Game of Thrones – Guardians of the Geekery

Away Team: DragonCon – We’re in you!

August 30, 2017 by giddygeeker

#TickSaveMyCity, DragonCon, Game of Thrones, Nightwing, ourBRIDGE, The Tick, Twin Peaks

Carol the Cat, Starneslord, The Giddygeeker, and fellow Charlotte Geek Danny Seavers arrived for DragonCon – but didn’t want a whole week to go by without talking about the Game of Thrones finale, Twin Peaks, the new Nightwing series, and The Tick and how it saved our city! So we sat down right before heading out back in to the biggest convention of our year – to talk to you about it. Here you go!

Recorded Wednesday, 8/30/2017

Guardians of the Geekery: DragonCon – We’re In You!

Episode 171: Westeros, Whedon’s Wife and Clowns

Episode 171! Donna and Wes Scott have a nice stay with Field, and then hang out to talk about Westeros, Whedon’s wife, and Clowns.

Today’s Topics Include:

News

RIP: Sonny Landham (Predator), Dick Gregory, Jerry Lewis
‘Stranger Things’ creators are planning for its end
Joss Whedon’s ex-wife and her blog of infamy
New American Horror Story: Cult Trailer
Mark Wahlberg named 2017’s highest paid male actor ($68M), edged out Dwayne Johnson; Emma Stone highest female ($26M), with Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lawrence close behind
Katee Sackhoff to play Flash Villian
Community Calendar Reminder (Ballantyne Chorale Auditions)

Guardables

Carol: BizarreTV, Annabelle: Creation
Matt: Painting My Life by Pasquale Marco Veltris
Joey : Charlotte ComiCon, Geek Gala, Muggles Market, DragonCon
Tiffany: SkillPop, Audible
Group Skate: Defenders, Game of Thrones

About Eat the Runt

Processed with MOLDIV

donna scott productions, the Harvey B. Gantt Center and Charlotte Art League come together for Eat The Runt, a comedy by Avery Crozier. Providing a completely novel and participatory theatre experience for Charlotte audiences, Eat the Runt requires that all eight actors in the cast learn every role and audition for the audience before each performance. The audience will cast the show using their smartphones and watch as the actors they cast deftly play out one of the over 40,000 possible casting combinations.

The plot of Eat the Runt follows Merritt, a grants manager candidate, through a series of increasingly bizarre interviews for a position at an esteemed art museum. Eat the Runt focuses a sharply comedic eye on the themes of political correctness, office politics, sexual harassment, religious persuasions, and societal and cultural norms related to gender and race. The result is a unique, hilarious and sometimes surprising performance that will never be the same show twice.

***Performance suggested for 18+ due to language and adult comedy.

Performance Info

Show Dates: Sept 7 – 23, 2017
Show Time: 8:00 PM
Tickets & Locations:
- Sept 7 – Harvey B. Gantt Center
- Sept 8-23 – Charlotte Art League
Directed By: Tonya Bludsworth
Cast: Kevin Aoussou, Tracie Frank, Jennifer Grabenstetter, Andrea King, Erica Ross, Stephen Seay, Kevin Shimko, and Stephen West-Rogers.

About donna scott productions

donna scott productions is a theatre and arts production company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 2005 by Donna Scott. Their mission is to provide Charlotte audiences, artists and collaborating partners with unique and diverse opportunities for creative experience and expression.

On the Interwebz

Website: donnascottproductions.com

Facebook: facebook.com/donnascottproductions/

Instagram: @donnascottprod

Twitter: @donnachronicles

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 171

Episode 169: Omens, Apes, Ticks, and Foxes!

Episode 169! Caleb Van Voorhis of Queen City Comedy stuck around (we actually couldn’t get him to leave) to talk about this week’s news and views. Make sure to join us this Friday (Aug 18th) when Caleb performs with Now Are The Foxes (part of QCC) at the University Hilton!

This Week’s Topics:

News

Michael Sheen and David Tennant in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens on Amazon
Daniel Craig to return as 007
Prince has his own Pantone shade of Purple (Love Symbol #2)
Kong & Planet of the Apes Comic Crossover planned
MoviePass Subscription Offer
Solar Eclipse – Aug 21st!
Community Calendar Reminder

Guardables

Carol: Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones
Matt: Supernatural, Dark Ark, Secret Weapons
Joey : QC AnimeCon this weekend, Charlotte ComiCon next weekend
Tiffany: (out sick)

Here’s Caleb’s Tick Video:

And here’s Caleb helping Giddy Geeker unbox more Geek Gala Donations!

About Queen City Comedy

Queen City Comedy is an artist-led , volunteer-staffed and member-supported nonprofit collective dedicated to making Charlotte the funniest city on the planet. We…

Recognize and reward the abundant comedy talent in Charlotte (Shine a Spotlight!).
Foster collaboration (Unity in the Community!) and
Encourage fresh ideas (uh,…Fresh Ideas!) making Charlotte a city known for comedy arts.

Upcoming Performance

Queen City Comedy presents Now Are the Foxes improv comedy show!

Like to laugh? Like a fun night out? Like fast-paced comedy like “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

Then come out Friday August 18th to the Hilton at University Place for the time of your life! Drinks and food availale! Bring your friends and watch them get on stage and be a part of the fun!

Oh yeah….and tickets are FREE this month! Click here to get some!

On the Interwebz

Facebook: Queen City Comedy, Now Are The Foxes

Website: Queen City Comedy

Originally recorded 08/16/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 169

Episode 167: Netflix, Hasselhoff, and Chickens Attack with The Guild

Episode 167! The Guild hung around and chatted with us about the news. We love The Guild – and appreciate their help each year with The Geek Gala and the Muggles Market.

Our guests include: Benjamin Burton, Sarah Bednarz, Marcus Hughes, Jimilia Wilson and Josh Hunnicutt.

This week’s topics included:

News

RIP: Robert Hardy (Cornelius Fudge), Harou Nakajima (Godzilla), Glen Campbell
ADAM WEST’s Final BATMAN Performance Gets Release Date
Millarworld: Why Has Netflix Gone All in on Comics?
David Letterman to Host Netflix Interview Series
Disney to Pull Movies From Netflix, Launch Streaming Service
Community Calendar Reminder

Guardables

Carol: Twin Peaks, The Expanse, dealing with writers’ and reader’s block
Matt: The Dark Tower, The Big Sick, We Stand On Guard – comic book and Shorts: A collection of stories – comic by Eraklis Petmezas
Joey : Videos – David Hasselhof – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Chicken Attack, QC AnimeCon this weekend, Charlotte ComiCon next weekend, CleverCon & Crypto-Con announced
Tiffany: Landline, Game of Thrones

About The Guild: UNCC Science-Fiction & Fantasy Club

The UNCC Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming Guild is a student organization that for three decades has provided a safe gathering for fans of all geekdoms. The Guild meets every Friday during the academic year on the second floor of the College of Health and Human Services building.

About Benjamin Burton

Benjamin Burton is a science fiction and fantasy fan and avid gamer who brings together his passions of geekery and volunteering to better the greater Charlotte fandom and the world in which it exists. His favorite fandoms include: Tolkien, Marvel, gaming, and horror movies. He is the Volunteer Coordinator for the 2017 Geek Gala.

On the Interwebz

Facebook: The Guild: UNCC Science-Fiction & Fantasy Club

Originally recorded 08/09/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 167

Episode 165: Take 2 on Geeky Chic News with Emily Kramer

Episode 165! We talked about the last 2 weeks news and views with Emily Kramer of Emily Kramer Design. Emily also gave us a sneak peek in the world of Game of Thrones costuming as well as her upcoming appearance at this year’s Muggles Market and her new opportunity to go to New York Fashion Week!

This Week’s Topics Included:

News

RIP: John Heard, Sam Shephard
Valentine Wolfe Kickstarter Update
Tom Welling (Smallville) joins CW’s Lucifer
NASA posts Planetary Protection Officer position
Tom Holland Responds to Kirsten Dunst
Community Calendar Reminder

Guardables

Carol: Game of Thrones (Hot Pie), War of the Planet of the Apes, Valerian, B-Sides, Atomic Blonde
Matt: The Stranger in the Woods, #MakeMineMilkshakes, Star Trek
Joey : ImagiCON
Tiffany: Lady MacBeth, Girls’ Night, Younger
Emily: Facebook AI shutdown

About Emily Kramer

In Emily’s own words:

At age 11, Emily was Laura Ingalls Wilder in the backyard plays of her suburban Chicago neighborhood. Except she wasn’t just an actress, she also made the costumes for everyone on the cast. They were about what you’d expect from an 11-year-old who learned to sew from her grandmother.

Since then, Emily has had many years of professional costuming & fashion design experience. She has costumed for the Royal Court at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and for historical re-enactors of many eras, a Twig the Fairy DVD, short film, and theater.

Having shown regular modern fashion collections on Chicago and Charlotte runways, Emily keeps her flair for the dramatic, leaning toward red carpet and formal gowns. Her passion for recycling and eco-friendliness got her involved with designing dresses out of recycled materials. She designed dresses from leftover flyers from Opera Carolina to help promote The Barber of Seville, Pagliacci, Rigoletto (opening Feb 2018) and their Opera Recycles program. She is headed to New York Fashion Week in September with Opera Carolina to show her recycled pieces on the runway as part of the #operarecycles program.

Her favorite thing about designing is photo shoots, and she enjoys creating photo art of her own, along with the collaborative team Alchemy in Imagery (alchemyinimagery.com)

On the Interwebz

Website: Emily Kramer Designs

Twitter: EK Fashion Design

Facebook: EK Fashion Design

GoFundMe: Going to New York Fashion Week

Originally recorded 08/02/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 164

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Episode 163: Dunkirk, BeGuiled, The Tick and more

Episode 163! The Guardians do a hostable, and discuss the movies and more we’ve seen in the past week.

This Week’s Topics Include:

News

RIP: Martin Landau, George Romero, Trevor Baxter (Professor George Litefoot), Joan Lee, Nelsan Ellis
Vote for The Tick to save Charlotte!
Valentine Wolfe Kickstarter
Imagi-CON this weekend
Community Calendar Reminder

Guardables

Carol: Game of Thrones, The Big Sick
Matt: RL Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-man: Homecoming
Joey : ConGregate, new Doctor Who
Tiffany: Friends from College, The Beguiled

Originally recorded 07/19/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 163

Episode 142: Fighting Words & Victory Songs of Our People

Episode 142! We have fighting words with Beverly Warkulwiz and David Ogozalek of The Ballantyne Chorale as we talk about the TV, Movies, Books and news of the past week.

The Ballantyne Chorale concert “Pick Your Battles” is on May 13th at 4 PM and admission is only $10. Immediately after the concert, the chorale will be hosting a “Pick Your Battles” Party and charity Dollar Drive! Concessions will be available for purchase. The party will run until 7:15 PM. Everyone is invited! To purchase tickets now, click here. (use the code GEEK for a 5% discount – good now through 4/18.)

About The Ballantyne Chorale

The Ballantyne Chorale is in its 4th season. Their journey began in 2014 with 16 members, including their four co-founders: Beverly Warkulwiz, Amber Faulhaber, Julie Yakoboski, and Jane Russell. Members have ranged in age from 17 to 70 over the past four seasons, and they currently have 20 members. The Ballantyne Chorale performs around the greater Charlotte area during the holidays and presents an annual spring concert to conclude each season.

For more information, check out their Facebook page by clicking here.

This Week’s Topics Include:

Television

Dancing with the Stars
The Goldbergs
13 Reasons Why
New Girl
First look at costumes from Game of Thrones
John Simm to return as the Master in Doctor Who
Television shows based on comic books schedule released

Movies

Facing the Fat
Deadpool 2 casts Josh Brolin as Cable
Jude Law to play young Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts
Thor: Ragnorok trailer

Books & Comics

Ardian Syaf terminated by Marvel

Music

Pentatonix new album release
Get free music with your library card and Freegal Music

In Memoriam

Don Rickles
Charlie Murphy
Dorothy Mengering (David Letterman’s mom)

Local Events – April

Thu, 4/13: Rifftrax Live: Samurai Cop, Trivia Night at Fabo’s, Thirsty Nomad Brewing Trivia
Sat, 4/15: Book signing at Park Road Books
Fri, 4/21: Charlotte Geeks’ Game Night; SPARC3 initial deadline
Sat, 4/22: Hop, Drop & Play: Shakespeare in a Day
Fri, 4/28: RavenCon

Originally recorded 04/12/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 142

Episode 140: News & Views with Chickspeare’s Andrea King

Episode 140! Chickspeare’s Andrea King out with us for our weekly recap of the shows, movies and books, and general geek news we heard about this week.

Chickspeare announced their Hop, Drop & Play: Shakespeare in a Day event for Saturday, April 22nd in celebration of The Bard’s Birthday.

Tickets on sale now at www.Chickspeare.com!

This Week’s Topics Include:

TELEVISION

Dancing with the Stars
Frankie & Grace
Legion
Schitt’s Creek
The Walking Dead
Anne (of Green Gables) Netflix Trailer
Buffy/Angel leaving Netflix
Doctor Who, all seasons streaming on BritBox
First look at CW’s Black Lightening
Game of Thrones promo
New Warriors TV show gets full series order
Nickelodeon reviving Invader Zim for TV movie
Rainn Wilson to play Harry Mudd in Star Trek: Discovery
Marvel and Netflix tease Defenders premiere date

MOVIES

Ghost in the Shell
Dune screenwriter news
Joss Whedon to direct standalone Batgirl movie
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

BOOKS

Hugo Award finalists announced

LOCAL CALENDAR

Tues, 4/11: Charlotte Geeks’ Book Club
Thurs, 4/13: Rifftrax Samurai Cop
Fri, 4/21: Charlotte Geeks’ Game Night
Sat, 4/22: Hop, Drop & Play: Shakespeare in a Day
Fri, 4/28: RavenCon

OTHER NEWS

UNCC Guild raise $500 at their Game Day
Valentine Wolfe working on a new album

About Chickspeare

Chickspeare™ is an all-female Shakespeare Company that started performing shows in 1998 at (the now defunct) Johnson Beer Company in Charlotte, NC. While over the years they have become best known for their Shakespeare “abridging/fast-forwarding/rewinding” brewery shows, they have also produced numerous full-length productions including MacBeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Julius Ceasar, and Winter’s Tale.

For more information, check out their website at www.chickspeare.com.

About Andrea King

(abridged version – go to show notes of episode 139 for more!) Andrea King is one part actor, one part director, and two parts craft beer. She has been a part of the Charlotte theatre scene since 2001 and since then she has had the good fortune of playing with many of the local theatre companies. Most recently, Andrea donned several wigs for Women Playing Hamlet with Donna Scott Productions.

Her first Chickspeare show was Twelfth Night over at Off-Tryon Theatre. Since then, she has been in two more productions of Twelfth Night, the latest one was also with Chickspeare at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte. Some of Andrea’s favorite Shakespeare roles include Banqo, Laertes, Hotspur, Mercutio, Orsino, Sir Andrew, Dogberry and that one time she was pursued by a bear in A Winter’s Tale. Andrea has directed Romeo & Juliet: A Quickie and Comedy of Errors for Chickspeare.

Outside of the theatre world Andrea is a cat-and-dog mom, a desk-job worker, and an adult color-er with a full set of colored pencils.

Originally recorded 04/05/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 140

Episode 137: Sweet Times with Ambur Rose

March 30, 2017 by giddygeeker

Podcast

Ambur Rose, Ambur Rose Designs, Brides.com, Game of Thrones, Huffington Post, Imago Photography & Design, MSN, Muggles Market, People, Time

Episode 137! Ambur Rose of Ambur Rose Designs, and her husband Stephen joined us to talk about her amazing jewelry and fashion pieces, the recent appearance of some of her pieces in Time, People, Brides.com, Huffington Post, MSN, and more – and her return to the Muggles Market! (She also gave numerous shout outs to everyone she knows and let us try on some of the pieces!)

About Ambur Rose Designs: Ambur Rose Designs creates fantasy-fairytale jewelry from carefully pieced vintage, retro, and other forgotten loved castaway parts. These one-of-a-kind creations range in theme from: Victorian, Fantasy, Art Nuevo, Wedding, Steampunk, Gothic, Mystic, and Eclectic.

Here’s the link to the Game of Thrones photoshoot featuring one of Ambur’s pieces.

Here’s Ambur’s previous article from our first Muggles Market.

Website: AmburRose.com

Facebook: Ambur Rose Designs

Twitter: @amburrosedesign

Instagram: @ambur_rose_designs

Originally recorded 03/29/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 137

Episode 119: Geek Gala Announcement & Mark Hamill

Episode 119! We announce the date and place for the Geek Gala and gab about the geekery!

Some of the topics include:

TV SHOWS

Offspring
Powerless
Sherlock
Son of Zorn
The OA
Timeless
Adult Swim adds Samurai Jack back to its lineup
Carrie Fisher hosts SNL (1978)
Games of Thrones spin-off
Twin Peaks premiering on May 21st

MOVIES

Hidden Figures
Star Wars – Princess Leia update

BOOKS, COMIC BOOKS, CONVENTIONS, etc.

DC’s ‘Rebirth’ titles available on HOOPLA DIGITAL
Book: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
Book: Wishful Drinking
Geek Gala announcement
Keith Urban plays tribute to deceased musicians
Illogicon
Mark Hamill reads Donald Trump quotes in the Joker’s voice

Originally recorded 01/17/2017

Guardians of the Geekery Episode 119

game-of-thrones

Away Team: DragonCon – We’re in you!

Episode 171: Westeros, Whedon’s Wife and Clowns

Today’s Topics Include:

News

Guardables

About Eat the Runt

Performance Info

About donna scott productions

On the Interwebz

Episode 169: Omens, Apes, Ticks, and Foxes!

This Week’s Topics:

News

Guardables

About Queen City Comedy

Upcoming Performance

On the Interwebz

Episode 167: Netflix, Hasselhoff, and Chickens Attack with The Guild

This week’s topics included:

News

Guardables

About The Guild: UNCC Science-Fiction & Fantasy Club

About Benjamin Burton

On the Interwebz

Episode 165: Take 2 on Geeky Chic News with Emily Kramer

This Week’s Topics Included:

News

Guardables

About Emily Kramer

On the Interwebz

Episode 163: Dunkirk, BeGuiled, The Tick and more

This Week’s Topics Include:

News

Guardables

Episode 142: Fighting Words & Victory Songs of Our People

About The Ballantyne Chorale

This Week’s Topics Include:

Television

Movies

Books & Comics

Music

In Memoriam

Local Events – April

Episode 140: News & Views with Chickspeare’s Andrea King

This Week’s Topics Include:

About Chickspeare

About Andrea King

Episode 137: Sweet Times with Ambur Rose

Episode 119: Geek Gala Announcement & Mark Hamill