http://www.geektress.com/ en Copyright 2013 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:30:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss My son Hunter and I had been anticipating the Christmas special since Angels in Manhattan. He was very upset about the Ponds dying, inconsolable for days. (Spoilers if you have not seen the episode yet!)]]> http://www.geektress.com/2013/01/the_snowmen_or_how_the_doctor.php http://www.geektress.com/2013/01/the_snowmen_or_how_the_doctor.php TV Reviews doctor who dr. who Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:30:41 -0500 (art by Adam Koford for shirt.woot!) Here we are, finally back with a brief review of "A Town Called Mercy" and "The Power of Three." Frankly, we weren't all that enthused about either episode, so this is mostly just about how time travel is confusing, brain hurty type stuff. We're pretty psyched for Saturday's fall finale, "Angels Take Manhattan," so we're saving our energy for that one. (I bet you didn't know it took a lot of energy to talk about Doctor Who. Well, it doesn't. We just don't have much to begin with.) I would, however, like to add a personal note about "A Town Called Mercy": I am shocked by the lack of art in the fan community devoted to Susan. Spoilers follow, so don't continue if you haven't seen the episode.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/09/mercy_three.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/09/mercy_three.php News & Noise TV Reviews doctor who dr. who Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:44:03 -0500 (From Odd the Sun God's Tumblr) We're back with our second Doctor Who review of the much anticipated "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship." It's an episode jam packed with all sorts of nerdy goodness, and that's on top of the titular dinosaurs populating the aforementioned spaceship. It was also the episode that gave us two excellent pieces of advice: 1. Whenever you enter someplace new, press buttons; and 2. carry a trowel. Spoilers follow, so don't continue if you haven't seen the episode.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/09/dr_who_tricey.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/09/dr_who_tricey.php News & Noise TV Reviews doctor who Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:13:13 -0500
(From Lissy-Strata's DeviantArt Page) I'm relatively new to Doctor Who, while Francene is a longtime fan, but we were both really excited for "Asylum of the Daleks," the start of the new season, on Saturday night. We thought we would have a little virtual viewing party, and then share our reactions with our readers. Of course, we wound up being slightly more absorbed in watching the show than commenting on it. It was a pretty major episode, with a lot of changes and revelations though. Spoilers follow, so don't continue if you haven't seen the episode. It probably wouldn't make any sense to you if you haven't seen it anyway.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/09/asylum_daleks.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/09/asylum_daleks.php News & Noise TV Reviews doctor who Dr. Who Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:31:39 -0500 Hey everyone! If you haven't been to our Tumblr yet, we're running a contest for a new indie comedy called For A Good Time Call. You can check out the specifics right here. The movie is in theaters starting August 31st, and our contest runs until August 29th. If you're on Tumblr, get over there and reblog! You could win a bunch of cool movie-related stuff (pictured above.) And check out the movie trailer if you’re interested in seeing more! (It's Red Band, so NSFW.)]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/08/for_a_good_time_call.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/08/for_a_good_time_call.php Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:02:51 -0500 Last night on Animal Planet, they re-ran a faux documentary program called Mermaid: The Body Found. It was in a similar vein as Trollhunter (though, nowhere near as well-produced,) and from what I gather, every time Animal Planet airs this show, it generates quite a bit of confusion. It's made to look like it's really one of those "found footage" "alien autopsy" sort of programs that explores the mysteries of mermaids. It's also supposed to inform people of actual technologies, as well. Still, there is some question why it was on a "real channel" like Animal Planet, a channel that is owned by the same company that owns Discovery Channel, which airs -- among other things -- a reality show about auctioneers (to better compete with the HISTORY Channel and their successful show about PAWN SHOPS.) Don't get me wrong, I love Deadliest Catch, but it's not exactly educational programming, which doesn't happen all the time anymore on cable networks like Discovery. Can you even remember what TLC was supposed to stand for? Just a hint, it's not "Kitchen Boss Marathons." So when Chew's Rob Guillory was bewildered last night by a re-airing of Mermaid: Body Found, he did some looking and came up with possibly the greatest representation of awful comments currently on the interwebs.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/08/mermaid_corpses_and_social_med.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/08/mermaid_corpses_and_social_med.php News & Noise mermaids sci-fi sharktopus Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:43:12 -0500
(Summer is Coming tee from Busted Tees.) Sometimes, book reviews are hard, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the book. Sometimes, when it comes to writing a book review or vacuuming the apartment, I choose vacuuming. Sometimes, I have a hard time coming up with something more than, "this is good." I'm having one of those times now.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/http1bpblogspotcomalxod7zlbwkt.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/http1bpblogspotcomalxod7zlbwkt.php Book Review News & Noise book review game of thrones george rr martin Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:32:55 -0500 On Saturday morning, I awoke at 6 am and then decided that was too damned early to be awake on a Saturday. So I decided to stay in bed as long as possible, which meant reading Twitter and, eventually, going through my nightstand looking for those issues of Casanova I bought a while back but never read. What I stumbled upon was a bag of vintage comics I'd purchased probably two years ago at an antique store for $4 apiece. Included was Lois Lane #129, and Supergirl #2, both with amazing covers. Basically the recipe to get me to buy a silver or golden age comic is to have an amazing cover (the ones that are "cliffhangers" are my favorite) and to be less than $5. (Because I am not actually a collector, just cheap.) The end result is me, lying in bed and tweeting my reactions, which I'll recap here, because not only am I cheap, I'm lazy.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/liveblogging_the_seventies.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/liveblogging_the_seventies.php Comic Reviews News & Noise lois lane supergirl Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:09:20 -0500
This image a metaphor for the entire film. A beautiful mess. Imagine Die Hard. (If you're on this site, I'm gonna assume you've seen it at least once. More than likely, you're like every other geek who counts it as a "Christmas movie" and watches it several times every December.) Die Hard is a great movie. I'll go out on a not-very-dangerous limb here and say it actually defines the action movie genre, in the best possible way. So picture it in your head: An average schmo -- middle aged, balding, blue-collar looking dude -- finds himself in a crazy terrorist hostage situation on Christmas Eve. Dude's just trying to patch things up with his wife, and he suddenly he has to be John Wayne. As we all know, at the end, the villain gets thrown out of a window and plummets 30-some floors to his death. Now imagine the end of Die Hard, and picture Hans Gruber slinking away laughing "I'll get you NEXT TIME, JOHN MCCLANE, MUAH HA HA!" Winky wink to the camera, fade out, credits up. Be honest. You'd want to punch that movie in the dick. ]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/prometheus_shoulda_just.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/prometheus_shoulda_just.php Movie Reviews News & Noise aliens frankenstein sci-fi Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:57:58 -0500
(Jeremy Renner needs to play Repairman Jack) I have a confession to make. I'm cheating on my collection of sci-fi and fantasy novels. My brother introduced me to Repairman Jack back in March. He'd been going on for years about how I would really like him but I have such a vast pile of books to read that I never listened to him. But then, I had the awesome chance to meet the creator of this fictional fix-it man at C2E2 - F. Paul Wilson. I figured 'dI better read The Tomb so I didn't seem like a complete tool when I asked him to autograph a book for my brother. ]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/repairman_jack_i_wanna_party_w.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/06/repairman_jack_i_wanna_party_w.php Book Review News & Noise book review repairman jack Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:15:49 -0500 Due to a bunch of scheduling snafus, Carey was the only Geektress that was able to make it to our annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo meetup this year. But she carried on like a champ and did a bunch of picture taking and blogging for us. Unfortunately, the site was suffering its malware malady and so she posted her roundup on her personal blog. So, after the jump, we have some of the highlights. ]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/05/c2e2_roundup_the_highlights.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/05/c2e2_roundup_the_highlights.php News & Noise c2e2 comic con john barrowman Tue, 01 May 2012 10:46:50 -0500 I know I'm slow on the uptake with book reviews. I have so many that I try to read that I don't usually get to new ones until they've been out for a few months. Unless of course publishers send me ARCs (hint, hint - I need more of these!). I finally got around to finishing David Anthony Durham's Acacia trilogy this week. The final book, The Sacred Band, came out late in 2011. The trilogy as a whole was a rare, satisfying read. I like to compare books to food. Books are food for the brain, and like food for the stomach, they can taste great (or awful), fill you up (or leave you starving), and nourish you (or give you gut rot and cavities). Durham's trilogy manages to do all three. ]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/04/the_acacia_trilogy_parents_jus.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/04/the_acacia_trilogy_parents_jus.php Book Review News & Noise book review fantasy Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:32:30 -0500 When I was in my teens and early 20s, I lived for The X-Files. I had the hots for both Mulder and Scully. And also Krycek, occasionally Skinner, and the cute bearded Lone Gunman. Shoot, I wanted to have Chris Carter's babies. I watched Millenium when that came on, even though it was only peripherally related to The X-Files. I even watched The Lone Gunmen, and it made me weep, but I watched it. I saw the movie on opening night - twice. And in my mind, there is only one movie - I like to think I only imagained the second one in a horrible nightmare.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/03/a_belated_xfiles_valentine.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/03/a_belated_xfiles_valentine.php News & Noise TV Reviews x-files Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:38 -0500 It was a pretty big week for comics last week. Brian K Vaughn's Saga finally dropped (I didn't read it), and another much-anticipated book, Womanthology, showed up in comic stores (I sort of read it, but I'm in it, so I mostly just obsessed over my mistakes.) (I'm on page 194, go look it up.) However, three much more exciting (to me, anyway) stories ended up on my digital (and actual) doorstep this week. I didn't think I could top the thrill of seeing my own work in print, but the following three comics were so well done, they have confirmed my choice to only read creator-owned / indie comics from here on out.]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/03/it_was_a_pretty_big.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/03/it_was_a_pretty_big.php Comic Reviews News & Noise aliens comic books sci-fi werewolf Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:36:52 -0500 Warning: This Way Lie Spoilers It's no secret that I love Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. I've read the books three times now, the last time so I could write a fancy learning, academic-like paper. I am so pumped for the movie. It comes out the weekend before my birthday so I'm going to go see it. Maybe twice. And while I'm happy with the finality of Mockingjay - seriously, not every series or movie franchise or television show has to go on forever and ever until it's too awful to continue - I am kind of sad that the adventures of Katniss, Gale, and Peeta are pretty much over. So, when offered the chance to review the movie tie-in version of The Girl Who Was on Fire, a compliation of essays on The Hunger Games trilogy by other YA authors edited by Leah Wilson, there wasn't much arm twisting involved. FYI, there is an edition of this book in stores currently, but this is a review of the movie tie-in edition with three additional essays. ]]> http://www.geektress.com/2012/02/the_girl_who_was_on_fire_a_hun.php http://www.geektress.com/2012/02/the_girl_who_was_on_fire_a_hun.php Book Review News & Noise hunger games Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:26:31 -0500