From our bookshelf:
- Jen is reading Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth. This is required academic reading!
- Having just finished Card’s Xenocide, Lois is starting on Children of the Mind. She’s also picked up Android Karenina. Let’s see if one of the world’s greatest stories translates well into steampunk. There’s nothing worse than lazy crossovers.
- Tanya’s in the mood for fairy tales re-imagined lately, starting on Helen Oyeyemi‘s Mr. Fox, the Bluebeard archetype re-imagined, and the anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer.
We’re excited about:
- The biggest news for us here at Geekquality is the fact that the dates for this year’s Geek Girl Con have just been announced. Last year’s convention was a source of inspiration for our own project and also where most of GQ editors met in person for the first time. You’d be nuts to miss it in Seattle, August 11 and 12.
- Walking Dead returns from its hiatus on February 12th. Be prepared for a lot of FEELINGS from some of us here.
- Neil Gaiman won SFX Outstanding Scriptwriting award for “The Doctor’s Wife”, an episode he wrote for season 6 of Doctor Who. He should also get an award for Outstanding Cutest Acceptance Video Ever!
Cover of Le Transperceneige
- We hear tell that two-time Academy Award nominee (and one of Moxie’s favorite actors) Viola Davis has been cast in the film adaptation of the popular YA novel Beautiful Creatures, a Southern gothic tale of teen witches and romance. This comes on the heels of her wrapping up filming for the other classic sci-fi book turned movie, Ender’s Game. Davis is on the rise, and we couldn’t be happier.
- Davis’ co-star in The Help and another Academy Award nominee, Octavia Spencer, has just joined the cast of Snow Piercer, a sci-fi thriller based on French comic book Le Transperceneige, being directed by Bong Joon-Ho (The Host). The cast also includes Kang-Ho Song, Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, among others. Waiting for the movie’s tentative 2013 release will seem an eternity!
- We are really pleased with how well a very important, but politically charged, issue was handled in the recent issue of Dark Horse’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The topic is tackled in a responsible and women-friendly way.
The Final Frontier suite at The Roxbury Motel
- Have you ever wanted to sleep in Oz? Have a soak in a tub inside Barbara Eden’s genie bottle? Get your groove on, on the Enterprise? Well now you can at The Roxbury Motel (Roxbury, NY). This “boutique motel” was the brainchild of two NYC creatives, and it is a sight to behold. Touted on The Today Show and in NatGeo, The Roxbury is not the first thing you think of when you think “motel”. This renovated property, has less than 30 rooms, but each is comfortable and luxe, with a unique theme. Sounds like the perfect place for a geeky getaway.
We're in a collective swoon
- Jen has every right to gloat that she snagged these now sold out Doctor Who Valentines at last year’s Geek Girl Con. Anyone who is the lucky recipient of one of these better feel mighty special. Lois, on the other hand, is aflutter over some of these special gifts, like the necklace with R. Kelly’s lyrics on it.
- This marimba interpretation of Ocarina of Time: Gerudo Valley from Legend of Zelda has got us giggling with excitement.
We’re not so sure about:
Oh, Padma...
- One of the only prominent women of color being written out of the webcomic Questionable Content. Come back, Padma! We still ship you with Marten!
- The schedule listing for Image Comics Expo in Oakland later this month has been announced. We’re happy that the programming includes a Womanthology panel, as well as the presence of writer and comedian Blair Butler and comic book artist Fiona Staples. However, it’s disappointing that this is pretty much the extent of women’s presence at the expo. Not so much a statement against Image comics, who do produce awesome lit, but just an ongoing grumble against the comic book industry and conventions. Sigh.
Check out our previous Geeking Out posts.
