Beyond My Geeky Life

With Toys R Us going out of business, it feels like the end of an era, but looking back on it all that era ended some time ago. And while there are many factors that have led to the company shutting down, the real reasons can all be linked to the 90s. Over the time I have been raising my two boys, I have noticed that none of their friends collect toys, even on the level when I was young and all my friends traded with each other. At t hat time you did not collect for value. You collected to play with the toys. And I remember in Junior High being told toys were for kids, but that did not stop me from collecting. In the 90s everything switched around. Everyone, even the kids, collected toys for the value. I worked in a toy department and was blown away by how often a kid would look at what figures to buy fully based on the value of it. And it was mostly adults who were buying the toys, most of whom were very open about buying them as an investment. Back in the 80s y...

One of the issues many fans have had with the new Star Wars trilogy is how it had dumped all the Expanded Universe story lines that had been put together over the last few decades. These were extensive story lines expanding on the stories of the original trilogy. There were several epic story lines that took the Star Wars universe to all sorts of new places, with interesting new characters. Now we are getting a new expanded universe built under the new story lines, but one thing I have come to realize is that in the end this new EU is not going to be able to live up to reputation of the old one. I am reading Liea Princess of Alderaan and of thing I have realized is that there is something missing. Then thinking about the other new EU books I have read, it is missing from those as well. This is not review of the book. I have problems with it on many levels and am only a few chapters in, their take on Liea is really bothering as it very openly is going against set canon from the ...

Hello everyone, Its been a while since I put together a list of my writings and figured I should try to promote my works a little. So if you want to support me and see just what comes out of this warped mind of mine, here is what you might want to check out. I have four stories now in The Divided States of America, http://www.nomadicdeliriumpress.com/dividedstates.htm While each is a stand alone story, they do follow the same character and this is the recommended reading order for them What Lies in the Wastelands: http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/…/what-lies-in-the-wastela…/ Can't Go Home Again: http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/…/produ…/cant-go-home-again/ Where Do You Go From Here: http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/…/where-do-you-go-from-here/ Trial of Payne: http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/blog/product/trial-of-payne/ And my awesome girlfriend Lorelei has one story in that collection, Delivery: http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/blog/product/delivery/ Dishar...

Today I was screwing around on Amazon Prime just looking at what they had, hoping to find something interesting. In the end I guess I found something interesting. First odd movie I decided to check out was 'Psycho Bettys From the Planet Pussycat' (2011). And no, this was not soft core porn. I lasted 10 minutes before I just could not watch any more. Yeah, this was real low budget. Cardboard and aluminum foil sets. The costumes were clearly just whatever the talent wore to set. We even get an old television, covered in foil, as a set piece. Then they had musical numbers... With some really awkward editing to it. I'm not even sure how to describe what I was watching. It just didn't make sense at all. I couldn't keep watching. So then I scrolled through some more and found 'Space Boobs In Space' (2017) written by and staring Dee Flowered. Believe it or not, once more NOT soft core porn. Again this was about as low budget as it get. Painted wat...