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Marvin C. Pittman

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It’s the End of the World, and I Love It

I saw Oblivion recently. It was pretty good, but then pretty much had to see it despite Tom Cruise starring in it. Oblivion was...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 25, 2013

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Fanboy Convergence in Pop Culture’s Nerd World Order

I have a very easy home life as a nerd. My wife also is a nerd, and we like a lot of the same...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 11, 2013

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Artsy, Jockish, Brainy, Geeky

As I have dug through my identity as a nerd, as a black man, and where they intersect (and don’t), I have hit upon...

Marvin C. PittmanMarch 28, 2013

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This Blerd Dances Alone

I broke one of my general rules last weekend, and went to a nightclub. But it’s different when it’s a Latin nightclub, right? A...

Marvin C. PittmanMarch 14, 2013

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Back to the Drawing Board

I keep to myself a lot. Despite the appearance of knowing many people and being all up in the party scene, more times than...

Marvin C. PittmanFebruary 28, 2013

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Black Hipstery, A Little Bit

Oh, if I could be a black hipster. I laugh at Portlandia, so maybe I’m close? I’m already a black nerd, and there’s a...

Marvin C. PittmanFebruary 14, 2013

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The Hair Up There

If you’re ever looking for inspiration on a day off, turn to The Jeffersons. The adventures of George and Weezie movin’ on up the...

Marvin C. PittmanFebruary 1, 2013

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Waltzing with the DJANGO in my Mind

So many thoughts about Django Unchained. It’s incendiary, profane, hilarious and ultra-violent in classic Quentin Tarantino fashion, but there’s more under the surface. To...

Marvin C. PittmanJanuary 17, 2013

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An Adult Nerd at Christmas

Merry Christmas, everybody. If you celebrated the day, whether religiously or as the secular-cultural juggernaut Christmas has become, I hope you had a good...

Marvin C. PittmanJanuary 5, 2013

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Newtown, and The Dark Knight

I bawled my eyes out when I saw The Dark Knight Rises this summer. Not a few tears or a sniffle, but full-on, open...

Marvin C. PittmanDecember 20, 2012

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Funny, You Don’t Sound Black…

Hi, my name is Marvin, and I’m a black guy with a white-sounding voice. At least that’s what people have told me for so...

Marvin C. PittmanDecember 6, 2012

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Nerding Out On a Disney World Honeymoon

Hello, dear readers, Good to be back. I’ve been away this past month getting married. It’s easy to say that the wedding day went...

Marvin C. PittmanNovember 13, 2012

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This Blerd’s Getting Married

I’m getting married next week. Bam, there it is. So much going on in those few words. It has that standing-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff kind of feeling...

Marvin C. PittmanSeptember 27, 2012

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A Boom Tube Back Into DC Comics

Dear DC Comics: It’s been fun, this whole New 52 thing. We’re now a year in, and I’ve got some things to say. Remember...

Marvin C. PittmanSeptember 13, 2012

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The Incredible Shrinking Nerdland

I watched Doctor Who for the first time last week. Is that shock on your face, my dear nerdlings? OK, I’ll let it wash...

Marvin C. PittmanAugust 30, 2012

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Blerding Up Black History

As it was with many folks, my life recently was taken up by the Olympics. Yes, those two insane halcyon weeks of glory, sweat,...

Marvin C. PittmanAugust 17, 2012

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A Batfan Rises, One More Time

Hello, nerds. We all know what’s happening this Friday. On that day, he rises again. Batman. The Dark Knight Rises. Oh, I can’t...

Marvin C. PittmanJuly 19, 2012

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Crushed Beneath The Crushing

Isn’t everyone talking about Magic Mike, the movie that has male strippers in it but isn’t really about male strippers? The fiancee saw it...

Marvin C. PittmanJuly 6, 2012

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Monsters of Space and Race

They’re 7 feet tall and hunters built for menace. One with sickening mandibles. The other has a stabbing second mouth revealed between a set...

Marvin C. PittmanJune 21, 2012

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Nerd Sacrilege

In the many months that I’ve spent writing this column to unpack my blerd identity, there’s been a lot of man-without-a-country stuff. Never quite...

Marvin C. PittmanJune 7, 2012

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NERD WEDDING? Not For Me.
However …

I’m getting married in October, so I’m deep in wedding stuff at this point. Doing so has forced me to confront whatever ideas I’ve...

Marvin C. PittmanMay 24, 2012

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Ten Rules For A Superhero Movie

The older I get, the harder it is to be what I call a geek trouper, someone who can put in the extreme time...

Marvin C. PittmanMay 10, 2012

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Harvard, Kuumba, And Gaining My Voice

First I heard the voices – female, dozens of them – declaring their beauty in Ndebele and Zulu words. Shosholoza … shosholoza. Repeated again...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 26, 2012

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Make Your Own Movie Marathon

The Avengers movie is coming next month, and I am so ready for this. I’m not even a Joss Whedon fan, but I know...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 12, 2012

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