T-Shirt Ideas Wanted!

So there is gear out there for geek gals, but not much. Everytime I stop into my local comic shop, I hope to find some new t-shirt in a lady size. But… alas. Hasn’t happened yet.

Part of the inspiration behind this blog was to design t-shirt for geek gals. And while I’m all about designing, I need help with ideas.

 So what do you want to see on a t-shirt? PH33R TH1S CH1CK? Mrs. Parker/Weasley/Sparrow? I heart Linux? 

Ideas, people!!

Pixel Necklace

From Mike and Maaike come pixel jewelry! “An exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and percieved value.” On printed and scored leather. Super cute.

Heroes Images!

Look at what Mack found over on Comic Continuum:

<fangirl squealing>

OMFG HEROES SEASON 2 PICS!!!

Now with the summer break from the BEST TV SHOW EVAR, I haven’t been keeping up to date with the online comic at the show’s official website. Keeping that in mind, let’s analyze these images like the rabid fangirls we are.

The thing that struck me most is the appearance of both Petrelli brothers. The season finale left it up in the air as to who, if either one, survived. I was leaning towards the death of Nathan and the survival of Peter. I might be wrong.

Mack noticed the fact that DL is missing. Last we left him, he was bleeding badly from a gunshot from Linderman. He might be dead. Cool with me, to be honest, the Nikki/Jessica/DL/Micah storyline bored me.

Also absent: Ando and Molly. Granted, these are secondary characters. One has to wonder what Ando will be up to while Hiro ( \^0^/ YATTA!) is back in time.

Omigosh, I love this show. Can’t wait for it to come back. Can’t wait for Heroes: Origins to start.

</fangirl squealing>

XPOSED Bags

More fun from Perpetual Kid:

What a clever design! Each XPOSED bag has an X-ray image on it of the supposed contents, including a gun in the grocery bag, brass knuckles in the shoulder tote, and a spiked collar in the cosmetic bag.

Pretty cheap, too, ranging from $7.99 to $11.99.

Random 80’s Nostalgia

She Ra by Jules

Obsession: Talisman

It never occurred to me how much Dungeons and Dragons and Monopoly were like chocolate and peanut butter. They go suprisingly well together.

That’s the best way to describe Talisman, a game I never knew existed and am now utterly obsessed with. Y’see, the original game came out in 1983,  with expansions and new editions coming out until 1994. My friend Ken has the old ‘83 version of the game and all the expansions, and one late Saturday night a gang of us hunkered down to play.

I was hooked.

The game is easy enough: you start by picking a character from the character deck. You can be anything from a leprechaun to a pirate or a druid to a knight. Each character has it’s own unique talents that can come in handy during the game. My favorite was the centaur, who can shoot arrows at enemies from several spaces away, as well as add a few more dots to a roll.

Anyways, once you’ve picked a character, gotten your gold, your hit points, your strength points, and your craft points, it’s time to play. The game is played on a board with several rings; an outer region, a middle region, and an inner region. The object of the game is to get into the middle where the Crown of Command is. From there you can zap the other players with your Talisman (if you have one) and win the game by being the last character alive.

Before you make your way to the Crown of Command, you want to do a few rounds outside to toughen up your character. Often you’ll land on a space that will tell you to draw an Adventure card. These can be anything from an enemy to battle, a bag of gold, a follower, an event, or an item.

There’s tons more to the game, of course, this is the simplest version. The game is a blast, and just as I was starting to get bummed over the fact the game is out of print and I won’t ever have my own, I learned that Talisman is coming back.

 

That’s right! October 1, 2007, not only is the new Talisman board game being released, but there is also an online video game version, available for XBox 360, PS3, and Windows. It’ll be in 3d, with all the expansions and further downloadable content, and you can play with all your friends over the ‘net! That means you can play with me, and I will kick your pansy ass.

Hairspray is the Word

The funny thing about Hairspray is that it always felt like a musical. The silly hairstyles, costumes, and over the top exuberance that were all in the 1988 John Waters original could easily exist in the sometimes surreal world of move musicals. Watching it, you have to remind yourself that it’s not just a remake, it’s a musical remake.

And it is adorable. My cheeks were aching by the end of the film because I couldn’t stop grinning. I has to stop myself from bursting into applause following each musical number. It’s a silly, goofy movie that doesn’t try to be anything other than what it is. If you have a pulse, you’ll be leaving the theater in a good mood.

Personally, I think they could have picked someone better than John Travolta in the Edna Turnblat role. I would have loved to see Harvey Fierstein, myself. Travolta seemed to be trying too hard to be a woman, and his inconsistent accent wavered between Blanche DuBois and Ed Sullivan. I also would have enjoyed a stronger singer take Queen Latifa’s role of Motormouth Maybelle, but hey, you gotta have stars in a big Hollywood movie. And these gripes are minor. They sure as hell didn’t hamper the enjoyment.

Have to note that had Christopher Walken had a minute more screentime in this movie, he would have stolen the movie. It’s plain to see how much he’s enjoying himself in this one.

I hope that there are great things ahead for lead actress Nikki Blonsky. She shone in this movie as Tracy Turnblat, and every scene she was in had me grinning and saying to myself, “She is so damn cute!!”

I hope the teeny boppers out there attach to Hairspray and make it a hit like High School Musical (gag). If the squealing tween girls behind me were any indication, Zac Efron (who is the male lead in both) could help make that a reality. Every generation has it’s own defining musical movie (Newsies for me!), and it’ll only be a matter of time before your local high school puts on a production of Hairspray.

Don’t wait until then, though. Go see it now, I highly recommend it.