A place for all things geek... ONCE UPON A GEEK is a Monday-Friday 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!
Check out these amazing Greg Brady curtains hanging in the lobby of Microsoft’s Studio D offices in Redmond, Washington. They really take beaded curtains to the Final Frontier. The piece is called “Mirror Universe” and was created by Devorah Sperber. It features Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in the process of beaming up to the Enterprise. [...]
I like talking about Doctor Who! Yes I do! In fact, I was fortunate enough to guest-star on two fantastic podcasts discussing Doctor Who recently! Two True Freaks and Better in the Dark both invited me to discuss my favorite show recently and coincidentally both podcasts were released this week! Here are the details on [...]
My good buddy Ed started a really interesting discussion topic over on THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv – Who are your favorite Doctor Who companions? I’ve put together my list broken into three categories: current series, classic series, and expanded universe. As a frame of reference, click here for a list of all companions on Doctor [...]
Click the image to enlarge. You can see the detail better that way. A very interesting project over at “These Are Their Stories“. This piece was called “Race Becomes an Issue”. Here is the description of the project on their website: For twenty years, the heroes of “Law & Order” have navigated literally hundreds grotesque [...]
About a year and a half ago I posted a Doctor Who fan-made anime trailer that was a work-in-progress. Well, they finished it and it’s gorgeous! I’m not much of a fan of anime, but this video is full of awesome. You should watch it. If you can’t view the embedded video above, please click [...]
You may have noticed the countdown timer in the upper-right hand corner of ONCE UPON A GEEK. This is counting down my arrival at Dragon*Con 2010! We’re about 28 days away and it can’t get here soon enough! Over on THE UNIQUE GEEK, they’re doing their own version of a countdown called 40 Days Of [...]
Stargate Universe. When the show first premiered, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I compared it to previous Stargate series, Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: Voyager. Within a couple weeks all that was forgotten and it was rapidly becoming one of my favorite shows on TV. If you’ve never seen the show, 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 [...]
If you ever watch CSI: Miami, then you’ll get this… … We don’t get fooled again … My thanks to my friend SGhoul for sending this.
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!
