CONvergence 2012 Highlights
There were a few low points at CONvergence 2012 but they aren’t even worth mentioning. Most of them had to do with last minute planning failures and my complete inability to sleep past 7:30, even when I went to sleep at 5:00 A.M.
So forget that stuff, here’s some of my best moments from CONvergence 2012 (more or less in chronological order):
First Episode of Geeks Without God is live
We had a great time recording four episodes of Geeks Without God this weekend. We recorded an episode with Melissa Kaercher about Prometheus, an episode with Kammy Lyon about SkepchickCon at the convention, an episode with Rebecca Watson of Skepchick.org and an episode with Stephanie Zvan and Jason Thiebault of FreethoughtBlogs! We were really excited to get time with all of them.
Our first episode went live this morning so hey, head over there and have a listen to all of us try to talk about the religious themes in Prometheus. It’s hard because there are so many other things to complain about….
I Hate Brian Keene
Actually, I don’t Hate Brian Keene. I just used that title as a hook.
Last year at CONvergence, I was on Iron Artist as a snobby French Beat Poet. This is a video of the poem I wrote. Be sure to watch to the end to see some terrific drawings!
Why am I a Geek?
This blog is going to be pretty quiet for the next several days because of CONvergence. That ought to be fine since I’m betting that 90% of my readers go to the con and won’t be reading anyone’s blog for the next several days.
Still, in case you’re around, we are still writing about what makes us geeks over at Geeks Without God. Today I get my turn.
Why is Molly a Geek?
So over at Geeks Without God, we’ve all posted why we are atheists. Now we are going to try to explain why we call ourselves geeks.
Molly gets to take first crack today. Check it out!
Oh man! Did I sign up for all of that?
I’ve been reviewing my CONvergence schedule for 2012 and while I have not quite achieved Melissa Kaercher levels of insanity, I will be participating in 15 different panels and events.
Holy shit.
Here’s the breakdown for those of you who care:
All the Shatners are together!
And now an image from “The Complete Works of William Shatner (abridged)” that puts all of our Shatners on the same page!
That’s Brandon Ewald as Young Shatner, Duck Washington as TJ Hooker, Windy Bowlsby as Captain James T. Kirk, Tim Uren as the Priceline Negotiator and Me as a large lizard like alien that is NOT the Gorn.
No Gorn here. Nope. Definitely not the Gorn.
Geeks without God Logo
So we asked our good friend Melissa Kaercher to help us with a logo for the “Geeks Without God” podcast and because she is awesome, she came up with this:
Melissa is also going to be one of our special guests on our inaugural podcast, being recorded at CONvergence, Saturday the 7th of July at 9:30 in the morning. Atrium 3. We’ll be talking about the religious themes in Prometheus.
Shit that Pissed me off This Week – 6/15
Megachurch Pastor Beats up his Daughter and his Flock Praises him for it
Let me begin by saying that I don’t know if his daugter’s allegations are true. But let’s just assume for a moment that he did, in fact, “put his hands around her throat and…then slammed her to the ground, punched her and beat her with his shoe. ”
How many parents think that is appropriate behavior towards one’s child? Teenagers can be a pain in the ass, I get it.
But choking, throwing to the ground and beating with a shoe?
Here’s what one of his supporters who seems to accept his daughters’ allegations had to say:
101 likes for kids getting their ass beat!!!!! God bless America!
Holy shit people! He was beating the shit out of her before she called the cops! That isn’t discipline. That is abuse.
Alphabetical Movie – The Incredibles
As a geek, I like shiny new geek stuff as much as the next guy. As such, it is easy to declare The Avengers the best super hero movie ever because it is an amazing film.
No doubt, the arguments will then erupt around how I could have forgotten The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man and possibly even Captain America.
Yes, yes. Those are all fine movies. I enjoy them all.
Grail Diary 