Reading Time: 3 minutes Stranger Things season 3 will release in summer 2019, which gives those of you who have never seen it a little more time to binge for the first two seasons to see what all the noise was about. For those of you who are anxiously waiting to see where the summer of […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Stranger Things season 3 will release in summer 2019, which gives those of you who have never seen it a little more time to binge for the first two seasons to see what all the noise was about. For those of you who are anxiously waiting to see where the summer of […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Geek Culture Conventions The highlight in this week’s Convention Connection for Week 44 2018 is Rhode Island Comic Con 2018. The event is held from Friday, November 2 through Sunday, November 4 in Providence, Rhode Island. The show features a number of celebrity guests, such as Tim Curry, Kiefer Sutherland, Zachary […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s always a good time for a bad joke. Halloween gives us all kinds of monsters and mayhem to play with. We think it is a ghoulishly good time for some ammunition when the neighborhood kids need a little trick with their treat. Enjoy these fun and awful Halloween jokes! Why […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes It’s once again the time of year where we at GeekDad scour our reviews and purchases for the best gifts any geek would love. I know that Halloween has not quite passed, but with only two months left to Christmas, and barely four weeks left to Hanukkah, it’s probably time to […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Danny Weinkauf (second from left) and his Red Pants Band. When you think about They Might Be Giants, you immediately think of the two-headed frontmen, the Johns (Flansburgh and Linnell). But the third tendril of that hydra should belong to bassist Danny Weinkauf, whose tenure with the band extends more than 20 years […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Original image by Jeff Roberts, O’Neill Marketing. Geek Culture Conventions We’re highlighting Alamo City Comic Con on this week’s Convention Connection. The event is held at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas from Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28. Convention guests include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Goldblum, Rick Moranis, William Shatner, […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Use your cameras and make sure you double-check your blind spots on Halloween. (Image: Chevrolet) Halloween is just around the corner! Heck, if you live in a town that shifts trick-or-treating to the weekend, it might even be tomorrow! For some of you, that means heading out your front door and […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Disney•Pixar’s Incredibles 2 arrives digitally on October 23rd and on Blu-ray on November 6th, and GeekDad has exclusive extra clip! In the clip, the crew discusses something all of us parents deal with and something that is a major focus of the movie–how do we, as parents, know when to be […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Geek Links are cool stories that we’ve found elsewhere on the internet that we think our readers will love too. ECOVACS Deebot M88 Floor Cleaning Robot vacuums, sweeps and mops your floors.Image Credit: Ecovacs Vacuum, sweep, and mop your floor without doing more than downloading a smartphone app. Deebot M88 is […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Original image by Jeff Roberts, O’Neill Marketing. Geek Culture Conventions Our highlight convention in this edition of Convention Connection for Week 42 2018 is Dallas Fan Days 2018, held in Irving, Texas from Friday, October 19 through Sunday, October 21. The convention includes a number of celebrity, artist, and creator guests […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The irrepressible, effervescent Tim Kubart is back to engage youthful audiences with his new CD, Building Blocks. As with his past releases, it’s a homogenous mix of dancing, sweat, and tears (the latter mostly for parents). It’s hard to believe that Tim is a youthful 57, except I made that part […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Image courtesy of Age Hams Imagine this: you go to your mailbox one day and find a brown envelope; the return address is a P.O. Box in Ohio. You open it and find a little rubber pig and a card from a French girl named Camille. You smile at the random […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Following up with last week’s column about scary-but-not-too-scary stories, today I’ve got creepy (but maybe not too creepy) comic books, for younger kids up to adults. Hammy and Gerbee: Mummies at the Museum by Wong Herbert Yee Okay, I’ll be honest: this one isn’t actually creepy at all, but there are […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes (Picture by Logan Giannini) When I was a little kid my family was good friends with another family who happened to have two girls of almost exactly the same age as my older brother and I. We would get together multiple times each week, play games, go to the park, and […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Original image: Wikimedia Creative Commons. Geek Culture Conventions The highlight of this week’s Convention Connection is the ACE Comic Con Midwest 2018 that runs from Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14 in Chicago, Illinois. The event includes a number of celebrity guests from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Who television […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Sony Crackle introduces season three of their show Supermansion with a star-studded panel including Bryan Cranston. What is it Supermansion is the amazing creation from Robot Chicken producer Matt Senreich and Zeb Wells. It is a fun and irreverent take on the modern superhero craze with Bryan Cranston playing a past-his-prime hero […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes If you haven’t yet watched the new movie Eighth Grade starring Elsie Fisher and directed by Bo Burnham, you’re doing yourself a disservice. As a former junior high school teacher and the parent of a current eighth grader myself, I can tell you that this is perhaps the most realistic portrayal […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Original image: Wikimedia Creative Commons. Geek Culture Conventions The focus convention in this week’s Convention Connection is New York Comic Con in New York, New York. The event runs from Thursday, October 4 through Sunday, October 7. Most major geek culture producers with a TV series, film, comic book, or similar […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Cover of Puzzlecraft. Photo courtesy of Lone Shark Games Like lots of you, I enjoy puzzles. Word puzzles, logic puzzles, physical puzzles, programming puzzles. You name it. I love the challenge of mentally facing down an enigma, wrestling with it, and eventually solving it. Or, you know, not. But if you […]
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