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...I’m in a Star Trek mood. Here are some cool wallpapers featuring our favorite Starfleet ships. I don’t claim ownership of any of these images, they were simply found while surfing. Click on the images to enlarge. The original Enterprise, circa TOS. NCC-1701 The replacement Enterprise, circa Star Trek V. NCC-1701-A The first Enterprise in […]
I had a fantastic birthday celebration this past weekend with my family! I was out of town for work on my actual birthday, so we chose to postpone the festivities until the weekend. The best present of all was seeing my children after being on the road for five days. We started the birthday fun […]
Stargate Universe premiers this Friday, Oct 2 at 9pm on SyFy. It appears to be part Lost in Space, part Star Trek Voyager, part Battlestar Galactica, and entirely awesome! Check out this trailer. Click here to check out the Stargate website.
See what Hollywood does to a person… See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. If you can’t see the embedded video above, please click here.
Today we’re going to discuss some of the best time travel movies. Being a life-long Doctor Who fan, I’ve got a soft spot for time travel stories regardless of the medium – film, television, novel, audio, comic, etc. Before we get to that, I gotta describe to you where I’m sitting as I write this. […]
X-Men the Animated Series is one of the more beloved cartoons to come out of the 1990s. This series ran on Fox from 1992-1997 for five seasons with a total of 76 episodes. Last week volumes 3 and 4 were released on DVD by Buena Vista Home Entertainment (no doubt in order to capitalize on […]
Presenting another very special blog entry by my wife, The Irrepressible Gena! Just a little background for you, my wife is not a geek. She’s a wonderful (and gorgeous) normal person. So I thought her perspective would be interesting to share here. Without further ado, The Irrepressible Gena’s thoughts on DragonCon… Labor Day Weekend … […]
This video is so wrong, but so funny too. Notice the blue milk! See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. If you can’t see the embedded video above, please click here. Thanks to Ed for pointing me in the direction of this.
I’m closing out my DragonCon 2009 coverage with my favorite costume photos. Some have been shown here previously, but they bear repeating. To see all of my DragonCon photos, be sure to visit my Flickr page. If you have a favorite costume that I left out, be sure to mention it in the comments. A […]
Coverage of Dragon*Con 2009 continues here! I’ve already recapped Friday and Saturday, so today will cover Sunday and Monday. If you’d like to see over 600 pictures I took at the event, you can view them on Flickr and THE UNIQUE GEEK photo gallery. SUNDAY After going to sleep around 5am the night before, we […]
