Geek Crafts

Only two days left to enter our Mountain Dew Voltage Giveaway! Leave a comment with a great geeky crafty link to enter. We’ll pick our five favorite entries on April 1, 2009, to win a Mountain Dew Voltage t-shirt and soda. This contest is open to U.S. residents only. One entry per person, please.

If you read the amazing graphic novel by Alan Moore, in the past couple weeks, you probably have. You’ll receive no argument from me that The Watchmen was an incredible film, but as so often with beloved books-turned-movie there was a lot missing. Where is the pirate comic we all loved so much? And what about Hollis Mason and the excerpts from his book that gave us such a perspective on what it was like to be a masked crime fighter?.

Well, good news, folks. Warner Brothers is not letting us down. Today, on Blu-Ray, DVD, and On Demand you will find The Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter. In addition to the gut wrenching, often incredibly gory pirate tale that was the comic-inside-the-comic in The Watchmen novel, the disc will also feature Under the Hood, the back story on Hollis Mason, the first Nite Owl.

Even if you haven’t read the graphic novel, if you loved The Watchmen as a stand alone film, I know you’ll want to have your hands on these two other short films. In the book, Tales of the Black Freighter serves as a vivid and sometimes sickening parallel to what is happening in the world The Watchmen inhabit, and Under the Hood serves as more than a back story on the character who only managed one little scene in the film, but a look inside the inner workings of a “masked-avenger”. Perhaps one of my favorite lines from The Watchmen graphic novel came from Hollis Mason’s book:

I’ve heard all the psychologists’ theories, and I’ve heard all the jokes and the rumors and the innuendo, but what it comes down to for me is that I dressed up like an owl and fought crime  because it was fun and because it needed doing and because I goddam felt like it.

Okay. There it is. I’ve said it. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. [sic] The Watchmen 1986, Alan Moore.

So there it is, I’ve said it. I’m going to buy The Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter. And you should too.

• The Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter
• Watchmen T-shirts

Okay, so I haven’t watched Flight of the Conchords yet (sadly, we don’t have any pay channels), but it’s on my Netflix list and I know all you geeks enjoy this show. Croqzine.com made this hilariously geeky sock monkey of Jemaine Clement, yet another craft that I must hide from my monkey-loving kid. Anyone else have a geek-themed sock monkey?

• Flight of the Conchords Sock Monkey
• Flight of the Conchords T-shirts

Ok, this isn’t completely geeky or crafty, but seriously - who doesn’t want a free t-shirt? From now until April 16, 2009, Teenormous T-shirts is giving away 100 t-shirts and other prizes. You get to choose your shirt and it’s easy to win. Just leave a comment on their blog or Twitter it to enter. Full details on their free t-shirt contest page.

• 100 free t-shirt giveaway

While at Teenormous, try some of these geeky t-shirt searches:

• Geek T-shirts
• Star Wars T-shirts
• Battlestar Galactica T-shirts
• Star Trek T-shirts
• Robot T-shirts
• Terminator T-shirts
• Internet T-shirts
• Blogging T-shirts

Mountain Dew Voltage has given Geek Crafts five prize packs - each with a Mountain Dew Voltage t-shirt and some Voltage. We get to give these away to our readers! All you have to do is leave a comment with a link to a geek craft - your own or a good one you’ve come across - and your email address. We’ll pick our five favorite entries on April 1, 2009. Winners will be notified via email on April 2, 2009. This contest is open to U.S. residents only. One entry per person, please.

Thanks go to Mountain Dew Voltage for the prizes!

I know we don’t post a ridiculous amount of books on this site, but how could I resist posting something with a subtitle of “Wookiee Cookies”? Well, as you can see, I couldn’t. So here is the Star Wars Cook Book: Wookiee Cookies and other Galactic Recipes, that I found on geeksugar.

It is a little known fact that every single Star Wars Fan on Earth, actually, needs to eat just as much as those who do not like Star Wars (yes, there are people out there who do not like Star Wars, but rest easy, they aren’t trying to convert anyone to their twisted perspectives). So what better way to mend together your inate desire to eat food, with  your love of Star Wars? Well that’s easy, cook yourself a plate of Bobba Fett-uccini and some Wookie Cookies and turn on The Empire Strikes Back.

• Star Wars Cook Book: Wookie Cookies and other Galactic Recipes