Have Yourself an Angsty Little Christmas: 10 Geeky Holiday Tunes to Raise Your Spirits
10 great and geeky holiday tunes to help you alleviate your holiday angst.
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Jonathan Coulton is on Fire (But Only Figuratively)
Say, who’s that way up at the top of Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart? Why it’s our old pal geek rock troubadour Jonathan Coulton! Congrats to JoCo (and to producer John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants fame) on the success …
Continue ReadingPortal 2’s “Want You Gone” – A Great Fan-Made Music Video
If you’ve played Portal 2 solo mode all the way to the end, you’ve heard the excellent end-credits song “Want You Gone,” Jonathan Coulton’s follow-up to “Still Alive,” his justly famous song from the first Portal. Well, a fan named …
Continue ReadingThe Coolest Kids’ Choir Around Sings “Still Alive”
I spent Tuesday afternoon listening to my kids shouting back and forth between their rooms and chortling. Turns out they had each downloaded Portal 2 to their respective computers and were comparing notes. (They didn’t have to fake a sick …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Guitar Lesson: Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton’s vide
What do you think is the greatest Geek Christmas song? If you said something other than Jonathan Coulton’s “Chiron Beta Prime”, you’re wrong. This lesson tackles chord progressions with descending and ascending chromatic lines as well as various major and …
Continue ReadingJonathan Coulton and TMBG’s John Flansburgh to Collaborate on New Record
A few weeks ago, the internet’s favorite singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton announced that his next big project will be a brand new record. With a band. One of the songs is about mustaches. So we have that to look forward to, …
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday, MC Frontalot!
Not to be outdone by the birthday-related antics of a certain Jonathan Coulton earlier this week, Godfather of nerdcore Hip-Hop and the self-proclaimed “world’s 579th greatest rapper” MC Frontalot turns a year older this very day! Frontalot, known for tax …
Continue ReadingJonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm Unleash a Flood of Awesome
A kind of perfect storm of geekiness came together in Chicago this past Saturday. If you were there, we at GeekDad envy you, for, sadly, none of us could make it. If you weren’t there, though, you, like us, can …
Continue ReadingRiffTrax Bringing Plan 9 to Theaters on August 20
RiffTrax was already a heck of a lot of fun, and now they’re taking their awesomeness to a whole new level. RiffTrax, for those who don’t know, are MP3s to play in sync with movies, done by Michael J. Nelson, …
Continue ReadingEverything You Need To Know Before Attending The Penny Arcade Expo
Celebrating it’s sixth anniversary this year, the Penny Arcade Expo, or PAX, as it’s better known, is the annual convention of gamers, thrown by the boys over at the webcomic, Penny Arcade. The show is a wacky conglomeration of equal …
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