This Nerds Life: Countdown to Halloween - 2 Days to Go

Halloween is just days away and here at Nerd Is The New Cool, we couldn’t be more excited.  The candy has been bought, the decorations are up, and we have been binge watching horror movies (we spent all day yesterday watching Stephen King’s Rose Red). 

I was originally going to do another 3 Top Tens set for today, but felt a bit more personal This Nerd’s Life style blogging might be a better way to go tonight instead. 

There is so much more I want to get done between now and Thursday. My wife has seen the first 2 Halloween films, so I’m thinking Halloween night will have to feature a viewing of Halloween 4 (as III isn’t part of the main series, we will probably go ahead and skip it).   But do I want to rewatch the first two before then or hit some other films instead (Trick or Treat springs to mind, as do Plan 9 from Outer Space and any number of classic Universal and Hammer films).  There is also The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but the wife loves that and will want to be in on that viewing so we’ll save that for her.  Netflix was a few good films, but the selection is limited and both HuluPlus and Crackle seems to mostly have the same limited selection with each of the three having a few films the others don’t have, but most of those don’t look that interesting.

I was planning on making some caramels if not go all the way and make caramel apples or even popcorn balls but I keep putting it off.  I also bought some fresh veggies with the plan of making salsa but haven’t got around to it yet.  If I don’t hurry up and get to it, we might have some quality issues pretty soon.   

We don’t plan on hitting any Halloween parties, so the wife and I probably won’t be dressing up this year – especially with her working late on Thursday and us going out of town over the weekend.

I might try to put up an extra post tomorrow, a Nerdy Top Ten or one of a couple of other things I’ve been working on so check back tomorrow night to see.  I will be putting up a New Comic Day Wednesday and if I get a fire going under myself I will put up an early post on Thursday for Halloween. 

Well, that’s all for now, I’ll be back either tomorrow or the next day – I’ll be in checking for comments tomorrow whether I post or not.  In the meantime, to make up for only having this wimpy blog post, here is a pic of our good friend Liz Katz dressed as an Elvian Theif

You should go follow her on twitter here, like her on facebook here, and subscribe to her YouTube channel here.  She’s awesome.  (And tell her your old buddy Nerd Is The New Cool sent ya, to score me some brownie points).  Also, she’ll be at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo in LA Novemeber 1-3 booth 1049 selling posters and hanging with her fans.  She’s pretty cool and one of the nerdiest girls on the Interweb, so go say hi. 

And while we are on the subject of Comikaze Expo, if any of our readers are going and would like to act as the official Nerd Is The New Cool correspondent at the event, send me a DM on twitter. 

This is Nerd Is The New Cool, signing off.  

My Top Ten Picks for TableTop Guest-Players

So, my favorite show over on Geek and Sundry is Wil Wheaton’s TableTop.  If you haven’t seen it or at least heard of it, you are either not enough of a nerd to be reading my blog or you have been hiding under the preverbal rock.  Either way, it is a webseries in which Wil Wheaton level Celebrates play nerdy table top games (usually Euro style board games, but dice, card, roll playing, and Ameritrash games as well).  Here’s a sample episode (this episode runs about 25 minutes):

This list is my picks for Guest-Players who need to appear on the show. 

10.       Lisa Foiles – a quasi-famous former TV star turned internet phenomenon (like Wil Wheaton).  Lisa is probably best remembered for appearing on Nickelodeon’s All That, but is now better known as a video game journalist and web-star – previously hosting The Game Station’s Remag and currently hosting Top Five with Lisa Foiles.  Plus, we already know she’ll win, cause she’s a redhead, and redheads always win on TableTop. 

9.         Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer – probably not the biggest celebs to ever appear on TableTop (Jeri Ryan is at least as big, right? And Seth Green?).  This duo of BSG stars are no stranger to YouTube nerdom appearances.  Katee appears in Team Unicorn’s “Geek and Gamer Girls” music video and Tricia is in The Nerd Machine’s miniseries Trailer Park Heroes. 

8.         Adrianne Curry – this is either a stroke of genius or a recipe for disaster.  Should be fun to watch either way.  Not only is Adrianne a self admitted nerd and video gamer, but she also has a show Super Fans on Stan Lee’s World of Heroes YouTube channel and let’s face it, you can’t have more nerd cred than Stan Lee.  She is, however, a bit scandalous…and naughty…and nsfw.

7.         Joss Whedon – a god in the greater nerd pantheon, Whedon is responsible for Buffy, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, Dollhouse, and Marvel’s The Avengers.  He’s also responsible for Felicia Day (who first rose to nerd prominence in Buffy, Dr. Horrible, and Dollhouse) and he’s already made an appearance on Geek and Sundry starring in “Scary Smash,” the inaugural episode of Written By a Kid. 

6.         Dr. Drea Letamendi (@ArkhamAsylumDoc) – Fangirl, cosplayer, psychologist.  Drea is, in fact, Barbara “Batgirl” Gordon’s shrink in Gail Simone’s Batgirl.  Drea is also an expert on the psychology of “fandom.”

5.         Jim Parsons  – there is this one show, you may have heard of it.  It’s called something like The Big Bang Theory maybe, does that sound right?  Anyway, there’s this one character on the show named Dr. Sheldon Cooper and this Sheldon has an arch-nemesis named Wil Wheaton (played by Wil Wheaton, the host of TableTop).  Their rivalry is often expressed in friendly games of competition, such as bowling and the fictional trading card game Mystic Warlords of Ka’a.  Bringing Parsons onto TableTop – a show were Wil almost always looses – would finally allow Sheldon to pull one over on his mortal enemy.  Or maybe he’ll just yell “Wheeeeatoooon!”  Either way. 

4.         Liz Katz – or as my mom calls her: the naughty aerobics instructor (look for Super-Hero Boot Camp on YouTube to make that make more since).  Liz is a hard to classify girl.  She’s smart and funny and nerdy.  But she’s hot and dingy and hot, too.  Some of her videos are a little lame (I’m looking at you “I Don’t Wanna Be a Turtle”), but overall she’s pretty entertaining, if a little ADHD at times (to check her out better, head over to YouTube and take a look at her channel or watch my playlist “The Best of LizKatz.”

3.         Katie Wilson – let’s let Katie speak for herself:

A fan movement to get Katie onto TableTop is in the works and hopefully this one at least can come true.   On a side note: Chad and Angie from Screen Team Show would be another similarly ideal group to appear on the show, either in the same episode as Katie or in a separate one. 

2.         Nathan Fillion – ok, probably way out of Geek and Sundry’s budget, but we can always hope.  I mean, come on!  The Geek God himself on the Geek show!  Possibly in a themed episode with John Barrowman and Anne Wheaton.  And if you don’t know why you should definitely google image search “Nathan Fillion Wil Wheaton.”  It was the first two pics when I tried. 

1.         Me – I think that one is pretty self explanatory. 

So that’s my list.  Who would you like to see on TableTop?  Leave a comment or let me know on my twitter @nerdisnewcool.

Until next time,

Nerd Is The New Cool, signing off.

And We’re Back New Blog Schedule and More!

And we’re back!  So it’s been a few months and I’ve been busy – and by busy I mean lazy.  But now I’m back and the blog is back up and running.  I’m planning on Bringing back my classic Nerdy Top 10s starting this Sunday and then doing a couple other new things throughout the week. 

First up is Reader Copies.  On the first and third Friday of every month, we will be delving into my extensive comic collection to review some classic and not so classic back issues that can be picked up cheaply at your local comic shop. 

Then on the second and fourth Fridays will be The Five Dollar Bin!  I will be reviewing movies that can be found cheaply on DVD in places like the $5 bin at Wal-Mart.  From the campy to the crappy, from cult classics to cinematic masterpieces… ok, probably not any cinematic masterpieces, but I do own all the Puppet Master films!

I will also still be doing the occasional This Nerds Life and of course will continue to double post my Good Reads book reviews on here. 

Finally, I will be adding on New Comic Day, every Wednesday to review the hottest new titles, but that will be coming at a later date.  And I have several other ideas in the works so hopefully we can start posting Nerd is the New Cool daily!

In the meantime, if there are any classic comics or movies you'd like to see me review let me know in the comments below.  

This is Nerd Is the New Cool, signing off until this Sunday. 

P.S. While you're waiting for my triumphant return, if ya just gotta have more nerdy content hop on over to YouTube and check out my good friend Liz Katz's channel.  She's an incredibly funny, talented, and nerdy girl.  And let's face it, she's cute as a button.