We took time out of our PAX-prep madness to talk to one of our favorite local authors and one of our favorite local film buffs about their latest projects. Harry Connolly was on the show back in Episode #43 with his first novel Child of Fire and he was kind enough to return now that his second, Game of Cages has hit the shelves. We also talk with Sean “The Butcher” Smithson about his Film School Confidential U.S. film series that starts up this weekend.

Shannon is still trying to recover from last week’s Dared Movie so she didn’t watch one this week but we do have the weekly geek news and we talk about what to expect from out PAX coverage this year!

Our Geek Week

• Read Chew Vol. 2 “International Flavor” by John Layman and Rob Guillory
• Read Hack/Slash Omnibus #1 by Tim Seeley
• Listening to the audio book of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Read Atomic Robo vol. 1 by Brian Clevinger with art by Scott Wegener
• Played Dixit (boardgame)
• Picked up the first issue of Another Passion which features 12 interviews with various creative types, including a certain pair of local podcasters!

Books

Game of Cages by Harry Connolly

Movies

Film School Confidential U.S. with Sean “The Butcher” Smithson

Contest!

We have TWO PAIRS of full weekend passes to the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival to give away. The festival runs from Friday September 17 through Sunday September 19 at the SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer Street in Seattle. You and a friend will be able to watch every short, feature film and documentary at the festival!

This contest will run through September 9 and we will pick the two winners during Episode #76 of the Seattle Geekly podcast.

“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!

News

• Seattle Geekly PAX 2010 Meetup!
  • Stay tuned for our PAX 2010 coverage starting next week which will include interviews with Runic Games, Square Enix, Turbine, Valve, NC Soft and many more!
• Lovecraft film plot details leak, Cameron calls it a new Aliens
• Henson Family Donates Original Muppets to the Smithsonian

Music

Music this week was ‘Jacquelyn Hyde’ by MC Frontalot off of his latest album Zero Day. MC Frontalot will be at PAX performing at the Saturday night concert with Paul & Storm and Jonathan Coulton!

Next show: Episode #76 – PAX 2010 #1 show – We’ll play our interviews and impression about PAX this year.

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