Geekscape Presents Warm Up: Megan Koester

Tuesday, September 4th, Geekscape Presents returns to Michaels Bar and Grill in Burbank. On the lineup: Megan Koester, who you can follow @bornferal. She’s got a joke about Big Johnson shirts, which instantly put her into my top 5 favorite people. Megan is like a dark Jordan Baker, golden age Hollywood meets jokes about Nazi memorabilia.

Geekscape: What are some things you’re geeky about?

Megan Koester: God. To be “geeky” about something implies that one’s passionate about something; in that regard, I don’t know that I’m geeky about anything. Cigarettes? I love cigarettes. Is it possible to be a cigarette geek?

Geekscape: I think it is…Give me three opinions you have about cigarettes.

Megan: Sure. They’re great at keeping people you don’t want to interact with at bay. They pair well with alcohol, something else I feel passionately about. You’re going to get cancer anyhow, so you may as well have some agency over it.

Geekscape: I feel the same way about Phantom Menace. I think this counts as geekdom. In fact, I want cigarette geeks to have their own Comic Con now.

Megan: It would smell less atrocious than the actual Comic Con.

Geekscape: Less heart disease, too.

Megan: Exactly.

Geekscape: Geeks always get bent out of shape by people posing as geeks. If you’re a cigarette geek (which it’s tough to be in 2012!), what makes a cigarette poser?

Megan: Someone who smokes light cigarettes. Especially Marlboro Lights. You may as well just be breathing air at that point.

Geekscape: Marlboro Lights would be like the Batman Forever to a Camel Red’s Dark Night, in geek terms.

Megan: I used to work at a comic book store in Seattle. One day, these two dweebs were talking about the Batman movies – this is pre-dark, brooding Batman, incidentally. In re: Batman Forever, one dweeb said, “Listen – I don’t have a problem with gay people. But I think Joel Schumacher should get AIDS for what he did to Batman.”

Geekscape: And that man grew up to be Paul Ryan.

Megan: Our future vice president is a dweeb?!? NO!

Geekscape: What is your ideal dream cigarette?

Megan: One that tastes like what it feels like to go down the Ragin’ Racer slide at Raging Waters.

Come see Megan, along with Dave Ross, Tom Franck, headliner Asterios Kokkinos and more at Geekscape Presents! Next Tuesday, September 4th at 9:00!   It’s free!