It was inevitable. Even though the story looked like a retread of a dozen tried-and-true tropes, the film took Europe by storm. It was the most successful film in Germany for the year of 2012. It became the second most successful film ever in France. And France submitted it to …
A few weeks ago, The Geek Life started doing podcast recordings on Tuesday nights. We made this move because Skype was giving us trouble as a recording platform, and Google Hangouts seem to be more stable. The odd bonus of moving to Google Hangouts is that a) we can now …
A few weeks ago, Fes and I were about to watch a completely different movie when a trailer played for The Perfect Host. Neither of us had heard of the film before, but the trailer caught our attention. The plot seemed to involve a bank thief who cons his way …
According to my records, tomorrow (March 16th) marks the one-year anniversary of the Tin Lizard Productions blog. Since 2012-03-16, there have been: 208 posts (including this one) 144 comments 366 pings from people searching Google for “Laurel and Hardy“ 1 ping from someone searching Google for “mr beetle should have guessed that …
In my previous post, I mentioned that I photographed an edged weapons collection for a friend. I talked previously about one of his American possessions, but the real meat of his collection consists of several pieces of WWII German regalia. My friend certainly does not have any sympathies with the …
About a week ago, I was called upon by an edged weapons collector to photograph his stash of pointy things for insurance purposes. Most of the photos aren’t terribly visually interesting, since they are meant to be just matter-of-fact documents of the quality of the item and the maker’s marks. …
The Tiny Things project has been continuing slowly, yet steadily. This weekend, I shot this tiny joke book, which is about the size of my thumbnail. (Funny that the book is too small to actually contain any Tales. Instead, it contains some very lame kids’ jokes. Apparently, tiny pages don’t …
Tonight, the geeks of Minneapolis shall gather at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, united in a mutual love of nerdery, social time, and booze. You want to be there, too, don’t you? Of course you do! Because it’s free! (Okay, you need to pay for drinks, but you don’t have to pay for tickets …
Want something AWESOME to do tonight? Sure you do! Come see four improv comedians bravely attempt to give a PowerPoint presentation for a deck of slides that they have never seen before. You can see this happen before your very own eyes at 10:00pm at the Bryant-Lake Bowl! Doors will open …
Last week, I completed the annual American spring ritual of doing my taxes. This year, I’m fortunate enough to have some money coming back in refunds. It’s not a huge amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but it’s enough to do some responsible things, as well as do …
