General Geekiness, Robotics Gone Wild
I, um, maybe we should turn around?
What would you do if you saw that thing? About a mile out you’re thinking “wow, that’s kinda big” but then you keep getting closer and it keeps getting bigger and you keep getting closer and then you TURN THE EFF AROUND!
This scary bit of metal destruction is brought to us by those equally insane folks at Geekologie.
Only Comic-Con, actually. Sharkatron3000 and I just got back from our first pilgrimage to the land of all things awesome, aka San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately — though I admit I’m very pleased with the fact that Sharkatron brought a car into this equation, enabling us to travel from KS all the way to SoCal — he also booked us a room right across from the convention center…for the FOLLOWING WEEK after the con!!
If you’ve ever been to Comic-Con, you realize how boned we were — there aren’t any available rooms for hundreds of miles in every direction. Luckily, after drinking about 8 sodas at Burger King, we ran into this rocking dude (calls himself THE FASSINATOR) all the way from Philly (East Coast in the house!) who used his, let’s just say, “skills” to work the wi-fi and eject some movie studio wank from a hotel room (word is the studios have every assistant in the building scarf up all the hotel rooms for the con so TRUE fans get the shaft) then he booked us into it. And then we found out that he was visiting his cousins in Mission City during the “Incident.” He was there, dudes!!! We got ourselves an actual eyewitness to the biggest event to hit the U.S. of A. in, oh, forever.
So, naturally, recognizing his skillz and his talent for being in the right place at the right time, I immediately hired him onto the TRED staff. Check out his new bio in the Staff section for the 4-1-1 on The Fassinator.
Okay, so onto the con itself. This year did not disappoint! We saw hot girls in costumes, Battlestar stars (Katee Sackhoff I’m looking at you), hot girls NOT in costume and more top-shelf vinyl and classic books than you can shake a saber at.
And then there were the dope panels on Green Lantern (Corps in the house!), the Gene Rodenberry Legacy, Doctor Who, Halo, the Science Behind Science Fiction, Afro Samurai (The Fassinator’s favorite), and oh so much more! If you have the means, I highly recommend you go next year. All the geeks in the house say, Holla!!!
Ed Note: Unfortunately, for reasons not to be spoken of, all photos of this event have been unintentionally destroyed.
and word of advice, bring more than one camera….
Babes, General Geekiness, TRED
The above vision of geek perfection comes to us via last year’s Comic-Con or was it Star Wars Con? – whatever, who cares- its galactically HOT! And here’s to hoping for a repeat performance at this year’s mega geek gathering. I’ve long since wanted to attend but baby billionaires don’t have much free time (or in my case, a car). Thankfully the latter issue is now null as the one and only Sharkatron3000 has been able to secure his mom’s ride for the journey.
THE PLAN (in no particular order):
1. stock up on comics
2. wrangle the babetrons
3. meet Mark Millar
4. get a date with Olivia Munn
5. spread some truth.
We’ll report back with all the haps so you can live through our awesomeness.
More pictures of the future Mrs. Spitz after the break.
Babes, General Geekiness, MUNN
Nothing fills the UFO-chasing down time like the interwebs most geekiest beautiful babes. It’s a sub-mission not less important than the first mission here at TRED. If for no other reason than to remind us how important it is to sustain human life in the face of Alien invasion, we will bring you babes — often!
And Exhibit A is the most wonderfullest of women on the world wide web, OLIVIA MUNN! Seen above sporting the oh so appropriate Wonder Woman outfit, we wish daily to be put in peril in the hopes being saved/and or abducted by her.
While not as Munderfull at Queen Olivia, the fine folks over at Bam Kapow hath bestowed on the world the 50 of the Hottest Chicks Dressed as Wonder Woman!
In just two short years, Leo Ponce de Leon Spitz has gone from unknown sixteen-year-old techie working out of his parents’ third bathroom off their kitchen in Lawrence, Kansas, to the savvy, international cybermedia mogul he is today.
