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

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.

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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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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Finishing off our ECCC coverage this week, we have more interviews recorded on Saturday and Sunday at the con. In this episode we talk with writer Eric Trautmann, webcomic creators Neal Bailey, Alina Pete, and Rebecca Hicks, artist Echo Chernik, we catch up with Creator’s Edge editor-in-chief Chuck Messinger and Ed Ward the founder and operator of the Paper Windows comic subscription service. We were also lucky enough to sit down with William F. Nolan, author of Logans Run, among many other things, who was celebrating his 83rd birthday at Emerald City!

Beyond our Emerald City coverage, we also talk with with bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson about their new book Hellhole and get the rundown on the upcomming Gamestorm 13 with Outreach Coordinator Jason.

It’s a long show this week but we’re cramming in enough goodness to keep you going as we return to our bi-weekly format.

Our Geek Week

• Listening to the audiobook of Cat’s Claw by Amber Benson
• Played Crush the Castle
• Read River Marked by Patricia Briggs
• Reading Journal of a UFO Investigator by David Halperin
• Watching Face Off on SyFy

Emerald City ComiCon 2011

• Eric Trautmann (Interview starts at 11:30)



• Neal Bailey creator of Cura Te Ipsum (Interview starts at 17:06)



• Alina Pete creator of Weregeek and Moose Head Stew (Interview starts at 22:19)



• Echo Chernik (Interview starts at 26:11)



• Rebecca Hicks creator of Little Vampires (Interview starts at 29:15)



• William F. Nolan (Interview starts at 35:19)



• Chuck Messinger founder of Creators Edge Press (Interview starts at 52:02)



• Ed Ward founder and operator of Paper Windows (Interview starts at 55:48)

Geekly Extras

• Gamestorm 13 (Interview starts at 59:06)



• Hellhole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Interview starts at 1:05:45)

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 2 is April 30!
• First Cast Photo from Ron Moore’s 17th Precinct: It’s a BSG reunion!
• Syfy Renews ‘Face Off’ For Second Season
• HBO Issues First Two Episode Descriptions For GAME OF THRONES!!

Music

Music this week was ‘Avatard’ and ‘Grimm’s Lament’ by H2Awesome from their forthcoming album. Keep an eye on their website for the official release date!

Next show: Episode #95 on March 31st – Spring and Summer Movies: From Suckerpunch to Green Lantern!

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The convention season kicked off this past weekend with an amazing Emerald City ComiCon. This is the first year that Emerald City went for three days and we took full advantage of that by running around like maniacs and talking to anyone who would sit still for us.

In this week’s show we have interviews with some familiar names and some new ones including Dark Horse Comics Managing Editor Scott Allie, writers Brandon Jerwa and Matt Sturges, webcomic creators Jeff Schuetze of Jefbot and Curt Franklin and Chris Haley from Let’s Be Friends Again plus a whole bunch more.

We also talk about our experience moderating the Buffy the Vampire Slayer panel at ECCC with Nicholas “Xander” Brendon, James “Spike” Marsters and Clare “Glory” Kramer plus the weekly geek news.

Our Geek Week

• Listened to the audiobook of Death’s Daughter by Amber Benson
• Completed the move to the all new Seattle Geekly HQ!

Emerald City ComiCon 2011

• Project London (Interview starts at 07:30 in the podcast)



• Spokane Comic Con‘s Nate O’Brien (Interview at 12:13)



• Scott Allie, Managing Editor of Dark Horse Comics (Interview at 14:52)



• Jeff Schuetze, creator of Jefbot (Interview at 26:46)



• Curt Franklin and Chris Haley, creators of Let’s Be Friends Again (Interview starts at 33:37)



• Brandon Jerwa, writer of Hack Slash/Eva: Monster’s Ball among many others (Interview starts at 39:43)



• Matt Sturges, writer of Jack of Fables among others (Interview at 46:23)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer panel


Thanks to Heath for posting the video!

Stay tuned next week for the other half of our Emerald City coverage!

News

• Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 tapped for XBLA, PSN, PC this summer
• DC Comics postpones Batwoman debut again
• Nintendo embarks on four-city 3DS demo tour

Music

Music this week was ‘D.I.Y.’ by Adam WarRock and ‘Crogan’s Vengeance’ by Tribe One off the Oni Press Mixtape which is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from Adam WarRock‘s website.

Next show: Episode #94 on March 17 will be our second ECCC wrapup show. We have more interviews from ECCC attendees including Rebecca Hicks, Creator’s Edge Comics and legendary author William F Nolan writer of Logan’s run.

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We are tremendously excited about Emerald City ComiCon this year. Not only is this the first year that the con will be three days, but there is a great roster of amazing guests and events. This week we preview some of what will be going on at ECCC. First up we talked to three of the memebers of geek rock band H2Awesome who will be playing along with Adam WarRock and Kirby Krackle at Kracklefest this Saturday and we follow that up with interviews with Star Trek historian Larry Nemecek and Felicia Day and Amy Okuda from The Guild!

All that plus the weekly geek news.

Our Geek Week

• Listened to the audiobook of Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber
• Reading Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
• Read River of Gods by Ian McDonald
• Watched RED (2010) on Blu-ray
• Watched Let Me In (2010) on Blu-ray
• Watched the Oscars

Emerald City Madness!

• H2Awesome



• Larry Nemecek



• Felicia Day and Amy Okuda from The Guild (among other things)

Don’t forget that Saturday morning is the Seattle Geekly meetup at Emerald City! We’ll be meeting outside the coffee shop on the first floor of the convention center. We’l have prizes and maybe even a couple of special guests!

News

• Red Dead Redemption, Minecraft clean up at GDC Awards
• Valve Unveils Steam Guard
• Bone: 20th Anniversary Full Color One Volume debuts in San Diego

Music

Music this week was ‘Why So Serious’ by H2Awesome off their forthcoming album. If you hurry you may be able to still get tickets to see H2Awesome play live at Kracklefest this Saturday! You also heard The Guild’s ‘Do you Wanna Date my Avatar‘ and ‘Tonight I’m Frakking You’ from Break.com

Next show: Episode #93 on March 10 and it will be the first of two weekly episodes of interviews from Emerald City ComiCon. Stay Tuned to find out who we’ll be talking to!

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For our first show in the new bi-weekly podcast format, we a going back to one of our first loves – books! We’re reviewing some of the books we’ve been reading over the last few weeks and we have interviews with Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches, and M.K. Hobson, author of The Native Star to top it all off!

Plus the weekly Geek news and Shannon watches another Dared Movie.

Our Geek Week

• Played more World of Warcraft
• Reading Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
• Played in the regular D&D game
• Watched An Idiot Abroad on The Science Channel

Read a Book!

• Passion Play by Beth Bernobich (review at 5:46)
• Tyrmia by Ken McConnell (review at 8:07)
• Shameless Wonders by A.P. Stephens (review at 11:02)
• Night of the AssHoles Kevin L Donihe (review at 13:15)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Flying Zombie Monkeys By Chris Wood (review at 16:58)
• True Grit by Charles Portis (review at 19:10)
• Chill and Dust by Elizabeth Bear (review at 20:54)
• Song of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy (review at 22:47)
  
  • The Native Star by M.K. Hobson (review at 24:41)
    • Fantasy podcast Podcastle co-hosted by M.K. Hobson

  

  • A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (review at 37:08)

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s Dared Movie was The Last Airbender (2010)

The next Dared Movie will be Laserblast (1978) Dared by Richard

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.

News

• Seattle Geekly Meetup at Emerald City ComiCon! We’ll be having our 3rd ECCC Tweetup on Saturday morning March 4th at 9am at Espresso Caffe Dior on the street level of the convention center. You do not need a badge to attend the tweetup. Joining us again is Trekland’s Larry Nemechek to help us give out prizes!
• Felicia Day debuts her geektastic Dragon Age: Redemption trailer
  

  Music

  
  Music this week was ‘In the Black’ from the album Got to Fly by Marian Call. Get the album on Band Camp and be sure and head to mariancall.com to pick up your tickets to Marain’s pre-ECCC show at the Fremont Abbey on Thursday March 3rd at 9pm.

  Next Show: Episode #92 will be our own Pre–ECCC show with fantastic guests including Amy Okuda and Felicia Day from The Guild!

  
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  A lot of people out there loved AMC’s The Walking Dead and that has brought some new readers to the world of comics. This week we talk with our go-to comic book expert Ed about a few other titles that would be good both for people who aren’t regular comics readers and also for comic fans that are looking for something a little different.

  Also this week, Shannon watches a double feature Dared Movie and the weekly geek news.

  

  Our Geek Week

  • Read Dust and Chill by Elizabeth Bear
  • Re-reading some H.P. Lovecraft
  • Went to the Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

  Comics Madness!

  Thanks to Ed for lending his expertise to this weeks show! Here are a few of the titles we discussed:

  
  • American Vampire

  

  • iZombie

  

  • Sweet Tooth

  

  • Unwritten

  

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  

  • Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale

  

  • Jericho

  

  • Dollhouse

  

  • Locke & Key

  

  • Doorways

  

  • Chew

  Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

  This week’s special Dared Movie Double Feature was The Expendables (2010) and The A-Team

  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.

  News

  • Seattle Geekly News!
    • If you’re going to be at Emerald City ComiCon next month be sure and come see us as we try and maintain our composure while interviewing James “Spike” Marsters, Nicholas “Xander” Brendon and Clare “Glory” Kramer on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer panel! We’d love to see some friendly faces in the audience!
    • In an attempt to maintain our sanity as well as our relationships with firends and family we are going to be swiching to a bi-weekly format for the Seattle Geekly podcast. We love doing the show and the response from you, the listeners, has been overwhelming but doing one show a week is a TON of work and is becoming a bit more than we can handle on our own. The website will still be full of new goodness every week including the Monday News, Events to Watch Out For and Wednesday Reviews and we will almost certainly have extra shows for coverage of major conventions like PAX and Emerald City. We hope you all understand and will stick with us!
  • FOX’s Locke & Key pilot is among an encouragingly large slate of potential new geeky TV shows on the horizon
  • Castle Crashers Pink Knight Fights for Breast Cancer Research
  • Marvel Comics on Chrome

  Music

  
  Music this week was ‘Fallout State of Mind’ by Adam WarRock, one of the more recent Tracklog songs available as a free download on his website. You can also buy his album The War for Infinity on Bandcamp and don’t forget to pick up your tickets to Kracklefest featuring Adam WarRock, H2Awesome and Kirby Krackle!

  Next Show: Episode #91 on February 17, 2011. This will either be another installment of Geek Music or a giant book review/author show. Stay tuned!

  
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  Boardgames are an important part of socializing for a lot of geeks and while everyone has their favorite games, there are always new games and new expansions to try out. This week we talk about a few upcoming releases that caught our attention, including an interview with Wizards of the Coast tabletop game developer Peter Lee about his new game The Wrath of Ashardalon!

  Also this week, Shannon watches what she describes as her worst Dared Movie yet plus the weekly geek news.

  

  Our Geek Week

  • Week of Mediocre Movies!
    watched:
    • The Other Guys (2010)
    • Devil (2010)
    • The Last Exorcism (2010)
    • Catfish (2010)
  • Read The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card
  • Started a character in the newly free-to-play Champions Online
  • Brunch at the Georgetown Liquor Company

  New Boardgames for 2011

  
  • Cargo Noir

  

  • Munchkinomicon
    UPDATE: Between the time that we wrote the notes for this show on Tuesday and the time it was posted on Thursday Munchinomicon went from being “at the printers” to actually being released! It should be out now.

  

  • Dominion: Cornucopia

  

  • Ankh-Morpork

  

  • Wrath of Ashardalon
    And stay tuned to the official Wizards site for more information about Conquest of Nerath and the newly announced Legend of Drizzt games!

  To stay current on the latest boardgame news check out Seize Your Turn

  Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

  This week’s bad movie was Back Woods (2001) dared by Ian.

  Couldn’t find a trailer on line for this one. You’re on your own.

  Once again, Shannon was completely stumped and was unable to find even a single good thing about this movie. Congratulations to Ian for winning a Seattle Geekly Bag of Sand!

  

  (actual bag of sand may not match photo)

  And a special tip-of-the-hat for easily the worst Dared Movie to date!

  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.

  News

  • Bethesda Softworks Announces Blockbuster 2011 Video Game Lineup
    • Brink (Release date May 17)
    • Hunted (Release date June 1)
    • RAGE (Release date September 13)
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Release date November 11)
      But unfortunately, due to leagal problems, no new Fallout game on the horizon.
  • Comic-Con Registration Opens up on February 5
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new CBS thriller pilot ‘Ringer’: The producer spills details!

  Music

  
  Music this week was ‘Vault 101’ from the album E For Everyone by Kirby Krackle. Get your tickets for Kracklefest now!

  Next show: Episode #90 on February 3, 2011. We’ll be bringing you some news and information from the world of comics! It will also mark the second anniversary of Seattle Geekly!

  
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