This week, we have the show that recorded live at CONvergence! Hear about a new local Twin Cities film project! Listen to silence as I dash to fill John Kovalic’s glass with scotch that wasn’t mine! Listen to the joy as we give away a Kindle! Episode 158: Live at …
Anyone who has been to CONvergence, or even who has read my Twitter feed during CONvergence, knows that a lot of drinking goes on there. There are three floors of parties every night, most of which serve alcohol. There are even multiple panels dedicated to drinking now: the now-infamous Drinking …
Around seven or eight years ago, Jerry Belich and I founded Killer B’s Improv Movie Show. For those of you who don’t attend CONvergence or shows at HUGE Theater, Killer B’s is something like a hybrid between Mystery Science Theater 3000, J-Men Forever, and Comedy Sportz. I find clips of oddball film …
At CONvergence this past weekend, I was proud to be the featured guest on the very first episode of Geeks Without God, a comedy/geek/atheism podcast created by Tim Wick, Molly Glover, and Nick Glover. Among other things, I was asked to bitch about Prometheus, which I happily obliged. Check out the episode here! (Warning: TONS …
I have already posted at length about CONvergence, and what I’ll be doing there. Since I’ll be doing that until sometime next week (when I will hopefully emerge from the smoking wreckage, ready for more projects), I thought you might enjoy some PowerPoint Karaoke clips from our very first show, …
The latest and greatest Geek Life episode is here! Listen as Mike, Richard, and I discuss The Oatmeal, the future of Avatar, Lonesome George, and computers that learn.
A new episode of the Geek Life has hit the proverbial streets, where Paul and I talk about the Vatican, Moog, Flame, and education by manga. Hear it here!
Two weeks from today, CONvergence will rock Bloomington, MN. I suspect that nearly everyone who reads this blog (all five of you) knows what CONvergence is, but in case you just stumbled past, here’s a description. CONvergence is a four-day smorgasbord sci-fi/fantasy/music/movie/party convention that strikes every 4th of July weekend. It currently draws …
A few days ago, Roger Ebert posted on his blog that he didn’t think that the ubiquitousness of Internet-armed cameras was a good thing: I find this news concerning because it results in a degradation of the art of photography. … [Camera users] are performing a social ritual, and little of what …
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