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Tonight: PowerPoint Karaoke!
Want something AWESOME to do tonight? Sure you do! Come see four improv comedians bravely attempt to give a PowerPoint presentation for a deck of slides that they have never seen before. You can see...
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Tonight: Drinking with Geeks!
Tonight, the geeks of Minneapolis shall gather at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, united in a mutual love of nerdery, social time, and booze. You want to be there, too, don’t you? Of course you do! Because it’s...
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Tiny Thing #93: Tiny Tales Book (plus a DIY macro lens)
The Tiny Things project has been continuing slowly, yet steadily. This weekend, I shot this tiny joke book, which is about the size of my thumbnail. (Funny that the book is too small to actually...
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Shiny Pointy Things and the M.C. Lilley Company
About a week ago, I was called upon by an edged weapons collector to photograph his stash of pointy things for insurance purposes. Most of the photos aren’t terribly visually interesting, since they...
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Shiny Pointy Things 2: WWII German Regalia
In my previous post, I mentioned that I photographed an edged weapons collection for a friend. I talked previously about one of his American possessions, but the real meat of his collection consists...
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Blogiversary!
According to my records, tomorrow (March 16th) marks the one-year anniversary of the Tin Lizard Productions blog. Since 2012-03-16, there have been: 208 posts (including this one) 144 comments 366...
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Cinematic Oddities: The Perfect Host
A few weeks ago, Fes and I were about to watch a completely different movie when a trailer played for The Perfect Host. Neither of us had heard of the film before, but the trailer caught our...
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On the Air on Tuesday Nights
A few weeks ago, The Geek Life started doing podcast recordings on Tuesday nights. We made this move because Skype was giving us trouble as a recording platform, and Google Hangouts seem to be more...
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The Intouchables and Racial Tropes
It was inevitable. Even though the story looked like a retread of a dozen tried-and-true tropes, the film took Europe by storm. It was the most successful film in Germany for the year of 2012. It...
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Quick, Tell Me: The Introductory Edition
Back in the days of LiveJournal, I would occasionally create a post where the audience would actively participate. I’d post something like, “Quick, tell me about your first pet hamster,” and then...
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Thursday the 28th: PowerPoint Karaoke!
Yeah, I know. Winter has gone on long enough. Fight the pre-spring doldrums by laughing yourself silly at PowerPoint Karaoke next week! Come see four improv comedians bravely attempt to give a...
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Cinematic Oddities: Stingray Sam
Every year, I attend B-Fest in Chicago, a 24-hour film festival dedicated to the appreciation of B-movies. While there, I hang around with a crowd who hold a micro-budget film director named Cory...
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Censorship and Holy Motors
My friend Cole ecstatically tweeted this morning that Holy Motors has just hit Netflix Streaming. About 10 seconds later, he posted far less ecstatically that the Netflix Streaming version of the film...
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One Last Word on Blurry Wieners
This morning’s Twitter discussion about the censorship in Holy Motors was capped by this exchange. I love my friends.
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Thursday Night: PowerPoint Karaoke!
That’s right! This month’s show is almost upon us! Our victims contestants this month are Levi Weinhagen, Tim Wick, Joe Bozic, and Josh Carson. Come see them bravely attempt to give a PowerPoint...
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Quick, Tell Me: Springtime Edition
Folks here in Minnesota have had a long winter season this year. In the last week or two, temperatures were still below 10 degrees Fahrenheit on some days, and one day dipped to -12 including...
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Cinematic Oddities: A Talking Cat!?! and the Art of Exquisite Incompetence
Eric Roberts, what have you done? Recently, a new movie sensation has been making the rounds in the z-grade movie fan community. This movie showed up on Netflix a few weeks ago, and a few of my friends...
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New Project Alert! WHOOP WHOOP!
That’s right! As if I didn’t have enough projects, I started a second blog. This new site, called The Sound and the Foley, is dedicated to identifying and researching the history recycled sounds and...
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Quick, Tell Me: Stupid Human Tricks Edition
Genetic variation is an amazing thing. The chance that another human has or had an exact copy of your genetic code is pretty much nil. When the FBI uses STR (short tandem repeat) technology to...
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I’ll miss you, Mr. Ebert.
Roger and Chaz Ebert at Ebertfest 2012 I can credit my intense love of movies to two people: my mom and Roger Ebert. I used to watch Sneak Previous and At the Movies religiously, and I’d make note of...
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