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TV Cancellations: The Final Countdown?

16 May 2012 by 2 Comments
secretcircle

Well, decisions have been made, and hardly anyone is happy.  This week, TV networks have been having their "upfronts" - meetings where they announce their lineups and schedules for the next season to press and advertisers.  That means the hard decisions concerning cancellations have been flying thick and fast.  Now, last season's lineups seemed particularly geek-friendly, with quite a few offerings in the sci-fi and fantasy genres.  Perhaps it's not a surprise, then, that not all of them … [Read more...]

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Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: Too Much, Too Soon?

3 February 2011 by 3 Comments
trap

In general, I'm not the kind of girl who can spout obscure passages of dialogue from movies and TV shows.  There are a few films that are embedded in my brain, most of them from before I was ten years old or so, when my brain was more plastic.  Oh, and Family Guy. Yep, Family Guy.  I don't quite know how it happened; I wouldn't call Family Guy a guilty pleasure, but maybe an unlikely one.  I've always been the "mature one," and I'm pretty quiet and shy in person (for the first few … [Read more...]

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Geeks of Hollywood

26 January 2011 by 14 Comments
jareds

I still remember, as an eleven-year-old, reading an article in the local paper about The X-Files.  It included a snippet of an interview with Gillian Anderson, in which she confessed that she occasionally had trouble wrapping her mouth around all the technical jargon Scully had to spout. I was crushed.  You mean... the actress who played Scully really wasn't as smart as her character?  But she was so convincing! Occasionally you see lists of "hot geeks" here and there, but typically … [Read more...]

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Your Big Throbbing Vocabulary Turns Me Off

4 March 2010 by 11 Comments
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It's time for an intervention, geek friends. And despite the title, this post has nothing to do with people who speak English as their second language. My hats are off to the folks who are working on being more fluent in a second tongue; it's not easy. No, this post was inspired by a conversation I had with a single guy via IMs. His first language was English and he claimed to be a writer with decades of experience. The problem? He was butchering words left and right and all I could … [Read more...]

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Top 10 Geeky DVDs to Buy This Holiday

16 December 2009 by 3 Comments

With CDs on the way out, DVDs have taken over as the easy holiday gift, but sometimes our geek friends are a little difficult to buy for.  Here are 10 geeky DVDs to consider (or maybe even to add to your own list). Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side - Whether your geek is a major fan of Star Wars or Family Guy, this parody of The Empire Strikes Back is sure to be a hit.  You might want to make sure they've also seen Blue Harvest, the parody of A New … [Read more...]

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