Geek Crafts

I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about Alice, so I thought I’d post an homage to Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. Flirtbuttons is selling this Alice Drink Me Bottle Opener in their etsy shop, and how appropriate! After all, how was Alice opening those bottles in the story?

• Alice Drink Me Bottle Opener

I don’t know what life would be like without coffee–and I don’t want to. The best thing about CraftieRobot’s Caffeine Structure Messenger Bag is that it provides a way to carry your laptop and current reading selections, advertise your geekiness and show your worship of the caffiene gods all in one easy to use bag. Love it! Find it at CraftieRobot’s etsy shop.

• Caffeine Structure Messenger Bag

Kimmermonroe crafted this Polymer Clay Taheen inspired by the creepy half animal  villains from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. Personally, I am a huge King fan and a lover of all seven Dark Tower books, so seeing a Dark Tower craft really made my day!

• Polymer Clay Taheen

I ran across this Princess Leia Burp Cloth while searching for some geeky diaper covers. Queen DeLuxe made this awesome Star Wars burp cloth from a prefold cloth diaper, perfect for soaking up those big ones, because even geeky babies spit up. You can find this, and the matching onesie at her etsy shop.

• Princess Leia Burp Cloth

If there is one thing I love, it is a great Doctor Who craft, and as I anxiously await Matt Smith’s premiere as the new Doctor next month, Kim2.0 is filling the void left by Tennant’s departure with this great Wooden TARDIS she made from birch & balsa wood and posted on her blog.

• Wooden TARDIS

Inconsolable is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. Before I received my copy in the mail, author Shaheed Shabazz warned me that the book was “graphic and twisted” and I smirked to myself, thinking “He doesn’t know me very well, graphic and twisted is what I do“. I was not prepared in the least for the gore-filled, horrifying ride that calls itself Inconsolable.

There were times, while reading this revenge tale full of drugs, torture and mind tricks, that I couldn’t put the book down–there were other times when I was so horrified by the images Shabazz so skillfully painted that I had to put the book down to give myself a break from the intensity. The story starts out calmly enough, introducing the reader to Sean Stiles, a character who at once seems unassuming and noble. Shortly after we meet him, he meets a group of meth heads and loses his life. The story picks up down the line, where our meth addicted murderers have sworn each other to secrecy, gotten clean and moved on. Or so they thought.

Although they were sure no one would “miss” Sean Stiles it becomes clear that someone did, and that someone is intent on ripping apart their lives, and their bodies. With scenes straight out of a Japanese horror flick, Shabazz throws us into a world that is run by the Blue Giant, where justice is carried out slice by slice, slowly but surely, and where no one is off-limits. The book will leave you shaken, terrified to close your eyes, and regretting every wrong you have ever committed in your life. It’s a great read–if you’re brave enough.

See what Shaheed Shabazz had to say to Geek Crafts after the jump.

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