Time to dust this sucker off!

Yup, I think it's time to get back to this long neglected part of my life. I really miss doing the Nightly Nerdlinger News posts. Life got hectic and work has been overwhelming the last year and so I had to lay this burden down. But I've decided that I need a place to rekindle my love of all things Geeky and Nerdly and this is the best place to put it. I'll link to it from both my Facebook and Google+ profiles and see if that helps generate some interest, now that the Yuku nee' EZBoards I used to frequent are pretty much a deadzone. I plan to focus on Games of all kinds and to a lesser extent Movies, Television and websites in a nerdly vein. So stay tuned true believers, I'm comin' at ya!

The Return of The Nightly Nerdlinger News

Yes, that's right, I'm back. Look for new posts 3-5 times a week featuring all the latest in Nerdlinger News, movies, books, television, comics, pulp and games of all kinds. Focus, as always, will be on Science Fiction, Fantasy, Pulp, Wierd West, Horror and The Wold Newton Universe.


So stick around if you're an old friend, and check it out if you're a browser. More news than you can shake a Fungi from Yuggoth at.

Ride for the Charleston Nine results

So despite inclement weather we made the ride. All morning it looked like rain and in fact it was raining/sprinkling till after 11AM, so much so that I went to wallymart and bought a couple of rain suits for us. 100 bucks I really didn't need to spend but in fact we'll use them occasionally so I may as well have them. It turns out we didn't need them after all. In a cliched storybook occurrence, the skies cleared and the heavens opened up and shined down upon us for the ride and it didn't rain till after we got home and out of our sweat soaked riding clothes.

The ride was about 40 miles and the turn-out was way higher than the organizers expected and that's despite all the wannabes that didn't show because they thought it was going to rain. Over 1000 bikes showed, we don't know for sure yet because the local cops stopped counting around 900. We gave the fire chief an initial Big Cardboard Check for about 8,080 bucks, not bad for a ride that was 10 bucks a rider/passenger. I expect that we'll have a final tally tomorrow of riders registered and moneys collected.

I actually won the first raffle prize, a white trooper style helmet, which is cool, because I've been meaning to get one, so that saved me $50, except I need to take it back to the shop that donated it to get the right size.

So, a good day all in all.

Ride for the Charleston Nine

Tomorrow I'll be participating in a memorial ride for The Charleston Nine, the nine Fire Fighters who died in the Sofa Super Store fire June 19th. I'll be on a red 1998 Kawasaki Vulcan 800A, wearing my VROC vest. all proceeds go to the Fire Fighter Family Fund. We'll start just 1/2 a mile from my house at Azalea Square Regal 16 Cinema in Summerville, SC and end up at Brittlebank park in downtown Charleston, SC. Mrs. Verm snagged some donations for the raffle from Home Depot, where she works. I'm a member of The Patriot Guard Riders ( just joined ) and would fly those colours too, if I had them. They (PGR) did several rides already for the Nine.

The Nightly Nerdlinger News Secret Origins Edition Pt 3

Today I'm just going to list most of the rest of the sites I use for material for The Nightly Nerdlinger News. After this I'm going to get back into the swing of things and start posting updates nightly again. It's just been a really bad couple of weeks at work and it's left me too depressed to really want to blog. But I'm off all this week for shutdown so besides updating my resume', sleeping and drinking as much beer and eating as much barbeque as I can I'll be hitting the net hard looking for nerdly goodness. And now, the other links.

SyFy Portal A good site for science fiction news, especially television items.

Dark Horizons A general movie site, but often has the best listings of trailers and early synopsis of new movies.

Anime News Network is a great site for all your Anime news needs, release dates, apperances, upcoming projects and just about anything a fanboy could want to know about Anime including an exhaustive encyclopeadia.

Anime Nation Another good anime news and anime sales site.

Fangoria The website of the long-lived magazine about horror movies.

Horror.com Another horror website, mostly news and releases.

Bloody Disgusting A good horror site, movie reviews, news and interviews

JoBlo's Movie Emporium A fun site with news, reviews, opinion peices, interviews mostly nerd-worthy stuff but the occasional mainstream stuff sneaks in.

Latino Review This site somehow gets ahold of drafts for all kinds of movies and posts them or at least reviews the drafts. All kinds of movies, but emphasis is on nerd-worthy movies. Also reviews, interviews etc.

News Askew The official View Askew and Kevin Smith news site. News on all his movie and comics projects.

Pit of Horror Another horror site dedicated to movies.

SCIFINEWS Fantasy and Science Fiction news for all media.

Slashdot A nerd news site, everything from tech to movies to comics to internet, anything your average nerd would find interesting. Highly recommended by me.

Space.com A great site dedicated to all things space related, news, tech, launches and just about anything cool about space.

I don't think I need to include obvious links of interest to nerds like TLC, Discovery, The History Channel, and The Smithsonian but there they are.

Stop now, what's that sound...

That's the sound of silence because today is the Internet Radio Day of Silence. While I could rant here about the imminent demise of internet radio, about the loss of some great stations like Carp Circles or Directional Wave, about the loss of a venue for bands that doesn't require deep pockets or industry connections. But I'm not going to do that. It's been done by better than I. But I will add my support to the cause. It's a misguided law, paid for by big record labels, and sounds the death nell of free internet radio due to royalty rates that are impossibly high for the majority of internet radio producers. July 15th internet radio dies, will you let it, or will you write you congressman and demand that they review this law and keep the music playing? Go to Savenetradio and see how you too can lend your support to the DJs of this medium.

Naval Humour for Memorial Day

A marine walks out of a bar with a couple of his buddies and heads back towards the ship. On the way he see's a little kid playing in what apears to be mud on the side of the road. As they get closer he can smell that it's definately not mud, it's dogshit.
He yells at the kid " Hey, what the hell are you doing playing with that dogshit?" The little kid replies, "I'm making a sailor." This of course cracks the marine and his buddies up. They see another group of jarheads coming thier way and tell them to go ask the kid what he's doing. One grizzled vet asks the kid "What the hell are you doing there kid?" Again the kid replies, "I'm making a Sailor." Which causes them all to bust out laughing again.

The old seargent sees a drunken bunch of sailors heading their way and decides to have some fun. While the rest of the Marines stand off to the side trying to keep from laughing he calls out to one, "Hey, squid, come ask this kid what he's doing with this pile of dogshit!"

The senior petty officer of the group, an old Bo'suns mate goes up to the kid holding his nose and asks "What the fuck are you doing playing with all that dogshit kid?"

The kid looks up, covered in crap and says "I'm making a Sailor, I don't have enough shit for a Marine."

The handyman can, oh the handyman can

Sorry Sammy.


Well, today was productive, but not in the way I had hoped. Mrs. Verm's back was hurting so we decided not to go downtown today. We we're just going to go to a little leather shop up the raod to get my new patch sewn on the vest I got at Bike week 2 weeks ago. So we hop on the bikes, pull out the driveway preparing to go and I notice my wifes' headlight is out, again. So I tell her to pull back in and get out the tools to check it. It's illegal to ride a motorcycle without headlights. I open the bucket up and chek the connections, one is loose and it's shorted the bulb. So I send the wife to get a new bulb at wallymart since she's going to pick up a few things for a barbeque tomorrow for us and the neighbors. While she's gone I tinker around trying to figure out where the connections go, I can't do much till I have a bulb that works though. So I decide to put up the wooden screen door we got for the inner garage door to the laundry room. The breeze through the breezway into the bedroom is great but I hate all the flies, hence the screen door. It needs trimmed to fit and I proceed to fairly butcher it to size with the cheap power saw I bought a couple weeks ago. Looks like crap but it's inside the garage and the only people that will ever see it live here. I get it up about the time Mrs. Verm gets home ( with some Sam Adams Summer Ale thank God! ). Then I wire the bike back up, replace some stripped screws in the light bucket and whamo, let there be light. Now I need me that beer.