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Listen to Last Friday's Gobbledygeek

Saturday was a busy day for me, so I didn’t even realize until just now that I never posted a “Listen to Last Night’s Gobbledygeek” thingy! Time to rectify that…! Last Friday’s Gobbledygeek, “It’s On Like Donkey Con,” is available for listening right here. We discuss

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Gobbledygeek #18 Tonight!

Another non-existent week on the blog, another apology from moi. I still haven’t gotten the last Characters post up, and I doubt I will today. That just means you have two posts to look forward to next week! However, Gobbledygeek is still going full steam, and the eighteenth episode

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Listen to Last Night's Gobbledygeek

Last night’s Gobbledygeek, “Dream a Little Dream,” is available for listening right here. More GobbledyGaffes(TM), but we do eventually get around to Inception, and whaddaya know, we didn’t drop any spoilers. We did better than we did with Iron Man 2, hard as that is to believe.

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Gobbledygeek #17 Tonight!

The seventeenth episode of Gobbledygeek airs live tonight at 10:30 PM EST right here. This week, we’ll be having a spoiler-free discussion of Inception, much as we did with Iron Man 2 earlier in the summer. Paul’s already seen the movie, and I’m seeing it this

Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture

Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture: #80-71

Well, better late than never, right? On last Friday’s show, Paul and I continued our countdown of the Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture. We’ve each got our own lists, and on Friday, we revealed our respective #s 80-71. Be sure to listen to the show for

Movie News

Fantastic New Trailer for David Fincher's 'The Social Network'

It’s been a slow week on the blog, and for that I apologize. To make it up to you, here’s the new trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network, an Aaron Sorkin-penned film starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. I admit to knowing next to

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Listen to Last Night's Gobbledygeek

Last night’s Gobbledygeek, “The Match in the Fireworks Shop,” is available for listening right here. After one of our trademark GobbledyGaffes(TM), Paul manages to call into the show and we get things rolling on our discussion of the future of the comics industry. Discussed are Comixology for both

Comic Book News

Westboro Baptist Church Is Picketing Comic-Con

Did you hear the one about the batshit insane lunatic and his inbred clan who spread the word of hatred and intolerance like Christmas carolers from hell? Yeah, there’s no joke there. Fred Phelps’ close friends and family–mostly family–who in the past have picketed the funerals of

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Gobbledygeek #16 Tonight!

The sixteenth episode of Gobbledygeek airs live tonight at 10:30 PM EST right here. This week, we’ll talk about something that’s on the minds of many comics geeks as well as pros: the impending evolution of the comic book industry. We’ll discuss the changing habits of

Music News

Ringo Starr, Keeping the Beat for 70 Years

We had a show on Paul McCartney’s birthday, but no dice for Ringo; as always, the man gets no respect. But wait! Today is Ringo Starr’s 70th birthday, and I am determined to honor him! He is a wonderful drummer; his technique during his time with the Beatles

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Are...Missing...? (Update)

The Internet in general, and Twitter in particular, have given rise to a bunch of really bizarre celebrity communiques. Jim Carrey went all BOING-crazy, gave the world a view at one of the more interesting celebrity psychodramas in recent memory, and abruptly stopped using Twitter in May. Scott Baio too

Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture

Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture: #90-81

On Friday’s show, Paul and I began our countdown of the Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture. We’ve each got our own lists, and last night we revealed our respective #s 90-81. Be sure to listen to the show for our full run-down, but here are our

Movie News

MST3K-ing 'New Moon'

In preparation for our most recent episode, Paul, myself, and his wife Pam watched New Moon. We chatted about it live over Skype. Our reaction to the film was not, how you say, positive. It basically amounted to us MST3K-ing the flick. Below I have provided highlights from our chat.

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Listen to Last Night's Gobbledygeek

Last night’s Gobbledygeek, “Falling in Love Again,” is available for listening right here. Guest host Michele Durham tells us why she loves Twilight; considering Paul and I are haters, we have a very nice conversation, and it was good to hear why the series appeals to so many people.

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Gobbledygeek #15 Tonight!

The fifteenth episode of Gobbledygeek airs live tonight at 10:30 PM EST right here. We’ll be discussing something that’s not exactly seen as geeky: Twilight. Paul and I are decidedly not fans, and thus we shall turn to guest host Michele Durham, who is, to explain the

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Andrew Garfield Is the New Spider-Man

After months of intense casting rumors, Sony and director Marc Webb have chosen their new Spider-Man, and he is 26-year-old actor Andrew Garfield. Save for a role in the forgettable Tom Cruise/Meryl Streep/Robert Redford liberal message movie Lions for Lambs, I am entirely unfamiliar with Garfield’s work,

Real Life

Please Help a Cat Find a Temporary Home

Taking a break from Scott Pilgrim, Wonder Woman, and the like, here’s some real-life news from a friend of ours, Elizabeth Jondahl: for about a year, she’s going to have to take up residence in a place that doesn’t allow cats, leaving her nine-year-old cat Luna in

TV News

'Party Down' Is Canceled; Comedy Fans Weep

Lizzy Caplan and Adam Scott in 'Party Down' You’ve probably never seen an episode of Party Down. It had dire ratings; this past Friday’s season finale, for example, only garnered 74,000 viewers. My rationale was that it was on premium cable channel Starz (which, we

Comic Book News

So, Hey, Wonder Woman Has Pants and Stuff

I’m still determining how much I actually care about this news, but everyone’s talking about it: writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Jim Lee have redesigned Wonder Woman’s costume. Gone are the bustier, the star-spangled panties. In are pants–er, “urban leggings”–and a lil’ jacket, presumably

Movie News

'Twilight' Dawns on Gobbledygeek

To quote the esteemed Dr. Egon Spengler, “This is big, [loving Gobbledygeek fan]. This is very big.” Millions of fangirls and fanboys (or fangirls’ boyfriends) will thrill to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at midnight tonight. Now, Twilight is not exactly a geek subject. At Comic-Con 2008, the first Comic-Con upon

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New 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' Trailer

Are you ready to get chills? “Why do you live?” “Because I have something to live for.” Yeah, you got chills. As I’ve said before, I’ve been lukewarm on the latter films in the series, but I thought Half-Blood Prince was a step in the right direction and

Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture

Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture: #100-91

On Friday’s show, Paul and I began our countdown of the Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop Culture. We’ve each got our own lists, and last night we revealed our respective #s 100-91. Be sure to listen to the show for our full run-down, but here are our

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Listen to Last Night's Gobbledygeek

Last night’s Gobbledygeek, “Daft Gamers,” is available for listening right here. Along with guest host Nathan, Paul and I talk about some games we’re looking forward to from this year’s E3…well, to put it more accurately, Paul and Nathan talk about E3 and I mention like

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Gobbledygeek #14 Tonight!

The fourteenth episode of Gobbledygeek airs live tonight at 10:30 PM EST right here. We’ll be discussing what went down at this year’s E3 with special guest host Nathan, then in the bonus hour Paul and I will kick off our Top 100 Characters in Modern Pop

TV News

Happy Birthday, Joss Whedon!

Ack! It’s late in the day, and I still haven’t wished my Dark Lord and Master, Joss Whedon, a happy birthday. To make up for it, and to show that the guy isn’t just all about breaking hearts and visiting death upon your puppy, here’s some