This past Sunday, with the company of a very understanding cohort I had the opportunity to engage in some live sci-fi via Gideon Productions Advance Man, the first part of Mac Rodgers’ HoneyComb Trilogy.
Full Story »Why I’m A Fan
Being a fan means your favorite characters become like friends and family, we become attached and they become a part of us. Being a fan produces an automatic feeling of excitement; a rush that feels like you ate an entire pint of ice cream as fast as you could and did a hand stand right after. You feel full, happy and dizzy at the same time. You feel like Lil’ You again. Meeting Robin Williams outside of Bengal Tiger, even for a few brief moments, made Lil’ Me and I meet for the first time in a very long time.
Full Story »Interview with Vampire Cowboys’ Qui Nguyen and Paco Tolson: The Baddest Renegades of Geek Theater!
When I sit on the subway, there’s not the majority of any race. This is a town where it’s not about segregation. Yet our entertainment is so often, ‘Here’s the white show; here’s the black show.’ With us that’s not how we take in our lives, so why are we presenting [that] on stage? So for Vampire Cowboys, [it’s] very much like, “this is who we are and we want to make sure that it’s inclusive to everyone; that everyone feels like they have a hero.”
Full Story »Star Trek: The Exhibition of a Lifetime
We are sure there are many holy sites out there for fandom, but since we live in the Midwest, our options are limited (although we do intend to take a Supernatural road trip soon). So, when a traveling exhibit of greatness arrives somewhere in our vicinity, we feel obligated, even driven, to attend. So, on Saturday we visited the Louisville Science Center’s latest attraction which happens to be Star Trek: The Exhibition.
Full Story »Who Needs a Wonder Woman Movie When There’s Lipstick?
More and more, it looks like all Wonder Woman is good for is titillation and shilling crap.
Full Story »Sex and the Single Geek Girl: NYCC Speed Dating!
As promised, I’m reporting back about speed-dating at New York Comic Con! Sadly, this account isn’t going to be as first-person as I’d hoped. I didn’t pre-register, and when I went to register on-site, I was told I didn’t have to, because there were so many guys and not enough girls. Great! When I got back, though, the situation had changed drastically. The event had been given a smaller room – to “create demand” according to what Ryan, the guy running the event, was told by NYCC. So now, I (along with five other women) had to compete for one of two remaining women’s spots.
Full Story »Geek Theater: Circus of Circus
by Teresa Jusino – OK, literature and politics geeks! Raise your hand if you’ve read George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Now, imagine that instead of a farm, it was set in the company of a traveling circus. Imagine that instead of animals getting rid of humans, a group of performers got rid of their ringmaster. Imagine that instead of pigs abusing their power in the barnyard, money-hungry performers sold out their vision of a “circus without a ringmaster” for a quick payday by doing a television commercial.
Full Story »Sex and the Single Geek Girl: Half a Geek Couple?
By Teresa Jusino – I have a profile on OKCupid, and in it I mention that I’m a geek girl who’s into comics, sci-fi, etc. So all it’s done is send guys my way who are into those things. Those things, and nothing else. I’m someone who appreciates people’s differences. I don’t want to be half of a geek couple.
Full Story »Sex and the Single Geek Girl: Cee-Lo is a Hater
By Teresa Jusino – Recently, in my Twitter travels, some dude had the nerve to say something to the effect of “I dare you to find me a geek girl who is still single.” While lots of geek girls I know are in great relationships, there are plenty of us who are still looking. Geek guys seem to think that all a geek girl has to do is walk into a con and exist in order to get attention. While it would be nice if that were true, the reality is that most geek girls get ignored unless they’re wrapped in latex and dressed like Harley Quinn, Lee-loo, or Slave Leia.
Full Story »Surviving Your First J-Rock Concert
Based on my observations of the fainting, fawning, fervent crowd at Miyavi’s recent New York concert, here are Pepper’s Rules for Surviving Your First J-Rock Concert.
Full Story »Geek Theater: St Nicholas
By Teresa Jusino – St. Nicholas is a one-man Irish vampire story. A theater critic tells the tale of his dissatisfaction with his normal life that includes a wife and children, his obsession with a young actress he gave a bad review, and how those things led to a trip from Dublin to London, where he encountered a house full of vampires.
Full Story »Geek Theater: The Little One
by Teresa Jusino – For a play whose playwright and director bill as a “horror” play, The Little One wasn’t terribly frightening. Granted, I was always a little unnerved whenever one of the vampires in the play would snap a human’s neck, and Patrick Shearer’s sound design would kick in, forcing me to rub my neck in sympathy with every CRACK. However, I was never afraid. Perhaps casting it as a “horror” show is simply meant to attract lovers of that particular genre, but I never once feared for any of the characters, or for my own well-being. Lest you think this is a criticism of the piece, it isn’t. I just didn’t get that fright was really the point of this story.
Full Story »Nosedive’s The Little One: Rewriting Vampire History
By Teresa Jusino – Two years ago, I interviewed director Pete Boisvert and playwright James Comtois about their theater company, Nosedive Productions. Today, Nosedive’s 10-year history is littered with all manner of comic book, fantasy, and horror stories. Comtois’ latest play, The Little One, opens TONIGHT, and hopes to take the vampire myth into some exciting new directions. I recently had the chance to talk with Pete, who is directing The Little One, about how far Nosedive Productions has come in ten years and how this show, which is the company’s largest endeavor to date, will propel Nosedive into the next ten years.
Full Story »Fight Fest:Kicking Ass On Stage Never Looked So Good
by Jenn Kim – MAN I love me some good fighting. I love watching it, I love participating in it, and I love instigating it. No, I kid, I kid, I’m actually a pacifist at heart. (Sort of.) But choreographed fighting and martial arts? It’s so hot right now! Choreographed fighting and martial arts on a stage? Um, geekyfightgasms to ensue for all.
Full Story »Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Inflation
Inflating Bloggers’ Hearts Since 2009 – By Jenn Kim – This year, for the first time in balloon history, Macy’s (in coordination with NBC), invited a group of awesome bloggers for a private tour of the inflation site. One of the best things about the tour was being on the inside of the police barricades whilst all of the throngs of people, many of whom were children, were forced to stand behind them. It kept me warm during the cold drizzle and rain.
Full Story »Sci in the City
By Teresa Jusino – I’m just going to put this out there – science is hot. I mean, math is pretty cool, too (and science requires a lot of math), but while math seems wrapped up in answers, science seems more interested in questions. There’s something sexy about passionate wonder, exploring how things work, discovery. Sexier than the topic itself are people who are interested in it; people who share a giddy glee in the discovery of a new species here on Earth, or a new moon in space. Or a new, enormous ring around Saturn, for that matter. Sexier still are people who are knowledgeable about science; the people making the big discoveries.
Full Story »Geek Theater: Viral
By Teresa Jusino – It’s the most hilarious play about assisted suicide I’ve ever seen! That’s what I said to a friend of mine after seeing the final performance of Gideon Productions’ Viral, which was part of the 2009 New York Fringe Festival. But that glib one-liner sells this play short.
Full Story »Geek Theater: Vampire Cowboy’s Fight Girl Battle World Rocks My Frickin’ Geek World
by Jenn Kim – Sigh. This week has been hard. Since last Friday, I’ve been assaulted with articles, pictures and video feed of what I’ve missed at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con that took place a whole 2,831 miles away from my home in New Jersey. (Yeah, I google mapped it.) I may or may not have spent this week sobbing quietly in front of my computer, my haunted eyes watching the likes of Joss Whedon (my HERO), Misha Collins (at least Jared and Jensen weren’t there) and Nate Fillion (SIGH!!!!) via frickin’ youtube instead of at a huge convention hall with tens of thousands of like-minded, awesome peeps in cosplay.
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