bit of a heat wave.  I decided to beat this son-ova-bitch by crowding around my air conditioner.  After playing 15 consecutive hours of Skyrim, I decided I needed to find a new activity to pass the hours.  I grabbed my Nook (The official tablet of the SEGA Kid) and started plowing through books.  So here we have my top 5 all-time favorite books.

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I’m glad this is going up in between lunch and dinner.  I have enough time to make you sad at what you had for lunch, but give you enough time to change your dinner plans.  I’ve been wanting to do this one for a while now, so here goes.  Do you ever wonder what your last meal will be?  I do.  Be it the last meal before I am executed for the public and brutal execution of Michael Bay, passing away in the night at the age of 90, or trading in this fleshy meat bag for a robot body that no longer need food.  So if my last meal was any of these, I’d be happy.

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Thanks to the work of most of the OL community, I walked out of Prometheus yesterday not nearly as disappointed as I probably should have.  I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t like.  I would probably watch it again if it was on TV or at a friend hosted movie night.  I won’t go out of my way to see it however.  That train of thought got me thinking though.  A while back I posted a High 5 that involved movies that other people like and I hated.  What about the movies I love but know suck?  Well, here they are.  Feel free to add your own, or make fun of me for liking these shit stains on celluloid.

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We all are the heroes of our own stories.   So what does that make our friends?   Our loyal sidekicks of course.   But if they are the heroes of their own stories, does that make us their sidekicks?   It’s a bit confusing.   So today’s High 5 is a salute to the sidekicks and second fiddles out there that don’t have identity issues.   They are there to support our lovable protagonists and put their own interests aside for the sake of their friend’s goals.   So here we go, these are the people I want riding shotgun if I have to step up and save the world … or solve a crime … or find a way to get reasonable prices on Red Sox tickets (If I even wanted to see a 5^th place team in person).

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Walking around and making dumb ass movie references is one of our most sacred American traditions.   Be it children running around pretending to be the characters themselves to adults wishing to convey a complex scenario with just a few words, quotes are embedded in our everyday lives.   I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that.

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