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My weekend at Comic-Con (pics)

Josh
Sunday
11:03 am

The Conundrum: I had to visit family in Nebraska during San Diego Comic Con 2010.

The Solution: Using a patent-pending technology involving space-age polymers, I produced several clones of myself. These clones, virtually indistinguishable from the real me, descended upon Comic-Con. Their mission: Collect data. Collect Schwag. Analyze. Report.

Here are the images they returned:

I arrived at Comic-Con, fresh, full of excitement and ready to begin the weekend.

Ah, the floor of Comic-Con. So many comics to browse. Where should I start?

How about Larry Nemecek’s Next Generation companion?

Here I am, taking a moment to freshen up in the mirror. Yep, everything seems in place, although ..read more

If You’ve Ever Wanted to be A Dread Pirate Roberts

Autumn
Tuesday
7:04 pm

SQUEEEEEE!!!! I’ve always been torn between wanting to be the first female Dread Pirate Roberts, or just making out with the current Wesley version of him…

Somehow I think having a replica of his sword will not help me in my decision.

BUT! The same company, Factory Entertainment is making a Inigo Montoya sword.  Obviously so my husband and I can recreate the best.sword fight.ever.

Though I’m a little worried of what would happen if I fought left handed.  I’m kinda a bumbling bookish sort of warrior.  Don’t let me tell you that story about the cannon and my right big toe, people might make fun of ..read more

6 Sword of Truth Storylines I Still Wanna See

Autumn
Thursday
10:42 pm

Note, this post is for people who have both read The Sword of Truth Series and seen The Legend of the Seeker, spoiler wary beware!

So, we just finished the last episode of Legend of the Seeker.  The entire episode was a curtain call to nearly all the characters they’ve brought from the books, which led me to think about how many story lines and characters we’ll never get to see. A sampling -

The Boy Army – Kahlan lead a bunch of green soldier boys to defeat a horde of evil men known as the Imperial Order.  I’ve seldom gotten that excited while reading a novel.  I’ll always be a little wistful ..read more

Summer Reading for the Newly Initiated Part II

Autumn
Tuesday
8:32 pm

The focus of this part of the list is children and young adult novels that can still be read and enjoyed as an adult.  By no means is it complete, but it gives you a sampling of my favorites.  This list is for my buddy Ruth, because though she’s been a geek for many a year, she has yet to sample a lot of nerdy literature.  You should read her blog over here, she’s awesome.

Redwall – I’d say one of my biggest introductions to modern fantasy was not Lord of the Rings, or The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (I wasn’t a fan of the Hobbit and couldn’t ..read more

A Little Summer Reading for the Newly Initiated Part I

Autumn
Wednesday
7:05 pm

So my buddy Ruth is just beginning to dabble in science fiction literature, which makes me have nerdy squeals of joy, because reading geeky romps is one of my favorite things.  And of course, by geeky romps I mean literature.  Here’s a sampling, a mix of classics and new that are my favorites I pulled off my shelf.

The Hobbit – If you’re going to read it, read the annotated version by Douglas A. Anderson.  When I first read this when I was 12 I didn’t like it at all.  Bilbo was a pansy and I preferred my heroes to be, well, more heroic.  I read this version in my ..read more

Fine Valyrian Steel

Autumn
Wednesday
6:31 pm

So, it’s been a few months, I wanted to check in with everyone who wanted to talk about the first in George R.R. Martin’s series “The Song of Ice and Fire” namely “Game of Thrones”  so how is everyone doing?  Any progress?  I kinda hearted it a lot, so I read the entire series, but I don’t want to go too in depth just yet to give people a chance to catch up.  So instead, look what I discovered!

Valyrian Steel has officially licensed replicas from the series.  The part of me that gets giddy over a fine sword was particularly tickled by the fact that Martin sent the replica ..read more

Only in Your Geeky Geeky Dreams

Autumn
Monday
7:28 pm

So last night I dreamed that I was living back in LA proper and my neighbor knocked on the door.  She wanted to borrow a chair for a dinner party.  I said of course and gave her the chair.  As she took it she said by the by, your neighbors with Felicia Day, and this chair is going to be at her party.  Do you have a message for her?  I said something that I felt really embarrassed about afterward, then my mind when through all the embarrassing things I’ve said to celebrities over the years and I woke up.  After falling back asleep I was at the party now ..read more

Legend of the Cake Toppers

Autumn
Tuesday
8:01 pm

My awesome friend Cori made our wedding cake for us.

After much debating (we decided that Caprica Six and Helo would make to bizarre of a couple, for one) we settled on having Richard and Kahlan from Legend of the Seeker to be our cake topper.  But there are no LOTS action figures to be found!  What’s a girl to do?  Why, have the same magic friend make some custom fondant figures!  And so she did!

Details are as follows: the sword that Drew is holding is painted with real edible silver, edible 14K Gold, and is adorned with a real Swarovski crystal.  Ever the attention to detail Cori  also made the ..read more

LotR is the gold standard

Jason
Monday
3:51 pm

I was sitting around the house other day as my wife was in another city on business and my son was asleep. I was tired of Wii and have not had the internet hooked up yet.

That meant I got to dive into the DVD collection. Really it meant unpacking the DVD collection finally after moving in, but I was watching something as I did.

I settled on Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

All I know is that it was the right choice and it will always be the right choice. And it was as I watched the first disc of the collector’s edition that I realized that all ..read more

Dinner with Brandon

Jason
Wednesday
9:58 pm

It seems I have my realms of geekdom.

I have my Browncoats. That itch I scratched last Thursday with our local Can’t Stop the Serenity screening.

Then I have my Wheel of Time. You might have noticed the overkill of posts over the last two months leading up to the release of The Gathering Storm, the twelfth book in The Wheel of Time books series. The series was started by Robert Jordan who passed away and is being finished by Brandon Sanderson.

And that Wheel of Time itch I got to scratch Monday night while serving as a Storm Leader at a Sanderson book signing for The Gathering Storm. It was ..read more