We geeks often have trouble with relationships, partly because many of us are a bit socially awkward and partly because, poetic as much of our favorite literature may be, it’s often ill-suited to romance. How, then, to best express that …
Continue ReadingThere are many great love stories in science fiction and fantasy. From Robin Hood and Maid Marian to Han Solo and Princess Leia, we all love the stories that end with some variation of “and they lived happily ever after.” …
Continue ReadingThe 2009 Star Trek movie reboot was, despite more enormous plot holes and incidents of scientific nonsense than there were tribbles on Deep Space Station K-7, a heck of a lot of fun. Since it also made nearly $400 million …
Continue ReadingEven if you haven’t read any of them, you’ve probably seen or heard of the spate of books adding some sort of legendary monster to classic works of literature. The trend of course began in 2009 with the publication of …
Continue ReadingAs I wrote up the review of the customizable doorbell, it occurred to me that this is totally untapped list fodder. Just like we use ringtones on our phones to define and display our personalities (mine is the Guan-di song …
Continue ReadingNot all GeekMoms are married to GeekDads. And GeekDad-ism, like many things, exists on a continuum from “enjoyed the first Star Wars movie” to “named his first daughter Leia.” Even though my husband falls somewhere in-between, I thought it’d be …
Continue ReadingI’m guessing that my fellow first-time dads have a lot of epiphanies about kids in the weeks right after their children are born. And I’m guessing that veteran dads who have already experienced the fog of fatherhood find most of …
Continue ReadingMany of the posts we do here at GeekDad involve films we enjoying sharing with our children. As I was going through a stack of old DVD’s the other day, I came up with small stack of movies I would …
Continue ReadingIt’s not every day an email like this one shows up in your inbox: HELP WANTED: Discovery Channel Celebrity Chief Shark Officer Do you know someone who would be perfect as the next Discovery Channel Chief Shark Officer? Please help …
Continue ReadingWe’ve all seen the ornaments Hallmark comes out with every year, and to be fair, some of them are excellent. There are a few Star Trek ones each year, and Star Wars ones, and other somewhat geeky ones, but they’re …
Continue ReadingJust because today is Thanksgiving, when family and food dominate our focus, doesn’t mean we need to stop being geeks. With a little effort, we can work our geekiness into the holiday. To that end, we at GeekDad thought we …
Continue ReadingJust the fact that you’re reading this means that, if we’re serious about it, you have things to be thankful for — to whatever higher power you believe in or simply to the universe in general. But you probably didn’t …
Continue ReadingSometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they’re unintentional. The best way to see a movie’s messages, the bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids. …
Continue ReadingIt’s a rare movie that has no plot holes at all. Even movies nearly everyone likes, like Star Wars (I speak of Episode IV, in case that’s unclear), are occasionally rife with them. Of course, for many geeks — myself …
Continue ReadingWith the popularity of zombies approaching bacon-like proportions, and with Halloween upon us, we at GeekDad were concerned that some folks might be considering actually becoming zombies. Hey, in a world where Justin Bieber has over 14 million Facebook fans, …
Continue ReadingIt’s easy to find a list of horror movies to watch for Halloween. They run the gamut from good to bad to so-bad-it’s-good to funny. But for parents of pre-teens, it can be hard to find something to watch that’s …
Continue ReadingAround here, we’re always talking up the positives of geeks. It’s a natural thing because that’s who we are. And while we always want to root for the geek heroes in books and movies, we have to acknowledge there are …
Continue ReadingI attended the Romance Writers of America annual conference last week in Orlando, Florida and couldn’t resist the opportunity to try out Walt Disney World without children in tow. It helped that Disney supplied me with two one-day passes via …
Continue ReadingThis week the 2010 version of Comic-Con kicks off in San Diego, and the annual collective nerdgasm of movie/TV/videogame news gets us hyped up better than a Mountain Dew, Jolt, Red Bull and triple cappuccino cocktail. Every year, there’s blah …
Continue ReadingThough my kids are mostly too young to stay up for Saturday Night Live, we occasionally watch parts of the show online. Currently, their favorite is the Timecrowave sketch. They love it, not the least of which because of the …
Continue ReadingIt really is kind of amazing how few good dads there are in geek fiction. In so many stories fathers are absent for one reason or another (death being fairly common), and in so many others the fathers are so …
Continue ReadingWe geeks like to solve puzzles. We like to figure out the rules of our existence, even when we don’t necessarily understand the reasons behind those rules. And, yes, we sometimes like to use these rules as in-jokes, so we …
Continue ReadingThere was a time when even the best computer graphics available were lousy. In this ancient time, called “the Eighties,” graphics were cool for computer games to have, but really much less important than a good story and interesting puzzles …
Continue ReadingThe quality of a movie depends a great deal on its main characters, of course. A movie with uninteresting or implausible protagonists might still do well at the box office — just ask Michael Bay — but it will never …
Continue ReadingIt used to be difficult to find genuinely good female characters in science fiction and fantasy. And even today, with plenty of excellent female characters to pick from, there still aren’t that many that are also mothers. In honor of …
Continue ReadingWe’ve had a lot of posts about newer movies here on GeekDad, but everyone knows it’s important to read classic novels in order to properly appreciate modern ones, and, likewise, it’s important to watch classic movies. Now, many classic movies …
Continue ReadingGeeks, as a general rule, are pretty easy-going. We like to think things through, so passionate confrontations aren’t commonplace for us. When we get well and properly provoked, though, watch out! We won’t stop talking until every last point that …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Twitter follower Andrew nudged us with news this weekend of his entry into official geeky dadhood (w00t!), and it occurred to us that there’s probably some collective wisdom those of us on the postpartum side of geek parenthood should …
Continue ReadingIt’s easy to find geeky characters in geeky movies. Here, then, is our list of the ten best characters who we think qualify as geeks, but who appear in movies aimed at (and popular with) the general public, not primarily …
Continue ReadingWe geeks like to do a lot of the same things non-geeks do, just with a bit of a geeky spin to them. Lots of people like to put stickers for the college(s) they attended on their cars — geeks …
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