Long time, No post?

apologies for the silence, but it was a hectic holiday season, and it sort of bled over into all of january. Your Geek World's headquarters (also known as Tyler's apartment) has moved, and we're still trying to get everything settled back down, but we recorded a couple of podcasts before packing up, so those should go up relatively soon-ish (by which I mean as soon as tyler has a chance to edit them).

unfortunately in all the chaos, we missed both Arisia (which Tyler intended to drag me back to, kicking and screaming) and MAGfest (which I talked him into attending instead since they were the same weekend this year, but the budget disagreed). Luckily, we still intend to try and make it to Wicked Faire for at least one day, and will most definitely be at Anime Boston and ConnectiCon this year (even if ConnectiCon was a hot mess of failure last year, we have such a long track record with them that we have to forgive it).

We have a couple of musical projects in the works, heavily involving the musical talents of Chris Whittier of Little Blue Pill and Dave aka Barycoise of Cabin Fever Express, so stay tuned for those in the near future. the first has been recorded and has a video in the works, but can be listened to here until then (yes, that's our own version of the Backin' Up song from youtube's Autotune the News). I'm trying to convince them that we need to do the theme song from Carmen SanDiego next, but so far, no dice. Stay tuned!

In other news, the new My Chemical Romance album that I mentioned excitement about in my last post, "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys," is now out, and it's everything I ever wanted and then some. (look forward to a more in-depth review in the future!) If you love campy sci-fi and catchy, unapologetically american rock music, then I can't recommend it more, because this album is best summarized as being a neon dance party in the fucking Thunderdome, hosted by a pirate radio DJ from the future (no, really. it's set up as a radio broadcast from 2019, and features a few moments with fictional DJ Dr. Death Defying, portrayed by guitarist Steve, Righ? of Mindless Self Indulgence.) Definitely check out their youtube channel to hear some of the songs (both live and studio versions of several tracks have been posted) as well as some excellent bonus materials, including commercials and cartoons from the album's universe (and yet singer Gerard Way still insists it's not a concept album. Ok, buddy. If you say so.)


and finally, I need to mention that Lar DeSouza, an all-around awesome guy and artist of the excellent online comics Least I Could Do, Looking for Group, and the Gutters , has set up an online store for his non-comic related art. All of us here at Your Geek World are big fans of his art, and we strongly encourage you to check it out!

and now, I fear that I must end this otherwise unrelenting wall of text. Until next time, dear readers!

Hate me all you want

but I'm actually pretty stoked about the My Chemical Romance album coming out next month.



I've always been a fan of My Chemical Romance. They have a fabulously tongue-in-cheek sense of humor about themselves that I think a lot more bands should take to heart. they have fun onstage while being fun to watch, making them easily my favorite band to see live.

Anyone who knows me at all will pick up immediately on the aesthetic vibe of this video being pretty much what the inside of my brain looks like. It's like a ten year old boy circa 1995 on a post-Halloween sugar high trying to explain the Tank Girl movie, but without the kangaroos. There's nothing about it that I don't absolutely love. Plus, death by Power Glove. I mean, COME ON. The only way you could possibly hate on this is if you hate fun.


A word of warning, though: the song is catchy as all hell and WILL get stuck in your head.

the best calendar of 2011 is already up for preorder!

Those of you who know me already know that I can't say enough great things about OtakuBooty.com, my favorite social networking site for people who are completely functional adults and just-so-happen to have some nerdy interests. I've met some amazing people through OtakuBooty, and will absolutely continue to support it even in these tough economic times.

With that said, the economic strain is absolutely being felt over there, and the owner/admin is doing everything in his power to keep the site running at a nearly nonexistent subscription price. That's where some incredibly giving members of the site stepped in.

The ladies of Pixelette Pinups in Atlanta, GA had the great idea to put together a pin-up calendar to benefit the site. All of the photographers, models, and stylists are members of Otaku Booty who donated their time, effort, and in some cases even flew across the country to be involved. Many of the models dipped into their own pockets for costumes and props, and the Pixelette studio had to shut down to paying customers for several days to get all the photos done in time.

From what I've seen so far and the other photos that Pixelette host on their site, the calendar is sure to be phenomenal. It will, however, be only a limited print beyond what their preorder count is, so click the banner above and reserve a copy now!

an interval of silliness (VIDEO NSFW)

this is probably the shortest video that Happy Harry Toons has posted to youtube, but it's easily one of my favorites.

have a great weekend, everyone!

and the award for 'weirdest shit on the internet' goes to...

I've spent the last two years with the same nagging question in the back of my head every time I peruse the internet. Is there anything out there that makes less sense than jedichefs.com?

After many exhausting hours of research, I've resigned myself to the fact that, as far as pages written in English (excluding fetish porn), there really isn't.

So, what's their deal?

I honestly have no idea. I've been poking around the website for over an hour, and I'm still not sure. I do, however, know that they raise money for Cancer Research UK, So I suppose that even nonsense has its merits.


I think the part of Jedi Chefs that's most confusing is the Celebrity Jedi Chef page, which is an alphabetized list of image galleries featuring pictures of celebrities, primarily from sci-fi shows, donning the website's signature floppy chef hats and wielding lightsabers. For the most part, the celebs look just as confused as we are, though some of them seem to have excellent sense of humor about the whole ordeal.

Alan Tudyk, for example, is looking a little scared. His former 'Firefly' co-star Sean Maher, however, seems to be taking it in stride.
The number of celebrities they've managed to get to take these ridiculous pictures is staggering. A considerable amount of the casts of Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Stargate SG-1,various Star Treks, the new and old Star Wars trilogies, and folks from all over Doctor Who fill the list, making me wonder if perhaps the YGW Away Team needs a silly gimmick to get us some celebrity endorsements. I'm pretty sure there isn't anything the guys wouldn't be willing to do if it meant a picture of them with, say for example, Felicia Day.


I don't know what confuses me more: what's going on, or why so many geek celebs are in on it!

YGW on Guilded Age!

So, the awesome Phil Kahn of Guilded Age (not our dear monotone friend from the YGW Podcast) asked me a few weeks back if I wanted to do a guest strip for his amazing comic, and I was more than happy to oblige. Unfortunately, it turned into a week and a half of me staring at photoshop and praying for a punchline to descend from the heavens, and the night before I promised to have it for him, I slapped something together and made a bad World of Warcraft joke. Ah, well!

In Phil's newspost accompanying the guest strip, he mentions YourGeekWorld (specifically this blog) and also OtakuBooty.Com, where we met. Contrary to the name, the site is really more of a subscription social networking site for all sorts of nerds, not just the animu folks, and not really a dating site per se (though I know some pretty cool folks who have ended up in relationships or even getting married to people they met through the site). Their forums are probably my favorite haunt on the web, and worth a look if you're ever bored, though you can only access one tab without a paid membership.

the comic of the day has a permanent home here.

Phil just informed me that the comic was also featured in the weekly comic roundup on WoW.com