Comic Con: Day 1 Hunting and Escaping

We took the insanely long 2 hr. drive down to San Diego on Thursday to give all our Geek brothers and sisters the low-down on the epic convention known as Comic Con!!! First off we got to our motel 30 miles away from San Diego because the price per night at a hotel in San Diego for that particular weekend would have forced us to get a loan to pay for the three nights we needed to be there. We found a nice little place, checked in around 9am and then jettisoned off to the show. When we got into San Diego we passed the convention center and I swore Jesus must have been giving out miracles because there were thousands of people lined up outside. AnnaMay and I looked over in awe at the Geeky magnitude of it all (this being our first Comic Con and all). Then we spent the rest of the day finding a parking spot. Well it felt like the rest of the day at least, easily the hardest part of going to Comic Con is finding decent parking, and if your lucky enough to find parking within 10 blocks of the center you’ll be paying out the nose, but that’s capitalism so what are you going to do? We took the long trek over, got our passes just soon enough to not get in to the Paramount Panel. That was pretty disappointing considering they talked about Iron Man and the new Star Trek, but the line was outside the door and around the building and we didn’t have a chance to get in.

–Dave

Back From Comic-Con

Hey everyone!! We are back from the International Comic-Con in San Diego and there is so much to talk about. We will start posting about our experiences as soon as we have a little free time. Let me tell you we are exhausted from all the excitement and thrilled to tell you about what’s new and cool in the world of geek!

–AnnaMay

Back From Comic-Con

Hey everyone!! We are back from the International Comic-Con in San Diego and there is so much to talk about. We will start posting about our experiences as soon as we have a little free time. Let me tell you we are exhausted from all the excitement and thrilled to tell you about what’s new and cool in the world of geek!

–AnnaMay

Comic-Con is on the Horizon

The excitement is brewing as we finalize our plans (yeah we got a late start) to make our trek for Comic-Con International in San Diego. We have talked to people about getting interviews (keep your fingers crossed) and there are plenty of booths that we look forward to checking out.

You may have heard our Heroes Extravaganza from June 23 and hopefully we can get some more interviews from the cast. Speaking of Heroes (and as a follow up to one of Dave’s old posts) I hear that deals are almost complete to have Zachary Quinto play Spock in the new Star Trek film.

OK, back to Comic-Con. We will try to blog while we are there (asuming we can actually get online at our hotel or is it a motel well the cheap place we’re staying) but if we can’t you can be sure there will be various long posts all about it as soon as we get back!

We’ll take plenty of pictures and put them up on our website. At some point we’ll even get those pics from the Kwik-E-Mart up. Sorry, we’ve been busy. We’re going to try and get some video too so stay tuned!

We hope that everyone else that’s going to Comic-Con has a great time and maybe we’ll see you there!!

–AnnaMay

Comic-Con is on the Horizon

The excitement is brewing as we finalize our plans (yeah we got a late start) to make our trek for Comic-Con International in San Diego. We have talked to people about getting interviews (keep your fingers crossed) and there are plenty of booths that we look forward to checking out.

You may have heard our Heroes Extravaganza from June 23 and hopefully we can get some more interviews from the cast. Speaking of Heroes (and as a follow up to one of Dave’s old posts) I hear that deals are almost complete to have Zachary Quinto play Spock in the new Star Trek film.

OK, back to Comic-Con. We will try to blog while we are there (asuming we can actually get online at our hotel or is it a motel well the cheap place we’re staying) but if we can’t you can be sure there will be various long posts all about it as soon as we get back!

We’ll take plenty of pictures and put them up on our website. At some point we’ll even get those pics from the Kwik-E-Mart up. Sorry, we’ve been busy. We’re going to try and get some video too so stay tuned!

We hope that everyone else that’s going to Comic-Con has a great time and maybe we’ll see you there!!

–AnnaMay

AnnaMay's Birthday Wacky Links

It’s my Birthday so I have decided to send you to some of my favorite rediculous links.

Check out the thrill of puking rainbows

Ninjas beating up pirates then grinding on their axes

Let Eric convey an emotion just for you

It’s the subservient chicken

My favorit waste of time: Cute Overload

Don’t forget to Geek World’s home page!!!

–AnnaMay

AnnaMay’s Birthday Wacky Links

It’s my Birthday so I have decided to send you to some of my favorite rediculous links.

Check out the thrill of puking rainbows

Ninjas beating up pirates then grinding on their axes

Let Eric convey an emotion just for you

It’s the subservient chicken

My favorit waste of time: Cute Overload

Don’t forget to Geek World’s home page!!!

–AnnaMay

AnnaMay’s Birthday Wacky Links

It’s my Birthday so I have decided to send you to some of my favorite rediculous links.

Check out the thrill of puking rainbows

Ninjas beating up pirates then grinding on their axes

Let Eric convey an emotion just for you

It’s the subservient chicken

My favorit waste of time: Cute Overload

Don’t forget to Geek World’s home page!!!

–AnnaMay

Bringing Balls Back to the Movies?

I tell ya whippersnappers movies ain’t what they used to be. Back in my day the Schwarzenegger’s, the Stallone’s, and even the Van Damme’s and Seagal’s ruled the box office. Sure alot of these movies had corny dialogue and bad acting, but you know what else they had, they had freaking balls!! In my day a movie was a disaster if it didn’t have explosions, bloody martial arts and/or gun battles, and BOOBS! (remember what boobs look like? Sure you can see them on the net practically anywhere, but in the mid-90’s boobs scored at the box office, don’t lie, you all remember Erika Eleniak popping out of the cake in Under Siege or Ferris’ girlfriend Mia Sara getting down in Timecop, and let us not forget beautiful Tia Carrere in a hot tub in Showdown in Little Tokyo) wait a sec what’s this post about? Oh yeah now I remember.

Now-a-days good luck finding a cool hard R movie with violence, blood and boobs (the best you can do is this new freaky Torture Porn fad. Did I miss something? I mean sure Blood Sucking Freaks did this back in the 70’s but at least it was comical, this new stuff is just arbitrary, and I really doubt there’s any psychopathic black midgets named Ralphus torturing women while doing a little dance in Hostel or Saw, though there should be). Anyway, the world we live in today won’t even allow John McClane to say Yippee-Ki-Yay MF’r any more (apparently I can’t either), so they can get a little more revenue from a PG-13 movie. I mean alot of this is because we have flat screen TVs and DVDs and HD-DVD’s (and Blu-Ray I ain’t hate’n) and Netflix, and lets be honest theater experiences suck, annoying people, cell phones, screaming kids, and unhelpful theaters probably too afraid of lawsuits to curb annoying theater goers, and the one bad apple adage really fits the movie theater atmosphere.

But let’s get real, what was the last bad-ass hard R movie to come to the cineplex? Grind House? Kill Bill? History of Violence? 300?(to an extent) it’s kind of a rare dying breed shuffled off to direct-2-dvd instead of facing a dismal box office. Sure 300 came out this summer and sure it was really violent, but it was also amplified by special effects to the extent that you’re not at all in the real world but a graphic novel, which I love but it lacks the flare of old school action. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel my friends. That small shining beacon in a PG world is known simply as…

JOHN RAMBO.

That’s right, everyone’s favorite shell-shocked Vietnam vet you don’t mess with or else (that’s right David Caruso you know better now!) is back for a 4th (and most likely last) installment, “John Rambo”. I remember when I first heard they were making this movie and it was called “Rambo IV: In the Serpents Eye” and everyone made fun of the fact Stallone was too old, and this was before people were impressed with Rocky Balboa mind you. But it looks like we’re all fools now because this trailer kicks ass!!!!

From what I’ve heard this is not a trailer that was meant to go out to the public, but instead was meant for Cannes, but much like Vincent Chase’s MEDELLIN the trailer found it’s way onto YouTube and it’s garnering crazy interest. Pretty much because it’s awesome. I mean come on, this is the kind of movie I grew up with. Decapitations, liquefying baddies with a machine gun turret, ripping throats out Road House style, what could be better? The geek in me is also ecstatic over the female lead in the movie. Whose that hot blonde chick yelling at Rambo? Well that is Julie Benz who you might know as Rita from Showtime’s hit Dexter, but we at Geek World will always know her as Darla, Angel’s sire in TVs Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel (fun fact she was the first vampire shown in makeup in the show, and the first vampire to kill a human, who was played by CSI:NY’s Carmine Giovinazzo) she was also in Jawbreaker with Rose McGowen. But aside from the hotness, most of all this trailer just rocks, and if they keep all the gore and action in I’m definitely there.

It’s odd, it was thought that with the decay of a society the entertainment would become more and more violent, but instead our technology is forcing everything into PC land, as far as I’m concerned that’s only cool if were getting closer to building Star-fleet.

Thanks to IMDB, Google and Youtube for all this fun stuff

–Dave

Bringing Balls Back to the Movies?

I tell ya whippersnappers movies ain’t what they used to be. Back in my day the Schwarzenegger’s, the Stallone’s, and even the Van Damme’s and Seagal’s ruled the box office. Sure alot of these movies had corny dialogue and bad acting, but you know what else they had, they had freaking balls!! In my day a movie was a disaster if it didn’t have explosions, bloody martial arts and/or gun battles, and BOOBS! (remember what boobs look like? Sure you can see them on the net practically anywhere, but in the mid-90’s boobs scored at the box office, don’t lie, you all remember Erika Eleniak popping out of the cake in Under Siege or Ferris’ girlfriend Mia Sara getting down in Timecop, and let us not forget beautiful Tia Carrere in a hot tub in Showdown in Little Tokyo) wait a sec what’s this post about? Oh yeah now I remember.

Now-a-days good luck finding a cool hard R movie with violence, blood and boobs (the best you can do is this new freaky Torture Porn fad. Did I miss something? I mean sure Blood Sucking Freaks did this back in the 70’s but at least it was comical, this new stuff is just arbitrary, and I really doubt there’s any psychopathic black midgets named Ralphus torturing women while doing a little dance in Hostel or Saw, though there should be). Anyway, the world we live in today won’t even allow John McClane to say Yippee-Ki-Yay MF’r any more (apparently I can’t either), so they can get a little more revenue from a PG-13 movie. I mean alot of this is because we have flat screen TVs and DVDs and HD-DVD’s (and Blu-Ray I ain’t hate’n) and Netflix, and lets be honest theater experiences suck, annoying people, cell phones, screaming kids, and unhelpful theaters probably too afraid of lawsuits to curb annoying theater goers, and the one bad apple adage really fits the movie theater atmosphere.

But let’s get real, what was the last bad-ass hard R movie to come to the cineplex? Grind House? Kill Bill? History of Violence? 300?(to an extent) it’s kind of a rare dying breed shuffled off to direct-2-dvd instead of facing a dismal box office. Sure 300 came out this summer and sure it was really violent, but it was also amplified by special effects to the extent that you’re not at all in the real world but a graphic novel, which I love but it lacks the flare of old school action. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel my friends. That small shining beacon in a PG world is known simply as…

JOHN RAMBO.

That’s right, everyone’s favorite shell-shocked Vietnam vet you don’t mess with or else (that’s right David Caruso you know better now!) is back for a 4th (and most likely last) installment, “John Rambo”. I remember when I first heard they were making this movie and it was called “Rambo IV: In the Serpents Eye” and everyone made fun of the fact Stallone was too old, and this was before people were impressed with Rocky Balboa mind you. But it looks like we’re all fools now because this trailer kicks ass!!!!

From what I’ve heard this is not a trailer that was meant to go out to the public, but instead was meant for Cannes, but much like Vincent Chase’s MEDELLIN the trailer found it’s way onto YouTube and it’s garnering crazy interest. Pretty much because it’s awesome. I mean come on, this is the kind of movie I grew up with. Decapitations, liquefying baddies with a machine gun turret, ripping throats out Road House style, what could be better? The geek in me is also ecstatic over the female lead in the movie. Whose that hot blonde chick yelling at Rambo? Well that is Julie Benz who you might know as Rita from Showtime’s hit Dexter, but we at Geek World will always know her as Darla, Angel’s sire in TVs Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel (fun fact she was the first vampire shown in makeup in the show, and the first vampire to kill a human, who was played by CSI:NY’s Carmine Giovinazzo) she was also in Jawbreaker with Rose McGowen. But aside from the hotness, most of all this trailer just rocks, and if they keep all the gore and action in I’m definitely there.

It’s odd, it was thought that with the decay of a society the entertainment would become more and more violent, but instead our technology is forcing everything into PC land, as far as I’m concerned that’s only cool if were getting closer to building Star-fleet.

Thanks to IMDB, Google and Youtube for all this fun stuff

–Dave