Prime Time Geek

For those folks out there who enjoy watching video rather than just listening to our audio podcasts, here’s something we’re going to try to do the day before the audio podcasts are made available here and over at iTunes–this is the Ustream.tv recording of the first hour from last Saturday’s show, what will be Episode [...]

 

 PTG Episode 72 [60:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (45)

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PTG Episode 72 is brought to you by Black Friday. I woke up at 5:35AM this morning, not because I set my alarm for that time, as so many other Americans with a stronger drive than I to get a big part of their holiday shopping done in one day probably did, [...]

Okay, so I admit, I giggled every time I saw Taco Bell’s recent TV ads for the Black Jack Taco, and that inspired the title to this post. Don’t ask me to explain it–it was just irresistibly funny. “Black eye! Black sheep! Umm … black taco?” Don’t remember the commercial? Watch the video below!

Guilty pleasures [...]

 

 Episode 71 [63:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (39)

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PTG Episode 71 is brought to you by the Fanboy/Fangirl Cultural Revolution. So did you happen to catch that lil’ vampire flick that opened in theaters last week at midnight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon? Well, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com, chances are pretty good that you did. Talk about blowing away expectations.
The latest [...]

 

 PTG Episode 70 [62:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (43)

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PTG Episode 70 is brought to you by The Cult of Negativity. I’m taking this opportunity to let each and every one of you know that as of today, I’m taking a stand against casual, habitual cynicism. Western society–in particular American society within a certain age group–is in love with cynicism and [...]

Unless you’ve been in seclusion in a Klingon monastery or off on a science expedition in the Gamma Quadrant for the past year, you know that 2009 was a pretty big year for Star Trek. The new film, directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the iconic Kirk and Spock [...]

 

 PTG Episode 69 [62:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (55)

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PTG Episode 69 is brought to you by acceptance, the last of the 5 stages of grief, as described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying. Originally put forth as a theory on the emotional journey human beings experience in face of death or terminal illness, Kübler-Ross later [...]

 

 PTG Episode 68 [67:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (46)

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PTG Episode 68 is brought to you by bitter cynicism. After all, what else are we Joss Whedon fans supposed to feel when it comes to FOX continuing to screw him (and us) over? By now, you’ve probably heard the news first brought to us Wednesday by Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello, that [...]

In case you missed it among this week’s new releases on DVD and blu-ray, the “ultimate” gift for the Watchmen fan in your life has finally arrived:

If there’s one thing that rubs my rhubarb, it’s double/triple-dipping when it comes to home video releases. When a studio releases and re-releases the EXACT same movie over and [...]

 

 PTG Episode 67 [60:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (41)

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PTG Episode 67, our first in the SomaCow Media Network’s new Studio G, is brought to you by geek rock. Once again we have to say ‘thank you’ to the Lakeland-based geek rock band Sci-Fried for sharing their artistry with us-you’ll hear clips of selections from their debut album, “Geeks Unite!”, all [...]