Your Week of Geek

It's not you, it's me.

I need to put this on hiatus.  While launching the new business I just don't have time to put it together every week.

March 1 to March 7

Thursday, March 1, It's once again All Access Night at EMP/SFM, free entry from 5 to 8.  Ellen Forney, awesome cartoonist, performs her multimedia thing at Wild Rose at 8 PM.  At 7:00 PM at the Seattle Central Library, there's a tribute to Octavia Butler featuring readings by Nalo Hopkinson, Jerry Large, Timeca Briggs, Leslie Howle, Vonda McIntyre and Nisi Shawl. At at UW, 7:00, there's a lecture by Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab: The Art and Science of Social Robots.  How come I can't be in two places at the same time?

Friday, March 2, China Mieville reads from his new book for younger readers, Un Lun Dun, at the University Bookstore. Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis read from The Rise of the Black Wolf at Third Place Books.

Saturday, March 3, Magic Two-Headed Giant State Championships at Seattle Center.

Sunday, March 4

Monday, March 5, Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus, speaks at Benaroya Hall at 7:30.

Tuesday, March 6, Matthew Polly reads from American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China at University Book Store at 7:00.  Sherry Boschert is at Elliott Bay Book Co. to promote Plug-In Hybrids:  The Cars That Will Recharge America at 6:00 PM.

Wednesday, March 7, Tad Williams reads from his book Shadowplay at the University Bookstore at 7 PM.  There's also a dorkbot meeting: retro-dork.

February 22 to February 28

Thursday, February 22, I got nuthin'.

Friday, February 23, there's always anime at UW.

Saturday, February 24, 11:00 PM, We Tube is showing at the NWFF.  "For this special event, we're liberating YouTube from its normally tiny screen and bringing you WE TUBE, an evening of internet video writ large. NWFF programmers will present a selection of YouTube hits and host a live, interactive Mad Libs-style video mixing game. Be a part of it! Refreshments available."  Yu Gi Oh! Sneak Preview gaming event at Seattle Center.

Sunday, February 25, from 10 to 5, you WILL be at Seattle Center for the Seattle ComiCard Convention.  Or you could go to a video game swap meet in the International District between 12 and 4.

Monday, February 26, 7:00 PM, Fantastic Fiction Salon with Connie Willis at Hugo House.  You know who Connie Willis is, right?  Because if you don't, I never want to talk to you again.  Or you could go see Jonathan Raban at UW.  But really.

Tuesday, February 27 - nuthin again.

Wednesday, February 28, you can go to Town Hall and see James McManus and Ron Reagan talk about stem cells.

February 15 to February 21

Thursday, February 15, I got nuthin.  I hope you are still too tired recovering from V-Day to want to go out.

Friday, February 16, 7:00 PM, fantasy maven Guy Gavriel Kay reads from his latest book Ysabel at the University Bookstore.  Or you could go watch 5 hours of anime.  Or you could go to Roq La Rue and get your copy of Haunted Paradise signed, 6 to 8.

Saturday, February 17, at 8:30 AM in Seattle Center, Magic PTQ. At 6:00 PM, Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery is having another kick-ass book signing with Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics cartoonists Gabrielle Bell (Lucky, Mome), Kevin Huizenga (Curses, Ganges), and Anders Nilsen (Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, The End, Mome, Monologues for the Coming Plague). The cartoonists will be presenting a slide show on their work, answering questions and signing their latest D+Q and Fantagraphics releases.  At the Pacific Science Center, meanwhile, it's Art Party time, with music and special exhibitions.  This is also Gross Out!  weekend at PacSci.

Sunday, February 18, at 1:00 PM at Fantagraphics, again, Shannon O'Leary discusses her graphic novel, “Pet Noir".

Monday, February 19 and Tuesday, February 20, maybe you want to go see the ongoing show at Roq La Rue with work from Ronald Kurniawan, David Ho and Femke Hiemstra.

Wednesday, February 21, 7:15 AM, Dean's Breakfast Series presents Dr. Brian Nattrass, a sustainability expert (RSVP requested)

February 1 to February 7

Sorry, I thought today was Wednesday...

Thursday, February 1: all access night at the SFM from 5 to 8.

Friday, February 2: Weird Science Salon, 7:30 PM at the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, 'a paranormal science museum with exhibits,     library and cultural center exploring the legends,lore, UFO history, Bigfoot and haunted locations of     the Northwest.' 

Friday, February 2 and 3, CINEMA K: CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SEATTLE 2007 shows Legends, Fables, and Dreams: Award-Winning Animated Films and Blast off to Adventure!

February 2 through 8, NW Film Forum shows a movie about LARP-ing.

Saturday, February 3: Finally, the science fiction short film festival!  Two sessions, buy tickets ahead of time.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday:  You'd think there'd be something going on.  You'd be wrong.

Wednesday, February 7: Dorkbot hosts a multimedia presentation.  At Town Hall, there's an Environmental Health lecture about nanotech. oel Tickner, director of the Chemical Science and Policy Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell describes how using precaution can lead to more prudent public health choices when considering emerging technologies such as nanotech.

January 25 to January 31

Multiple Days: The Northwest Asian American Film Festival.  So, so hip.

Thursday, January 25, Christopher Moore, author of such priceless gems as Lamb:The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, read from You Suck! A Love Story at Third Place Books.

Friday, January 26, from 11:30 to 1:00 there's a Luncheon Panel:  'How to Cultivate Imagination' at Seattle Center Pavilion A. Eric Liu moderates with panelists Bonnie Dunbar, Museum of Flight director and former NASA astronaut; Tod Machover, co-director, MIT Media Lab; Rosamund Zander, author of The Art of Possibility; and Charles Johnson, UW creative writing professor and National Book Award-winning novelist.  Free, but get there early to be sure of getting a seat. 

Five hours of anime at UW with the Anime Discovery Project.

At 7:30 PM, Award-winning Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose returns to Town Hall on the occasion of the paperback release of his encyclopedic book on modern physics, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Law of the Universe.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday (and next weekend too) CINEMA K: CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SEATTLE 2007 shows Legends, Fables, and Dreams: Award-Winning Animated Films and Blast off to Adventure!  

Monday, January 29, Speculations presents Paul Park. Paul Park is known as one of the finest authors on the "humanist" wing of American science fiction. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.

Tuesday, January 30, 7:30 PM George Dyson is a scientific historian, speaking at Town Hall with a talk about John von Neumann, the founder of the modern digital computer.

Wednesday, January 31, I got nuthin'.  Stay home!

January 18 to January 24

Thursday, January 18, former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx reads from her new book Him Her Him Again The End of Him at Elliott Bay at 7:30 PM.

Friday, January 19, Anime Discovery club at UW screens five hours of anime.  Not for the faint hearted.

Saturday, January 20, Seattle Outsider  Artist Project presents the Weird Genius Real Science Fair.  The Annual Weird Genius Real Science Fair is a science expo for the rest of us. This event showcases dozens of actual science projects and science-enhanced/themed art.  9:00 PM to 1:00 AM, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.  Tickets required, 21+.

Sunday, January 21, 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM it's Artifact ID Day at the Burke Museum.   Bring your unidentified cultural artifacts to the Burke Museum to learn about where they came from—and this year meet History Detective and anthropologist, Wes Cowan, of the PBS TV series History Detectives and Antiques Roadshow. 

At 8:00 PM head over to the NWFF for Search and Rescue.  "Search and Rescue teams up with The American Library Association Video Round Table (ALAVRT) while they're in town for a midwinter conference in order to engage in a discussion about discarded media. S & R will go to the source, inviting librarians to bring 16mm film work unique to their respective collections" 

Monday, January 22, two fantasy authors read and sign at the U-District bookstore at 7:00 PM, one of whom writes about flying horses.  That's Louisa Marley, author of Airs Beneath The Moon, and Mary Rosenblum, who writes science fiction, author of Horizons.

Tuesday, January 23,the Walker-Ames Lecture Series presents Nancy Folbre at 6:30 PM in UW Kane Hall 130. The title of the lecture is "Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas".  Folbre 'explores the interface between feminist theory and political economy, with a particular focus on work that has a personal and emotional dimension.'

Wednesday, January 24, the Institute for Environmental Children's Health presents Terry Collins from Carnegie Mellon in their Environmental Health Lecture:  Green Chemistry at 6:30 PM, reception at 5:30, Town Hall.  Tickets required. 

January 11 to January 17

Thursday, January 11 - nuthin'.

Friday, January 12, Hell's Belles, an all-girl AC/DC cover band, plays http://www.neumos.com/.

Saturday, January 13, Maureen Doyle McQuerry reads from Wolfproof at Third Place Books, a YA fantasy compared to Lewis and L'Engle.

Sunday, January 14, the Seattle Astronomical Society has its annual banquet, Speaker: Dr. Don Brownlee, Professor of Astronomy at University of Washington and Principal Investigator for Stardust, NASA's comet sample return mission. Co-author with last year's speaker (Dr. Peter Ward) of "Rare Earth" and "The Life and Death of Planet Earth". Reservations required.

Monday, January 15 - nada.

Tuesday, January 16: David Lynch speaks at Town Hall at 7:30 about his new book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.

Wednesday, January 17, Comic Book Jam at Fantagraphics.  Starting at 6:00, the local comics salon hosted by Jim Woodring, Friends of the Nib, will create a mini-comic from start to finish.

January 4 to January 10

Thursday, January 4th, EMP and SFM  have free admission from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.  This is the first of their All Access Nights which will continue on the first Thursday of every month.  Live music with local band Bench Grinder, Braden Blake of Super Deluxe, and curator-led tours.

Friday, January 5th, there's an opportunity for the confused but aspiring techie at Third Place Books.  A reading of Look Both Ways : Help Protect Your Family on the Internet by Linda Criddle at 6:30 PM. 

Saturday, January 6, Jennifer Ouellette reads from The Physics of the Buffyverse at Elliott Bay Book Company  at 7:30 PM.  Also, an exhibit opens at Fantagraphics' new storefront.  "MOME: The New Guard offers a diverse group of exciting young artists from across the county and around the globe. Among the exhibiting artists are Sophie Crumb, Zak Sally, Tim Hensley, Jeffrey Brown, Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan Bennett, Martin Cendreda, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, R. Kikuo Johnson, Anders Nilsen, John Pham and Kurt Wolfgang." Reception/book signing from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.

Sunday and Monday:  I got nuthin'

Tuesday, January 9, David Weber is reading at the University Bookstore at 7:00 PM.  He's the author of the Honor Harrington books, those of the slghtly cult-like following. His newest, Off Armageddon Reef, launches a new series.

Wednesday, January 10, head back up to Ravenna to catch the host of the History Channel's Digging for the Truth,  Josh Bernstein at Third Place Books at 7:00 PM.

December 28 to January 3

Slim pickings again because of the holidays.

Saturday, December 30, there's a Bog Slog scheduled at St. Edward State Park with the Cascade Orienteering Club, which includes a mountain biking course.

Ongoing:

At the Museum of Flight, there's a Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, a 100 years of Flight holiday lights display (5:30 to 7:30 PM), and Tip-to-Tail Tours of the  Blackbird and Drone at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM'.

The Washington State Historical Society is sponsoring a model train event from the 26th to the 1st.

Trimpin is the guy who created the massive guitar sculpture at the center of EMP.  His show Klompen is at the Frye Art Museum.

Sgt Rigsby and his Amazing Silhouettes: A Terrible Price for Whimsy , a dirty, dirty, puppet show about a boy who invents a time travel machine.

BLVD Gallery has a show featuring figurines by Mike Leavitt, paintings by Kristian Olson, Colin Johnson, and Chris Huth.

BODIES: The Exhibition is the awesomest cure for an overdose of holiday cheer.  800 Pike Street, across from the Convention Center.

Beyond Territory: neuroTransmitter presents two multimedia exhibits at the Henry Art Gallery about the history of pirate radio installations.

Laser Beatles, Outkast, Floyd shows at various times this week at the Seattle Laser Dome in the Pacific Science Center.