I may have blogged about some of these before. Ok, one of these before. The Black Tapes. Still loving the Black Tapes podcast. Since they finished season two, or are possibly done (?) I just re-listened to all of them again. The Black Tapes is spooky and atmospheric, lacing their stories with things that exist… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #370 – Podcasts I’m Digging
First, I want to congratulate the Card Castle folks for hitting their funding goal! Congrats, guys! I’m so happy for you!!!!! Next, and this is a very elegantly crafted segue, I assure you, I want to talk about what about the Geek Social Fallacies makes them so hard to jettison when they fuck it up… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #369 – When the Geek Social Fallacies do Good
This was a panel that we did at Norwescon this year. Now, the idea behind the panel was that we would talk about whether we were the kind of collectors who very carefully preserved their things in acid free liners and kept all of our action figures “mint in box,” or if we were the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #366 – Collecting versus COLLECTING
This past weekend, as I posted, on Thursday, was Norwescon 40 . My first Norwescon was Norwescon 13. Which suddenly seems so very long ago. About six months previous to that Norwescon, I had attended my first convention period, Dreamcon 3, according to a friend who was there, and on walking in the door, my… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #362 – Norwescon 40
Hey! So a friend of mine and her partners are Kickstarting their card game, beginning Tuesday, April 18th. It’s called Card Castle, and it’s a lot of fun. I’ve actually gotten to play it, and enjoyed the hell out of it. It’s a card slap game, where you’re looking for matches, or the wild cards… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #361 – Kickstarter for Card Castle
Richie Rich. Richie Rich is the first comic I collected, the old Harvey ones. We were allowed to walk down to the Open Pantry by our old house in Michigan, or we would walk to the General Store near my great-grandmother’s cabin, and buy comics for… Let’s leave it at under a dollar. I’m old.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #360 –
Here is my schedule for Norwescon, this weekend in Seattle, WA. If you’re in the area come by and say hi! Thursday Adult Comics vs. Mature Comics 8:00pm – 9:00pm @ Cascade 10 Mickey Schulz (M), Brenna Clarke Gray, Ogre Whiteside, Nathan Crowder Identities and Terminology Are Important 9:00pm – 10:00pm @ Cascade 11 Sar… Read More Geek Girl News!
So, I backed this when I found out about it, and the physical copy has finally arrived!!!! Billed as a “Coloring Book for Adults,” by Cori Redford, I’m glad I backed this book. If you’re into the adult coloring craze sweeping geekdom right now. And I’ll be honest, I’ve dropped a fair amount of money… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #359 – Review: Dungeons After Dark Coloring Book
Why do I say that Marvel doesn’t know how to market diversity? Well, let’s see, of the dozen Marvel superhero shirts I’ve bought at a Target or Old Navy in the past year and a half, not one has been of a female hero. You want to know why? Because they don’t exist. In fact,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #358 – What Does Bad Marketing Look Like?
Ok, I’m sure by now you’ve all seen the Bleeding Cool article quoting David Gabriel, that readers were “turning up their noses at diversity.” Gabriel’s remarks are particularly disappointing coming just a few days after this interview with Sana Amanat. See, now here is where I don my cranky old lady hat, and point out… Read More Geek Girls Rule! – #357 Damn it, Marvel
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