My final 2021 article (for somewhere other than Disquiet.com) is about declining to call myself a nerd. I wrote it for HiLobrow, as edited and encouraged by Peggy Nelson. My short piece is the final entry of a 25-part series that included writers Lucy Sante, Vanessa Berry, Annie Nocenti, and other far greater nerds.
I’d [mentioned](https://disquiet.com/2021/11/13/twitter-com-disquiet-silent-meals-background-sounds-robo-whispers/) when Dean Stockwell died earlier this year that not long before he passed away I had filed a story for later publication in which I borrowed a nerd-tastic [monologue](https://disquiet.com/2009/02/21/quote-of-the-week-stockwells-supernova/) of his (well, Cavil’s) from *Battlestar Galactica*. This is that article.
The HiLobrow piece begins with the paragraph above. Read the full piece:
[https://www.hilobrow.com/2021/12/27/nerd-enthusiasm-25/](https://www.hilobrow.com/2021/12/27/nerd-enthusiasm-25/)