Sometimes we have the opportunity to talk with cool people over the course of a week and no matter how hard we try we can’t shoehorn them in to a unifying theme of some sort. For those weeks, we have our Geek Grab Bag, a selection of interviews that don’t really go together but a cool and geeky nonetheless.

This week we interview Shannon Posniewski from Cryptic Studios who is the Executive Producer of the MMO Champions Online, Scottish Ninjas creators Rob and Beau from Sly Studios and one of our favorite nerdcore rappers, Beefy.

We also have the weekly geek news, Seattle area geek events and Shannon watches her first Bad Movie double feature!

Our Geek Week

• Finished audio book of Feed by Mira Grant
• Listened to audio book of Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Next up You Suck
• Watched Daybreakers (2009) on Blu-ray
  

• Shannon is playing World of Warcraft again.
• Playing Batman Arkham Asylum on the XBox
• Caught up on season five of Doctor Who
• Read the advance copy of Antiphon by Ken Scholes
• Saw Robin Hood (2010) in the theater
• Watched I sell the Dead (2008) on Blu-ray

Geek Grab Bag

• Champions Online
  • The Serpent Lantern Adventure Pack info page
    



• Scottis Ninjas



• Beefy
  • Pick up With Sprinkles on Band Camp
    

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s bad movie was a killer poultry double feature of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) and ThanksKilling (2009)

No trailers this week. Look them up for yourself if you really feel you must. Not safe for work, children, rational adults, small animals and fragile inanimate objects.

Next week’s bad movie will be A Sound of Thunder (2005) – Dared by Patrick from the UK

News

• Star Wars Weekends at Disney World
• The Author of Let the Right One In has Written a Zombie Book
• Blizcon Tickets On Sale June 2 and June 5

Events

• Conventions
  • May 22, 2010 – Spokane Comicon – Spokane, WA
  • May 22 – 23, 2010 – Victoria Steam Exposition – Victoria, BC Canada
• Events
  • May 21, 2010 8 – 10pm Neptune Coffee 415 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle – Seattle Geekly Trivia Night. This month join us for Horror movie trivia with Crypticon! Questions will be based of the guests who will be in town for the convention in June and you’ll have a chance to win a weekend pass to Crypticon just for showing up! Test your knowledge and win prizes!
  • May 22 – August 15, 2010 12:30am Historic University Theater 5510 University Way NE – Puppet TV. This isn’t like any puppet show you’ve ever seen. Puppet TV is a funny, bawdy and irreverent puppet improv show. The cast will use suggestions from the audience to create a completely different show every night. No two shows will ever be the same! Due to puppet nudity, foul language and mayhem, Puppet TV is suggested for Mature Audiences only. Tickets are $8.
  • May 22, 2010 7pm Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery 1201 South Vale St, Seattle – Jim Woodring. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery welcomes visionary cartoonist Jim Woodring. He will give a slide presentation focusing on his latest work WEATHERCRAFT and sign copies of the book, which debuts at the event.
• Plan Ahead
  • May 29, 2010 9pm Blue Moon Tavern 712 NE 45th St, Seattle – Death*Star CD Release Party. Celebrate the release of nerdcore duo Death*Star’s latest album The Fandom Menace with a night of nerdcore at the Blue Moon. Death*Star will be performing as will local nerdcore pioneer Ultraklystron! Tickets are $5 at the door. This is a 21 and over show.
  • May 29 – 30, 2010 Games Workshop 1003B Holman Rd NW, Seattle – Hobby Center Birthday Celebration. Join the crew at Carkeek Plaza in celebrating the third birthday of the store with two days of solid gaming! The store will open at 12pm Saturday and will stay open until 6pm Sunday with Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy and Lord of the Rings battles, speed painting contests, door prizes and more. Bring your favorite armies or stock up during the celebration. Prizes given away every hour!
  • June 11 – 13, 2010 – Northwest Pinball & Game Room Show – Seattle, WA
  • June 18 – 20, 2010 – Crypticon – Seattle, WA
  • June 18 – 20, 2010 – PaizoCon – Bellevue, WA
  • June 18 – 20, 2010 – Go Play Northwest 2010 – Seattle, WA

Contest!

Summer Reading Giveaway

Need to stock up on some reading material for the coming months? Well Seattle Geekly is here to help. We are giving away a hradback copy of Busted Flush (a Wild Cards novel) edited by George R.R. Martin and trade paperback editions of Close Encounters of the Urban Kind edited by Jennifer Brozek and Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts.

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin (“The American Tolkien” –Time magazine) along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then—and of the heroes among the one percent.

Now a new generation of heroes has taken its place on the world stage, its members crucial players in international events. At the United Nations, veteran ace John Fortune has assembled a team of young aces known as the Committee, to assist at trouble spots around the world–including a genocidal was in the Niger Delta, an invasion of zombies in hurricane ravaged New Orleans, and a freak nuclear explosion in a small Texas town.

We’ve all heard the stories of what happens to those who go to lovers’ lane and of the folly of flashing your lights at another car at night. We all know someone who knows someone that survived a meeting with Bloody Mary and another who picked up a hitchhiker that then disappeared. And we all know these stories aren’t true. They’re just urban legends. Right? Wrong. Sometimes the stories we hear are true. Often they’re more than they seem. These are the urban legends with alien explanations and the alien encounters mistaken for urban legends. The line between one and the other is so blurred in this anthology of stories about Close Encounters of the Urban Kind that you will never look another urban legend the same way again. Featuring stories by Alma Alexander, Nathan Crowder, Carole Johnstone, Pete Kempshall, Jennifer Pelland, Erik Scott de Bie, Bev Vincent, and many others.

Sarah Beauhall has more on her plate than most twenty-somethings: day job as a blacksmith, night job as a props manager for low-budget movies, and her free time is spent fighting in a medieval re-enactment group.

The lead actor breaks Sarah’s favorite one-of-a-kind sword, and to avoid reshooting scenes, Sarah agrees to repair the blade. One of the extras, who claims to be a dwarf, offers to help. And that’s when things start to get weird. Could the sword really be magic, as the “dwarf” claims? Are dragons really living among us as shapeshifters?

And as if things weren’t surreal enough, Sarah’s girlfriend Katie breaks out the dreaded phrase… “I love you.” As her life begins to fall apart, first her relationship with Katie, then her job at the movie studio, and finally her blacksmithing career, Sarah hits rock bottom. It is at this moment, when she has lost everything she has prized, that one of the dragons makes their move.

And suddenly what was unthinkable becomes all too real…and Sarah will have to decide if she can reject what is safe and become the heroine who is needed to save her world.

This contest will run from now until June 2 with the winners picked on the show on June 3. We’ll ship the swag to you via USPS

“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST. You can just say “hi” or whatever! One entry per person please, we’ll delete any multiple or offensive posts. Make sure you use a valid e-mail address when you register so we can contact you if you win!

“How will you randomly pick someone?”
We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!

Music

Music this week was ‘Game Store Girl’ and ‘Smiles Time’ by Beefy from the album With Sprinkles.

Next Week’s Show: Episode #63 – Spokane ComiCon Wrap Up!

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