Geek Shock 99 – Horse Herpes

Posted on | May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments

Wake up Nanook of the Thrones, something is wrong with Paul! Is it possible that lustful tiger-men can give you horse herpes? You’re gonna find out. You’ll also find out about all that damn fantasy being medieval n’ stuff, the Candy Land wars, Carrie: Turn off the Blech, Bye Bye Arnie, video trading cards, Macho snaps into it, spam banks, ebook revolution, 3D is bad for 2D, comic-con want ads, Tag-you’re Thor, Cube-o-mancer, Cleanin’ up the town, Jordan- the final frontier, CDC and zombies, witchy consoles, golden duke, PSdown, L.A. Noir is Hot, bigNES, MCV, DA3, Olmos Def, Pyrates, and Suckest Punch. So clean off that pudding sweat, it’s time for a Geek Shock!

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In My Day

Posted on | May 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

Growing up one of my favorite movies was Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood. Cool archery, great fencing, that movie brought my family’s house to a stop whenever it showed up on tv. I also read Greek and Roman mythology like a mad fiend. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Bernard Evslin’s The Trojan War and Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths gave me tons of tales of magic and heroics. So it was only natural that when I came across The Lord of the Rings and Conan I would be swept up in some truly awesome shit.

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Stop Cryin’ Before I Give You Something To Cry About

Posted on | May 18, 2011 | 2 Comments

Ok, last week a friend on Facebook posted a comment on how today’s Hollywood film makers need to pay less attention to their calculators and more attention to scripts. Uh-huh. Before that I had a brief argument with a friend over Hollywood’s recent “hatred” of original ideas; every movie last year was a remake, reboot, sequel, or adaptation of a teevee show or book or comic.

Snore. There’s nothing more boring than unoriginal cookie cutter arguments about unoriginal cookie cutter Hollywood.

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Geek Shock 98 – Science Fairy

Posted on | May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment

What can I say? We thrive on chaos and that’s what you get this week as we talk about all the new geek news like SpiderDark II, Akira, the Bay Challenge, too much Gaga, Sony’s sorry, smart kids, why the bees are going away, Trickster, V for Vunder Voman, seeing the Tower, new shows, science fairs, and shows we won’t get to see. So put that gift under the pillow for the Science Fairy. It’s time for a Geek Shock.

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