WWAC Staff Writers Romona Williams and Wendy Browne are not only geeks, but geek moms. Including geek culture in their kids’ lives is crucial to their parenting. In this article, they answer some questions about geek parenting and provide great ideas for resources and talking with your kids about the more difficult issues that come up…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.1 E.5
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
International Men’s Day: Spotlight on Cartooning from Trans Men
This interview (at the Good Men Project, but stay with me) with Dylan Edwards is a good introduction to his Lambda Literary Award nominated book, Transposes — stories of men who are both trans and gay. A foreword from Alison Bechdel and a cover that features tap-dancing both entice, and the focus of Edwards’ book is supported…
Multifarious: Beautiful Bizarre
If you happen to live in the DFW metroplex or are passing through, you should definitely check out the “Faces of Impressionism” exhibit at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. The works are on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. Seeing art close up is a vastly different experience than seeing it in…
Movies That Shaped Me: Pecker
It was a Friday night in my senior year of high school, I was at a grocery store (most likely buying a two liter of Mountain Dew and Sour Patch Kids), and their bargain bin was overflowing with VHS movies. I sifted through and found a tape that shaped the rest of my life. It…
Life Geek! 10/24/14-11/6/14
Life Geek! is our bi-weekly lifestyle feature where we offer readers a glimpse into our geeky lives. Al Rosenberg, Games Section Editor We had a Halloween party and I was The Peaches’ manager Jimmy Dugan (from A League of Their Own). My roommates were two other Tom Hankses. Remember, “there’s no crying in baseball” and…
Archie Andrews IS The Shield
Archie comics is relaunching The Shield with the title character making the switch to female. WWAC Staffers had some thought bubbles on what an Archie Shield would look like. Romona After reading the first half of the sentence, I pictured Archie rolling up a telephone book while entering the interrogation room, bald-headed and tightly black t-shirted. After…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.1 E.4
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
Picture This: Maria van Lieshout
Maria van Lieshout is a children’s author/illustrator that is creating fresh, sleek, genre defiant picture books and is the subject of this month’s Picture This. Van Lieshout grew up in Oegstgeest, a small town in Holland, which by all appearances is an absolutely lovely place. After high school she attended The George Washington University in…
Life Geek! 10/10/14 – 10/23/14
Life Geek! is our bi-weekly lifestyle feature where we offer readers a glimpse into our geeky lives. We got a little behind last week what with all the Halloween preparation and excitement, but we look forward to sharing our Halloween pictures with you in two weeks! Al Rosenberg, Games Editor I dogsat this past weekend…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.1 E. 3
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
Kid Comics Go to Class: Physicists Teaching With Comic Books
The American Physical Society is a non-profit network of over 48,000 physicists working to educate the general public on physics. Their mission statement reads “In the firm belief that an understanding of the nature of the physical universe will be of benefit to all humanity, the Society shall have as its objective the advancement and…