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Aura of the Con
I won’t be at Comic Con till Sunday. Prior commitmets are keeping me from mecca this weekend. But knowing that the con is in town and that I’m not there feels wrong somehow. So yesterday I took a walk on the west side just to be around the essence of nerdom going on at the…
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HAPPY DAY 1 of New York Comic Con
The day has come!!! Have a great first day at NYCC. Make sure to stop by The Nerd Machine booth on the con floor. It promises to be pretty epic! Photo Credit: Nerd Machine Instagram And let me know what you are up to on Twitter @nerdinthecity. I want to hear all about it!!
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Surviving New York Comic Con
Tip #2: DO NOT plan to eat at the Javits Center. It is important for you to know that not only is the food at the Javits not incredibly delicious, it’s also not incredibly cheap. It’s the opposite of cheap. It cost an arm and a leg and unless you are smack in the middle…
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Surviving New York Comic Con
With only 2 days to go until the Javits Center opens it’s doors to nerds from all over the world, I thought I’d share a little wisdom I’ve learned from cons past. Tip#1: Walk the path less taken Sure everyone wants to get into the big panels. The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Marvel, etc.…
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The Countdown Begins
Only 3 days till New York Comic Con opens it’s doors to nerds from all over the world. Granted NYCC is not quite the behemoth that SDCC is, but we do alright! (If you count 30,000+ as merely alright) So check out the official NYCC website. And start planning your days now, nerds. Cause you…
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Cool New Thing
This is my newest obsession. It’s called Loot Crate and it’s a monthly subscription to a box of nerd amazingness. I’ve seen subscription services like this for makeup and beauty products. I subscribe to Birchbox. But this is the first nerdy onei’ve come across. It’s less than $20 a month to subscribe and it just…
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The Pianist, The Poem and The Captain of the Starship Enterprise
Last night was a night of culture and nerosity all in one delightful performance at 92Y. Sir Patrick Stewart performed the epic poem Enoch Arden written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the mid-1800’s. At his side was Emmanuel Ax performing the companion accompainiment on piano written by Richard Strauss in 1897. I studied piano for…
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Wizard of Oz Revisited
Last night a friend and I went to see The Wizard of Oz on the big screen in Imax 3D. And let me just recommend, that if you have the chance to go while it’s in theters, you should go! It’s always been a visually beautiful film and the 3D element adds so much more.…
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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! (Look it up… it’s really a thing.) And it’s awesome. Basically everyone in the world has permission to throw in some ‘Avast matey’s’ and some ‘Arrrrrs’ into normal everyday conversation. Personally, I think that if the whole world participated that we’d have a lot less international conflict.…