The Alert Nerd Podcast: Episode 1 (071707)
Jul 17In honor of this, my 31st birthday, we are PROUD and THRILLED to launch…
OUR PODCAST.
(Cue ominous music.)
Seriously, we figured, every OTHER nerd on the intertubes has a goddamned podcast, so why not us?
In episode 1, we discuss a vital question for every geek on the planet: To Comic-Con, or Not To Comic-Con? Plus, our debut round of Buy This Now, where we tell you how to spend your hard-earned pay at your local Geek Emporium.
If you have ever wondered, “Gosh, I wonder what Chris, Sarah, and Matt actually sound like, so I can imagine their voices in my head reading the posts,” then this is your lucky day.
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Delicious
Jul 16I finally watched the handful of Blood Ties episodes socked away on my TiVo annnnnnnndddddd…I enjoyed them! Somehow, the heady brew of melty fantasy cheese, overheated vampire mythos and soothing Vancouver backlots hits my B-level-genre-TV-loving sweet spot in a way that Painkiller Jane and the non-Claudia Black episodes of The Dresden Files do not.
Part of it is that the cheese is always fairly enjoyable — and when it ventures into “unintentionally hilarious” territory, it’s just over-the-top enough to be kind of awesome. I’m thinking of the moment in the voodoo-themed episode wherein one of the voodoo dudes gleefully sits in a chair made out of bones that look like they were swiped from the Indiana Jones(TM) Adventure Outpost at Disneyland.
It also has to do with Christina Cox, who I LOVE. In the late ’90s, she was a big part of another B-tastic extravaganza, F/X: The Series, which also featured a pre-Matrixcized Carrie-Anne Moss. As tough PI Vicki Nelson, she gives Blood Ties a center and a soul and she always has perfect hair. She’s exactly the kind of charismatic presence a show like this needs.
The show was popular enough to get a second season, which starts in the fall. In the meantime, I plan to check out Tanya Huff’s books, on which the series is based.
Comics, the 1990s, and me.
Jul 16Good ol’ Dick Hyacinth makes a call for microhistories of comics buying in the nineties. Intrigued by his premise, and bored at work, I’m gonna give this a go.
Harry Potter Spoilorz Haxxorz
Jul 16Top story, right now on Digg:
Digg Users, Please Do Not Submit Harry Potter 7 Spoilers. Seriously.
Teh intrahnettes is going APESHIT with worries over the Harry Potter spoilers. Okay, maybe not the WHOLE internet, but at least the corners I frequent.
Hell, there’s even been at least one strange highly-publicized set of alleged spoilers “revealed.”
So if you know what’s going to happen, and you want to be hateful, Digg is probably your best bet. Good luck.
Remy 'n' Harry
Jul 13Patton Oswalt is hilarious. He’s also a bona fide geek — during my Bay Area livin’ days, I once spotted him perusing the floor at WonderCon.
This summer, he’s the voice of rat chef Remy in Ratatouille, which I love, love, LOVED. It made me want a plush rat, which I never thought would happen. (Although I do own a plush mouse — the lavender one from Spirited Away. He’s cute, too.)
Anyway, please watch this, which shows us Patton’s historical meeting with none other than Harry Potter.
