The City of Vulcan, Canada, Makes Me Incredibly Uncomfortable

When a whole town becomes synonymous with something nerdy, they have a few choices. They can ignore it and the nerds who flock there because the town is named Chewbacca or whatever. They can make some meager acknowledgment of the nerdery, like Metropolis, Illinois‘ Superman statue, which ends up being kind of weird and sad for all involved. The townsfolk can unanimously decide to embrace their popularity in order to fleece those nerds, like in Forks, Washington, which is mercantile but respectable. Or they can do what Vulcan did — and just require everyone in town to be a nerd.

This freaks me out, and not in a good way. There’s no way those middle-aged ladies want to be wearing Star Trek uniforms. Or if they do, they’re doing it because of some spirit of community and not nerdery. The people of Vulcan are trying way too hard here, and it’s just awkward. It’s like if you made your non-nerdy dad see Star Wars, and he showed up in costume — it’s not funny, he’s not nerdy, it’s just weird and sad and very uncomfortable for everyone. I do not approve. Now do I approve of the dude running around in that ridiculous alien/bear suit or whatever it is… although I do feel it sums up Vulcan, Canada, pretty darn well. (Via /Film)