Tag: pop culture happy hour

  • Burn, Comic-Con, Burn! An Alan Smithee Post

    The latest edition of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, jumping off from an A.V. Club post called “The changing face of nerds and autism in popular culture,” briefly discusses the issue, or the figure, of the “fake nerd.” One response from Linda Holmes (I’m paraphrasing) was that the scorn heaped on the fake nerd, especially if that target…