A Testosterone Filled Weekend
If you've been spending a little much time surfing the net and reading comics (be they capes or non-capes) and feeling a little too nerdy, this is the weekend to change up the routine....
LOST: Who are the Oceanic Six?
I know they are the good guys, but whenever I kept hearing the name, I kept thinking "Sinister Six." Yes, super nerd here.
Anyway, Heidi gave you the LOST season premiere post the other day....
LOST is found
UPDATE: You can see a cache of Marvel/Lost crossovers here.
LOST is back in full force this week with the premiere of what everyone hopes won't be a severely strike-shortened 8-episode long Season 4. Long...
News Briefs
We're battling some kind of virus that we got from eating some ill-advised food. It's a real tussle that goes back and forth, and going to sleep before 4 am would probably help, as...
The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS
Some fellow has posted a Flickr set of The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS and it has Nerd World a-twitter. Can you not see why? Ay-yi-yi! Notice how all the women of...
Strike drags on
The WGA strike goes on and on with no early end in sight, as everyone sticks to their trenches. Patrick Goldstein at the LA Times has the very gloomy prognosis:
DESPITE what they say about...
To Do: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
This is very much NOT COMICS, but this afternoon BBC America is having a marathon of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares in which British chef Gordon Ramsay attempts to improve horrible restaurants with filthy kitchens, drab...
Friendly Reminder: SIMPSONS tonight
We didn't get to see the comic-centric episode of THE SIMPSONS last week, because we had forgotten it was going to be on and, honestly, we've not watched the current series in a couple...
WATCH: My World and Welcome To It
If you're a comics lover -- and we mean a REAL comics lover, the kind of person who wants to understand the joy and sorrow implicit in the butterfly wing of every line on...
Open Thread: Black Friday deals/steals/horror stories
We didn't get a chance to experience Black Friday first hand today (too much sleeping during the day).
Anyone want to share their expierences from shopping today, at the local comics store, big box...
The Show Must Go On
As the writers' strike enters day number (something like 21 or so, forgive me it's late), folks are finding new ways to keep busy.
We saw last week that some of the Daily Show writers...
More strike talk
LOST co-creator (and sometime comic book writer) Damon Lindeolf had this to say today in the New York Times.
I will probably be dragged through the streets and burned in effigy if fans have to...