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true life: i’m a fanboy.

13Jan10

holy. shit.

I love True Life. I have True Life: I Have a Summer Share on my dvr and my ipod. I have I’m a Staten Island girl recorded on the dvr at my apartment and twice on my parent’s dvr, just in case.

I’ve seen all of the fucked up BBC documentaries that normally makes people’s skin crawl, My Fake Baby, Guys & Dolls and the one about two guys who fuck their cars. But I’ve never felt more uncomfortable than watching the 26 year old fucker obsessed with power rangers. He literally made my stomach turn every second he was on the screen.

Were power rangers even popular when he was a kid? My brother is 26 and I don’t remember him having any interest in them. Also, anyone who dresses up to go to these conventions is ridiculous. Not to mention that he is desperately trying to get a 17 year old, who is also obsessed with power rangers and hosts a podcast about them, to date him, and constantly sleeping over her house. Where the fuck are this girl’s parents?

I think it all just hit a little too close to home. Not about myself, but about people I’ve known and dated, that could be classified as fanboys. Don’t get me wrong though, I can tell you what T.A.R.D.I.S stands for along with a ton of useless information about gallifrey and time lords, the name of the alien driving the millenium falcon with lando in jedi and have a favorite comic book writer and artist, but I’m just not at that level. And never will be.

I’ve dated someone with a batman tattoo, who worked in a comic shop. Whenever anyone commented on his tattoo, and they did because he made sure to buy t-shirts where it would stick out a bit on his arm, he would always say, “Yeah, but this is the current logo” in the most condescending tone. Guess what, no one gives a shit, and even though that isn’t the reason I broke up with you, it should of been.

How was the kid in the video below not used for the show?

A better question – how is it possible that I haven’t dated this psycho? He’d fit right in with the rest.