Wound up for The Windup Girl – The S&L Podcast #029

Shows / March 12th, 2010

This week we officially introduce The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi as our latest Sword and Laser book club pick.  We also announce the move of our forums, and kick a little love/hate towards George R. R. Martin.

 

Quick Burns

HBO greenlights ‘Game of Thrones’ to series (pic)

The Whuffie Bank tries to make Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom real

Tron Legacy’ Director Joseph Kosinski Recommends Seeing The Trailer In 3-D First

Syfy Puts Felicia Day In Her Own Fairy Tale

Read the First Chapter of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

BARE YOUR SWORD – feedback from the audience

We’re moving to Goodreads!

George R. R. Martin is A bitch!

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Neighborly robots powered by a sun – Ep. 22

Shows / March 11th, 2010

Patrick thinks robots will become just regular folks, but their own nation.  Stephen thinks we’ll power everything including the robots with a sun.  Not solar.  A sun. A small one.

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East Meets West 197 – And the nominees are…

Shows / March 8th, 2010

As an experiment, we do some live commentary during the Oscar’s about the nature of movies awards, fashion, and more. Scott Johnson from Film Sack and Nicole Spagnuolo from The Movielicious lend their perspective as well.

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Moving our discussion forums!

Shows / March 7th, 2010
Tom and I have been discussing the Ning group lately, and we’ve decided that Goodreads.com is much better suited for handling our types of discussions. They have really great tools on the site for book clubs, and we think it would be a good place for us to grow going forward.

 

Now, we imagine some of you are very attached to the Ning page, so we’re not going to be deleting it. We also know that joining yet another site can be a pain. But Goodreads is dedicated to books in a huge way, and they have the resources to enrich our discussions.

 

We already have 77 members signed up! If you’re interested in taking the discussion there, please join in. Tom and I will be devoting most of our discussion time over on that site from now on.

 

East Meets West 196 – Every four years is epic

Shows / February 28th, 2010

We start talking about the Canada-US hockey game and end up talking about the nature of sport, and why people care. We also dive back into the music question, with a really enlightening post from Paul.

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