Tag: Culture

Really big, really interesting, really… geeky story in a recent LA Weekly all about Mark Mothersbaugh, once of the crazy 80′s band Devo, and since then composing the music to a lot of stuff we’ve all loved as both Geeks and parents.  From Pee-Wee Herman, to The Sims II, to Rugrats, Mark has been with […]

This weekend, my wife and I went to see the Robert Zemeckis-directed, Neil Gaiman/Roger Avary-scripted Beowulf film. Needless to say, we didn’t bring the kid along. But this got me thinking about ways to introduce the little guy to epic stories of ancient heroes. When I was a kid, I was all about Greek mythology, […]

"Kill Bill" Just kidding. "The Time Machine" (1960) Forget the 2002 remake.  Not because it was inappropriate for kids, but because it was just terrible.  The 1960 version with Rod Taylor is a really decent sci-fi/horror flick that I think still stands up today.  The special effects won an Academy Award and remain effective.  That […]

Go is one of the most ancient of all strategy games, with the simplest rules, but the most complex and subtle in terms of strategy.  It’s played on a grid with black and white stones.  If you are a geek of the gaming variety, then you are probably already familiar with Go (aka, Igo or […]

I consider scary movies to be as much of a Halloween tradition as candy, jack-o-lanterns, and sacrificing the innocent to Cromm Cruach to ensure a good harvest the following year (I do a lot of home gardening). Trouble is, there are few good horror movies that the whole family could enjoy. So I flipped through […]

One of the aspects of my geekism, that I’ve never regretted, is my love for role-playing games. No, not MMORPGs. Not Playstation. Good ol’ fashioned paper, pencil, and polyhedron dice role-playing games. Aside from the fact that they promote literacy, social interaction, ethics, and math skills in kids, they’re lots of fun. If you’ve never […]

One of the aspects of fatherhood that I enjoy the most is introducing the children to all the cool stuff that I spent decades of my life sifting through awful stuff to find.  The hard part is filtering for the age of our child.  Over the years since I’ve become a parent, my wife and […]