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!
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 [...]
Folks, I owe a tremendous thanks to my fellow blogger, Scraps! I was experiencing a problem with my new WordPress theme that I simply couldn’t fix myself. She offered her assistance and worked through the code with me. She found the bug and told me exactly how to fix it. THANK YOU SCRAPS! You’re my [...]
An update on some web site administration today. Some of you may have noticed that ONCE UPON A GEEK looks a little different today. The changes were cosmetically minor, so don’t feel bad if you didn’t see a difference. While the changes will seem minor to you, they are tremendous to me! Ever since I [...]
I hope all the geek-dads out there had an awesome Father’s Day! Mine was fantastic and lasted the whole weekend! Had some good solid family time, got to wander the aisles of a bookstore at my own pace (one of my favorite things to do!), ate an enormous Sonny’s BBQ feast for dinner Saturday, watched [...]
Sorry… no post today. Too busy playing with our new phones! My wife got the Samsung Reality and I got the LG EnV Touch. We got them for a song through Verizon! See you tomorrow!
In addition to blogging about comics this past week, I actually read some too! I’ve literally got stacks and stacks of comics I’m behind on reading. I got through over 60 comics and two digest this past week. For some reason I had a hankerin’ for Marvel, so many of these are Siege and X-related. [...]
Some time in the early 1990s, I was fortunate enough to meet Neil Gaiman at DragonCon in Atlanta. He was super-cool and was kind enough to really speak with the fans that were waiting in line for his autograph (not just the lip service some famous people provide). At one point I recall he halted [...]
Concluding my Star Wars Resume! In 1992 a former classmate named Serv and I assembled a group of folks to try the West End Games Star Wars Roleplaying Game. Serv and I didn’t really know each other that well at the time, we just both happened to share an interest in Star Wars and RPGs. [...]
Continuing my Star Wars Resume! In the summer of 1981, I discovered Star Wars comic books. Prior to then I’d picked up an issue or two like any kid might have picked up Archie or Sad Sack. When I bought Marvel Comics Star Wars #50 off the shelf, I knew I was buying something different. [...]
Continuing my Star Wars Resume! Today I’m featuring my Star Wars novel collection. I’m excited as I’m about to start the Fate of the Jedi novels (top left hand corner in the photo below). The rest of these I’ve already read. My love for Star Wars novels started in 1991 with Timothy Zahn’s Heir to [...]
