{"id":3556,"date":"2010-09-16T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T17:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3556"},"modified":"2011-04-22T14:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T14:55:39","slug":"poodoo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3556","title":{"rendered":"Poodoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/poodoocover_small.jpg\" alt=\"Poodoo\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"146\" height=\"221\" align=\"left\" \/>Just 99 cents!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poodoo-ebook\/dp\/B003F24EYS\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1303483687&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase via Amazon<\/a> (for Kindle and Kindle apps)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/11875\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase via Smashwords<\/a> (PDF, ePub, HTML, lots more)<br \/>\nAlso search &#8220;Poodoo&#8221; in iBooks! I dare ya!<\/p>\n<p><em>By Matt Springer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Star Wars<\/em> prequels taught a generation of awestruck, compassionate nerds to become hateful, bitter cynics.  It was a Bizarro-Woodstock of geekery.  In <em>Poodoo<\/em>, you can watch one man&#8217;s slow decline from rationality to angry madness and finally to acceptance.  By Matt Springer, with an introduction by real-life college professor Steven P. Millies, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People talk <em>Poodoo<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This book ought to be recommended as a staple to round out everyone&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Geek Internet<\/span> reading&#8211;the collection of ten years worth of <em>Star Wars<\/em> articles is the journey we all undertake with our True Geek Love&#8230;His wry humor and<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span>the way he comfortably embraces his crazy\u00c2\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">geekness<\/span> only make <em>Poodoo<\/em> that much more enjoyable. He&#8217;s assembled his painful journey for us\u00c2\u00a0so that we may keep it as a reassurance that no, we&#8217;re not alone. We may be fucking crazy, but we&#8217;re not alone.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/geeked-up.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/poodoo-bullshitting-about-star-wars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kristina Wright, Geeked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m about half-way through so far and it&#8217;s a hoot.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/phoning-it-in.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/great-geek-disappointment-of-1999.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jason, Phoning It In<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 99 cents! Purchase via Amazon (for Kindle and Kindle apps) Purchase via Smashwords (PDF, ePub, HTML, lots more) Also search &#8220;Poodoo&#8221; in iBooks! I dare ya! By Matt Springer The Star Wars prequels taught a generation of awestruck, compassionate nerds to become hateful, bitter cynics. It was a Bizarro-Woodstock of geekery. In Poodoo, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1974,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3556\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}