I Am A Giant Nerd

A Nightmare On Elm Street ’84

10 May 2010

So, wow, it’s been awhile, right? Work got a little busy last week (NOTE: now two weeks ago!), and the thing I do for free that nobody reads lost out in favor of the thing that pays me. I know, I’m a sell-out. A few nights ago (NOTE: over a week ago), I watched the [...]

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Jeff Watches Harper’s Island

13 April 2010

We’re a few weeks away from the premiere of Happy Town, a new serial thriller about a bunch of murders in a sleepy town with a dark past.  Which puts me in the frame of mind to revisit another classic television thriller  about strange murders in a reclusive small town. Good guess, guys, but no. [...]

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Dreamworks Something Something Dragon

8 April 2010

If you’ve seen any high school movie about an outcast nerd who finds confidence and becomes ‘cool’ only to have some horrible secret about how the coolness was a sham come out and then is ostracized until a last-minute, against-all-odds win that wins love and parental approval for the protagonist, then you’re pretty familiar with [...]

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31 Days of Terror: The 2010 Oscar Horror Montage

8 March 2010

In order to pad its already voluminous runtime and find an excuse to trot out Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart in a shameless act of pandering to the devoted Twihard audience, The Academy Awards featured an incredibly half-assed and unsubtle montage of horror movie moments that ranged from iconic (the shower scene from Psycho) to [...]

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LOST

3 February 2010

So LOST is back, and I’m pretty excited for the final season.  My pal Aaron is even more excited than I am, which is why we had this conversation about the show earlier today, which is based on my seeing about 30 minutes of the season premiere.  Light spoilers for those 30 minutes follow. Jeff: [...]

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UGC Week – Iambic Pentameter

27 January 2010

Caroline wants to know, “Do you know any poems by heart?  Are there ones you were forced to memorize/ones you decided to pick up on your own?  If you do have these floating around in your head, what do you use them for? If the memorization thing doesn’t apply, tell me about a poem you [...]

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UGC Week: Respectfully, No

27 January 2010

Perry demands: “Describe various acquaintances as comic book characters without explicitly saying who each is supposed to be, leaving it as an exercise for the reader to determine the secret identity of each.” This is fun for nobody. An interesting mental exercise, to be sure, but one that is preloaded with divisiveness. First of all, [...]

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UGC Week: Blackest Night and Seige

26 January 2010

Bill says, “Blog about comics. Like, compare/contrast Siege and Blackest Night.” I generally try to avoid the nerdiest of nerdy comic stuff here, saving it for Alert Nerd, but I do what my readership commands. Because I care. I have, in fact, written about Blackest Night in a meta kind of way, a few times [...]

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UGC Week – Mr. Gatevackes

26 January 2010

More content of the user-generated variety ensues! Bill says: “Write a post about me!” So here goes that…. William Gatevackes is a garrulous drunk and an irascible curmudgeon of a gambler. He is a cheat and a liar and by that barometer of character he is the finest man I have ever known. I met [...]

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I’ll Whisper No

14 January 2010

Yesterday, someone brought a campaign to ‘Save Dollhouse‘ to my attention and asked me to participate. For those of you who don’t know, Dollhouse is a television show about men and (primarily very attractive) women who act as ‘Dolls’ or ‘Actives’ – human tabulas rasa who can be imprinted with any skill or personality – [...]

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