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Guest Geeks: Eric Turowski and the D&D “Satanic Panic”

June 23, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Guest GeeksThe world of role-playing games is widespread these days, with games of every kind, in many different mediums, spanning genres and filling up convention after convention. While stigmas and stereotypes still exist for those who play, player demographics span nearly every age, gender, and class. (Did you know Roger Moore and Vin Diesel were adult Dungeons & Dragons players?) But it wasn’t always so. Like rock & roll before it, tabletop role-playing—and D&D in particular—had some, shall we say, wildly inaccurate perceptions in its early days. Today, Guest Geek Eric Turowski paints us a picture…

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming, Guest Geeks Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Eric Turowski, Geek Interest, Jack Chick, role-playing games

Guest Geeks: K.M. Alexander

June 10, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Guest GeeksWelcome back! (Look at me, typing as if I’m welcoming you back from a commercial break or something. I’ve been watching too much Conan.) Given the big ol’ “Guest Geeks” up there at the top of the page, the more attentive among you have likely already picked up on the fact that it’s time for another guest to the blog who will help me fill it up with something geeky. This time we’ve got Lovecraft fan and fellow writer K.M. Alexander, who I met for the first time at Norwescon in April after learning of his writing from the Seattle Geekly podcast folk. Here’s here to talk about everyone’s favorite Lovecraftian insanity-entity, Cthulhu… So let’s give a big “Ai! Ai! Alexander fhtagn!” and read on, because he makes a very good point about…

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Filed Under: Featured, Guest Geeks Tagged With: Cthulhu, Fantasy, Geek Interest, horror, K.M. Alexander, Lovecraft, The Stars Were Right

Playing, Reading, Watching

June 4, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

I should really be writing A Dragon at the Gate at the moment. That’s what I sat down here to do. Yet it’s been a long day, my brain is frazzled, and so it’s revolting and craving leisure. So in an attempt to placate my lazy-ass brain while at the same time at least appearing to get something done, I’m going to take a cue from the Geek Bomb podcast folks (who were good enough to have me on their show last fall) and geek out with you a little over what I’m playing, reading, and watching. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming, Movies and TV Tagged With: Galactic Civilizations III, Game of Thrones, Geek Interest, Magicka 2, Reading, Snow Crash, The Almighty Johnsons, Wasteland 2, Zombeavers

Writing Update: A Dragon at the Gate

May 29, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

It’s been a little while since I checked in with you folks to give a status update on A Dragon at the Gate. For those of you who’ve only come here for my Farscape rewatching or Percy Jackson reading, A Dragon at the Gate is the third and final book in my cyberpunk series known as The New Aeneid Cycle. Don’t let the “dragon” in the title fool you: this is sci-fi set in the mid-21st century.

A Dragon at the Gate

The dragon may be a metaphor.
Or it may not be…

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Filed Under: A Dragon at the Gate, Books, Featured, Writing Tagged With: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Guest Geeks: Z.D. Gladstone

May 28, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Vampires. They’re everywhere: In our cinema, in our nightmares, and sometimes in our kitchens. (What, you think English “blood pudding” is something a rational human being actually thought would taste GOOD?) Well, now they’re in the Guest Geek series! Yep, it’s time for another installment of Guest Geeks. My guest this time is Z.D. Gladstone. She was kind enough to have me on the Shadows on the Sound podcast a little while back talking about Greek mythology, so I invited her to drop by Geek Notes. Z.D. has given us a post that combines two of my own interests: psychology and vampires. 

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Filed Under: Featured, Guest Geeks Tagged With: Angel, Interview with the Vampire, twilight, Undead Depressive Pre-occupation Inventory, Vampire Knight, vampires, Z.D. Gladstone

Movie Review: Mad Max: Fury Road

May 23, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Mad Max: Fury Road (poster)

“And it exploded!”

Well holy flerking schnit, that was an awesome experience!

A couple of days ago I went to see Mad Max: Fury Road with a couple of friends. It was something of a spur-of-the-moment thing. I hadn’t originally been that excited for Fury Road. It was on my mental list of movies I’d probably see if I got around to it, but would likely end up renting. (Note that many movies on that mental-rental list—hee hee, rhyming!—are often forgotten between the time they’re in theaters and the time they’re available on DVD.) [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Featured, Movies and TV Tagged With: Charlize Theron, Fury Road, Geek Interest, George Miller, Mad Max, Review, Science Fiction, Tom Hardy, What A Lovely Day

Guest Geeks: Laura VanArendonk Baugh

May 19, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

It’s Wednesday (or at least it is somewhere), and so it’s time for another Guest Geek post! Today fellow geek, Laura VanArendonk Baugh takes us into the world of cosplay. It’s something I’ve always admired but never quite managed the energy for myself, unless you count my Tony Stark outfit that I wore for Halloween last year. Laura, on the other hand, definitely knows what she’s doing, and it’s pretty darned impressive! (And suddenly I’m thinking about cosplay possibilities for Zeus Is Dead…)
See for yourself!

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Filed Under: Featured, Guest Geeks Tagged With: ...And Sewing Is Half the Battle, cosplay, Geek Interest, Laura VanArendonk Baugh

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