A place for all things geek... ONCE UPON A GEEK is a blog that focuses on a variety of geeky topics, including: comic books, Doctor Who, Star Wars (classic and legacy characters), role-playing, 80’s TV shows, and science fiction in general. However, any topic is really fair game. Don't forget to share your thoughts by adding comments!
By day, The Irredeemable Shag plays the part of a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. By night, he is a frightening creature that strikes terror into the hearts of criminals!
... or ...
maybe The Irredeemable Shag managed a comic book store for four years, and a movie theater megaplex for three years. Nowadays he's just a really vocal geek on THE UNIQUE GEEK, a semi-regular on the VIEWS FROM THE LONGBOX podcast, and runs the ONCE UPON A GEEK and FIRESTORM FAN blogs.
You decide...Okay… to be fair, this isn’t really a geek movie trailer. However, it is required viewing for all men. Even if you’ve already seen a trailer for The Expendables, you gotta watch this one. It shares all the right reasons for guys to see this movie! Are you man enough?!?!? If you can’t view the [...]
As mentioned yesterday, I was a big fan of comic-related pins in the late-80s and through the mid-90s. Yesterday we featured pins from DC Comics, today we’re going to feature pins from Marvel Comics, independent comic companies, movies, and TV. Thankfully comic companies were generous with giveaway pins and also sold some nice quality cloisonne [...]
How did I not know about this movie before now?!?!? It’s about time travel. It’s starring Chris O’Dowd from THE IT CROWD. It’s British. It’s billed as DOCTOR WHO meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD. And it’s got Anna Faris. The film was released in the UK back in April 2009. WTF, mate?!?! Utterly bizarre that [...]
While in Gainesville a couple weeks ago, I came across this Camaro. If you know your Transformers (movie version), then you know Bumblebee is a bright yellow Camaro. Well, this car is the same model, except with a different paint job and one additional accessory. Pretty cool! To the owner of this car, well done [...]
If you’re like me, you absolutely loved the movie Tron growing up! I remember playing the video game endlessly in the arcade – I couldn’t get enough! The video game music still haunts me to this day. When we weren’t in the arcade, we’d be outside pretending our Frisbees were Tron disks. And don’t even [...]
I first saw this short back in November 2009. I’ve been meaning to post it ever since, but just hadn’t gotten around to it. Well here it is… Panic Attack! Written, edited and directed by Fede Álvarez, this short film’s budget was $300. There really is no plot, just 5 minutes of cool shots of [...]
Lando’s Love Lessons: Eight Simple Rules for Getting Galactic Tail Found on EgoTV
Here are some fun Iron Man mash-ups I’ve seen lately… My thanks to Cary from THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv for directing me to the R2-D2 and Cyberman mash-ups!
I spend a lot of time reading to my children. I’ve often said to them, when you read a book the pictures come alive and move in your mind. Well, for the first time I can read my children a book where the pictures really do move in the book itself! Star Wars A Scanimation [...]
Remember VH1′s Pop-Up Videos? Can you imagine a Pop-Up Video for Empire Strikes Back? Well, someone else did. Building Empire is an amazing fan-made film providing tons of behind the scenes facts about Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. For example, have you ever heard about the abandoned Wampa attack subplot in Empire? It’s covered [...]
