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Posted on 02.13.12 by Widge @ 5:36 am
 No, it's not a second series. It's a Valentine's Day Special One-Off Episode of Solve This, the improvisational panel show and podcast that pits a panel of four romantic specialists against properly themed Valentine's Day problems where the solutions become more wrong the further we go into the show. Joining me for this episode are, in alphabetical order: 
File Under: Podcasts and Solve This
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Posted on 02.13.12 by JM Tuffley @ 1:39 am
 This podcast generally covers music and other transgressions. This month's episode is hosted by Prof. Tuffley, assisted by Dr. Rob Levy and Widge is in the sidecar. This episode's central topic is...television shows about music. We're talking of the Soul Train, American Bandstand, Top of the Pops vein. They slowly but surely disappeared from our television screens. How and why? Before we get there, though, we also explore: Disney vs. Joy Division, Newt Gingrinch vs. Survivor, Capitol Music vs. ReDigi (the used digital music store), the Oscars vs. common sense, the Sasquatch music festival (aka Sasquatch vs. The Sound Board's budget and travel plans), Metallica's music festival, Ben Folds Five returns, so does 2 Live Crew, and M.I.A. vs. Madonna. Plus: remembering Etta James, Don Cornelius and Johnny Otis. And also we throw in a Valentine's Day addendum for music for both love and anti-love. Editor's Note: this episode was recorded before the sad news about Whitney Houston. Special thanks to Hyperbubble for our lead-in music. Show them love and buy their stuff.
File Under: Podcasts and Sound Board
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Posted on 02.11.12 by Widge @ 5:46 pm
Episode #106 for Safe House, in which our protagonist gives a modest proposal for dealing with the Babies in Cinema Problem, praises Denzel Washington for being able to elevate any film (or pretty much anything around him--he has the Acting Speed Force), and has a special guest star!
File Under: Reviews and Video Podcasts and Wayhomers
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Posted on 02.10.12 by Widge @ 4:51 am
It's Weekend Justice: the Internet's #1 audio trainwreck. It's the podcast arrow in the quiver of Arrowette. And Arrowette is in the quiver of Galactus. Or something. This podcast was engineered--some might say over-engineered--by experts to escort you from the work week in the most chaotic manner possible. Please note: this podcast is profane, definitely oversexed and definitely overwrought. It is wrong and unsafe. You have been warned.  Agenda:
File Under: Podcasts and Weekend Justice
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Posted on 02.09.12 by Widge @ 11:14 pm
 Dammit, I wanted that guy from The Hangover to play me! Need to stay up to date with pop culture news but don't want to wade through 57 blog posts a day to do it? No worries. We do it for you: one post with only the most critical items so you can get it out of the way in one sitting. You're welcome.
File Under: Stuff You Need to Know
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Posted on 02.08.12 by Widge @ 1:38 pm
 The animated short is called The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. It's nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short and it's easy to see why. Considering the demographic of our readers--that you're all literate, book-loving types with a love for whimsy (sometimes morbid, sometimes not)--it's almost as if the people at Moonbot Studios were targeting us specifically. Watch it and see why. If you're not utterly delighted with the short by the time you reach the "surgery" sequence, then seek help. It was created by William Joyce (who was a scribe on Meet the Robinsons as well as an art designer for Pixar). It's been turned into an iPad app (which I plan on snagging shortly) which includes "making of" material. I urge you to set aside fifteen minutes and watch this. It absolutely made my day.
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Posted on 02.07.12 by Widge @ 9:45 pm
 No doubt inspired a little bit by Dead Island, we are compelled by our rule ("If it's undead and bleeds, it leads") to place this on the front page. It's "A Family Once" by Jay Fleck. It's a bloody shame it's the wrong color, however. But man, it's one of Threadless' best zombie shirts in some time. Also of note for recent updates is the Lord of the Rings vs. Monty Python mashup, "Impasse" by Verso. And they've reduced the awesome pirates vs. dog t-shirt "Reburied Treasure" by David Soames and Nathan W. Pye to $12. Grab them with the links above or browse the sit by clicking here.
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Posted on 02.06.12 by Wolven @ 11:35 am
 So. We're all SF nerds here, right? We've all watched the first four seasons of Futurama, and we're all watching Fringe? Yeah, of course we are. So you'll all be with me, and you'll understand what I mean when I say that, I recently realised that Okay, maybe that doesn't make a lot of sense, no matter what you're watching. I will Here There Be Spoilers. What I mean is that they're both lynchpins for their respective universes. In Futurama, we see that, because of Fry, there's a temporal anomaly at the cite of the cryochamber--the point where he goes forward in time (the Why of that is explained in the SUPER INTRICATE ARC of the first four seasons). In fact, we see in a What-If Machine episode that if Fry isn't frozen, then the entire Universe CEASES TO BE.
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Posted on 02.06.12 by ScottC @ 1:39 am
To paraphrase Douglas Adams, "DragonCon is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to DragonCon, listen..." There is so much going on, even DragonCon pros like Needcoffee can't keep track of it all. Things slip through the cracks. Like these two guys:  Who are they? They are stars of DragonCon TV. DragonCon TV is the video content that can be found at the convention, in rooms between panels--pretty much anywhere there's a screen that can be comandeered, it's there. And these two puppets were part of the madness: Bob and Carl: Sci-Fi Janitors
File Under: Stimuli
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Posted on 02.04.12 by Widge @ 4:06 am
Episode #105 for The Woman in Black, in which our protagonist gives thanks for a Hammer horror flick that feels like a Hammer horror flick, praises Daniel Radcliffe for transcending the Potterverse, and generally advises that watching horror films makes you know how to better deal with being in one.
File Under: Reviews and Video Podcasts and Wayhomers
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