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40 Days Of DragonCon (Day 34): Five Things Conventions Are Good For

Share 1) Getting the whole “I hate <name of broadcast company> for canceling <name of favorite show>” thing out of your system for a year. 2) You have an excuse for wearing chainmail to a cocktail party. 3) Reminding your body that it really doesn’t need all that sleep. 4) Finding that rare one of a [...]

40 Days Of DragonCon 2010 (Day 20) – Video Special

Share For todays post, because I am feeling a bit lazy… (Heck I missed day 19) … and because I have more podcasts to put together – Here are a couple of videos from D*C 2009. The Shatner and Nimoy Panel (part of a playlist) And 10 minutes (or so) of the Nuts On The [...]

40 Days Of DragonCon 2010 (Day 9) – Mary: Young Adult Literature

Jon and Leigh sit down together again to interview another of DragonCon’s staff.

For this interview it is our pleasure to welcome Mary of the Young Adult Literature and Whedonverse tracks.

Mary is a six year staff veteran first serving on what used to be called the Buffy Track (now Whedonverse) and then splitting her time with the Young Adult Literature track, the topic of our discussion.

We learn all sorts of good stuff about Mary and the Young Adult Lit track. Not the least of which is what guests would make her squeal like a fan-girl if they ever came to Con. There is also a story about Lance Henriksen, but I’ll let you listen to find out about that.

Review In 100 Or Less: Human Target

Share I watched Fox’s ‘Human Target’ last night. The show is based on a DC Comics character, but I admit I know very little about him. What I do know is TV, and this is good old fashion fun television. Think ’24′ minus all of the angst. It stars Mark Valley (who also stared in [...]

That’s What We Are Talking About 1/17/2009

Share We talk a lot on the podcast about the listServ, and I encourage you to head over there and join the discussion, but what I thought I would try to do each week is hit some of the highlights from the last week on discussion group. So here is my first attempt at doing [...]

DC09 Photos Are Up

Share Hey gang! As you may have heard, several of The Unique Geeks were in Atlanta this past weekend for Dragon Con. Well, original Unique Geek and (apparently) official photographer, Shag (Once Upon A Geek) has posted some 600+ photos up in our gallery. Just click on that photo gallery tab above (or if you [...]

Speaking of Dragons: DDO Now Costs 0 Gold

Share With all of the post-DragonCon stuff that I have to do, I almost missed this news bit. Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) is now free! Now, I know a lot of you are WOW players and don’t think much of the other MMOs out there but, honestly, this is great news. Yeah it may [...]

40 Days Of DragonCon (Day 32) – Podcast Interview: Widge And Ken

Share As part of our 40 Days countdown we will be interviewing various directors (and some panelists) of the DragonCon Fan Tracks. In this issue we feature panelists and moderators extraordinaire: Widgett Walls (NeedCoffee) and Ken Plume (QuickStopEntertainment). I am stil unsure of what Leigh and I set out to accomplish when interviewing Ken and [...]

40 Days Of DragonCon (Day 29) – Podcast Interview: Derek of the Skeptic Track

Share As part of our 40 Days countdown we will be interviewing various directors (and some panelists) of the DragonCon Fan Tracks. In this issue we feature Derek from the Skeptic track. Leigh joins me in being all sorts of scientific and truthful as we chat with Derek. Join us as we uncover the facts [...]

40 Days Of DragonCon (Day 25) – Podcast Interview: Bev of Young Adult Literature

Share As part of our 40 Days countdown we will be interviewing various directors (and some panelists) of the DragonCon Fan Tracks. In this issue we feature Bev from the Young Adult Literature track. Leigh is here again (having not learned her lesson yet, apparently) with me as we discuss YA Lit. Bev educates us [...]

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