2/19/2023 0 Comments Angry giant nerdThis article appears in the July/August issue. Still, I hear that it might be safer during a pandemic to Zoom in masks. You might as well tell me to turn off my face walking down the street. Or, hell, just turn off the video so I can't see myself or be seen. Filters, backgrounds, soft lighting, $4 apps that can frame me in complementary colors. Carmageddon 64 was a port of Carmageddon II (originally for PC), and released for the Nintendo 64 in the year 2000. It was later ported to other platforms, and spawned a series of follow up titles. (Debatably important: which wrinkle cream to buy.) Yeah, yeah, I know. Carmageddon is a vehicular combat video game released for personal computers in 1997. Not important: the state of my face folds. Important: the health of my family members, people losing their jobs. The same creature was also feature in another FreakZone game. The gift of being extra decades older is you live through shit-happened (and therapy), and with that comes the knowledge of what is and is not truly important. The Boss of Dungeons & Dickholes is based on a creature from the movie The Giant Claw. Blam: It's like I'm 20 again, spending far too much time in these tedious loops. My mind disobeys reason and wanders to them, ad nauseam. Even when I turn the camera off, walk away, the insecurities follow. Oh, those chins! Between meetings, I feel their weight. I've seen the droop drop, the lines etch, the chins multiply. (Hello, my wrinkly Eastern European foremothers-I see you in my face.) Day after day, for eight, nine, 17 weeks now, logging on and off and on again, waiting for coworkers to arrive in endless Zoom rooms, there I am. Despite Angry Nerd's best efforts to trick the massive beast, Bodock come. Perhaps the skin is seeking rest on the pillows that have appeared below my eyes. Angry Nerd challenges Bodock the Giant Creature to a round of movie monster trivia. ![]() All I can glean from the giant image of me on Zoom is: downward. ![]() The skin above my left eyelid is migrating.
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