Monthly Archives: September 2011

Tomorrow Is International Bacon Day

by Noemi Twigg
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Bacon Explosion

Yes! I said bacon! B-A-C-O-N. That “sinful” thing that we all love to munch on any time of the day. I don’t know how exactly bacon became as big as it is now, but the whole ForeverGeek crew is united in loving everything bacon. We’ve brought you everything from a Bacon Lorem Ispum Generator to Bacon Tattoos to even Kevin Bacon in Bacon, and now, why don’t you join us in celebrating International Bacon Day? It is a real holiday, albeit unofficial. International Bacon Day was created by a group of students from CU Boulder (Colorado) in 2004, and it is celebrated yearly on the Saturday before Labor Day in Read more »

George Lucas Is Screwing With Star Wars Again

by Robin Parrish
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George Lucas Is Screwing With Star Wars Again

You’d think George had learned his lesson after all the changes he made to the Star Wars Trilogy’s “Special Editions,” and then again with the DVD releases. But it seems that Lucas still wasn’t satisfied, and had to go and change some small-but-significant things for the upcoming Blu-ray releases. Read more »

The Life of an Old Superhero

by Noemi Twigg
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Old Superhero Flying

We’ve seen the real-life grandma who posed as a superhero in order to combat the blues. We’ve seen what Spock (aka Leonard Nimoy) does now that there is no Star Trek. (Okay, he is not a superhero, but still!) But what about superheroes – or one superhero in particular – grow old? What do they do? Artist Andreas Englund has put into visuals the life of an old superhero. Born in Falun, Sweden in 1974, Englund succinctly shares his story: “Humour can be the carrier of messages that are otherwise hard to convey. For me, it liberates my thoughts and ideas from pretentiousness while at the same time it opens Read more »

On the Death Worm Series

by Jayvee Fernandez
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On the Death Worm Series

Always loved the movie Tremors when I was a kid. I’d borrow the Betamax every so often when my family would visit the rentals. Giant worms burrowing underground, hunting their prey through vibrations. In fact, gigantic worms have always been part of my childhood — from the movie Tremors, to the huge sand worms of Frank Herbert’s Dune series (yes, the book and the movie) to the 1984 manga-movie Nausicaä: Valley of the Wind. I believe the armored worms were called Ohmu. A year ago, a friend made me try out Super Mega Worm by Deceased Pixel, a game which he had described as “the movement back to 8 bit Read more »