It’s no secret that we here at GeekDad HQ are big fans of Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm, and their annual JoCo Cruise. So it’s with much excitement that we’re announcing that a number of JoCo Cruise regulars will be at NYCC in some capacity.
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The new video single from Jonathan Coulton’s upcoming full-length ‘Solid State’ dropped earlier this week, and it’s a minimalist masterpiece that’s sure to tug at your (synthetic) heart strings.
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A focus on the guests at JoCo Cruise 2017: a look at who was there, the programming in which they were involved, and what it’s really like to be on a cruise ship with a bunch of famous nerds.
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Highlights of Days 4-7 from the incredible JoCo Cruise 2017
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Enjoy Jamie’s highlights of days 1-3 from the incredible JoCo Cruise 2017.
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Jingle along with a brand new episode of Radio Free Hipster: now with 100% more David Hasselhoff.
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Today, we’re putting on our dancing shoes… OK, maybe more like our standing-around-and-awkwardly-tapping-one-foot-while-bouncing shoes. Either way, we’re talking to musicians Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm! That’s right–all of them. At once. It’s a party!
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March 2017 marks the 7th sailing of JoCo Cruise: an annual, weeklong cruise that began as a Jonathan Coulton fan cruise back in 2011. The experience is equal parts nerdy convention and music festival.
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JoCo Cruise for geeks
Comedy, music, gaming
Also interviews
As I’ve mentioned in the past, Emerald City Comicon is my favorite con of the year, and this year was no exception.
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In this episode, we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a selection of what I like to call “complicated love songs.” Marriage, divorce, classic literature, and home improvement–this show’s got it all!
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Here’s a gift to you, loyal listener, and I made it myself. It’s Radio Free Hipster episode 19, my first holiday show since the podcast’s return.
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Join GeekDad in celebrating Jonathan Coulton’s birthday! #HappyGeekyBirthday
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Halloween is nigh, so here’s another collection of seasonal songs for your listening pleasure. Prepare for 40 minutes of swears and scares in this, the second installment of my annual Radio Free Hipster Halloween Crap-tacular.
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I can’t make autumn get here any sooner, but I can offer you 38 minutes of music and musings.
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The first Radio Free Hipster of the summer includes talk about Mikal kHill and Tribe One’s ‘two weeks notice,’ commemorates the recent passing of Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata, and gives props to Weird Al’s longtime drummer, Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz.
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Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton are teaming up to print a picture book based on Coulton’s song “The Princess Who Saved Herself.”
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Radio Free Hipster is back, in part, because I offered to return as a feature of GeekDad’s ongoing Patreon campaign. But it’s also back because making and distributing a curated, narrated, custom mixtape for even a few disparate friends and listeners is something I enjoy. I hope you enjoy it too.
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Hurry! This Code Monkey Save World t-shirt from Teespring won’t be available for long!
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Today geek music icon Jonathan Coulton, aka JoCo, celebrates his 44th birthday! His lengthy catalog of excellent music, from the satirical to the poignant to the just-plain-fun, would be enough for many people’s careers, but he just keeps going.
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I can’t tell you every session or event to be at, but I can recommend ten events that every geek dad should go to.
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The winter solstice is a time of joy and merriment. It’s a time to visit family, to renew old friendships, and commune in a spirit of love, brotherhood and sisterhood with our fellow Homo sapiens. It’s no wonder, then, that this season has produced some of the most angst-filled music ever heard, and no one knows how to throw down the angst like a geek.
Here are 12 great and geeky holiday tunes to help you alleviate your holiday angst.
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I need your suggestions for songs to include in my holiday light display.
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If you missed out on the Code Monkey Save World Kickstarter, here’s the good news: the first issue is now available from Comixology.
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Inspired by Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week project, the geeky sister duo The Doubleclicks have started Weekly Song Wednesdays.
Continue ReadingDoes the soft rock-style cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s classic “Baby Got Back” performed by the cast of Fox’s Glee sound familiar to you? If you’re a fan of geek rock troubadour Jonathan Coulton it certainly might.
Continue ReadingVideo of GeekDad Ken’s home holiday lights display, sequenced in time to Jonathan’ Coulton’s “Chiron Beta Prime.”
Continue ReadingFor the past couple weeks, science fiction publisher Tor.com has been hosting “Journey to Planet JoCo,” a series of daily interviews between author/Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America president John Scalzi and singer/songwriter geek music icon Jonathan Coulton. If …
Continue ReadingThe new NPR trivia quiz/puzzle show “Ask Me Another” is awesomely geeky – it even has geek icon Jonathan Coulton as its house musician!
Continue Reading6. ‘Father Christmas’ — The Kinks The tough kids want to beat up Santa for his presents? Who knew Santa was a geek too? This is not a song to play the kids — in fact, every time it would …
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