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GeekDad UnWired: Screenless
How many screens do you look at in a day? Computers (at work and home), television, smartphone, laptop, GPS … as screens get smaller and cheaper, we accumulate more and more of them. What used to be a...
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Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
After the surprise success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith is following up his New York Times best-seller with the history/vampire mashup, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter....
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An Extremely Geeky Happy Birthday!
I make it a habit to check for birthdays of geek celebrities of all sorts. For this I typically browse through Wikipedia’s page for the day in question, scrolling through it and noting names that I...
View ArticleHow Stephen King Taught Me Percentile Rank and the Normal Curve
I was driving my ’58 Plymouth Fury on a long trip out of Boulder, Colorado to a strange town in Maine, when I stopped at a hotel along the way for a needed caffeine boost. A man in glasses and ...
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The Journals of Doctor Mormeck: Jeff VanderMeer’s Serialized Fiction Experiment
Jeff VanderMeer is no stranger to GeekDad readers —see here for James Floyd Kelly’s take on his Steampunk Bible anthology or here for an interview I did with Jeff and his wife Ann Vandermeer a few...
View ArticleAn Extremely Geeky Happy Birthday!
I make it a habit to check for birthdays of geek celebrities of all sorts. For this I typically browse through Wikipedia’s page for the day in question, scrolling through it and noting names that I...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Stephen King — Writing Instructor Extraordinaire
I see that GeekDad’s Matt Blum is again wishing Stephen King a happy birthday, along with many other notables. But I think Blum is giving King short shrift by describing him as “one of the most...
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Comics as Literature, Part 7: Literature as Comics
So far I've mostly been talking about comics that qualify as literature (by my own secret definition). But what about comics that are based on literature? Taking literary classics (or not-so-classics)...
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