Summer fun geek style! This week we offer some suggestions on ways to get outside and enjoy your geekiness and some ways to bring a little geek flavor to your otherwise mundane summer events. We also have a few suggestions on summer reading and viewing, plus we have a new giveaway contest starting up and a long list of events for the week!
Our Geek Week
♦Zombies of Mass Destruction – The lesson we learned? Get advance tickets to cool movies at SIFF
♦Breaking news from November, 2008: Gears of War 2 is pretty awesome.
♦Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi‘s run on Astonishing X-Men
Frogchildren Studio’s 2008 Reel from Kevin Hanna on Vimeo.
♦Clockwork Girl
♦Sixteen Miles to Merricks
♦Seattle police dispatched to Crypticon zombie walk
♦New location for Archie McPhee. Check our YouTube channel for video!
♦Starcraft #1 from Wildstorm
Summer Geek Madness
check our convention calendar and event calendar for links to some awesome summer cons and events.
Darren Benjamin of Trekcast and co-author of The Intergalactic Bartender
Mentioned in the interview was the My Star Trek Experience documentary shows.
Summer TV
True Blood on HBO
Warehouse 13 on *shudder* SyFy
Entourage on HBO
Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network
Project Runway – Note that the new season will be on Lifetime >NOT< Bravo.
have a fun, safe geekly summer! Email us with pics of your activities!
Make Shannon Watch a Bad Movie
This week’s movie was Robo Vampire
If you’d like to dare Shannon to watch something, contact us by either email, leave a voicemail at eave a voicemail at 206-201-2352 or contact us via skype at seattlegeekly.
Contests
New Contest – F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin SIGNED GAME Giveaway! We have a brand new copy of the game for the XBox 360 AUTOGRAPHED by the game developers! This contest will run from today until June 21st, 2009. leave a comment on THIS POST to enter.
You still have time to enter the Pirates of the Burning Seas prize package which includes the MMO Game with 30-day free gameplay, 2 t-shirts 1 men’s XL and women’s L, contest ends June 7. Leave a comment on THIS POST to enter.
and go test out your evil laugh for James Durham of FETIDUS for a chance to win IMMORTALITY (and an iPod Touch!)
Music
Music today was Summer Glau by John Anealio and Jim Beam Me Up by Warp 11
Next Week’s Show: Post– Crypticon show! If you aren’t going we’ll fill you in on what you missed. If you are going look for us there (we’ll have prizes to give away!) and please share your pictures and stories with us!
Events
♦June 6, 2009 10am – 10pm The Underground 2407 1st Ave Seattle – Punk Rock Flea Market #6. Look for the creators of The Two Percent Solution who will be there!
The Two Percent Solution @ Punk Rock Flea Market #6!!!
♦June 6, 2009 Seattle Repertory Theater 155 Mercer St – Seattle Rep Costume and Prop Sale
♦June 6, 2009 12pm – 3pm Borders Books 2437 Southcenter Mall Tukwila, WA – InnoSera General Meeting. Learn more about the Innocente Seraphim convention, Japanese ball jointed dolls and Gothic Lolita fashion!
♦Now – September 13, 2009 Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue Seattle – The Puppet Show. Contemporary puppets from a wide variety of artists
♦June 6, 2009 1pm Gary’s Games 8539 Greenwood Ave N Seattle – Warlord CCG game demo
♦June 6, 2009 8pm Stone Soup Theater Seattle – KRAM Improv presents CSI: Seattle Crime Scene Improv a fast-paced improvised crime comedy about a team of investigators who use both bleeding-edge science and old-fashioned police know-how to solve crimes. Inspired by the popular television series, CSI: Seattle – Crime Scene Improv invites the audience to follow criminals, cops and other low-lifes through a different mystery each night. With the savoir-faire of Inspector Clouseau and the subtlety of David Caruso, the intrepid team solves the crimes (usually) and avenges the victims (even when they maybe don’t deserve it). If you miss it at Stone Soup you can catch the show June 11 – 12 at ArtsWest in Seattle
♦June 10, 2009 7pm EMP|SFM Seattle – Oral History Live! series presents Jim Henson’s Commercials and Experiments with puppeteer and animator Karen Prell. Admission is free for EMP|SFM members, $5 for general public.
♦Weekly – Wednesdays 7pm – 10pm Berserk Games 7217 Greenwood Ave N – Game Night at Berserk! Learn all about the latest and greatest games and play them for a couple hours to get the feel for them. Also, every board game in the store is 10% off during Game Night.
♦June 11, 2009 – Market Theater 1428 Post Alley Seattle – LAST CHANCE TO SEE The Improvised Man. Improv in the style of the great American writer, Ray Bradbury! We tell three stories in the various Ray Bradbury-based styles based on titles given to us by the audience! Don’t miss this show, which runs for only four Thursdays!
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