Rob is really excited to talk about Phish in the way that a stock broker would be really excited to talk about his latest D&D match. Like other marginalized groups, being a Phish fan carries a certain kind of guilt that transforms into a torrent of excitement when the environment is free of any kind of judgment. In Rob’s and my environment, this behavior is called “nerding out.” But outside the safe zone, Rob talked about “coming out” as a Phish fan as if liking the band was somehow shameful, a word Aaron Leitko chose for his 2010 article “For indie rockers, 'jam band' increasingly no longer a shameful term”.
CoS Staff January 17, 2014
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January 17, 2014
Alec kind of looks like Shawn Andrews from <i>Dazed and Confused</i>. He was only a few months old when the movie came out in 1993, but he’s a sophomore in college now, so I’m sure he has to have seen the movie, right? I don’t know because I didn’t say this in front of him for fear of him not knowing the movie, which would make me seem like I’m throwing an obscure reference his way right off the bat and/or make him feel insulted that I’m comparing him to a stereotypical '70s hippie ne’er-do-well, and then I’d have to pull a conversational Y-turn to get back on track.
