Monthly Archive:: August 2020
Aug 31 2020
Not Your #Lovestory Takes a Look at Love in the Age of Twitter Voyeurism
In 2018, on an Alaska Airlines flight from New York to Dallas, a woman switched seats with a stranger and spent the next four hours conversing with her attractive new seatmate. Unbeknownst to either of them, their conversation was being documented in a viral Twitter thread by the passengers behind them,…
Aug 30 2020
This Week in Geek (8/31/20–9/6/20)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, August 31, to Sunday, September 6.
Please note: Due to risks from the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in following current health guidelines recommending both social distancing and limited…
Aug 28 2020
Dark Is the Best Show on Netflix You May Not Be Watching
A few years ago, while attempting to navigate out of the nexus of a content void on Netflix, I stumbled upon a show called Dark. It was algorithmically served up to me after I’d consumed some random episodes of Stranger Things. It was a Saturday morning and I had nothing better to do that day. Eight…
Aug 27 2020
Sword Art Online: Alicization Is Worth a Watch—Even If You Don’t Like SAO
Sword Art Online, or SAO for short, is an anime fraught with strong opinions. It’s a show people love to hate and love to love. For better or worse, you will find few anime fans with a neutral opinion about the story’s characters, plot, and execution. So, if you are in the “strongly dislike” camp, why should…
Aug 26 2020
Get Tasty Food for Your Table and Support a Local Farm with Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
At the beginning of spring, some friends asked whether my husband and I wanted to go in on a CSA share with them. I had never heard of CSA—community-supported agriculture—before, but the brief explanation they gave us sounded interesting and like a worthy endeavor. Now that we’re around halfway…
Aug 25 2020
Time Lords Are Uniting in a Multimedia Doctor Who Crossover Story
With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, I have been feeling sad over the cancellation of conventions. It’s wholeheartedly the best decision, as crowds aren’t safe right now, but it still leaves me with a sense of loss. To fill this convention void, I have been reading novelizations and…
Aug 25 2020
Wargames Atlantic Offers Fantastic Miniatures for All Settings
Wargames Atlantic is a relatively new company in the miniatures market, launched in March 2019. Putting out sci-fi, fantasy, and historical miniatures in hard plastic, in just a short time they’ve put out an impressive variety in their initial offerings: halfling militia, infantry of the…
Aug 24 2020
Words on Bathroom Walls Is Full of Unique Wonder
Words on Bathroom Walls, based on the book by Julia Walton, is admirable in wanting to tackle schizophrenia in a teen romance. Most books and films that feature teens with disabilities and medical conditions tend to favor the tragic and the physical, most notably in films as The Fault in Our Stars and…
Aug 23 2020
Somber Students Find Romance in Chemical Hearts
For a film that deals with tragedy and conflicted feelings on sexuality, there’s a surprisingly tender appeal amid the quiet pessimism in Chemical Hearts. There’s a distance within the teenage characters, and yet there seems to be an open nature to the high school atmosphere. Whether more truthful…
Aug 23 2020
This Week in Geek (8/24/20–8/30/20)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, August 24, to Sunday, August 30.
Please note: Due to risks from the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in following current health guidelines recommending both social distancing and limited…