Pop Culture and Politics on the Artistic Spectrum
Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real life "oldest ghost hunters in New England", portrayed currently in film by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, respectively, are possibly the most famous paranormal investigators who have ever lived. If this kind of nonsense is your bag, baby, you're probably some kind of occultist weirdo who's still doing Austin Powers… Continue reading The Conjuring Empire
Who doesn’t like movies? Sure, some of us are easier to please than others; and studios feel the need to give us whatever they feel is necessary to sell more tickets. I must confess I wasn’t excited for the new Ghostbusters for various reasons, mainly Paul Feig pretending he could write comedy when in fact… Continue reading Force Fed Flicks
A trip to the Mahoning Drive-In Theater / Jurassic Park and Jaws double feature / Rio 2016 Olympic Games kicks off with a career-ending injury / Suicide Squad kicks the bucket / The Stranger Things debate / 2016 Election--Clinton VS Trump / The Trump-Yourself App / Voting for Vagina / Masterchef is no longer about cooking / Nathan loses his mind /… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 208: D4 The Mighty Dorks
Anthony Alburger from The Fight Back Home joins us in studio for some San Diego Comic Con news / Ghostbusters is a horrific mess and Leslie Jones is 48-years old and should know better / MARVEL trailers and news wrap-up / DC may actually be making good product after all / Television and Netflix shows and the end of Bates… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 206: How I Could Just Kill a Graham
Alex goes to Atlantic City to catch Pokemon / Mexican hoverboards / Pokemon Go in the streets / Avoiding the beach / All-girl Ghostbusters bullshit / Post-credits Zuul reveal / Excited for the next Star Wars chapters with Rogue One, Episode VIII, and Rebels / A plague of tiny houses / Amber Rose has a new show / Bring 'Em To Heel… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 205: Gotta Culturally Appropriate Em All!
Joe browns out in Baltimore, Maryland / Pokemon Go! takes over everyone's life, with as many daily users as Twitter / The Ghostbusters reviews are in, and they're not good / Twitter teams up with Black Lives Matter giving credit to terrorists and cop killers / Bad cops are just bad people / Obama's search for an identity / The… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 204: Float Like a Butterfree, Sting Like a Beedrill
Dan spends two weeks researching Sex and the City / Politicians behaving like children, and actual children behaving like politicians / Down goes Bernie / Does anyone actually care about the Brexit? / There is no gun control / Game of Thrones gives us the episode we've all been waiting for / Joe gets the goosies /… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 202: What About Brexit at Tiffany’s?
Dan sees the Nice Guys / Alex discovers the mad genius of Rod Serling / Can we build a Spider-Man franchise? Yes we can! / Thor inherits a Hulk / Star Wars overload / Star Trek gets good / Maybe Ghostbusters haters just don't like Leslie Jones / Neighbors 2 raises the dead / Dan… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 197: Standies and Sitties
Mother's Day Bad Moms trailer / Spoiler Alert: Captain America Civil War was awesome / Everything you needed to hear about Civil War but were afraid to ask / Spider-Man boner / X-Men Apocalypse / Dan Mansplains #Supernatural Tweets from Girls on Twitter / George Takei is a hypocrite and needs to "whitewash" himself /… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 195: What’s So Civil About War, Anyway?
DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPISODE HERE!! or on iTUNES and STITCHER RADIO Mark Zuckerberg gets put in Facebook Jail / Win a chance to deal with Ben Affleck for an afternoon / Giles Investigation / Introducing the Pizza Taste Test challenge / Project Consent reaches the absurd / Girls need emojis to feel better about themselves / Ghostbusters reboot and… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 187: Breakdancing for Crack
DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPISODE HERE!! or on iTUNES and STITCHER RADIO Joe tailgates at the season-ending Philadelphia Eagles game / After a week of being in theaters, Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits the social justice mill / Who is Rey, anyway? / The biggest feminist flop of all time / Subway is a wretched hive of scum… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 178: Jawn of Justice, A Year of Hurt Feelings
The crew takes refuge from the Snowpocalypse to discuss Racist Robots, the blogging villainy of Dr. Doom of the 'Fantastic 4' reboot, and an all-female 'Ghostbusters' cast. We read our favorites from this week's #HASHTAGorDIE game, Dan Explains #Supernatural Tweets from Girls on Twitter, we debate American Sniper and other Oscar movies we've actually seen,… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 131: Dr. Doom’s BuzzFeed Fantastic Forty
The boys are back! We discuss the gender equality hypocrisy of BuzzFeed's Staff, the wide world of Gotham and who that TV show was made for, stories from a weekend of Center City Comedy, and play some games like Rotten Tomatoes and Hold On, Hold On, I Know This! DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPISODE HERE!!! or… Continue reading Talking Nerdy, Ep. 115: Something Robbed a Bank
Image via Wikipedia Let's spend six hours surfing TVTropes.com: An examination of the five-man team in The Real Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My husband is studying for the bar. This may seem to be a total non sequitur, but it's relevant. You see, whenever he throws himself into anything academic, he tends to… Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VS The Real Ghostbusters
I know this is long overdue but it's one of those things that you have to do. Like talk to relatives! 2009 has not been the best year for me. In fact, it was quite possibly the worst. Started out with my grandfather passing away (his funeral being the day right before my birthday), my… Continue reading Joe’s Sloppy 2009: Year in Review
The short answer is "no." None of us who get a little pants-tingle over the notion of a third installment in the Ghostbusters franchise are particularly in the wrong. If you've played the Ghostbusters Video Game, you should have had some of that nostalgia satiated, but the need for something more often creeps unfulfilled through… Continue reading I’m excited about Ghostbusters III…am I stupid?
Attempting to be extremely selective about what games I'm going to purchase is starting to become almost even with selecting which movies I'm going to bother seeing. While I could obviously pay to see about 5.5 shitty movies at the same expense as paying for one shitty game, I would consider it about even. Like… Continue reading Busting Makes Me Feel Good
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