Tell Me About Your Character('s Problems) – Nerdly Advice

Tell Me About Your Character('s Problems) – Nerdly Advice

Aug 18

Months and months ago, I threw out the idea of an advice column in Grok. It spun out of a conversation I had with a friend where I divulged that I was the hand that held the pen of my high school paper’s advice columnist, Henrietta Hawk (well, a hand that held the pen. Ms. Hawk was actually a small team of people). “OMG,” I was told, “you should write an advice column again.”

Depending on your particular preferences, you may choose to chortle, snort derisively or guffaw here.

In college, a good friend of mine who was involved heavily with the campus radio station coerced me into doing a call-in advice show with him – “Loveline except more funny and less helpful” may have been the way it was pitched to me. I grudgingly agreed to it, only to be saved in a perspicacious twist when said friend was thrown off the air.

Which leads me to this post. The idea I pitched to Grok is now going to make its way to Alert Nerd proper in a (semi)-regular fashion. In fact, starting next Tuesday, I hope to deliver the first installment of Nerdly Advice and continue weekly.

Why? Well I am, by nature, a meddler – mainly to distract me from my own dysfunctions. Indulge me.

What do I need from you? I need questions, quandaries, dark secrets and dilemmas. Except for “who would win in a fight between the Juggernaut and the Blob?” Anything from gaming to dating to home repair to scrapbooking to first aid to comic storage. But since it’s me answering and you asking, try to keep them as nerdy as possible.

For your convenience, you can leave your questions (or your friend’s questions or your friend’s friend’s questions) in the comments below, or you can drop me a line at nerdlyadvice@gmail.com.