Great question! thanks for asking… wait, no one was asking? Well fine, I’ll continue talking to myself…

The Geek Room is a collection of well… geeky things in my life. Video game culture, comic book, pop-culture, tattoos, doodle. You name, it will probably be mentioned on this page. The Geek Room is also what we called our basement TV-room years ago when Zombie and I started collecting. In a way, it’s the room that saved me from myself and gave me direction.

So first let’s introduce you to the room itself. Although I plan to go into greater detail in the future let’s look at how it started and where it is now.

It’s a weird little panoramic shot but you can see the beginnings starting to take shape. The Spider-Man poster on the left is the centerpiece of the room featuring my favourite artist’s most iconic cover (or at least one of). After my separation I hadn’t touched this room much, using it for Xbox and WiiU occasionally. When I returned home from work my father, who was visiting from Ontario, had hung the laminated artwork centred at the back of the room. My eyes lit-up when I saw it, inspiring ideas of how I could make this room a showcase for my hobbies and passions.

At the time of the picture I had just started collecting more physical media. You can see the old tube TV on the left on top of an old stereo tower that we’d had in my childhood home. Early on in collecting I’d longed for the consoles I had missed out on during my PC era; the Gamecube, PS2, and OG Xbox. I hadn’t missed out entirely on this era but I hadn’t owned those systems for long before trading them so it was time to rebuild my arsenal. I’ll speak about this in future articles but I was very lucky, starting my collecting a couple of years before the pandemic, keeping costs low. (ie. paid aprox $30 each for the above hardware).

On the walls you can see the beginnings of artwork, mostly oddball items my Dad would pick up in discount bins in the States. He taught me to hunt for deals but he always supported my nerdy hobbies. If you look closely by the door you’ll see some “Light Guns” from various platforms adorning the wall like a small armory. I had always liked the idea of a room full of sci-fi and fantasy weapons and made gathering cheap accessories I could hang with Command Strips (those things are the best). A humble 50-something-inch TV sat looking small at the far end of the room.

The room hasn’t changed much in the last couple of years, small add-ons and collectibles are dropped in here on a semi-regular basis and admittedly we’ve run out of space and have started spreading the nerdiness around the house (Zombie’s suggestion, and a great one).

So that’s enough about the room itself, what about this page? Well here is where I want to talk about all that geekiness. Here I can go on and on about the release of a movie or game and I don’t have to worry about my audience’s eyes glazing over with detached interest. Here, I can argue about the correct order to watch the Star Wars films and, if I want, shut comments off because this is my domain.

Expect to see lots of posts about Loot Runs, our name for when we go out and get deals. I’ll expand this section to include artwork, design, photography, writing, and more over time and I hope, if you stumble across it, it will bring you a smile. I don’t expect everyone to be into the same things, but hopefully it will be a nice distraction to read about someone’s passions and perspectives (that sounds like an awful book title)

I’m still working out how to end these articles as they often dissolve into me rambling and forgetting why I started them. So until I do I’ll say:

Thanks as always for reading my fellow Internet Nomads, hope to see you again soon.