"If you use your comic book long boxes as furniture, you might be a geek..."The twelfth episode features the exam for the Geek 101 course you've been taking all semester (see below), but it's not the season finale. I don't know when that will be, but I'm tending towards May 5th if I can get a group together to roleplay during the whole damn thing (with musical interludes, of course). If you couldn't listen or understand the French interventions, I supply the episode's playlist, with You-Tube links where available.
Intro tune: Doctor Who IX - Murray Gold
Introductions
La ballade au cimetière - Alaska (+Call of Cthulhu stats for the Ghost; the song is not available on the Internet)
Geek News: This week's headlines include the Chris Roberson/DC blow-out
The Majestic Tale (of a Madman in a Box) - Murray Gold
Comics round-up: Basically a few of the week's tweeted comic book reviews
Stop Talking About Comic Books (Or I'll Kill You) - Ookla the Mok
Book recommendation: Grant Morrison's Supergods
Vénus - Dumas (+Deities & Demigods stats for Aphrodite)
TV recommendation: The Prisoner
The Prisoner - Iron Maiden
Geek Band: James Darren/Vic Fontaine (two of the videos are the actual performances on Deep Space 9 though I really played Darren's album versions)
It's Only a Paper Moon - James Darren
I've Got You Under My Skin - James Darren
The Way You Look Tonight - James Darren
Common People - William Shatner
Geek 101: Exam! (See below, after song list, for how YOU can get your grade and the chance to win a custom Mooltipass!)
The Diva Dance - Inva Mulla Tchako
Little Light of Love - R.X.R.A.
Raël - Pervers Polymorphe (unsurprisingly not on the 'Net)
Featurette: Grays (+GURPS stats)
Aliens (Christmas 1988) - Rheostatics
Goodbyes and your Doctor Who theme of the week:
Docteur Qui - Bill Bailey
YOUR GEEK 101 EXAM!
Because not everyone had the chance to listen to every episode, I'm not going to ask you specific questions about each and every one. Geek Out was never about that. Instead, I'd like to hear, in a short essay you can leave in the comments section (you can sign in as Anonymous, but sign your name or handle at the bottom please), how YOU geeked out this semester, especially if you tried something based on one of the Geek 101 features or some other recommendation made on the show. Basically, how did the show's encouragement to geek out impact your life. What did you learn about geekery in the past 4 months? Extra points if you did follow the course, but if you didn't and still evolved your inner geek in 2012, I want to hear about it too. Grades and the winner of a special Mooltipass will be announced in next week's episode.
The show's on CKUM Radio every Saturday between 7 PM and 8:30 PM Atlantic Time (-4 GMT) on 93,5 FM in the Moncton area, or online, while capacity isn't exceeded, HERE.
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- Écouter Geek Out la majorité du temps
- Acheter une Doctor Who shirt et des pins (well, on m'a acheté des pins)
- Pousser avec succès des élèves et des profs à watcher DW
- J'ai vu The Matrix pour la 1ère fois en entier (I know...)
- Commencer à écouter Game of Thrones (et à lire les livres) et Community
- J'ai lu Watchmen
- Je suis willing d'essayer HKAT
- Je considère de façon sérieuse me starter un blogue
- J'ai une Eevee team sur Pokemon Heartgold dont je suis VRAIMENT fière!
- J'ai reçu comme seul cadeau physique à ma fête un tardis jouet (Go mes parents!)
- On a parlé de moi indirectement sur Geek out ("If you left a sonic screwdriver pen at my place last week, you might be a geek...")
Y'en a plus mais ce sont les seules choses qui me viennent à l'idée présentement.
- Schlepped my PC to and from the radio station during a blizzard, even burning a red light to do so.
- Created a blog about my adventures in punching stuff in the face in Skyrim, partially on-air during GeekOut, which I haven't updated in a while due to Stuff/DERP. (http://geekoutskyrim.blogspot.ca/ - I promise its getting updated soon.)
- Continuously drop tidbits of juicy info to the Radio Host with the Most as 'News', to the point I am labeled his chief newshound. My Google-Fu is STRONG.
- Twitter-Namedropped, to the point where I tweet 80% of the time, during GeekOut.
- Am now 50% of a friend's social experiment where she blogs living with two geeks, and the horrible/awesome experiences derived from that. SRSLY. Go to http://geeksandagirl.blogspot.ca/ if something is truly horrible, more'n likely its my fault.
- Skyping GeekOut at work because the online feed was down, and pretty much just doing that instead of working.
However; I don't want to "Ace" the exam, as its -clear- I am an integral part of the GeekOut machine, and think that the 'winner' (We're ALL winners!) should be someone who's truly discovered and embraced their Geekitude because/since the show aired. I kinda just tacked on yet another merit badge.
Apart from that, I finally decided to enter the comic book world, and as soon as Winter Soldier comes out in big book form, I am going to go pick it up.
On another note, I have discovered another way to entertain my geekiness: board games. At an improv tournament, a friend of mine introduced me to Pandemic. After that, we discussed board games at length and, shortly thereafter, I purchased Smallworld, which I love.
In conclusion, GeekOut gave me a lot of ideas about things to watch and read, stuff I will surely get into... once I find the time.
Signed,
David 'St-Pierre' St-Pierre
And as we speak, I’m doing a marathon to get prepared for the Avengers movie. So I guess all of this is working.
Isabel