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We are coming close to the end of August’s Geek Fuel subscription. Next month will be his last, but before we get to that, let’s look at the latest one that arrived the other day. August always enjoys the Geek Fuel box, especially the shirts. This month was no different. There was even something in…
I grew up on Star Trek. In the 70s “Star Trek” was popular in syndication. I remember watching “Star Trek: The Animated Series” on Saturday mornings. This was, at the time, epic storytelling with a science fiction setting, and often with some sort of message that was hidden in the action. One of the things…
I met Chuck D once. I think it was 2002 at the Consumer Electronics Show. I was attending as press, covering whatever there was for video games at the time. He was there to talk about online music distribution. He knew that was where the future would be. We ran into each other, just about…
Let’s kick things off with a cute picture of Tevye sleeping. These next four pictures are from earlier this week. I think. The kids are waiting for school to start. Or something. Wednesday was the first Cub Scout pack meeting, and August didn’t get to go for the first time since he is now a…
After the unceremonious cancellation of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” we got “Star Wars: Rebels” which aims to help fill in some gaps between the films Revenge Of The Sith and A New Hope. By creating a new cast of characters we are getting a fresh look at not necessarily the rise of the Galactic…
Cartoon Network broadcast “LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles” in 2013, a three-part series that took (as one might expect) a comical view of the Star Wars universe. In 2014 Disney XD broadcast “Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles”, a four-part series that changes the name slightly in order for Disney, which now owns Star…
There it sat, unused for these past few months. With warm weather and vacations there was no need for it. As the school year begins the weather turns and activities ramp up. This means less time to prepare warm dinners that are ready to eat when the family needs to be. And so the Crock…
Disney had a great tradition of nature documentaries that produced feature films in the 1950s and shorts throughout the 1960s (many of which were shown in schools). With DisneyNature, which kicked off a new series of films beginning in 2007, we are getting a new set of films that are co-produced with various partners, many of…
With the September Geek Fuel box about to arrive, let’s take a look at last month’s. After a lengthy battle with the tape keeping the box sealed, August (my son, not named after the month) finally pried open the cardboard container and besides the usual Geek Fuel magazine the first thing he saw was the…
Following up on the previous LEGO Super Heroes home video release (Justice League vs. Bizarro League) we get a new adventure featuring computer animated versions of small plastic representations of some of DC’s iconic characters. This time they are going up against not just one or two big foes, but, as the title suggests, the…