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A Geek Groundswell

One day when I had nothing to do (well, actually I have had much to do, but I did not want to do it all), I decided to play the Google game. This is where you see your own name or otherwise input into the field in quotation marks, as many search results you get. Because my youngest Paper was, Queen Geeks in Love, soon, I decided to use the term "geek" Search. What I found astonished me.

I have more almost 70 million hits from the word "geek".

The million.

So, I thought that would get the most of each semester, many results, or to start the . Close I started with what I would assume, the antithesis of "Geek" is: the "Gossip Girl", which was 3.56 million. "Beauty Queen found 1,750.000. Glamour came the next geek, with 44.6 million, but how to see clearly as there is nothing glamorous in comparison to geeky, statistically. Even The trendy "Fashionista" only turned 5.59 million results.

So what does this mean? Is Google a valid measure of popular culture? I suspect it is not very scientific, but it seems to be an indication of how many pages the word, by the way, how come a circus term for a person with little to to mention heads of live animals. Thankfully, in particular, seems to have hidden aspect of Geekdom, unless you Ozzy Osbourne in its former glory days count.

If you are looking to the true extent of what is out there in the zeitgeist, check local TV listings. This decline seems each new show to be supernatural (which is in the realm of geek.) We have Moonlight, a vampire story. We have Journeyman, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, and. The biggies-Lost and Heroes-sell DVD collections in droves. Geeks are no longer in its hiding place cyberclosets.

Already in 2001, the term "geek chic" began to be used, and in fact ran a clothing company with a London campaign that even the term on his clothing market. Fast forward to last year, when an ABC Premiere Show called Ugly Betty, America Ferrera stars as with anti-fashion-Uber-Geek. Well guess who was on the cover of the October 2007 Glamour Magazine? That is correct. The geeky girls. Of course they glammed her, but still, I could not help but feel that someone from my team finally in the big leagues.

Gloria Baume, a fan of "Ugly Betty" and a fashion editor at Teen Vogue, told the New York Times Betty's, that "geek-chic look could trickle down." The New York Times article, she added,''I am with the nerd look right now, besessen''fügte adding that appear a number of designers be taken dorky in a similar way with all things. Paul Smith,''it has in London,''she said. Lacoste''it has here in New York. Luella also look for the geek. In its own kind of funny, twisted Betty Sun has its own sense of style. It's crazy, but it's very her.''(New York Times, October 2006).

USA Today even noted that "knowledge is power and Geek is chic. If you are a cyber whiz who are stuck pop culture world of Sci-fi, fantasy, comic books and horror, perhaps the master of a Web shrine devoted to arcane matters as once, you not only the rule. You rock. "

Scientists are geek even jumped on the train. A Danish scholar wrote a dissertation on geek culture and cited him as "the third counter-culture" by hippies and yuppies. "The Geek culture changes are the norm, transforming mainstream culture," Lars Konzack writes in his dissertation, entitled "Geek culture The third counter-culture "Not long ago would have known no one outside of the geek culture, which meant from player-character, experience points to gain levels, have and hit points. Now it seems like everyone knows. The geek culture is transforming mainstream culture and it is only the beginning of a general cultural shift in that direction, " Lars Konzack, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

In my own novels, Queen Geek Social Club Queen Geeks in Love is the self-proclaimed freaks of the title Girls who are unapologetically themselves. You like science and science fiction, as well as fashion and boys. You want to change the world, but they also want to enjoy it. I like to think of them as a geek, I never was in high school-confident, comfortable, clever. They know who they are, and though they struggle with self-doubt and fear as all Teenagers, they use their intelligence and the support of her sisters geek to get through it all. In the end it is to send a great message to girls (or Boys), and it reminds me of something someone once wrote to the edge of my yearbook: "Be as you are and you will go far." Go geeks.

About the Author

Laura Preble is a journalist, singer, teacher, and writer from San Diego. Her first Queen Geek novel is The Queen Geek Social Club, followed up this fall with Queen Geeks in Love. Learn more at
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