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Pride & Prejudice & Peter Parker: Classic Literature Goes Comic Book

18 July 2011 by Leave a Comment
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So the other night I’m at home, relaxing with my wife and looking forward to a bit of TV – we’re powerdiscing through The Golden Girls and Desperate Housewives right now – when she distracts me as she’s queueing up the next episode. Which turns out not to involve Bea Arthur in any way. It was Wishbone. She found me Wishbone! I have the greatest wife ever. What is the story, Wishbone? Please, tell me, I am your rapt audience for the next twenty-two minutes. After watching Wishbone … [Read more...]

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5 Ways To Get Your Geek On All Summer Long

14 July 2011 by 3 Comments
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It’s summer, and gosh, it’s hot. For sun lovers who save all their vacation days to use between Memorial Day and Labor Day, this is an awesome time of year. For those of us who hate hot weather and have to work all summer long…well, we’re just counting the days until autumn. Regardless of how you feel about summer, you need some activities to get you through the dog days. Whether you’re in the camp of “the hotter, the better” or would rather sit next to the AC 24/7, there are … [Read more...]

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Geeky New Year’s Resolutions: Mid-Year Accountability Report

7 July 2011 by 4 Comments
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Did anyone see where the first half of 2011 went? If you find it, would you tell it to come back to me? Because I had a lot of things I wanted to accomplish, and I’m sure I could get them done if I could just have those 6 months back. Seriously, time flies when you’re having fun. Among all the things I wanted to get done while time was flying away from me were my geeky New Year’s resolutions. I posted them in my column so I’d have public accountability to hold me to task, and also … [Read more...]

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Girls Love Fantasy Too (Or Why “Boy Fiction” Doesn’t Exist)

21 April 2011 by 13 Comments
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Odds are you’ve heard something about this little TV show called Game of Thrones that’s just started on HBO. Odds also are that you’ve heard something about a couple of the less-than-positive reviews that went up last week in which it was painfully clear that the reviewers simply don’t like fantasy and think that those of us who do are childish at best, stupid and uncultured at worst. Let me make a couple of disclaimers before I get too deep: I haven’t seen Game of Thrones. We … [Read more...]

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Good Books: Classic Shared World Fantasy Novels

10 February 2011 by 9 Comments
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What if Gene Roddenberry had said, “No one is ever going to write anything having to do with Star Trek but me!” and gone through the legal channels to make sure no one ever did? Or if Stan Lee had dictated that he would write every issue of X-Men to ever be released? That would have meant no new Star Trek anything in the past 20 years, and while Stan is still The Man, I guarantee that he couldn’t be cranking out the plethora of monthly X-Men-related titles that are in print (even if he is … [Read more...]

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The Year Of The Geek: New Year’s Resolutions We Can Keep

30 December 2010 by 4 Comments
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The winter holiday season for 2010 is just about wrapped up, with the last celebration waiting in the wings: the New Year. Along with the parties, the midnight kisses, the parades, the football, and one last big feast (eat your black eyed peas or lentils for good luck in 2011!) comes the most famous/dreaded New Year’s tradition of all: New Year’s Resolutions. If you’re anything like me, this is how it’s gone every year, no matter what your resolution is about: Make resolutions. I … [Read more...]

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Good Books: Vampires Galore!

23 December 2010 by 2 Comments
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Even if you’re not lucky enough to get time off during the holidays (*waves to my brothers and sisters working retail*), something about this time of year makes everything slow down a little. Maybe it’s the cold, maybe it’s lethargy from eating too many cookies and candy canes, but after the holiday rush is over, it’s a laid-back time of year. Which makes it the perfect time to catch up on your reading! Running out of things to read? The solution might be right in front of you (or at … [Read more...]

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Good Books: Christine Morgan’s Curse of the Shadow Beasts

7 October 2010 by Leave a Comment
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With autumn here and cooler temperatures coming with it (the recent 85+ degree days in central Montana not withstanding), it’s getting more and more tempting to spend a day curled up on the couch with a blankie and a good book. But which book? There are so many to choose from… In my quest to help geeks everywhere find good stuff to read, I present another novel that I consider to be a very Good Book – Christine Morgan’s Curse of the Shadow Beasts, the first book of her MageLore … [Read more...]

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Good Books: Harry Turtledove’s Opening of the World Trilogy

5 August 2010 by Leave a Comment
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Welcome to my first true Good Books column! This week I’ll be talking about… HEY! Waitaminute! I thought this sub-column was going to be called Good Reads?! Yeah, it was. Then I learned that Good Reads is the name of an online personal library/book recommendation/thing. With which I’m not affiliated. So we’re calling this Good Books, now. Anyway, back on topic. The good books in question for this installment are the Opening of the World trilogy by Harry Turtledove: Beyond the … [Read more...]

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Writing About Reading: An Intro To Good Reads

1 July 2010 by 9 Comments
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I have a confession to make. I didn’t fall in love with LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge. Don’t get me wrong, I loves me some Geordi! But long before I stumbled into the world of TNG, I was a fan of Reading Rainbow, and LeVar, encouraging kids to read because it was fun, was my knight in shining armor. (Still is, but that’s for another post…) Books are precious gifts from writers to the rest of the world. I love reading new stories by new (or at least new-to-me) authors. Reading keeps … [Read more...]

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