Low Card

The tricky part of being brilliant...mmm...let's stop right there. There's a couple tricky things about being brilliant. I know, because, of course, I am brilliant. And perfect.
Anyway, the first tricky thing is that it's hard to talk to many people. They don't enjoy talking to brilliant people because they feel dumb. Clearly, you aren't one of those people, look how smart you are. You are reading and comprehending...so we're like equals. I'm talking about all those other losers out there. So, brilliant people are often lonely. It's hard to make a Sex and the City or Friends show where the characters are Supreme Court Justices and a NASA scientist and David Foster Wallace and Stephen Hawking (but I would so watch that show).
The other tricky thing is it is hard to find ways to keep the brain active and at supreme level. I mean, how does Superman exercise? He can't just go to a normal gym, and people look down on lifting buildings and trains just to get a workout.
But the real thing is that if you are brilliant you constantly fight boredom. Which is why I create games.
My favorite game I have created is Low Card. It started when I lived in a party house. Lori and I were waiting for everyone to show up, and we were drinking and playing with a deck of cards. I shuffled the cards and declared, "low card makes me a new drink." Next was "low card does a shot." Then it was "low card kisses the first person who walks through the door." We would cut the cards and face our fate. It had the simplicity of cutting cards with the pleasure of the dare part of Truth or Dare. By the end of the night it was a crowd of us and "low card has to go outside and stop a car going down the street and ask if they have any grey poupon."
We played that game for months. It followed us everywhere, and I was able to keep busy by constantly coming up with really horrible or humorous dare. I sometimes fell victim to my own ideas, but it was worth it. How else do you get someone to stand on a corner where the homeless stand with a sign that says "Can't afford Prada"?