Beyond My Geeky Life

With all that has been happening in my life, I decided to go and really geek out my house. It has been a fun process of going through my stuff and getting it out on display. Here we have my Star Wars wall    And this is my Marvel Comics wall. More is already getting added to it   Here is the start of my Dr. Who wall.  Already plan to add more to this one   This is the bookcase I have put in my living room. Filled with all manner of my geeky collectables. I am finding it highly relaxing to walk trough my house and see my geeky interests reflected everywhere. My boys have also been enjoying all the redecorating. I have been making sure to include them in some of the decision making in this. I am going to finish up this post by promoting The Fifth Di... You can find my story 'This Crime Immortality' in their March 2016 issue. http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/blog/product/the-fifth-di-march-2016/

Last night we saw the end of a great, short lived cartoon show, Gravity Falls. In just two season we were given a great, complete story of two twins spending an incredible summer with their great uncle. Producers need to take note of how and why Gravity Falls ended. The show's creator ended the show because he told his complete story and was not about to mess things up by keeping the show going after the story is told. While that meant we only got two seasons of this remarkable show, it also means we got a full story and we get to end the show with a proper ending that was clearly how it was always to end. The final episode had it all. You see real growth in all these characters, even minor ones. All the stories came together, giving us a feel that every episode mattered. And we really did care about what happened to all the characters. If you are not familiar with the show, then I recommend you get out and binge watch it. Only two seasons and a batch of shorts, so it is a...

Before reading the rest of this post, go watch the trailers at the following pages if you've not seen them yet: This International Star Wars: The Force Awakens  Trailer Has Tons Of New Footage Even more brand-new Star Wars footage We now have just over a month to go before The Force Awakens hits the theaters. The excitement keeps building, but there is a lingering feeling that we've seen all this before and were let down in the end. I remember the build up for Episode 1 and how in the end we were left with a film that did not come close to being what all the hype promised. So why do I think it will be different this time? Looking at the trailers there is a lot of obvious differences. To start off with the bad guys this time look like they will ave to be taken seriously. The new Stormtroopers look to be badass add aggressive. We are not getting stuck another batch of worthless solider like the battle droids, who were at no point anything close to a threat. I ca...

With just a over a month before the new Star Wars movie hits the theaters, with what may be a record crushing opening weekend with a predicted 600 million world wide ( http://www.imdb.com/news/ni59122843 ) we are seeing a big push for merchandising at all levels. As a collector I am enjoying seeing all that is coming out and as budget allows I am picking up new pieces for my collection. So one area of merchandising I don't see myself going after however is the Star Wars themed CoverGirl collection. http://www.covergirl.com/cosmetics/starwars-collection While I find it to be an interesting marketing concept, I just don't see myself picking any of it up. I'm not a fan of throwing a logo on just any old thing to make it collectible, and this seems just barely a step above that. I am sure it will sell well though, I'm just not going to go after any of them.

For those of you who have been living under a rock this last week, yesterday was Back to the Future Day. In BTTF2 Doc and Marty travel to the future from 1985. The date they travel to was 10/21/2015. Needless to say the geek community took full advantage of such a well known movie having an actual date that reality catches up to in their lifetimes. My boys and I got out to a local library and watched BTTF2 with a bunch of other people as we snacked on BTTF themed goodies. They also had trivia and activities for the kids. It was a lot of fun. My youngest and I got interviewed for a piece that will get broadcast on a local station. We then went home and played the BTTF card game. I love the fact that a one shot geek holiday has made it to that level of mainstream popularity. There was coverage of this day everywhere you turned. It shows just how huge geek culture has become. This is just more evidence that the geeks are set up to take over the world.

I am a collector of a great many things. My house is packed with my collections. I have major collections such as Star Wars, action figures, comics, DVDs, and books. Then there are my minor collections like wind-up toys, Minions and Little Green Men form Toy Story. I have been a collector for as long as I can remember, it is for me and so many others, a way of life. But not everyone understands this way of life. While most people who come over are impressed by my collections, I have encountered people who see my level of collecting as being hoarding. They are unable to grasp the passion for collecting and instead write it off as someone just keeping and becoming attached to a bunch of junk. I am not going to go into what hoarding is here, but you can go do the research and learn what actual hoarding is. It is a real serious condition that can screw up a person life. It is noticeably different from actual collecting though. I can look through my collections and find v...

Today marks 100 days until the official release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. And right now Star Wars seems to be everywhere. This last Friday was Force Friday, basically when all the new Star Wars merchandise was allowed to be sold. While the new figures were blowing out of stores like crazy, in fact you would be lucky to find much in the way of merchandise on store shelves right now, there was a good deal off classic trilogy items mixed  in with the new movie pieces. There were a few prequel items, but those were very few. The companies putting the merchandise out clearly do know what movies matter. Unlike the crazy amount of everything that was throw out there for the prequel merchandising insanity, they toned in down a great deal this time. While there is a lot of items released, it seems they were more controlled in making sure what was being sold had a little more thought that just slapping Star Wars characters on everything, although some of that did still...