Trying a little something here today. Think of it as a blog party. I’ve dubbed it “Geek and Greet” because most of us here are geeks, and we like to meet bloggers. Here’s how it works. You don’t have to be a geek or have a geeky blog to join the fun.
- Take a post you’ve written. Any post, but must be safe for work. Or a front page link (not both) and share it on the thread.
- Visit one other person, or if you’re first, one of our contributors’ blogs. Or visit more.
- I’ll do my best to visit the blogs shared here between now and 6 pm ET on Friday and either leave a comment or share a link for you on Twitter over the weekend.
You are welcome to use our #geekpastiche hashtag for this. If I get an adequate response, I’ll think about turning it into a linkup.
Have a comics cover. It’s not so random.
I have five copies of this issue, and only one has ever even been opened. I read the whole story in trade paperback and bought five of these, bagged and backed them, and have held onto them since 1992. Jeremy and I opened one and leafed through it two summers ago. They are in pristine condition — no yellowing, no dog-earing.
As perfect as 23-year-old comics can be.
http://wp.me/p5XLNX-27 #geekpastiche
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Ooh, a series involving Greek mythology *fist pump* Yes!
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thank you. only the first book was released. The Pandemonium Chronicles will be a four-part series. I already written parts two and three and began part four. but it takes a lot of investment to publish. but i’m trying 🙂
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Don’t give up! Writing is half the battle. The other half is getting it out into the world, once we’ve poured our soul into the work! Good luck 😀
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thank you so much! that means a lot to me 🙂
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Thanks for sharing it! I’ll surely take a look! I like some Greek mythology, too!
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You’re welcome. And thanks too 🙂
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#geekpastiche
If you are looking for a new author, I have an interview with Scott Pratt, author of the Joe Dillard legal thriller series. Here is the bit.ly link for it: http://bit.ly/1FnGnGr
Join the fun people!
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It was certainly fun! I really enjoyed the interview, and will certainly be checking out the Joe Dillard series.
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cool! I saw that in some feed earlier, but been too busy to read all day. I’ll have to take a look at it.
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Not overly geeky, but including a lot of characters in the universes blogged about here and elsewhere: http://alex-hurst.com/2015/03/16/archetypes-explorer/ This is my Jungian Archetypes in Fiction series, which has been received really well and is getting resumed this week, so it’s a good time to join in!
Looking forward to seeing who else shows up for the party. ^_^ 🎉
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I love Jung’s theories, and relating patterns to fictional characters is a lot of fun 😀
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Yes, I agree Melissa! Someone suggested I try to do locale or plot archetypes next, once this series concludes. I think I will!
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Enjoyed your post, lots of characters came to mind as I was reading. Look forward to the rest of the archetypes 🙂
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I’m glad it got you thinking! That makes the post a success in my eyes. 🙂
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Oh yay! Glad that one is back. I like it.
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A lot of people seem to! I am probably going to drop my Sharazad Project (sadly) because no one is reading and it’s very time-consuming, but it gives me more time for this series!
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Well, we drop things here a bit. If nobody’s reading there’s no point in doing the work. My Tolkien thing is somewhat that way, but we haven’t dropped that one because it is the first draft of something somewhat spectactular, once I revise it, and because the lack of readers for that one is more about the fact that we placed it on the wrong blog than that it isn’t good.
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This was awesome.
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Thanks Khan! I hope others will check out your blog, too! ^_^
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Not sure if this is geeky, but a piece of flash fiction I posted last Friday is at least a little sci-fi : https://trentsworldblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/a-new-direction/
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It’s my kind of sci-fi! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thanks you for reading!
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Sounds geeky to me! I’ll check it out!
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Pseudo re-blogged at Down Home Thoughts. No link since I would be violating the aforementioned rules 🙂
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Thanks for sharing it! And you can share a post link of your own if you like. A pingback to this post doesn’t count against you.
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Ha. I see you left one earlier. Disregard the previous and now that I think about it, you’re not sending pingbacks with the reblogging app are you? 🙂
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I’m not sure about the pingbacks. I have Jetpack installed and it tries to do pingbacks and linkbacks
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The only post I can think of when thinking “geek” is this one: https://eclecticali.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/introducing-passionate-geeks/
But I am looking forward to a great many more geeky-posts on my blog! Excited about some of the plans people are making for guest posts!
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I’m really looking forward to this feature 🙂
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Me too! 🙂
Hopefully all the promise of posts will end up making their way in 🙂
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Very nice! I hope that goes well for you.
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I’m sooo looking forward to this. Going to come up with some ideas for you soon.
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Hopefully this is geeky enough? not sure, but it ties two potentially geek topics together, one is fantasy, the other definitely drifts into sci-fi towards the latter end of the series: https://earthandoak.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/mysterious-cities-of-gold-episode-recap-history-enchantment-and-tolkien/#more-816
Enjoyed reading other people’s posts here!
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Ohhh. I am a sucker for some Tolkien. That’s getting a look! Thanks for joining in!
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You’re welcome, and thanks!
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Here’s a look at my first ever archery experience…lots of geeks like to shoot things with arrows. 🙂 http://nerdinthebrain.com/2015/05/19/adventures-in-archery/
Thanks for hosting! 😀
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Natural born archer, or should we call you Katniss?
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I think I’m going to stick with Emily the Balloon Slayer…it has a nice ring to it, no? 😉
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Emily the Balloon Slayer – yes it sounds great. Like the “Sodie Pop Kid” shooting three bottles thrown in the air. Sorry, references to ancient, obscure movies (Little Big Man)
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I adore archery!
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Ooh, fun! Will be back later to read comments, but here’s the latest: https://hannahgivens.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/i-dont-care-about-nbcs-constantine-queerpop/
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I saw that earlier and thought to myself, “Gene’O,” you need to go read that post and then share it all over the internent 😉
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Hehe. Hoping people read whether they’ve seen Constantine or not. Next week’s will not be quite so geeky and will also get shared all over so we’ll see how it goes.
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Reblogged this on Rose B Fischer and commented:
Am sure most of you have seen this, but that’s okay. Go say hello.
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Thanks very much for reblogging the Geek and Greet!
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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This is as geeky as you wanna make it. I run these on Sundays and they stay live for a week. http://rosebfischer.com/2015/05/17/super-awesome-self-promo-thread-of-doom/
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I’m liking the synergy here 😀
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😉
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I’ve been in kind of a blog lull after doing the A to Z challenge, but when I’m actively writing, I like to geek out about science, art/music, and pop culture. This is an oldie, but one of my favorite posts. I review a scientific study about dog poop: http://www.marielmohns.com/2014/01/dogs-poop-in-alignment-with-earths.html
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LOL, that’s perfect! And thanks for the tweet! 🙂
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Ha! That’s fascinating. I dogsit and I’ve noticed dogs like to poop in the same yards over and over, but I’ll have to keep an eye on directions as well.
Also makes me wonder if it’s magnetism affecting synchronized cat-staring…
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Great idea! Sharing the page for #SciFi Women Interviews. So far guests were Johnamarie Macias (The Wookiee Gunner) and Yolanda I. Washington! Next Monday, I shall reveal who’s our May guest! 😉
http://natachaguyot.org/blog-series/scifi-women-interviews/
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Fabulous!
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Is writing poetry and programming geeky enough 🙂
http://wp.me/p1txl6-CE
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Ha! Yes!
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Last month, I “interviewed” characters from the stories my clone-sibling and I write. This is the first post: https://northofandover.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/interviews-with-my-imaginary-friends-alandra-kade/
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OHH very cool!
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Here’s my goodbye to David Letterman, the geek who taught me how to write funny jokes for late night TV…and how to properly throw a watermelon off a roof!
https://moviewriternyu.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/david-letterman-retires-from-tv-to-begin-baseball-career/
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The blogosphere is a bit like late-nite tv. At the college I went to, old, broken televisions were the preferred things to throw off the roofs. LOL.
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Oh my! 🙂
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I guess computers have a geek factor so here’s the first installment of a multipart series I did about me and computers Born in the Shadow of the Computer (Part 1). Okay, so I’m not so computer smart. I wish I were more of a geek when it comes to computers.
Arlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Road trippin’ with A to Z
Tossing It Out
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It’s partly a generation thing, I think. Has to do with when you first encounter them. I remember life without VCRs and computers. My sister does not. We aren’t that far apart, in the grand scheme, but I am a digital immigrant, and she is a digital native. 11 years. Barely a single, arbitrarily-constructed generation separates us.
Once upon a time, in my life, my mother had a conversation on a pay phone and the pay phone system took more change than she thought it was worth. The operator gave her a refund. It fell right out of the change slot. True story.
Once upon a time, in my sister’s life, she saw a telephone booth for the very first time in her whole young life and said “Oh! Look! A Superman-changer!” She had no frame of reference for the actual function of the thing. Also a true story.
( @parttimemonster you will like this comment, I think.)
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I’ve seen comic strips that use the Superman idea conjunction with our modern era of few if any housed phone booths. I would imagine there are some younger people who might not get the joke.
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Well, you’re close. I’m part of the generation that recalls the advent of a computer small enough and inexpensive enough to bring home—the advent oh home computers, if you will. Little Jedi is more digital native—he doesn’t remember a world without smart phones and touchscreens and wi-fi and giant, internet-capable TVs. He doesn’t even have the Superman-changer frame of reference, or just barely. Seen the film, but that phone booth was so outside his scope of experience that he discarded it, is what I think.
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So, probably the nerdiest thing I have on my blog. http://robertsonwrites.com/2014/02/08/wheel-of-time-fan-video/ I spend tons of time reading comics, keeping up with the Marvel universe, and geeking out over a variety of things. But, my blog does not have much of that content. #geekpastiche
Now checking out everyone else’s posts. Toodles.
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Thanks! I do not actually spend much time with the comics, but my blog has a lot of it. There’s irony in there somewhere. Thanks for all the Twitter love lately 🙂
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My geekiest yet: https://thegoldenecho.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/and-now-for-something-a-little-more-serious/
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I love Star Wars and really enjoyed your writing 🙂 Nice post!
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Thanks Mallory!
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Excuse me. You have Kirk-hugs on your blog. That is the geekiest thing ever and TOTALLY AWESOME. 😉
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Ah, I see your point, but I propose that those are therapeutic and for the good of the community.
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Very well. Rationale accepted.
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https://msmith8.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/civil-war-or-another-avengers-installment/ Al lot of my posts are “Geek” or “Nerd” centralized, I love Marvel, and keep up with some DC and Image comics. I’m a self proclaimed nerd who also loves hockey. Feel free to check out my work/pictures as I also take pictures! I love feedback as well 🙂 #geekpastiche
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That was fun! I read some cool posts. Sadly, I have nothing geeky to share this time. : ( It’s all about writing short stories this month. Super smart buy on those comics! You’ll make a killing when you decide to sell them.
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Really? I mean a 1500% return is great and all, but you know. It doesn’t end up being very much cash right now, and I am attached to those books. I’ll sell them in 30 years. Maybe.
Thanks for reading the cool posts! That is my job for tomorrow.
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Should have added: Neither the post nor the blog it’s post on have to be geeky for you to share it.
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Ooh, this is fun! I’m excited to explore all these cool blogs 🙂
https://wisethesimpleblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/i-am/
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Welcome to the party!
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Just found this, as a geek I’m always one of the last to find a party.
Thanks for this cool way to find other socially-challenged individuals lol 🙂
I’ve written a lot of Doctor Who, Firefly, Batman, cartoons, X-Files, Star Wars, Star Trek, well, just about everything in geekdom, here’s my latest, I don’t know if it’s my nerdiest, but it references X-Files, Psych, ET, Pirates of the Caribbean, the internet, Catch 22 and Poltergeist, that must qualify as something. 😉
http://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/05/19/the-internet-has-spoken/
Thanks again, off to visit some more of these fellow bloggers. Will share this. 🙂
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Thanks very much! Glad you found it!
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I’ve got more geekiness than I know what to do with——hooray!
I’m dropping my A to Z Challenge reflection and Monster Monday introduction here: https://parttimemonster.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/monster-monday-an-a-to-z-reflection-and-an-introduction/
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Good choice!
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This is very cool. I’m going to share my latest 1000Speak post because it’s got my particular brand of geek in it – Emerson, Whitman, Shakespeare, Thoreau. Hope that works! There are so many good things to check out here – definitely coming back here for new reading!
http://www.themeaningofme.com/1000-speak-reconciliation-of-the-self/
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This post will be pinned awhile longer. You certainly should check out the stuff you see here that piques your interest.
Nearly all bloggers dropping links on this thread are friends. The share our links all over the internet, and I retweet them and put them on my Facebook timeline and such. Nearly all.
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I’m feeling inadequate. My blog isn’t very geeky, even though I think I am.
BUT!
I did find this old post about Firefly/Serenity.
Can’t go wrong with Whedon, right?
Thanks for the invite!
http://hmgardner.blogspot.com/2011/03/shiny.html
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Ohh! We’ve got at least one Serenity post somewhere in the archives. I’m thinking it was an early comics post that Jeremy did.
Thanks for joining the #geekpastche blog party! I’m trying to visit everyone back and collect links to tweet today. Gonna test my signature now to see if the html works in comments.
Gene’O
Instigator-in-Chief at Sourcerer
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Today’s post is a third of a style that people seem to really enjoy: http://victimtocharm.com/2015/05/22/i-remember-3/
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I’m glad you made it! Just about to start all the visits back now. What do you think of this signature for event visits like these and the A to Z Road Trip?
Thanks for joining the #geekpastche blog party! I’m trying to visit everyone back and collect links to tweet today.
– Gene’O
Instigator-in-Chief at Sourcerer
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I think it’s a great signature! Since it’s a multi-contributor blog, it gets tricky to establish your exact role, but I like that.
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Yeah. I shy away from organizational language, but people do need roles with something of this magnitude (seriously — have you looked at the Bylines menu lately? — we’ve developed a magnitude that would be a non-zero number if we could measure it. Not really sure how that happened.)
Working on a scheme for things like A to Z and blogathons. There will never be a #TeamSourcerer because I find that stuff off-putting, but. We have #Blogplotting and #Geekpastiche now. We can have signatures for events that point people here if we want.
Already have one contributor interested, and that is all I can say for now, because I’m sorta talking out of school.
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So, this turned into a fun thread. I’ll get around to visiting all of you sometime this weekend!
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Visits complete. Links scheduled to tweet between now and Wednesday. All laid out in a post that’s scheduled for tomorrow. Thanks, everyone, for joining in the fun, and if you didn’t get a comment from me, let me know. I work hard to make sure EVERYONE who dropped a link on this thread got a comment from me, personally.
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