We are finishing up the Seattle Geekly podcast by doing one of the things we have enjoyed most: talking to authors. This week we have interviews with Peter Orullian about his first novel The Unremembered and Chris Farnsworth about The President’s Vampire, the second book in his horror/spy thriller series

Plus Shannon watches her final bad movie and since this is the last episode of the podcast we’ll be running down a list of other places you can go on the internet to get your geek fix.

Our Geek Week

• Read Yarn by Jon Armstrong
• Read The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
• Read first collection of Matt Fraction‘s run on Invincible Iron Man
• Caught up with trade collections of Air by G. Willow Wilson
• Finished Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
• Epic Game Day
• Saw Thor in the theater
• Free Comic Book Day with Paper Windows at Top Pot and Arcane Comics

Author Talk

• Peter Orullian



• Christopher Farnswoth

Get Your Geek Fix

GENERAL GEEK MADNESS
• Functional Nerds
• The BoneBat Show
• Pacific Fen Spotlight
• Geeky Hostess
• Zaxy
• Favorite Thing Ever

MUSIC

• Radio Free Hipster/Hipster, please!

BAD MOVIES

• Mail Order Zombie

COMICS

• Backroom Comics

VIDEO GAMES

• The Married Gamers
• Wing Damage/Barrel Roll!
• Busy Gamer News
• Video Game Outsiders

WARCRAFT

• Warcraft Outsiders
• Raid Warning

Music

Music this week was ‘Meantime’ by Adam WarRock, it’s one of the many free tracks you can download from his website and you can also buy his album The War For Infinity off Bandcamp. You also heard ‘It All Makes Sense At the End’ by Molly Lewis from her EP I Made You a CD But I Eated It

A lot of people have been asking us if having another person working with us would have made a difference. The answer is that of course having another person would have helped, but it probably would have just delayed the inevitable. We actually did try and bring on a couple of guest reviewers for books and music but it really didn’t work out. What it came down to was that it isn’t really fair to harass people about deadlines and production when all you are offering them is the opportunity to do work for free.

In order to keep the podcast going we would really have needed a person who’s full time job was being a producer; lining up interviews, coordinating events and conventions, keeping track of review material and all that. In addition having a graphic designer and a website designer on staff would have helped as well. Unfortunately none of that was really viable economically. We didn’t mind putting our time into the podcast because this was our pet project but we couldn’t really expect anyone else to indefinitely volunteer for the hours and hours it took to do this every week or even every two weeks.

Because of the response we’ve been getting we are looking in to ways to keep the Event Calendar going, we will still be twittering as Seattle Geekly, Shannon will still have her personal twitter @askageekgal and you can follow our book recommendations on GoodReads. We are also encouraging people to call our voicemail line (206)201-2352 and leave a message to be played on our final podcast on May 12.

Thanks again for all the kind words and support.

(If you are looking for the Episode #97 show notes, they are right here and, no, that is not the important announcement)

There is no easy way to do this, so here it is; We have reached the point where we are going to have to lower the curtain on Seattle Geekly. The demands of producing the show have exceeded our available resources, both financially and in terms of time. This is a heart rending decision for us and one that we did not come to easily.

I’m sure it seems that this is coming out of nowhere but the fact is this has been brewing behind the scenes for quite some time now. We went through a list of changes we could make in order to keep Seattle Geekly going but what it came down to was the fact that if we scaled it back to the point where it would be sustainable it would no longer be the show we wanted it to be and it wouldn’t be something we could be proud of producing. After long debate we decided we would much rather end at a high point and have the legacy of Seattle Geekly be people wishing we had kept going and done more than keep pushing on and leave a trail of disappointing shows before we petered out at the bitter end. The first rule of show business is “always leave them wanting more” and while we aren’t exactly in show business we felt it still applied.

In addition to the question of the resources required, there have been a few things recently that brought home to us the fact that, no matter how much work we put in to the show, at the end of the day we are still just another podcast and blog in a vast ocean of podcasts and blogs. We are proud of the work we’ve done and constantly amazed by the enjoyment people seem to get out of what we do, but we realized that in the grand scale of things the two of us putting down this project was not going to be the end of the world even for our most dedicated fans.

We said when we started the podcast that if we connected one person with one book, movie, TV show, game or event that they would not have otherwise found that it would be a success and we have had more success in that department than we ever could have imagined. The opportunity to see people geek out over things they found through our show is going to be the hardest thing for us to give up.

We want to thank everyone for all the kindness we have been shown over the past two years and apologize deeply to all those who are feeling like we have let you down. The wonderful thing about new media, though, is that if you decide that there is a geeky podcast/blog shaped hole in your world you can start one! We haven’t done anything here that anyone else couldn’t do at least as well, if not better.

Once this announcement goes out we are going to be unplugging ourselves from the internet for a bit. We’ll be back to answering e-mail and twitters and such in a couple of days, we will be having our last hurrah at Epic Game Day this Saturday and we’ll be back to put out one final show in two weeks. We’ll be keeping the website up and the past podcasts available for download until the end of the year.

We will not be dropping off the face of the planet after this. We have been participating in the geek community all our lives and we will continue to do so. You will still see us at various geeky events around the region and you can still come up and say hi to us if you are moved to do so. The only difference will be that instead of being Shannon and Matt from Seattle Geekly we will just be Shannon and Matt, two geeks from Seattle.

Norwescon has been the center of our Geek Year for a very long time now and this year was no exception. This week we’re going to try and summarize our convention experience, just to try and give a taste of what went on over what was an amazing weekend. While we were at the convention we also had the chance to catch up with local author and geek scene icon Bruce Taylor, “Mr. Magic Realism”.

All that, plus Shannon watches a bad movie and we have a major announcement about the future of Seattle Geekly

Our Geek Week

• Listened to the audiobook of The Prefect by Alistair Reynolds
• Reading The Unremembered by Peter Orullian
• Finished single player Portal 2 on the PC
• Watched Season 6 Dr. Who premiere
• Almost done with Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• We, along with Julie from 19 Nocturne Boulevard are guests on the most recent episode of the Zombie Mob podcast with McPierce! You should check it out!
• New nook firmware update (Yay! App store!)

Norwescon 34 Wrap Up

THURSDAY
• Matt’s panel ‘Best Board Games for Nongamers’ with Jeremy from Bucephalus Games/Greenlake Games and Julie Haehn

FRIDAY

• Shannon’s panel ‘Fandom in Daily Life’ with Death*Star and Dierde Phoenix
• Shannon’s panel ‘Grrrl Gamers!’ with Julie Haehn, Tamera Mickelson, & Kate Marshall
• Matt’s panel ‘The State of SyFy’ with David A. Page and Judith Herman
  

• Like Water for Quarks
  
  • Bruce Taylor “Mr. Magic Realism”
• The Philip K Dick Award presentation

SATURDAY

• Shannon’s panel ‘Podcasting 101′ with Jim Granger of Pacific Fen Spotlight and Bonehand Steve of The Bonebat Show
• Shannon’s panel ‘Godzilla vs. Zombies’ with Rev. En Fuego and Lilith von Fraumench
• Shannon’s panel ‘Batman vs. Superman’ with Ashley Cook Spencer Ellsworth and Matt Youngmark
• Matt’s panel ‘When Fandoms Collide’ with Karen Rall
• Saturday Concerts:
  • Death*Star
  • Vixy & Tony
  • The Heather Dale Band

SUNDAY

• Matt’s panel ‘Gaming and Community’ with Donna Prior and Liz Courts
• Matt’s panel ‘Plagues, Pandemics and You’ with Miki Garrison and Darry Willis

Pre-registration for Norwescon 35 will be open soon. Keep your eye on the official Norwescon website or follow @norwescon on twitter. We’ll see you there next year!

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s bad movie was Season of the Witch (2011)

News

• Playstation Network Hacked
• PAX Prime 3 Day Passes Selling Out

Music

Music this week was ‘Social Apothecary’ by Death*Star from the forthcoming album A New Dope. Catch Death*Star LIVE at at Rendezvous/JewelBox Theater with Klopfenpop & Sketch of a Monster TOMORROW NIGHT or, if you missed that you can see them Saturday, May 14 at 9:00pm at the Blue Moon Tavern with Gonken and Fro Magnum Man

An Important Announcement

There is no easy way to make this announcement, so here it is. We have reached the point where we are going to have to lower the curtain on Seattle Geekly. The demands of producing the show have exceeded our available resources, both financially and in terms of time. This is a heart rending decision for us and one that we did not come to easily.

I’m sure it seems that this is coming out of nowhere but the fact is this has been brewing behind the scenes for quite some time now. We went through a list of changes we could make in order to keep Seattle Geekly going but what it came down to was the fact that if we scaled it back to the point where it would be sustainable it would no longer be the show we wanted it to be and it wouldn’t be something we could be proud of producing. After long debate we decided we would much rather end at a high point and have the legacy of Seattle Geekly be people wishing we had kept going and done more than keep pushing on and leave a trail of disappointing shows before we petered out at the bitter end. The first rule of show business is “always leave them wanting more” and while we aren’t exactly in show business we felt it still applied.

In addition to the question of the resources required, there have been a few things recently that brought home to us the fact that, no matter how much work we put in to the show, at the end of the day we are still just another podcast and blog in a vast ocean of podcasts and blogs. We are proud of the work we’ve done and constantly amazed by the enjoyment people seem to get out of what we do, but we realized that in the grand scale of things the two of us putting down this project was not going to be the end of the world even for our most dedicated fans.

We said when we started the podcast that if we connected one person with one book, movie, TV show, game or event that they would not have otherwise found that it would be a success and we have had more success in that department than we ever could have imagined. The opportunity to see people geek out over things they found through our show is going to be the hardest thing for us to give up.

We want to thank everyone for all the kindness we have been shown over the past two years and apologize deeply to all those who are feeling like we have let you down. The wonderful thing about new media, though, is that if you decide that there is a geeky podcast/blog shaped hole in your world you can start one! We haven’t done anything here that anyone else couldn’t do at least as well, if not better.

Once this announcement goes out we are going to be unplugging ourselves from the internet for a bit. We’ll be back to answering e-mail and twitters and such in a couple of days, we will be having our last hurrah at Epic Game Day this Saturday and we’ll be back to put out one final show in two weeks. We’ll be keeping the website up and the past podcasts available for download until the end of the year.

We will not be dropping off the face of the planet after this. We have been participating in the geek community all our lives and we will continue to do so. You will still see us at various geeky events around the region and you can still come up and say hi to us if you are moved to do so. The only difference will be that instead of being Shannon and Matt from Seattle Geekly we will just be Shannon and Matt, two geeks from Seattle.

- A selection of some of the great geek events going on in the Greater Seattle area this week -

Kind of a quiet week this week but there are still two events that are not to be missed!

First up there is going to be an awesome night of nerdcore Friday night at 10pm at the Rendezvous/JewelBox Theater, 2322 2nd Avenue in Seattle, featuring live performances by Klopfenpop, Death*Star and Sketch of a Monster. Tickets are only $7 at the door and this is a 21 and over show. This is a great opportunity to hear some great live music but if, like us, you have lamented the fact that so many geek music shows seem to be on Sunday nights you NEED to get out to this rare Friday night event. Let the venue operators know that there is an audience for geek music!

This Satuday is, of course, EPIC GAME DAY at the AFK Tavern, 1510 41st Street in Everett. Epic Game Day is a celebration of hobby gaming, where gamers from both inside and outside the industry can mingle, play games, and enjoy each other’s company. It doesn’t matter if you’re a professional game designer, industry vet, community leader, or a hobby enthusiast – Epic Game Day is full of epic win for all hobby gamers! And did we mention that it is totally free?!? Epic Game Day runs from Noon to Midnight and the schedule of games is available at EpicGameDay.com. We are definitely going to be there and Shannon is even going to be hosting a game of Talisman from 4-8pm. Don’t miss it!

- A selection of some of the great geek events going on in the Greater Seattle area this week -

This weekend is all about festivals and conventions in Seattle!

Running Friday Saturday and Sunday is the first ever Seattle International Film Festival Animation Fascination Festival at the SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer Street in Seattle. SIFF Cinema will take a look back at some of the best animated shorts from the past few years, recent works from the National Film Board of Canada, the latest feature from the legendary Bill Plympton, the rarely screened Chuck Jones classic The Phantom Tollbooth, a tribute to the classic short films of Pixar, and the Seattle premiere of Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max. More details and specific show times are available at the SIFF website. Passes for the entire festival are $60 or $25 for SIFF members. Animation Fascination is co-presented by The Stranger and 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival.

Also running Friday through Sunday is Sakrua-Con 2011 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Sakura-con is the largest anime/manga/Japanese culture convention in the Northwest and all the excellent programming you’ve come to expect will be back in abundance. Anime theaters, gaming, cosplay, cultural panels, dances, concerts, art contests, AMV’s, industry guests, over 100,000 square feet of exhibits hall, guests of honor and more! The full program schedule is available online. Weekend passes are $60 at the door and day passes are also available.

Last but not least, this Thursday through Sunday is Norwescon 34! Norwescon is one of the largest regional Science Fiction and Fantasy conventions in the United States. While maintaining a primarily literary focus, Norwescon is large enough to provide a venue for many of the other aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy and the interests of its fans such as anime, costuming, art, gaming, and much, much more. Norwescon features over 500 hours of panel programming, presented by more than 200 panelists, covering such diverse subjects as science fiction, fantasy, science, costuming, art, writing, genre television and movies, as well as a myriad of other topics of interest to fans. Weekend passes are $60 at the door or $55 for Northwest Science Fiction Society members. This is where we’re going to be all weekend and if you want to track us down our panel schedule will be under the fold.

Many people have asked why two major conventions with a high degree of overlap between their audiences would schedule themselves to be on the same weekend. We have wondered that ourselves since we would love to be able to check out Sakura-Con but it ALWAYS conflicts with Norwescon. Long time friend-of-the-podcast DJ Wudi wondered about that as well and he actually does a very good job of explaining it.

The Seattle Geekly panel schedule for Norwescon is under the fold. Come see us sweat in front of an audience!

Shannon

• Fandom in Daily Life
  Friday 11 am Cascade 7
• Grrrl Gamers!
  Friday 1 pm Evergreen 3 & 4
• Podcasting 101
  Saturday 1 pm Cascade 8
• Godzilla vs. Zombies
  Saturday 4 pm Cascade 8
• Batman vs. Superman: Who Would REALLY Win in a Fight?
  Saturday 6 pm Cascade 4

Matt

• Best Board Games for Nongamers
  Thursday 6 pm Cascade 9
• The State of SyFy (née Sci-Fi Channel)
  Friday 9 pm Cascade 5 & 6
• When Fandoms Collide
  Saturday 11 am Cascade 8
• Gaming and Community
  Sunday Noon Cascade 1
• Plagues, Pandemics and You
  Sunday 1 pm Cascade 9

Geek Music is a genre on the rise and the variety of styles under the geek music umbrella is on the increase as well. This week we explore the breadth of geek music with nerdcore MC Klopfenpop, Filk heroes Vixy and Tony and hard rockers Sci-Fried. There should be something for just about anyone!

All that plus some geek news.

Our Geek Week

• Read the eBook of Hellhole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson
• Watched The Horde (2009) on DVD
• Watched Monsters (2010) on Blu-ray
• Played in the regular D&D game
• Read All the Lives He Lived by Frederick Pohl
• Read Badass: Birth of a Legend by Ben Thompson

Geek Music Variety Pack

• Klopfenpop (interview starts at 14:47)
  • See Klopfenpop live at the Rendezvous/Jewelbox Theater in Seattle April 28



• Vixy & Tony (interview starts at 33:28)
  • Upcoming Vixy & Tony show at the Kenmore Community Club on April 16
  • The Norwescon Concert Series
  • Seattle’s Filk convention Conflikt
  • Emerald Forest Filk Society Mailing List



• Sci-Fried (interview starts at 1:00:32)

News

• Wonder Woman Will Have Shorts After All
• The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Announces 37th Annual Origins Awards Nominees
• FBI Raids University of Michigan Students’ Apartment over WoW Gold Farming

Music

Music this week was ‘We Don’t Need Another Trilogy’ by John Anealio from his new EP Books, Bytes & Bots (buy it on Band Camp) as well as selections from our three interview victims!

Next show: Episode #97– April 28th – Post-Norwescon. We’ll talk about our panels, the concerts and whatever else we can fit in!

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– A selection of some of the great geek events going on in the Greater Seattle area this week –

This is the final weekend for both Open Circle Theater’s The Rocky Horror Show which is being performed live on stage at Open Circle, 2222 2nd Ave Seattle at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday and 4pm on Sunday and also the Puppet This production Manos: The Hands of Felt which is playing at Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave, Seattle. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 10:30pm. Do not miss your chance to see them both!

This weekend is also the 8th annual Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland. One of the largest showcases for creator-owned comics, Stumptown runs Saturday from 10am – 6pm and Sunday from 12 – 6pm. Guests include Eric Powell, Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, representatives from Studio Foglio and many more!
Single day passes are only $7!

More events under the fold.

TONGIHT!

• Author Signing: Grace Krilanovich, J.R.D. (Jarret) Middleton, and Aaron Dietz 7pm – 9pm at the Elliott Bay Book Co. 1521 10th Ave, Seattle
  Thanks to the coordinating efforts of Seattle’s Dark Coast Press, this evening features three terrific new fiction writers, each with highly-praised debuts. Grace Krilanovich’s novel, The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio) made a number of best of year lists, including NPR and Shelf Unbound. “Beautiful and deranged, [Krilanovich] nails the shaky worldview of a supernatural teen narco-insomniac … Being undead, here, is the defining paradox of the teenage female experience: to be both immortal and rapidly aging.” – Adam Wilson, Bookforum.

  Seattle writer J.R.D. (Jarret) Middleton is here with his novel, An Dantomine Eerly. “It’s experimental, surrealist fiction about the end of a poet’s life. Eerly calls back to centuries of Irish literary tradition, from the aisling (a patriotic lyric poem from the 17th century with dozens of bizarre constraints) to James Joyce’s giddy molestation of language.” – Paul Constant

  Rounding out this trio as a last minute addition to tonight’s “New Literature Wilderness Exploration Group Tour” is Aaron Dietz, author of Super (Emergency Press). Most books spiral downward, but this one spirals up, building ever more fanciful and heartbreaking worlds as it goes, chapter after chapter. In the end you’re left with a view of life-almost a philosophical system; yet it’s the most fun I’ve had reading a book in years. It’s like Shazam and the X-Men teaching Zen. –Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

• Author Signing: Peter Orullian 7pm – 8pm at Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park
  Peter Orullian promotes The Unremembered: Book One of the Vault of Heaven

  The gods, makers of worlds, seek to create balance—between matter and energy; and between mortals who strive toward the transcendent, and the natural perils they must tame or overcome. But one of the gods fashions a world filled with hellish creatures far too powerful to allow balance; he is condemned to live for eternity with his most hateful creations in that world’s distant Bourne, restrained by a magical veil kept vital by the power of song.

  The troubles of the world seem far from the Hollows where Tahn Junell struggles to remember his lost childhood and to understand words he feels compelled to utter each time he draws his bow. Trouble arrives when two strangers—an enigmatic man wearing the sigil of the feared Order of Sheason and a beautiful woman of the legendary Far—come, to take Tahn, his sister and his two best friends on a dangerous, secret journey.

Thursday

• Author Signing:Danika Dinsmore 7pm – 9pm at the University Book Store 4326 University Way NE, Seattle
  Danika Dinsmore promotes Brigitta of the White Forest. This fantasy for young adults concerns a Water Faerie going through a life change. Brigitta is waiting for markings on her wings to appear–markings that will determine the path her life will take. While she is away on an errand with her sister, her fellow villagers are cursed and turned to stone and it is up to Brigitta and Himalette to determine what happened and what they can do about it.

Friday

• Author Signing: Ben Thompson 7pm – 9pm at Barnes & Noble 2675 NE University Village, Seattle
  Ben Thompson promotes Badass: The Birth of a Legend

  In his first book, Badass, Thompson, creator of the Web site badassoftheweek.com, focused on warlords, samurai, pirates, and gunfighters who actually existed; in this follow-up, he turns to mythological badasses throughout history. From Anubis and Zeus to Capt. James T. Kirk and Godzilla, Thompson delivers detailed and adrenaline-fueled screeds on 40 characters “whose stories of ball-crushing conquest are still awesome enough to make even the tamest readers want to snatch up a sword and go hunting for dragon meat.”

Saturday

• Vixy and Tony LIVE at Kenmore Community Club 7pm – 10pm at the Kenmore Community Club 7304 NE 175th St, Kenmore
  Come see Vixy & Tony at the Kenmore Community Club! They will be be joined by Betsy and Sunnie, and the opening act will be Katie Tinney, who you might remember from Conflikt!

  Admission is a suggested donation of $10.00 to help defray the cost of renting the space, but if price is an issue, come anyway and just enjoy! Vixy & Tony want you all there no matter what!

– A selection of some of the great geek events going on in the Greater Seattle area this week –

One convention this weekend; Just A Game Con takes place in Corvallis, Oregon at the Benton County Fairgrounds. Just a Game Con is 32 hours of straight tabletop gaming from 10am Saturday to 6pm Sunday. There will be open demos of many games and game systems, a War Machine tournament and the Heroclix Kill & Keep competition that pits your team of heroes against the gigantic Fin Fang Foom! Passes are $10 for the whole weekend and kids are free!

More events under the fold

You have another opportunity this weekend to see The Rocky Horror Show which is being performed live on stage at Open Circle Theater, 2222 2nd Ave Seattle at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday and 4pm on Sunday and also Manos: The Hands of Felt which is playing at Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave, Seattle. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 10:30pm.

Friday

• Fantastic Fiction presents: Jeffrey Ford 7pm at the University Book Store 4326 University Way NE, Seattle
  NW Media Arts and University Book Store invite you to join us each month as we bring to Seattle critically acclaimed writers from across the US and Europe whose work showcases the finest of speculative literature. Jeffrey Ford is a six time recipient of the World Fantasy Award and has also won the Nebula, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. He is the author of the novels, The Shadow Year, The Girl in the Glass, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, and The Well-Built City Trilogy.

Saturday

• Author Signing: J. A. Pitts 2pm at Barnes & Noble Crossroads 15600 NE 8th Ave, Bellevue
  J.A. Pitts appears to promote the mass market paperback release of his book Black Blade Blues

Monday

• Fantastic Fiction presents: Louise Marley 7pm at University Book Store 4326 University Way NE, Seattle
  The good folks at NW MediaArts have welcomed any number of fantastic fantasy authors to its Fantastic Fiction Salons. March 2011 brings the one and only Louise Marley, award-winning author of 10 books, including the most recent, Mozart’s Blood.

  Inspired by the life of Teresa Saporiti, the first Donna Anna. Teresa, an aspiring singer, was turned into a vampire by a Czech aristocrat. As bad as the need for blood are the memories of the victims, which remain with the taker. Teresa has learned to deal with them, but Mozart, whom the baroness bit at the same time, never did and died painfully because he could not bring himself to satisfy the unnatural thirst. In San Francisco in 1906, Teresa meets Ugo, a Silician werewolf with a very curious past of his own. They become partners, guarding each other’s backs. In twenty-first-century Milan, an egoistic baritone thinks he has figured out Teresa’s secret and abducts Ugo to obtain the blood that holds Mozart’s memories.

• GeekGirlCon Trivia Competition 8pm at Dad Watsons 3601 Fremont Ave N in Seattle
  Gather your geekiest friends around and put your thinking caps on! GeekGirlCon invites you to a geeky trivia competition.

  Hosted by Geeks Who Drink, the most knowledgeable geeks in Washington will go head to head in this trivia night at Dad Watson’s for fame, fortune, and ultimate geek bragging rights!

  Teams up to six players. Entry fee is $5 per person. Compete to win 30% of the total entry fees and GeekGirlCon button packs. This is an all-ages event.

  During our friendly competition, they will also be collecting canned food to donate to the Ballard Food Bank. You can get in your good deed of the day and compete for glory and riches – all in one place!

There is a good crop of geeky movies coming up in the next few months and this week we’re giving you the rundown. We’ve got the previews, our thoughts on the films and we’ll tell you whether you should see it in the theater, watch it at home or skip it all together.

We also talk to Danielle from Seattle’s Pacific Science Center about the exhibit Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination and we review the locally-produced documentary Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man.

All that plus some geek news and Shannon watches another Dared Movie.

Our Geek Week

• Playing Poker Night at the Inventory on the PC
• Read Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson (see Shannon’s review here)
• Playing Knights of the Old Republic on the PC
• Read Deathless by Catherine M. Valente (see Matt’s review here)
• Read Dark Jenny by Alex Bledsoe (see Matt’s review here)
• Playing You Don’t Know Jack on XBox360

Spring/Summer Movies

Sucker punch


Source Code


Super


Your Highness


Sceam 4


Rio


Thor


Priest


Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides


X-Men First Class


Super 8


Green Lantern

Geekly Extras

• Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man



• Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Dare Shannon to Watch a bad Movie

This week’s bad movie was Laserblast (1979)

If you want to dare Shannon to watch a bad movie, e-mail us at seattlegeekly@gmail.com or call us at (206)201-2352. Check our Dared Movies Page to see what is on the list and what Shannon has already watched.

Contest!

Win a Pile o’ Books!

We have a pile of books courtesy of Tor and Ace and we want to give them to YOU!

The books include:

• River Marked by Patricia Briggs
• Glen Cook’s third book in the Instumentalities of the Night series Surrender to the Will of the Night
• The Bird of the River by Kage Baker
• SIGNED COPIES of Paul of Dune and the brand new book Hellhole by Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson!

This contest starts today and we’ll be picking the winner during our show on April 14. We will ship the books 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!

News

• Epic Game Day II is April 30! Event submissions are open now if you want to host a game!
• Wolverine Pirate Pleads Guilty to Copyright Infringement

Music

Music this week was ‘Geek Rock’ and ‘Far From Home’ by Sci-Fried off their new album Future Tense.

Next Episode: April 14 – Episode #96 – Even Yet Still More Geek Music! Interviews and samples from another selection of geek musicians.

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