My friends Tim and Pat have, for many years, run an annual bar crawl through Minneapolis. In fact, 2012 was the 17th annual Tim & Pat Bar Crawl & Movable Feast, and presumably, this year will see the 18th. This bar crawl is something special. It usually occurs in the late …
As part of my Megalist project, I have a goal to eventually watch every feature-length documentary ever nominated for an Oscar. Now, this part of the Megalist project is a little problematic. Most people, even folks in the film industry, don’t really know what makes a good documentary. The Academy …
Back in February 2005, I was living in a creaky old house that had been dubbed Arkham Asylum. It was named that because a) I was a Lovecraft geek, b) the other resident, my then-boyfriend Christopher Jones, drew Batman comics for a living, and c) the house was made entirely out of eldritch …
It’s official: I will be a speaker at the College of Curiosity Conference on May 25th. Furthermore, they list my speakerly qualifications as being Queen of the Lizard People. (!) After those two sentences, you’re probably wondering what the hell is going on. The College of Curiosity is a non-profit online …
In the film Amazon Women on the Moon, there is a segment called, “BULLSHIT OR NOT?” (…or “Baloney or Not?” if you saw the film on broadcast TV). In the segment, Henry Silva asks, “Was Jack the Ripper in fact a sixty-foot sea serpent from Scotland? Did I take this …
For the past 180+ episodes of The Geek Life, we have recorded our audio via Skype. Skype is a cheap way to get four people on one audio track without having to schedule putting them into an actual room together. Since we at The Geek Life are lazy at 8 PM on …
Reader James C asks: Hi Melissa, I have a question about BNAT but, not really about Butt Numb A Thon. Our local theatre here in Vancouver, BC is doing a 24 hour marathon soon and I thought maybe you could give me some tips on what you brought to get through the …
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Kelvin and I went to B-Fest, a 24-hour film festival dedicated to B-movies. That’s right: when you attend B-Fest, you sit in a theater and watch gloriously cheesy films for 24 hours straight. Quality of films aside, B-Fest also differs from other film …
I finally came to the conclusion that there is just too much incoming information. Yeah, I know. I was once that person on LiveJournal that kept up on everyone digitally, and I posted huge volumes of text every day. Going back further, I was a lively BBS message board participant. …
Back in the mid-1980s, two kids in Mississippi decided to make a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The project took seven years to complete. This project, now called Raiders: The Adaptation, remained relatively unknown until director Eli Roth snuck a copy of it to Harry Knowles, who played …
