Pizza + Firefly = Happiness

The other day, my parents left to go… wow I don’t think I ever even asked or cared where they were going. Well anyway they were gone for a couple hours, and that’s all that mattered. So my brother (he’s 19) and I were left home alone to fend for ourselves for dinner.

We had kinda done this tag team system in the car on the way home, taking turns going back and forth convincing my mom (she was driving) on why she should pay for us to get pizza delivered. We won, and so we ate pizza and watched Firefly, conveniently starting it after she left (I was supposed to be doing homework). Speaking of that pizza, she didn’t have cash so she borrowed from me, and I just remembered that she hasn’t paid me back yet…


So anyway Matt (my brother) has already seen every episode of Firefly like twice or something, but he wants to watch it again with me, which is really nice of him. Matt and I usually keep to ourselves, and it’s only been recently when we started interacting with each other. It used to be mainly me annoying him, so our relationship hasn’t been what it could be.

So that night was kinda important to me, even though I ended up staying up late trying to finish the homework I neglected for our little brother sister time. But I’d say it was well worth it. And I got to see a really awesome show that I think every nerd, or any person in general, should see.

It also makes me want to go shank the moron who cancelled the show. You know who you are, Mr. Firefly Squisher, and your days are numbered. You obviously never saw how Firefly escaped the glass jar of TV mediocrity and illuminated everything that is good and wonderful in this dark world …with its glowing butt juice.

So the moral of this story? Nerdy shows bring people together. Stuff like this is happening all the time, which just goes to show that us nerds aren’t always wasting our time watching nerdy things—just most of time we are—but every now and then a nerd session turns into a social occasion, and we build and deepen our relationships that might otherwise not exist without the aid of mutual interests. These kinds of relationships can never be fully understood by a non-nerd, as they are woven on the very fabric of geeky obsession and maintained by an ability to identify with not only the characters in the story, but through that relation, with fellow nerds as well.

That, and don’t ever cancel a really awesome show, or the nerds’ll kill ya.