Posted at 3:30 a.m. - Wednesday, January 7

Here's a little sumtin'-sumtin that came to me via 'Geek Mail':

'Who loves Chicago? The Fuglees love Chicago and the Fuglees love to rock! Polygroin Records recording artist “The Fuglees” will be performing in Chicago this Saturday (January 10th) at Martyr’s. You may already know this entertaining power-pop trio for their hit songs “Crazy Girls” and “David Lee Roth”. Their high energy midwestern sound is reminiscent of Cheap Trick with the humor of Ben Folds. You can take a listen at thefuglees.com.'

'Comic book nerds may know the band’s bass player, comic book artist Andy Kuhn. For the past 15 years he has drawn comics for just about everyone including Marvel and DC. Andy’s current comic book “Firebreather” (published by Image Comics) is being produced as an animated feature for The Cartoon Network. The band’s third CD is due out this summer. If you’re wondering how Andy finds the time to do both, you can come out to Martyr’s this Saturday and ask him in person.'

Sounds like a good time to me!  Tickets are available online through MusicToday.Com.

And as always, if you've got an event that Geek & Nerd Nation should hear about, just drop me a line!

Posted at 7:45 p.m. - Thursday, September 18

Alicia Keys.

Jack White.

007 movie theme.

Nuff said.

Check it out!

Posted at 1:35 p.m. - Tuesday, September 16

I've written about it before

and like the shark in JAWS, it's back!

And this time, it's personal...

Just kidding.

But seriously, Local film maker Dan Lamoureux wrote me an e-mail to announce the latest developments with his film 'Nerdcore For Life.:

'Our Chicago screening is on!  It's going to be at Reggie's Music Joint
in the south loop on Sunday, October 5th.  We're having it at Reggie's
so we can do some live nerdcore performances right afterwords.  Here's
a blog post I just did with all the details.'

And here's what I lifted from his post:

NERDCORE FOR LIFE Screening

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5th @ 5:00PM
REGGIE'S MUSIC JOINT
2105 South State Street, Chicago, IL
TICKETS: $8.00, AGES 18 and up only!
BAR and RESTAURANT will be OPEN and serving during the event!

So be there AND be square....

Posted at 8:30 a.m. - Thursday, September 11

[Obama Cowbell Image courtesy of ThePeoplesCube.Com]

Here's a neat gimmick for those of you who have a little too much time on your hands:

The MoreCowbell.DJ App.  Take any MP3 file on your hard drive, upload it to the site and it adds MORE COWBELL!

Just where do they get all these wonderful toys?

(A prize to the G2M reader who can tell me who I am paraphrasing there.)

Oh, thanks to the wonderful folks at BoingBoing.Net for the heads up!

Posted at 8:30 a.m. - Wednesday, August 20

Now this is something you don't see every day: The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, a web comic that involves fans creating content for it, has just inked a deal with MGM to be turned into a TV show...

Posted at 7:55 p.m. - Monday, July 21

YT Cracker.  MC Router. SpamTec.  Nursehella.

If you've never heard these terms before, then you wouldn't know that these are actually names - and these are the names of some very colorful characters who are artists in a genre called 'nerdcore.'  After interviewing local filmmaker Dan Lamoureux about his film 'Nerdcore For Life,' I thought I'd share some videos that exemplify the genre.