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doing it after watching a science program from the early ’80s called Cosmos.
wgat about neil degrasse?
Even so, I tried my best to fit in. Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me. But even the other outcasts wanted nothing to do with me. I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. Whenever I got near one of them, I invariably broke out in a cold sweat and lost the ability to speak in complete sentences.
now im comletely sure this is YA
felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
and how would you know how that feels if you haven't lived it
read every issue of every comic book title Halliday had ever collected.
comicbooks in the 80s sucked
man.”
wha about "your majesty"?
Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word: hot.
holy crap, geeky as fuck
astounded me that fifty years ago, even lower-income families had an entire house to themselves.
OST
super cheesy, this fuckin book got me toread a chatlog
Finally, to complete my ’80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gull-wing doors, then added personalized plates that read ECTO-88. I’d had it only
over the top
the DJ stood, surrounded by turntables, mixers, decks, and dials. At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables. I recognized the tune he was playing: the ’88 remix of New Order’s “Blue Monday,” with a lot of Star Wars droid sound samples mixed in. As I made my way
“Please,” I said. “Accept this gift. To aid you in your new quest.”
cheeese!
Their total lack of hesitation astounded me, because it was obvious many of them were rushing toward certain death.
its a gucking game, dude!
“It helps to be an obsessive-compulsive geek. With no life.”
this is what this book is all about
