The weather is cooling off and that provides an excellent excuse to stay inside and geek out in front of the TV. If you really feel you must go outside, you can also hop down to your local cinema and check out some of the great fan friendly movies that will be hitting screens over the next few months.
This week we’re going to attempt to hit the highlights of the Fall TV season and movie releases. We also interview with Mark Rahner, creator of the zombie western comic book Rotten, Dae Low will fill us in on the 2009 Browncoat Ball, the national Firely/Serenity fan event making its first appearance on the west coast this October and we review Smash or Trash, the new party boardgame from FunQ Games.
All that plus geek events for the Seattle area and the geeky news.
Our Geek Week
♦Stephen King’s The Cell audio book
♦Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings on the DS
♦Milestones for two of our favorite podcasts – Congratulations on one year of TrekCast
and two years of Bone Bat!
♦Sacred 2 on XBox 360
♦Final Fantasy IV on the DS
♦Horrible, horrible DS addiction
♦It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
MIFFF Wrap Up
MIFFF Highlights
♦Revenant
♦Hart
♦Enigma
♦Greenspoke
♦The Kirkie
♦The Auburn Hills Breakdown
♦Thirsty
♦Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
♦Pig Hunt
♦The Ends of the Earth
♦The Delivery
♦Bathtub to Happiness
♦Until the Light Takes Us
♦Strigoi
Fall Media Madness
TV
Monday
Heroes – 8pm NBC
House – 8pm FOX
Big Bang Theory – 9:30pm CBS
Castle – 10pm ABC
Tuesday
V – 8pm ABC
The Forgotten – 10pm ABC
Better Off Ted – ABC (will start after Dancing with the Stars ends for the season)
Wednesday
Glee – 9pm FOX
Eastwick – 10pm ABC
South Park – 10pm Comedy Central
Thursday
Vampire Diaries – 8pm CW
Flashforward – 8pm ABC
Bones – 8pm FOX
Supernatural – 9pm CW
Fringe – 9pm FOX
— Fans of Fringe will want to check out David Wu’s Fringemunks
The Office – 9pm NBC
30 Rock – 9:30pm NBC
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – 10pm FX
Friday
Smallville – 8pm CW
Dollhouse – 9pm FOX
Stargate Universe – 9pm SyFy
Saturday
Saturday Night Live – 11:35pm NBC
Sunday
The Cleveland Show – 8:30pm FOX
Family Guy – 9pm FOX
Dexter – 9pm Showtime
Californication – 10pm Showtime
Movies
September
Jennifer’s Body – 9/18
Surrogates – 9/25
Pandorum – 9/25
Paranormal Activity – 9/25
October
Zombieland – 10/2
Toy Story and Toy Story 2 remastered in 3D – 10/2
Where the Wild Things Are – 10/16
Saw 6 – 10/23
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – 10/23
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day – 10/30
November
The Men Who Stare At Goats – 11/6
A Christmas Carol – 11/6
2012 – 11/13
New Moon – 11/20
December
The Princess and the Frog – 12/11
Avatar – 12/18
Sherlock Holmes – 12/25
News
♦Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut DVD/Blue Ray Available November 3, 2009
♦Star Trek Writers Tackle Xombie’s Undead Superhero
♦‘Women of Marvel’ Costumes for Halloween
♦Highlander ‘reimagining’ on the way
Game Review
Smash or Trash from Fun Q Games. Check the podcast for the full review, but the short version is that this is a fun “mundane” party game. Players are given a random topic which will be the subject of new lyrics to a randomly chosen well known song. Don’t be frightened off by the prospect of singing, the rules say that you can “perform” the lyrics you write. This would be an excellent choice for a game night with a non-geek group.
Events
September 25 – 26, 2009 – Conflux – Portland, OR
September 25 – 26, 2009 – SciFan – Lynnwood, WA
September 25 – 27, 2009 – Foolscap 11 – Redmond, WA
September 25, 2009 9pm – 12am The Pink Door 1919 Post Alley Seattle – Enjoy a night of retro-future circus music with Toy Box Trio
September 25 – 26, 2009 Midnight Egyptian Theater 805 East Pine St Seattle – Midnight movies at the Egyptian: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
September 25, 2009 8pm Neptune Coffee 8415 Greenwood ave N Seattle – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trivia night. $5 per player, all proceeds benefit 826 Seattle
September 26, 2009 Odd Duck Studio 1214 10th Ave, Seattle – Blood Squad presents Dead Until Twilight: Seattle horror improv troupe Blood Squad brings you murder, mayhem and nasty blood-lust, vampire style. In the tradition of the new american classics Twilight & Dead Until Dark (the beloved novels that inspired True Blood) which were inspired by the old classics Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Interview with a Vampire, BS brings you the modern day vampire romance/horror/thriller. Performed every Saturday at 10:30 pm.
September 26, 2009 4pm – 12am Museum of History and Industry 2700 24th Ave E Seattle – Revenant Film Festival. The Revenant Film Festival features independent zombie films from around the world and special guests including Rotten comic creator Mark Rahner.
September 26, 2009 2:00pm Barnes & Noble Southcenter 300 Andover Park W Suite 200, Tukwila – Yasmine Galenorn reads from her urban fantasy novel Demon Mistress
September 26, 2009 7pm Wayward Coffeehouse 8570 Greenwood Ave N Seattle – SERENIVERSARY! Celebrating the anniversary of the release of Serenity. Join Wayward for a Whedon Trivia Quiz, Costume Contest, and more!
September 26, 2009 12pm – 6pm All Pilgrim’s Church 500 Broadway E Seattle – Steampunk Swap Meet. Get your steam on for Steamcon!
September 26, 2009 Games Workshop 10031 Holman Rd Northwest Suite B Seattle – Lucky 13s: Rolling Thunder. The next installment of the fabulously popular Lucky 13s 40k Apocalypse Campaign! Bring up to 5000 points of your army and declare for either the Orks or the Imperium. Will you wash away the filthy human scum, or stand fast against the tide of aliens?
September 27, 2009 2:00pm Barnes & Noble Southcenter 300 Andover Park W Suite 200, Tukwila – Janet Lee Carey reads from her YA fantasy novel Dragon’s Keep
October 2 – 4, 2009 – Governor Hotel 614 SW 11th Ave Portland, OR – 2009 Browncoat Ball. The Browncoat Ball aims to bring fans from around the world together to celebrate Firefly and each other. The vision for the Browncoat Ball is to be an affordable fan-run event to be held in a different city each year to maximize convenience and attendance. This is the fifth year for the Ball and marks its first visit to the west coast!
Contests
The EPIC PAX SWAG BAG giveaway contest. The swag includes several t-shirts, game demos, full versions of a couple of games, stickers, buttons, lanyards, temporary tattoos, download codes for the exclusive PAX09 t-shirt for your XBox Live avatar and a ton of other stuff.
“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST telling us what game you are playing currently or what game you WISH you were playing. Please only comment once, we’ll delete any multiple posts or offensive posts.
Shannon’s SpooOoOoOOooooky October movie contest!
For the month of October you can dare Shannon to watch a GOOD movie for a chance to win a Seattle Geekly prize pack. Check out THIS POST for details.
Music
Music this week was Saturday Night on SyFy by Sci-Fried
Next Week’s show: Northwest Haunts: We’ll tell you how to find some great spooky things to do during the month of October!
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On the DS side, I am playing Scribblenauts. On the RPG side, currently playing in a Hero System game. Check out the character blog of the game here –> http://gamesandgadgets.org/theblogs/kross/