HAIL FELLOW HORDYTES!
It is I, Reis, the Lord of Dorkness, bringing you the very first State of the Horde Address, which I plan on making a monthly installment to be posted on the first of every month going forward.
This will give me a chance to talk about past Dork Horde moments of note and upcoming Horde business. Also, this will act as a monthly reminder to fellow geek bloggers out there that they are invited to apply for membership, thus making our ranks grow.
Now, on to business...
Since the Dork Horde was formed, our membership has grown to 12 official members! All of whom are stellar ambassadors of geek culture (the primary goal of the Dork Horde) and hereby known as the Founding Members of the Horde. Thanks to Jon K, Colin, Brian, Dan, Jboy, Ron , Tom, John, Kevin, Eric and Mike for joining up and helping me build our little internet tree-fort!
You can see the complete list of members, as well as get links to their blogs, HERE.
Next, I'd like to discuss future plans for the Horde. Now that we've all formed a club, what will we do with it? What are the privileges? Well, I have a few ideas, but I'd like to hear some from all of the Hordytes. What would you like to do?
So far, I've got a few ideas for fun things we could do, which would only be open to official members of the Dork Horde. Here they are:
- Monthly themed group missions (like, take a picture of a Lego minifigure in a weird place outside of your home, or something like that).
- An original art trading card trade or some other sort of art jam.
- A Secret Santa Christmas gift exchange.
- Having Dork Horde t-shirts made.
- Mailing out official black masks and membership cards.
- Come up with a motto (and maybe a secret handshake).
- A Dork Horde meet up (I know that one will be tricky and is probably years down the road).
- Starting a Facebook group page (open only to official Horde members) to privately discuss Horde Business.
Those are just a few ideas I'm kicking around. But I'd love to hear from fellow members any ideas that they have!
So, that's about it. The Dorke Horde is growing! But, of course, I'd love to see it get bigger, so if any of you non-Hordytes want to join up, just click the Become a Member link on the right-hand side of the blog and follow the directions. All you need is a blog or website dedicated to geeky stuff (toys, comics, games, etc.) in some way and act as an ambassador of geek culture to the rest of the world. It also helps if you have a black mask.
Onward to greater things, Hordytes! (Insert official motto here when we eventually come up with one.)
Sounds like some wonderful things to come for the Horde and am hoping for custom action figures of us someday too. : )
ReplyDeleteGood idea, Jboy!
DeleteHad the same thought....wasgonna make a custom Joe for myself for my induction into the Horde. I'll wait 2 c if that idea takes off !
DeleteGreat ideas! Here's mine: our theme song, sung to the Monkees theme:
ReplyDeleteHere we come
walkin down the street,
get the funniest looks from
folks who are not geeks!
Hey hey we're the Hordyte,
and people say we're dorkin' around!
But we're too busy geekin'out
on the coolest swag in town!
We play whenever we want to,
be it with Star Wars or M-O-T-U.
With daily trips to Toys R Us:
There's always something new.
Hey, hey we're the Hordyte,
and people say we're dorkin' around.
But we're too busy building,
the newest Lego sets in town.
We're just trying to be geeky,
Come watch us joke and play.
We may seem to old for this s#&t,
but we got something to say.
Hey, hey we're the Hordyte,
You never know where toys'll be found.
So you'd better get ready,
We may already be in your town.
Hey, hey we're the Hordyte,
and people say we're dorkin' around.
But we're to busy posin' action figures
(and asking Reis: put the dollies down!)
YEAH! HAHAHAHA!!! That makes it official, Stettmeier is the Grand Horde Composer.
DeleteBrilliant!
DeleteIf KISS can put out out a comic book why cant the HORDE!! or official masks or something....
ReplyDeleteI did think about official masks, but the comic book idea is GREAT! Sounds like a lot of work though. But we do have several artists in the Horde. Hmmm...
DeleteThis is all great stuff. The group missions would be a blast! Also think it's be cool to see the Horde do something charitable, Toys for Tots, Make-A-Wish etc.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, Ron! I like the Toys for Tots idea. We need to revisit that when we get closer to Christmas.
DeleteI am up for any of it. Just very excited to be a part of the Horde.
ReplyDeleteHow about the motto....
ReplyDelete"Domus ab hordeum" -latin- it actually means "house of barley" :) yeah I know..but it IS a dead language:)
Best I could do in Klingon is: "ghom Dun maH !" which is "we are special group" sorry...no lair or horde in Klingon:(
I like the private Facebook idea, my lodge does the same thing and it works out well.
Sorry forgot "Cubile ab hordeum " Lair of Barley" but your probably thinkin i'm a bit off......hehehe:)
DeleteLooking forward to the t-shirts. Talk to me about that somtime. How about trading cards? Would be cool to have a comic book made one day too. I am telling you, a reality show and book are down the road some where. I feel it in my utility belt.
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