New Geek Life: Manos Video Game, Anyone?
The latest Geek Life podcast is up: Episode 160: “You Obviously Didn’t Grow Up Catholic.” In a big shocker, we talk about Batman!
Category: Life
Help Baby Sagan Meet Grandma!
My friend Rachel has had a challenging year. Her mother is fighting renal cancer, and will likely not be around much longer. Her neice, to whom Rachel is very close, was best friends with one of the girls murdered in River Falls, WI a few week ago. On top of …
Girls on Film: Brave, Beasts, and Female Leads
Over the last week, I happened to see two new films that shared some interesting ground: Brave and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Both films are led by strong-willed, female children, in an age where American filmmaking still seems to struggle with the concept of a female lead. They are …
The Dark Knight Rises (No Spoilers) and Other Bat-Things
Thanks to Fes Works and Twin Cities Comics, I got to see Christopher Nolan’s latest flick, The Dark Knight Rises, on Wednesday night. I expect most of you already have plans (and possibly) to see this movie, but that won’t stop me from giving my Completely Unsolicited Opinions upon it. THE …
New Geek Life: Lollipop Chainsaw
…and other things. Check it out!
CONvergence PowerPoint Karaoke Favorites
Since our now-yearly CONvergence audience is by far our largest and geekiest, the CVG PowerPoint Karaoke show last week was jam-packed with slides too nerdy for general audiences. Bill and I went a bit into overdrive. For those of you who weren’t there (or even those who were and are …
Slaying the Debt Monster
Folks who’ve known me for a few years know that my life went through upheaval in 2009. My relationship of seven years ended; my home went into foreclosure (and I eventually lost it); my already bad debt problem went into overdrive as my finances plunged into the abyss with my …
Quotable CONvergence
My friends are immensely quotable. Here is a collection of the bits and pieces of dialogue I gathered during CONvergence. I’ve attributed the quotes where possible; if I haven’t, it’s because I’ve genuinely forgotten who said it, and I apologize. “The booty is mine! You cannot have it!” “I am …
CONvergence Highlights
Tim Wick made a lovely list of random CONvergence highlights over on his blog, and it sounded like a lovely idea. This is me, totally stealing that idea. WEDNESDAY I spent the 4th of July drinking massive amounts of gin and vodka (not in the same glass) in a Burnsville …
New Geek Life: The CONvergence Show!
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 …
