Flopcast episode 219! Kornflake reports on the second annual FlopFest celebration, which mostly involves flopping in a hammock in the middle of New Hampshire. This year’s FlopFest also featured tall monsters, small manservants, Isaac the Bartender, an Internet-famous dog, and waffles. Next year’s FlopFest will feature a giant Silver Spoons-themed
Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 48: Independence Day. It’s time to celebrate our Independence by blowing stuff up, drinking beer, and talking about movies. Twenty years ago one of my favorite alien invasion movies was released, Independence Day, and twenty years later we go a sequel. This week we discuss both.
THE DEVIL DOGS OF BELLEAU WOODS By Terrence McCauley Down & Out Books 130 pages “The Devil Dogs of Belleau Woods,” is a gripping war adventure set during one of the most brutal battles of World War One. Corporal Charlie Doherty is a New York City cop who thought he
Flopcast episode 218! We’re back from a long weekend of science and silliness at CONvergence in Bloomington, Minnesota! Our convention report includes: A meteorite from Mars (Robolar would be so proud), special guest birds from the Raptor Center, comedy from Joseph Scrimshaw, music from Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters,
Flopcast episode 217! It’s miserably hot here in Chickentown, and local scientists (who are totally not just rubber chickens in lab coats) say that summer is to blame. They’re probably right; we can’t blame EVERYTHING on the cancellation of Knight Rider. (But you must admit, it’s been a rough thirty
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 47: There can be only one. This week we do a little head hunting and talk about thirty years of Highlander. From Conner MacLeod to Duncan MacLeod we cover it all. In Science we talk about robot dogs, killer cars, stoned sheep, and big glasses.
Flopcast episode 216! Kevin and Kornflake are back from Northeast Comic Con, where they found Muppet choirs, Rubber Chicken Comics, the Lost in Space chariot, and some of our favorite costumers (including Cosplay Dad, RW Martin as Indiana Jones, and Brandon the Shapeshifter as Thundarr the Barbarian). And the convention’s
Flopcast episode 215! Kevin and Kornflake want you to celebrate National Selfie Day, especially if you’re a macaque; we creep down to the rock clubs of Providence, Rhode Island in search of Mongoose Molly; we have a new movie review, all thanks to a power outage; and we look ahead
Flopcast episode 214! Kevin and Kornflake are talking music again this week, following a concert by 80s legends Cyndi Lauper and Boy George. It’s been over thirty years since Cyndi conquered the world of pop music, with a little help from The Hooters, The Goonies, and Rowdy Roddy Piper. These
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 46: Danger Room. This week we talk about the other MCU and discuss the X-men movies. Before there was the Avengers, the first comic book team movie on the scene was the X-men. The movie that made Hugh Jackman famous. In science we talk about
Flopcast episode 213! The Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake for a very special Flopcast celebrating fifty years of The Monkees! We discuss our earliest memories of the TV show (from reruns on a Boston UHF station in the 70s), recall our earliest Monkees album purchases (horribly scratched vinyl
Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 45: The Day Walker. There has been a lot of lately of comic book movies being R rated. This is nothing new so we look back at the OG of Marvel movies, before there was even a MCU, there was Blade. We discuss the Blade
