I warn you ahead of time. There’s language, so don’t click if you’re offended ;-)

And if you’re fan enough to like this, then you’re likely gonna dig the Stargate goodies at Entertainment Earth.

Including this pretty.

::grin:: No, I’m not posting MacGruber vids.

As always, don’t forget to check out the Hyde and Geek blog for more toy goodness!

Posted by: Scott of hydeandgeek.com

Granted, our dates may look a bit different than the standard and so I decided to ask my fellow geeks on Twitter to help compile a nice, compact set of GeekDate tips.

What did we learn?

Geeks have standards and they’re not afraid to test you. Here are the Top 5 GeekDate Suggestions:

1. Take a trip to the comic/bookstore together. Book discussion and joint perusal is common foreplay among geeks. *First date note: If they get bored in the DnD section, go cheap on dinner and consider it an evening.
2. Spend the evening in or at your local coffee place having long innuendo filled conversations/discussions. *First date note: including complex sentences/video game review and content analysis is always a plus.
3. Spend a night at the arcade playing competitive air hockey, mini golf, and other games. *First date note: DDR may be a warning sign. Please watch for song choice.
4. Dinner and a movie. (Call me old-fashioned). *First date note: Extra points for midnight showings. Double points for having purchased or ordered online.
5. Head for a Con, go in costume and have a contest on who can get the most pics taken of themselves with other people.. *First Date Note: If the “going in costume”suggestion gets you one of those looks, then you can skip the first date.

One comment that fell into the #geekdatefail column, and one I heartily agree with:

Debating is awesome foreplay, but not when the duel surrounds “who” is smarter. Not cute…pls don’t try to convince me you are smarter than me. That’s offensive. And simply untrue. (Courtesy of @ArkhamAsylumDoc)

I have to say, all in all, it was an eye opener. I used to look down on my Geek nature. I used to think of myself as “different and not in a good way”.

Now I’m too busy trying to figure out where I can find the perfect shade of yellow for my Faye Valentine top to care…

…even if I may only be wearing it for a few minutes. ::wink::

Got something we missed? ;-)

my thanks to@geeksdreamgirl @hollychan @mayafish @LiterateKnits @comigirl @th3maw @mad_cow_chris@ @geck0man @Gianavel @Kintay (and anyone else who answered) for all of the great suggestions. Geek Love!

I never thought I’d love a sci-fi universe the way I loved the Federation’s adventures exploring deepest space…but then along came a little underdog cargo ship called Serenity. The adventures of Captain Mal Reynolds and his rag-tag crew running jobs on the outlying planets outside of the watchful eyes of the grand Alliance made me enjoy sci-fi in a way I hadn’t done since I was a kid.

One of the driving forces of that show is the good captain of the Firefly class vessel. He’s a real man’s man. He may not live by the laws but he lives by a code of honor more fitting on John Wayne than on John Dillinger.

When I came across the “Little Damn Heroes” collectibles some time back, I just had to have them adorning my selves! So far, I’ve only seen Mal and Kaylee but they’re both so adorable and fun in that anime style that I can’t wait to fill out my collection.

If you’re a fan of Firefly or Serenity, I don’t have to tell you how cool these things are since you’ve probably not read this far anyway and are well into ordering your own.

If you’re a fan of sci-fi or good storytelling and have yet to see these great shows, do so now and you can join me in the Browncoat army (you’ll know what that means after you watch the show).

As always, don’t forget to check out the Hyde and Geek blog for more toy goodness!

Posted by: Scott of hydeandgeek.com

Still here?

I’m going to totally blame Topless Robot for this debauchery. Well, for starting it anyway. I was just minding my own business today, and the next thing I know, I’m trading #sextrek tweets and linking to the Star Trek Pon Farr Perfume!

But, I’ll admit, it got me to thinking and – we all know that’s never good. When you add in the demented sex-crazed helpful suggestions from folks on Twitter, this post practically writes itself.

I’m a child of the 70’s and, I still remember watching Star Trek with my step-dad, so … Picture a pint sized GGD laying on the shag rug in front of the TV with her chin on her balled up little fists and feet waiving in the air.

Got it?

Okay, now. Picture me currently wondering no one in my family considered what damage might be done to my brain due to: people in Red Shirts getting callously disintegrated week after week, some Lothario of a Captain named Kirk courting every STD in the Universe, and completely having her sense of time skewed forever because “It’s gonna take some time” really meant you had to compress 30 minutes into 5?

And people wonder why I don’t wear red, avoid men in uniform and am late everywhere I go?

::grin:: Okay, I’ll be serious a second. Fact is, Star Trek: ToS was one of the coolest things about my childhood and I loved it.

Even now, when I look back and notice things like the cheeseball acting and the “fabulous” sets, I can’t help but enjoy it. Plus, now that I’m all grown up, I don’t have to ask for an increase in my allowance to buy Trek inspired toys.

Think about it? Star Trek managed to get away with all sorts of violence, sex (of all kinds and between all kinds) and humor under the guise of “Science Fiction”. Not to mention, can you ever really hear the words “Captain’s Log” without smiling?

So, in honor of the cheese, I ask you to pause a moment and ruminate on your favorite ST: ToS moments.

Mine? Amok Time. Hands down.

Because it had the trifecta of sex, violence and bad girls.

What’s yours?

p.s. – @Shagnasty sent this and I giggled, so I wanted to share.

RT @Shagnasty Might I suggest adding this video to your blog if it is, in fact, “Teh Sex.”

p.p.s. I just heard someone in my client service division use the phrase “Big Bulging Nacelles”. No, I’m not kidding.

I’d like to see what I can do to help market and get more interest in the Entertainment Earth Affiliate Program. But I also want to avoid “selling” the program or using my blog and Twitter as places where I advertise for it.

Still, the blog and Twitter are both tools I use for the program and I want to make sure I’m utilize both of them as a way to make people aware of the program and offer hints for my current affiliates.

While I’ve spent a good half of my life in sales in one form or another, I’ve always hated being “sold to” or feeling like I’m “pitching” people. As I see it, I’d much rather figure out what people would find interesting about the program and then have it be something they actually feel they can get use and benefit from.

Which is where I need feedback.

In the end, I want to get people interested in the Entertainment Earth Affiliate Program and, if they feel it’s a benefit, become an affiliate.

Do I “remind” people about it maybe once a week? Do I just continue on as I have – which is just my doing my business and letting people find it on their own? What works? What doesn’t and what would you suggest?

Oh, for the record, I know I could read all the “How to…” posts out there and get all sorts of great “ideas”. But I prefer honest feedback, because those guys don’t have to read me. Know what I mean? ;-)

The Blackest Night is arriving!

For those of you not following the Green Lantern books, Blackest Night is a legend of death and misery that will destroy life as we know it. What’s that mean for readers? A lot of dead characters returning to life to wreak havoc on the living, that’s what! For toy collectors, that means a ton of creepy and awesome figures to haunt your shelves!

This second wave includes John Stewart (Green Lantern), Black Hand, an Indigo Lantern and (my personal fave) the creepy and horrifying Kryb of the Sinestro Corps! Awesomeness abounds!

As always, don’t forget to check out the Hyde and Geek blog for more toy goodness!

Posted by: Scott of hydeandgeek.com

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So Elizabeth Swann and Anna Valerious are still on the outs, and while I’m starting to wonder if they even remember what they were fighting about, Elizabeth’s still a bit depressed over it. Even though she was the one who stopped speaking to Anna first. You know how it goes. So I was trying to cheer her up with doll browsing (hey, a girl can look):

“How about a Will Turner? Would you like one of those?”

“Maybe if he were in his pirate clothes,” she said dully.

“They do make one of those, I’m pretty sure–“

Lyra popped up over Elizabeth’s shoulder. “That scarf is a girly scarf.”

“Well, that’s just how guys dressed back… now.”

“In tights?”

She sighed. “Sometimes Will was prettier than I was.”

“Do you ever miss fancy clothes?” I asked, pointing to Court Gown Elizabeth Swann.

“Hell no. Well… maybe. But the last time I wore that dress I fell off a battlement. That’s not a dress for people who like breathing. I’m much happier in pants.“

“I like your swash. Someday I want to have a swash.”

“Who’s that in purple?”

“That’s, uh… Catwoman?“

“I wanna be a catwoman.”

Elizabeth pointed to Catwoman’s precipitous neckline: “Is that–can you actually see her articulation?”

“Uh… maybe when you’re older, Lyra.”

Serafina fluttered down to the file cabinet as I hurriedly scrolled up the page. “That Tia Dalma, is she a good witch? I have no patience with bad witches.”

(I closed the tab I had up with Bellatrix very quietly.)

“Can she see the future?” Galadriel called from over on the printer table (she was fiddling with Lyra’s little alethiometer). “I would be interested in another colleague!”

“She can,” said Elizabeth, “but she’s a very, very strange… I don’t even know what she is. Or what that stuff in her teeth is, either.”

“Octopus ink?”

“OH GROSS!” But she laughed pretty hard, which was heartening.

I scrolled up some more, and Lyra pointed to the Lara Croft doll. “Is she an explorer? My Uncle Asriel’s an explorer. He’s up North right now fighting Tartars, I bet he fights Samoyeds too. Do you think Samoyeds’ daemons are dogs? Are they named after the dog or are the dogs named after them? That lady’s name is kind of like mine. Does she explore anywhere cold? Because she’s gonna need furs if–“

“Well, I’m definitely I’m cutting down on the sugar in your diet.”

“Perhaps she, like me, does not feel cold.”

“She looks plenty cold to me,” Elizabeth said crisply. “As if it were, perhaps, nippy outside.”

And there, next to Lara Croft on the page was, of course, Edward Dollen.

Elizabeth lowered her voice: “You’re not seriously considering getting one of those still, are you?”

“I don’t know, I mean… you know how much I like Tonners, and the Bella is super cute, and you can’t get a Bella without an Edward because she would never, ever shut up, and–things settled down with The Littlest Edward, didn’t they? It’s all about keeping the sparklepires properly fed–“

“You realize that Anna would actually kill you, right? She’d never stop pushing Bella off the shelf at the very least. Does mind-reading come standard with those things? Because I don’t want her putting that tinhat back on–” She shook her head anxiously: “It’s just not good for her, having vampires around.”

“We’ll work something out,” I said uneasily. Because… well, Elizabeth’s right. I’m definitely going to have to try to get her and Anna back together, that’s for sure, because if I ever do add any more sparklepires to my collection–and you know how I feel about future Alice Dollens–I’m going to need Elizabeth there as a… calming influence, let’s say.

Clearly, I’m going to have to get out the rum.

You can find more by Cleolinda Jones on LiveJournal or @cleolinda on Twitter.

And if I might digress for a second, I think Michael Keaton made a brilliant Batman.

Until recently, I always thought Nicholson set the bar so high that no one would ever surpass it.

Fast forward to 2008 and The Dark Knight.

When I first heard Heath Ledger was going to play the Joker I has some serious misgivings. I mean this was the guy from 10 Things I Hate About You and Brokeback Mountain endeavoring to reinvent the role
defined by a legendary actor like Jack Nicholson? I was not
instantly sold. Watching the movie totally blew my mind. Not only did he rise above the heights attained by Nicholson; he took the role to a whole different place; one pertinent and interesting for this modern age. Ledger’s Joker was more an exploration of the Joker as a terrorist and agent of chaos than the Joker as homicidal criminal bent the downfall of the Batman.

One of the hallmarks of the Joker is, of course, the Joker card left at the scene of a crime. In commemoration and celebration of the Joker character from The Dark Knight, DC Direct has produced a limited edition Batman Joker Poker Set for sale at Entertainment Earth.

This unique collector’s set comes packaged in a black aluminum carrying case. It includes a deck of 54 replica Joker cards, as seen in The Dark Knight, and a standard 54 card deck as well as 100 poker chips in green, purple, red, and black, and 5 dice. Only 3000 of these sets are available and all are shipped with a certificate of authenticity.

What better way to put a unique spin on poker night than with this fabulous set? A must have for the Batman fan in your life or for any one that loves the unique story of this DC villain.

Written by: Erin Peterson @dotnetcowboy

In short, she’s been writing about a recent addition to “The Shelf” in the form of one “Edward Dollen” aka “the Sparklepire”

…can you see why I already love it?

Anyway, while you may need to read back a bit to get all of there references, this post just put me on the floor and I had to share.

Occupation: Girl – You’ve got mail

For the record, I’m considering sending over the Twilight Edward Cullen Tonner Doll just to start the emo-fest!

I know. It’s bad. It’s evil — and yet, it’s awesome.

Considering how freaked out certain people got about the Barbie DC Black Canary Collector Doll, I have to figure this Biker Babe Barbie is going to upset a few people.

Now I just need to find her a bike….

It’s super easy:

Start following @entearth or @geekgirldiva you’re eligible to win free toys from Entertainment Earth! Now through 03/31.

Already following us? You can play too! Just tweet it up and include #eefreestuff so we can track it.

Entertainment Earth will be celebrating our anniversary very soon and we have all sorts of cool things planned, so following now means you’ll be able to get updates and the latest news.

And, yeah, we’ve already had winners. 4 of ’em!

The Twitter friendly version:

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…I’ve never seen Little Big Planet.

Still, I had to post these. The Little Big Planet Wave 1 Action Figure Set is way too cute and, maybe. it’ll appease my friends just a bit.

(FYI – My blog likes to cut the right side off pics sometimes, so if it did that, click the pic for a better look)

In other news – the contest is still going, so make sure you let your friends know.

Oh and, I’ve been sick. So, I am now going back to bed.

It went so well, that we got the okay to extend it!

We’ll be tracking new followers for the next 10 days and choosing winners at random.

Start following @entearth or @geekgirldiva you’re eligible to win free toys from Entertainment Earth!

Already following us? You can play too! Just tweet it up and include #eefreestuff so we can track it.

Entertainment Earth will be celebrating our anniversary very soon and we have all sorts of cool things planned, so come follow @entearth or @geekgirldiva for updates and the latest news.

Want to add it to your Twitter? Here’s an Tweet friendly 140 char version:

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