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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!
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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...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 […]
After seeing three hours of Stargate Universe, I’m very impressed. According to Wikipedia, the “industry” (whoever they are) has dubbed Stargate Universe as “dark and edgy”, a sentiment I would agree with. It’s a solid show and I’ll continue to watch. So far I’ve only seen the pilot and the first episode. After seeing just […]
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.
Coverage of Dragon*Con 2009 continues here! To read about Friday, click here. 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. Saturday After the WAR OF THE SNORE the night before, Choco Taco and I decided to grab some […]
In honor of the Doctor Who premier tonight on Sci-Fi, I thought I would post a fun image I put together a few years ago. Interestingly enough, the gag still works since all three shows are still being shown on Friday nights.
