Joe Mauer can join the likes of Brother Ali, as Minnesotan white rappers…

I found myself driving past comic book stores… that weren’t on the way home.

Yeah, but if I’m gonna be a nerd, I want my specific flavor of nerdom to be recognized.

Or is that nerdy in and of itself?

If everybody who read ‘Watchmen’ is a “geek” (a pretentiously self-deprecating term I think people use on themselves to try to make themselves look cool without letting other people know they’re trying to make themselves look cool) then I think that probably 50% of the population could be lumped in with D&D players and Trekkies as “geeks”.

(‘Course, if you watch the piece of crap movie more than once, which, contrary to reports by idiot showbiz hacks, was nothing like the beautiful, unspeakable masterpiece of a comic book, then your claim to “geekdom” is revoked.)

RE: Joe Mauer.  Ambiguously Gay Baseball Reporter Tom Verducci, ironically, wrote a cover story for SI which - although I did not read it - seemed interested in portraying Joe Mauer as your prototypical beer guzzlin’, trucker hat wearin’ good ol’ boy.  Wonder if Verducci learned of Mauer’s rapping but tried to hide it because it conflicted with the (fake) picture of Mauer he was trying to paint.

yeah but didnt you also borrow all 10 collected trade paperbacks of Y: The Last Man from your local library? 

and if everyone already considers you the comic book guy you might as well assume the part.  lots of dope reading materal to tap in to.

BTW, Mauer will be a free agent after next year.  When does Jorge’s contract expire?

Craig: SANDMAN > WATCHMEN. 

That is all.