Grok #3 Wants You!
Sep 17Yes, this headline does not rhyme as pleasingly as “Grok #2 Wants You.” We’re sorry. We try to be consistently awesome, but sometimes it just doesn’t pan out.
Anyway! Hot on the heels of the blockbuster that was Grok #2: Secret Origins, we’re preparing another exciting issue of our little PDF ‘zine. And we want YOU to contribute!
Once again, the mission statement: this is an electronic magazine dedicated to sharing stories, examinations and opinions of geek culture. That means stuff like fun essays, fiction and the like focusing on the nerd experience. For further explanation, wander your little eyeballs to the sidebar on the right. And for examples of the kinds of ideas we’re looking for, peruse the two issues we’ve released already. They’re pretty swell.
Each issue also has a theme — #1 was Pon Farr, #2 was Secret Origins. This time around, we’re going a little Lovecraftian and calling it Nameless Horror. This can be interpreted as broadly or specifically as you choose.
Do you have chills yet?
If you want to write and/or draw something, please drop a line to fangirl@earthlink.net and tell us your idea.
Do it!
Civil War: The Fun Version
Sep 16Mister Kevin Church has an inspired bit of silliness he put together, which is designed to give you a few giggles on a Tuesday morning.
That’s a really shitty sentence. Watch this video. It’s funny.
The Gateway Chewie
Sep 15
Remember the Tale of Two Chewies? I still have Cute Chewie. He encourages me when I’m writing myself out of whatever mess of story construction I’ve managed to build on any given day, and then he goes off to star in his adorable anime-style TV series, which also features Superdeformed R2-D2 and a bunch of Jawas with sparkly, embiggened eyeballs. (Cute Chewie wants you to know that this series is not related to The Clone Wars — not in ANY WAY. Cute Chewie doesn’t like to use profanity, but he thought The Clone Wars was pretty shitty.)
Anyway, as you may know, Cute Chewie is part of a whole line of Mighty Muggs, courtesy of Hasbro. Marvel characters, Indiana Jones peeps…all have been cute-ified. And I keep thinking I need more of them.
The Genre Ghetto
Sep 12In a similar vein as yesterday’s Journeyman-heavy post…why do so many genre actors inspire such feverish loyalty in fans, yet can’t seem to break through to the mainstream? Why isn’t Nathan Fillion a big action star? Why doesn’t anyone outside the cable TV movie world recognize Emma Caulfield’s crackerjack comic timing? And so on.
This particularly boggles me when it comes to…
That’s Claudia Black and Ben Browder, former stars of Farscape. They are both amazing. I find their offbeat charisma completely irresistible — neither is really pigeonhole-able, neither fits into a neat little Hollywood box…but when they’re onscreen, I can’t look away. They both have kind of an olde-thymey movie star quality. Post-Farscape, they found work on Stargate SG-1, which…nothing against that show, but it just seems like a shame that they were both recruited to an aging, less exciting Sci Fi Original rather than going on and…I don’t know, having an entire show built around them or something. I know that’s completely unrealistic. It’s just…they’re both so awesome! And so many not-awesome people are famous! Not faaaaaaaaaaair!
But what is that? Is it the whole “genre ghetto” thing? Are they just expected to make all their money at conventions now? Discuss, explain, vent, whatever. It’s Friday!
Dr. Journeyman
Sep 11Yeah, we’re all a little quiet around here this week. Blame it on the incredible state of brain deadness that inevitably occurs right after releasing an issue of Grok. (We’ve only released two issues so far, but trust us: we know this to be true. Also, insert obligatory “read Grok, it is the greatest thing ever” plug here).
So today, I’m giving you a Really Really Super-Duper Incredibly Fun ALL PLAY. (Yes, I just switched from “we” to “I.” I was speaking for all of us, and now I’m just me. Follow the bouncing ball, etc.)
This is in honor of one of my loves, Kevin McKidd, aka Journeyman, joining Grey’s Anatomy this season. Check it…
Photo courtesy Kevin McKidd Online.
I don’t watch Grey’s. But I might have to follow McKidd to the angst-ridden hallways of Seattle Grace, because what they’re offering here is a regular dose of Journeyman. And thanks to the big mean meanie show cancelers at NBC, I can’t get that anywhere else.
What does it take for you to follow one of your Favorite Genre People elsewhere? To, say, a non-genre offering? Does it depend on the person? Does it depend on the level of excruciatingness of said non-genre offering? Is a regular dose of Journeyman worth it, considering that he 1) will probably not be time-traveling and 2) might have to share the screen with Meredith the Whine Machine? Tell me.
