FTW FRIDATY! NARUTO AND STAR TREK ARE FOR GEEKS!

NARUTO: "THE FINAL EPISODE" LEAKED!

Last time on Naruto: Shipoopooden, Sakura-chan ate a bunch of 7-11 hot dogs. Like way too many. Like a half dozen. And somebody stole the key for the bathroom! Meanwhile, Kakashi-senpai tries to ride his skateboard of the Devel's Gooch Canyon but Kabuto stole his wheels with the help of his cartoon dog, Mutley. Meanwhile, Sasuke gets the test results for his pregnancy! Who is the father? Naruto?! OR SASUKE!!!!

Fart.

FAMILIAR FACES: THE GEEK!

Familiar Faces is a fantastic series that takes a look at characters that are on the periphery and The Geek is definitely an outlier. This video is a testament to the special story-telling powers of comics that television and film is just now starting to embrace. Comic book publishers take risks.

STAR TREK: TNG EDIT 38 "RIKER" EP. 1

If Riker was the main character of Star Trek: The Next Generation, it would be a far more disturbing look at bachelor life. There would also be more chair mountings and a good helping of Riker's "growing up in Alaska with a weird martial arts military dad" stories. I miss watching episodes of TNG I hadn't seen...

WTF WED! COPS, ROBOT CHICKEN, STAR TREK, AND FROZEN IS THE NEW BLACK!

ONEY: COPPER KIDS!

OneyNG has been doing these delightful, short, and twisted little toons on his channel, lately, and Copper Kids is my favorite. Sure... it might be more predictable than some of the other cartoons's twists, but the delivery and scenario make such a sweet piece of scenario that I can't help but share it!

ROBOT CHICKEN-  

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION'S NIGHT CREW!

Robot Chicken is one of the best sketch shows on TV.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of the best science fiction programs of all time.

Together? Now, that's a perfect match made in nerd heaven! Especially with Patrick Stewart's involvement!

FROZEN IS THE NEW BLACK!

Lastly, two female driven fictions that blew up recently were Disney's tales of two sisters, Frozen and Netflix's hit series, Orange is the New Black. Combining the two? You've got Disney Princesses, violence, and enough female driven scenes to ace the Bechdel Test!

WORD OF THE DAY! 7/29/13!

allusion [uh-looh-zhun]
noun
1. Obsolete.  A metaphor or parable.
2. An incidental reference, either directly or indirectly implying something.
3. The act or incident of subtle reference in a piece of art.

EX. Communication and interactions on line are unique because they can take so many forms, over such a long distance, and reach so many different/diverse audiences that no other forum of sharing has ever matched. The language of this communication relies upon metaphor and allusion more-so than any other form I've ever seen; as seen above, the images allude to Star Trek: The Next Generation, then a collage of popular meme imagery, then the "Mother of God" meme face (a reference to the film cliche where someone removes their glasses and says "Mother of God"), then the "Aliens" guy from the History Channel, before returning back with the conclusion of the images, that the internet is much like the alien race that Picard met in the TNG episode, The Children of Tama.

The reason that I found this neat little image series so amusing is that one of my high school Spanish teachers was a big Trekker (he even had a Klingon language chart hanging in the room) and showed The Children of Tama as a learning tool to describe the relationship between language and cultural references. Without a frame of reference, some parts of language are difficult to comprehend.

The episode was also one of my first exposures to TNG and well, as I'm currently on track to finish watching every episode of all Trek series by the end of the year, I'm probably grateful for the exposure to such a great program.

WORD OF THE DAY! 2/13/12

futility [fyoo-til-i-tee]
noun
1. the quality of being futile; ineffectiveness; uselessness.
2. a trifle of frivolity.
3. a futile act or event.

EX. I am Implicus of the Borg. Resistance is futile.

BEST CLIFFHANGER EVER!