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  • Old Movie / Young Eyes: Better Off Dead (1985)

    Posted on May 4, 2011 | 13 Comments
    Director: Savage Steve Holland / Writer: Savage Steve Holland / Starring: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, and Kim Darby For some reason or other, every time I saw Better Off Dead sitting in my netflix queue before it finally arrived in my mail box, I thought it was One Crazy...

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  • May the 4th – Star Wars on BluRay

    Posted on May 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I’m not sure when May the 4th became such common parlance but I know that this is the one day of the year I can expect non-geeks to attempt to talk to me about geeky things.  Usually it is some sort of comment about Star...

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  • Looking Forward: May Movies (2011)

    Posted on May 3, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I hope you’re ready.  This is when the special effects laden mega-marketing movies start coming out.  There are a lot of different comic book movies coming this summer, some big, some small and I’ll try not to miss any of them here.  Also, there are...

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  • Out of Print Lit Nerd T-Shirts

    Posted on May 1, 2011 | No Comments
    I’m not sure if they would clash with D&D cologne as I click-shop for my summer gear, but outofprintclothing.com has badass vintage looking t-shirts inspired by literary classics. With styles ranging from Art Nouveau, Art Deco,  and Mid-Century Modern to Psychedelic, this t-shirt shop has...

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  • Dungeons & Dragons Scents Give Charisma Bonus

    Posted on April 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Holy awesome. Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has some nice loot for the next time you are rolling on your geek treasure table. The company has unveiled a line of perfumes and cologne inspired by D&D races and classes. I’m not sure anything ever can get...

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  • New Video Game Releases – 4/19

    Posted on April 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
    New comics come out on Wednesdays. New video games, however, come out on Tuesdays (just like new DVDs, typically). Next week there are two heavy hitters coming out, certain to be taking up a lot of people’s time in the very near future. It could...

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  • Preview & Review – Wookiee the Chew: The House at Chew Corner (Audiobook) by James Hance

    Posted on April 17, 2011 | No Comments
    Hance, along with co-writer Max Michaels, has reached deep into this great piñata full of geeky goodness and flung the best prizes around a landscape of cherished childhood daydreams.

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  • ElfQuest Trailer: By the Biggest Geeks, for the Biggest Geeks

    Posted on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
    ElfQuest was the first comic series I ever really got into. A friend in high school discovered a mutual interest in series fantasy and brought me the first volume to borrow. After devouring that and all of the subsequent volumes, I was a lifelong fan....

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  • Looking Forward: April Movies (2011)

    Posted on April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
    April feels like a place holder. May is when all of the big budget rock-em-sock-em stuff starts to roll out. Still, there are a few movies worth noting this month and one or two that have a chance of pulling in some big dollars as...

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  • This Week in Odd History (March 29, 1973): Sacheen Littlefeather Refuses Brando’s Oscar

    Posted on March 28, 2011 | No Comments
    This Week in Odd History, a young woman in beaded doeskin took the stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, in Los Angeles, California, to decline Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather. Her name, she said, was Sacheen Littlefeather, and she had a message...

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