Archive for the ‘horror’ tag

Responding to the NY Times Review of HBO’s “A Game of Thrones”

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on April 21, 2011 at 7:20 pm | No Comments

A Game of Thrones, on HBO

So…..How many of you watched the premier of A Game of Thrones on HBO, last week? Raise your mouse….That’s what I thought. A lot of us were looking forward to this series debut. A lot of us watched it (or one of the reruns.) The television reviewer for the New York Times, Ginia Bellafante, also [...]

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Give in to Temptation: Devil Without a Cause – Book 1 in the Devil’s Bargain Trilogy

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:10 pm | 2 Comments

Devil Without a Cause, Terri Garey

Terri Garey’s RITA-award winning Nicki Styx series has been haunting my bookshelves for years. Wild, wacky, and original, those tale have delighted me from the first chapter of Dead Girls are Easy; the first book in the Nicki Styx series. However, my goal wasn’t to tempt you with tales of Nicki’s shenanigans. (At least, not [...]

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Geeks Giving Back: League of Reluctant Adults E-bay Auction for Japan

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:03 pm | No Comments

Geeks Giving Back - for Japan

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the catastrophe that struck Japan – the 8.9 earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. Many groups are coming together to share resources and give help to Japan. To find the quick and easy spots, you can even hit the Google page that [...]

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Squeeworthy TV Coming to Your Cable Box in 2011

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:23 am | 2 Comments

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena on Starz

Whether you’re into fangs, or you’re just randomly aware of social media, you’ve probably scene some of True Blood, HBO’s huge hit. They’ve won awards, and introduced a whole new sort of night life to Americans. In the same vein, the big cable companies are looking to some of the staples of geekdom for new [...]

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A Halloween Treat from GSB: It’s Cool to be a Witch!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 30, 2010 at 9:15 am | No Comments

It's Cool to be a Witch 2.0 by Lord Alexian

Halloween is possibly the most geektastic of all the traditional holidays, so we’re not going to let it pass, unacknowledged. No, we’re sending a musical Halloween treat out to our fellow geeks, instead. This music video was made by Lord Alexian; it’s an updated dance remix version of his wildly popular original song, “It’s Cool [...]

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Blizzard Slays with the new Cataclysm Commercial!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 17, 2010 at 7:10 pm | No Comments

Deathwing blows it all away on December 7, 2010

I am not too proud, or too “adult” to say that when I watched this commercial, I sat here with my mouth agape, swept away under Deathwing’s destructive spell. This commercial made it’s debut during the Cowboys/Vikings game. So one form of gaming glory was the vehicle for another….Of course, if it had been a [...]

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BlizzCon or Bust! Tenacious D to Play! FourSquare Up with GSB in Anaheim!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 11, 2010 at 9:58 pm | No Comments

Tenacious D at BlizzCon

As I may have mentioned, I’ll be at BlizzCon this year, along with thousands of my closest gaming buddies. If you’ll be at BlizzCon, too, you can say “Mok’ra!” or “Bal’a Dash, Malanore!” (I’ll even be nice if you come up and say, “Ishnu-alah!”) Simply find me through FourSquare; I’ll be posting locations throughout the [...]

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The Squee Heard ‘Round Azeroth

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm | No Comments

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm drops 12/07/10

Blizzard Entertainment has upped the geek ante with the release of the Cataclysm “dump your gold HERE!” announcement. Yep, you guessed it. We now know that Cataclysm will be dropping on December 7, 2010. Not resting on their virtually enhanced laurels, though, they’ve also released the schedule of events (there’s also a printable version, that’s [...]

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