Currently the titled hashtag is trending on twitter. For those of us who lived and worked in and around the World Trade Center, and I would assume, the Pentagon as well, have this small portion of us that have never gotten over this event, and even 14 years later, it still hits a raw nerve….
Take Me Back – Throwback Comeback
I’m going to attempt to write this piece without using “in my day…”. I grew up in the 80’s. I remember playing Gauntlet in the arcade, I had a Barbie and Jem and the Holograms sticker book. I collected Garbage Pail Kid cards, even though secretly they kind of grossed me out. I had a…
Pride Month: LGBTQ in Geek Culture
For Pride month, we’ve invited co-host of the YouTube show “Gayme Night“, Carl Li, to talk about the wave of LGBTQ content making it’s way into geek culture. The Geek Community is as vast and diverse as any other community, and perhaps more accepting than most, considering they embrace ideas of aliens, monsters and fantastical species. I…
Simon Pegg Conspiracy Theory
Social media and it’s short attention span has taken on it’s banner of pugnacious injustice based on writer/actor Simon Pegg’s truncated conspiracy theory below: “Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control.” If you want to read his full response to the…
Queens International Night Market Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Residents from all five boroughs made their way to the parking lot of the New York Hall of Science last night to partake in the first Queens International Night Market. Privately sponsored, last night’s kick-off event is scheduled to be the first of many, slated to run every Saturday night from April 25th to October from 6PM –…
William Shatner, I Grieve With Thee
They buried Leonard Nimoy and instead of remembering the man’s body of work or his many acts of kindness, some fans and media outlets are hurling invective at his Star Trek co-star for not attending the Boston-born actor, director, photographer, and poet’s funeral. The 83 year-old William Shatner chose not to take an exhausting, last-minute…
Monty Oum, We’ll Miss You
Late last night I was walking home from a gig in the February cold when I logged into Facebook. I saw that I was tagged on to a post by an old friend to a video and was thrown for a loop. This is what I saw. For those who don’t know Monty Oum, the…
Afterglow – The New York Comic Con After-post Spectacular
It’s been two weeks, and I think I finally recovered from New York Comic Con. For those who don’t know, New York Comic Con is a four day long event that takes over at the Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City. It is second only to San Diego Comic Con in both size…
New York Comic Con Series – Get Ready!
New York Comic Con is officially days away and you’ve already received your pass in the mail. The only problem is your comic book trivia is not up to snuff and you don’t have the funds to purchase all the back issues of comic books that would help you save face. You want to be part of the…
You Like to Watch? Video Game Voyeurism
You may have heard about Twitch.TV and their recent deal with Amazon for $1Billion dollars. That’s right, B as in Billion. Even Doctor Evil from the Austin Powers movies wouldn’t go so far. And the next question is “Who watches other people play video games”? This person, as well as over 45 million viewers worldwide…