Powers of Nerdly Love - Activate!

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We have a chance here to make a dream come true for someone.

Our good friends at ArsGeek are trying to get a real life hero to meet some of his fantasy counterpart’s creators and we have it in our power to help.

Open your minds and pockets for just a few seconds and help this young man to lighten his load a little.

Here’s Ben with the story:

 

My name is Benjamin Gerber and I’m the owner and Editor in Chief for ArsGeek.com, a tech/life oriented web community with a focus on culture, art and new and emerging technology.

ArsGeek will be at the 2008 New York ComicCon and we’re working on getting one of our own heroes there with us.

Meet Jonathon Masuoka. Jonathon was born with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. He’s spent his life in a wheelchair and although he has the mind of regular 15 year old, he’s unable to utilize his body and has difficulty speaking. Jonathon has a wonderful mind and personality trapped inside his body where he’s limited to some use of his left hand.

Jonathon has a true love for all things superhero. Comics, movies and video games, they have all given him joy and strength and he would like nothing more than to meet the people behind his passion. We’re going to do the best we can to see this dream come true.

He’s enriched his life through the idea of superheroes - people who can literally do anything. His love for superheroes and all that they stand for has helped him through some very rough times, for instance by taking on their persona’s before and after many of his surgeries.

Our goal is to acquire the necessary resources to get Jonathon and his mother Dawn, who is an editor at ArsGeek, from Oregon to New York to attend the convention with us and make his dream of meeting the creators of his fantasies come true.

We are hoping you can help us out in this regard. Either with direct sponsorship, or simply spreading the news of our campaign to get Jonathon to ComicCon NY. There are several ways you can help Jonathon.

  • Direct sponsorship of the trip (cash).

  • Indirect sponsorship (helping to spread the news of our campaign).

  • Lending your name to the campaign.

  • Arranging for in-kind services to help Jonathon – hotel rooms, admission, travel, etc.

Any support you can lend to this campaign would be most appreciated. Of course, any support would be publicized on the ArsGeek.com website if you desire.

ArsGeek currently receives over 240,000 unique viewers a month and we are steadily increasing our numbers. Our current Google page rank is 5 and we’ve been featured on BoingBoing.net, LifeHacker, have been on Digg and Reddit’s front page many times and are increasingly becoming relevant to those interested in new technology and geek culture.

You can read more about Jonathon and our campaign at http://www.arsgeek.com and reach us at comiccon@arsgeek.com.

We hope to hear from you soon about our campaign to get Jonathon to ComiCon NY!

Thanks for your time,

Benjamin Gerber

Owner, Editor in Chief

Arsgeek.com

 

Do yourself and Jonathon a favor, and use your powers of nerdly love to make his heart full.

- Lucien

 

 

 

A Word From The Bottom Of The Slush For Writers And Subscribers.

Filed Under BBT Magazine, Magazine, Satire, BBT, Lazy Editors Who Claim They Are Too Busy With Their New, BBT Dungeons, Throwing Screwy Pills In The Bathtub, The Future, Science Fiction, Nerds, Shame, Pete Tzinski, Boom-Boom, The Puritanical Work Ethic, Descendum Pantorum, sex comedies, sex | 4 Comments

Hello,

This is Lucien, your long lost publisher, and bon-vivant man about town.

I know, I know. Give me a chance will ya?

Yes, issue #3 is still coming out, and no, the staff of BBT isn’t lounging around at a New Jersey strip club sticking the money from your subscriptions down the lacy underclothes of a slightly overweight stripper named Dynasty who’s really only dancing to put food on the table for her kids.

Yes, we still have your submissions, and yes we are behind, but no, we aren’t sitting around in our Hollywood Hills home smoking hashish and having group-sex to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass giggling about how long we’ve managed to string along yet another hopeful writer.

You see, in addition to being publishing magnates, we all have real jobs and real lives and sometime those elements of our life, as much as we try to avoid it, will take precedent over BBT World. For instance our issue is a month behind now because our chief layout guy, editor, and bottle - washer, Pete Tzinksi had a little Pete 2.0. That’s right a baby!

Terrible timing I know.

Well, I don’t have too much to say about it, because you see, the next guy down the line for layout is me.

Our baby is due in two weeks.

My wife seems to be laboring under the idea (get it? laboring?) that she should be a priority right now, so I have acquiesced.

I just hope this kid is mine.

All of this baby nonsense is in addition to my 60 hour a week job as a ferry boat captain, and my 20 hour a week temporary job to earn money for the baby. I think Pete is in the same position. This has left other members of the staff such as Gregory and Bonnie to take up some of the slack. We pay them a pretty penny in herring and opium, but still they manage to some how get behind. It’s hard to find good help these days.

So if you are a subscriber, thanks for you patience! Have a little more if you can. The next issue should be well worth the wait, and we may even throw in a little bonus down the line for making you wait so long!

If you are a writer, thanks for your patience! Have a little more if you can, you’ll get your rejection letter before you know it!

 

Love,

Lucien

 

Boom Boom on Location: Scurvy (part two)

Filed Under BBT Magazine, RPGs, Geeks, Very Silly People, BBT, Blacksmithing, Fantasy, Ender, Get Me Out Of Here, Nerds, Major Victory, Enterprise, Pete Tzinski, Boom-Boom, technology, Video Games, pirates of the burning seas, swords, pirates, mmorpg, pirates of the burning sea | 3 Comments

  

We pillage we plunder, we rifle we loot, drink up me hearties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.

So, I’ve been fearlessly toiling away on behalf of BBT: The Magazine: The Blog: Boom Boom: The Column (colons enough for ya?) by playing Pirates of the Burning Sea beta, which I talked about last week. Surely, you remember. Having had a week to dilly around in this pirate universe, I intended to sit down and give a list of things I did and didn’t like. Unfortunately, this list definitely weighs into the negatives more than positives. But let’s just get rolling.

 POSITIVES:

- The actual business of steering your ship around the big, vasty open world is a lot of fun. When you get the wind just right in your sails and you head out for distant ports, it’s a lot of fun sailing along. It looks gorgeous.

- The ship-to-ship combat is interesting and fun. You not only have to contend with the swiveling cannons (greater range, less firepower) you have to line up your mounted cannons (only shoot from the sides of your ship, greater power). Your sails play a big part, so does your crew. If you have a good crew that outnumbers theirs, good moral, you can board their ship and try to take it over. I did this wonderfully when my ship was in Very Bad Shape. I boarded and took their boat and kept on fighting.

- The ship-board weapons are cool. Everything from heavy shots to chained cannon-balls for bringing down masts, to a buckshot type of packed-pellet cannon which just massacres the other player’s crew.

- The music is good. Not great, but…good. It sounds pirate-like.

- Graphically, the people look nice.

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A Foray Into The Seedy Underbelly Of Second Life by Earl B Morris

Filed Under BBT Magazine, WoW, Geeks, Filk, Filking, Earl B Morris, Web 2.0, Throwing Screwy Pills In The Bathtub, Zombies, Nerds, Tron, second life, mmorpg, Dungeons & Dragons, From The Desk Of Earl B Morris | 4 Comments

 

After reading Ariesgeeks latest web-blogger of futuristic ponderings about world of the computer attached to the WWW (World Wide Internet), specifically the use of graphic representations of the self called “avatars,” with which one may communicate to other people in US and Canada, I found myself inspired to give it a go. The software he was promoting was called Second Life, by Mattel I believe, and has proven very popular among the In Crowd for the past several months.

I’m no stranger to the WWW myself, so after drawing my great aunt a sitz bath, and putting Frederick, our little Cairn Terrier in the garage to urinate, I sat down and began to research the Second Life. I found a large community of people had web-bloggers of their own regarding this phenomenon, and one in particular attracted my interest – a review of Houses of Ill Repute that are available in the virtual arena. It seems that even here we are not immune to the influence of the seedy underbelly of humanity.

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A Remonstrance To Ms Soylent Screens Recent Review of Spider-Man 3

Filed Under BBT Magazine, Geeks, BBT, Earl B Morris, The Greatest American Hero, William Katt, New York, Nerds, Stan Lee, Comic Books, Captain America, Movies, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 3, Marvel Comics | 7 Comments

From The Desk Of Earl B MorrisI’m afraid I have found myself in high dudgeon once again over the recent popular superhero film Spider-Man 3, and furthermore am quite exasperated with our new film critic, Soylent Screens (a pseudonym, no doubt).
I’m not sure who hired you Ms. Screens, but if this is the direction we are taking here at BBT Magazine, then perhaps I will need to cogitate further on whether I will continue to have further association with a publication that has such flagrant disregard for the decline of moral fiber in these United States, and in fact seems to altogether luxuriate in it.

You claim in your review that the “Fun” in Spider-Man 3 builds to a “familiar climax” (I will not comment on your attempt at sexual innuendo), and that “There are still many many Spider-Man stories that can be told.”
Well let me tell you ma’am, if this is the way they are telling them. you can count me and my great aunt out, gramercy.

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The Deconstructionist: The Shame of Star Wars

Filed Under The Star Wars, Science Fiction, Nerds, Lazy Writing, Star Wars Jedi, Lucas, Shame, Space Opera, The Deconstructionist, Movies | 3 Comments

Final-Logo

Anyone old enough to remember the original release of Star Wars knows what I am talking about. Back then, in Fandom’s infancy, Star Wars –nominated for Best Picture- was a genuine cultural phenomenon, so huge, so awesome (this word meant more back in 1977), that there was no shame in loving this film.

This was a huge break from the standard. Star Trek geeks had struggled for years in hopes of legitimizing their love for their series, but the public had already sentenced Trek in a way that would have been recognized on any of the Greek or Roman worlds the Enterprise might have visited – they gave thumbs down. After Trek’s third season cancellation, everything that followed — the animated series, the movies, the comics and novels — were all futile volleys in a war that was already lost. Society’s rejection of Trek was a shame that could never be undone, and the die-hard fans were condemned to the fringes of society. Perhaps it was at that moment the modern nerd was born.  

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