The thirty-fourthnd episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. This week’s episode: The Department of Geek Affairs store opens; WarGames, the Deez, and proto-geeks; labelling the Internet-famous, in which John Hodgman is compared—aptly, even—to Frank Sinatra; Storm’s childhood slang; sexist Judaica; Paul […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
GEEK MADNESS: Congratulations, Mr. Secretary
March 25, 2009 – 9:14 pm
After a long campaign against the best and brightest geek luminaries, Wil Wheaton has emerged as the people’s choice to hold the office of the (yet to be officially recognized) Secretary of Geek Affairs. Nearly 90,000 total votes were cast in determining the Geek Madness Tournament outcome, and Mr. Wheaton vanquished an impressive list of […]
12:00:00
March 25, 2009 – 3:50 pm
What started out as a simple question on Twitter… “There’s a hole in the English language: how to greet people when it’s exactly noon. Good Noon? Hi, Noon? G’Nooner?” …has blossomed into a gripping intellectual exercise. So we’ve extracted some of the best suggestions from the dozens of @ replies and put them into a […]
Show #033: Here Comes the Kiss Woman!
March 23, 2009 – 8:57 pm
The thirty-thirdth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. This week’s episode: clowns, anthropomorphic candy, depressed gorillas, and other things that freak out children; El Marko; Storm’s Twitter resurgence and wanting a new phone like all the cool kids; and a Mrs. […]
Show #032: Tagamuchi Brick Game Fun Toy Playtime
March 18, 2009 – 12:47 am
The thirty-secondth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. This week’s episode: the question of cubits; Storm may or may not be an asshole; wild adventures at SXSW Interactive, with a cast of dozens (including You Look Nice Today, MC Frontalot and […]
Expanding Our Horizons
March 16, 2009 – 1:31 am
It’s no secret that we never planned to confine ourselves solely to the world of novelty music. We’ve got our eyes on much, much bigger prizes. For starters, we’re forming a new cover band with Jonathan Coulton; we fully expect this new project to be our full-time musical endeavor withing the next several months… Even […]
And Yet More Shows
March 12, 2009 – 11:30 pm
Here’s a quick rundown of the remainder of our busy, busy Spring… Friday March 13 at 8 pm House of Blues (Houston, TX) with Jonathan Coulton Tickets: tinyurl.com/cxdf8s Sunday March 15 at 7 pm Antone’s (Austin, TX) with Jonathan Coulton Tickets: tinyurl.com/ama6l7 (This is not an official part of SXSW, you must buy tickets to […]
Operation Blue Mountain
March 12, 2009 – 2:17 pm
Thanks and accolades to all of the Certified Minions and unregistered partisans who participated in the very successful Operation Blue Mountain on Tuesday, March 10 (Paul’s birthday). You answered the call in droves (specifically, 62 of you; how many droves in 62?), and carried out the mission with the determination, guile, and creativity that is […]
Show #031: Buttafuoco Pants
March 10, 2009 – 9:20 pm
The thirty-firstnd episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. This week’s episode: dissecting the Fake Joss Whedon Birthday Onslaught (and the possibility of a real Joss Whedon sighting); engineering a geeky train wreck; our imminent switch to cloud hosting, and what that […]
