or “How Baird Got His Nerd Back!”

So a much better week in Nerd News for me.  I got myself FOCUSED and came at it with a new found dedication to nerdiness!!  I have not been nerdy for so long now that I just had to get myself back in the game!

In “Watchmen” News…they release this incredible little game on their website.  Stuff like this really gets by nerd juices flowing!!  I got caught up in it and played this for about 20 minutes in my office on Thursday (shhhh).  Between things like this and what is being updated everyday on “The New Frontiersmen” site…it’s just AWESOME.  I told Better Half to get a sitter now so we can get to the movie the weekend it opens.  Since we’ve had Lil’ Baird, I haven’t stepped foot in a theater.  I even missed “Quantum of Solace“.  I will NOT miss this movie in the theater!!!

It was clean out the DVR weekend as I watched:

• Batman: Brave and The Bold- good episode with Despero and the Green Lantern Corp, caught up
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – three episodes, caught up
• Psych – two episodes, caught up
• The F Word – six episodes (more on this later)
• Leverage - one episode, not caught up yet
• 30 Rock – two episodes, caught up
• The Office
• Burn Notice – two episodes, caught up
• Lost (this show is SO ROCKIN’ THIS SEASON!)
• Top Chef
• Dirty Jobs - four episodes, caught up (one was a show on animal rendering – DO NOT watch if you are eating!)

It’s really easy to blow through the DVR when there really is no sports on TV.  No MSU basketball, no Pistons…freed up a lot of time.

When I got back home last Thursday, I had a new box of comics waiting for me as well.  Now usually when I get my new books (bi-weekly) I sit down immediately and can get through almost all of them in one, maybe two nights.  Being so busy with work, I still had a stack from the shipment before I needed to get through.  In between all that TV watching, I knocked out all about 12 books, getting me just into this weeks shipment.  I should be caught up by Tuesday night!  One good book I got this week was the first part of Neil Gaiman’s “Whatever Happened to the Cape Crusader” story running in “Batman“.  Neil is a terrific fantasy / comic writer.  You may have seen his name lately as the writer of the new movie ”Coraline“.  A quick aside, the producer of “Coraline”, Bill Mechanic is a Michigan State grad.  In the movie, the dad is seen wearing a MSU sweatshirt!  GO GREEN!)

I am also try to catch up this week with all the news from the New York Comic Con that happened last week and the International Toy Fair going on right now.  I was lucky to attend both of these events last year with Fathead.  This year, just picking up what nuggets I can from the blogosphere!

No video games this week…but I am determined to get back to playing Lego Batman.

The nerd news for this week is that there is NO NERD NEWS!

Seriously!!!

I was so focused with work that my normal nerd stuff got passed up.

So for this last week, I turn in my card!

This is really all I got…

While out here in Tulare (pronounced Too Lar E, not Too Lair, found that out quick)/ Fresno for the Ag Show, I did pick up two new Star Wars Mighty Muggs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got me Biggs and Bossk!  I love these things.  Look at that ’stache on Biggs!  STYLIN’!

I’m not collecting all of them, just the ones I think are cool.

These were my first two… 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERIOUSLY, how can you not like these…look at that smile on Lando’s face…

So that’s it…all the nerdy from me this week.  I’ll have to make up for it when I get home!  Comic book, video game, cartoon and beer marathon!!

So last week I told shared with you that I just wasn’t that nerdy…well this week was EVEN LESS NERDY!!!  Which has to be some kind of record for me.

A few nerdy things that I did get to…

Didn’t mention last week, but LOST is back!!  I really loved this week’s episode.  Desmond stories have been consistently good and the overall mythology really moved forward.  All the time jumping can start to get slightly confusing, but I am really enjoying it so far after 3 episodes.

The mini-series “FINAL CRISIS” ended this week and I have to say, I am completely confused!  For non-comic book nerds, this was a DC Comics story written by Grant Morrison.  Grant is know for his imagination and solid story telling.  His “All Star Superman” mini last year was lauded as one of the best stories of the year, not to mention one of the best Superman stories ever told.  So here he got to play in the giant toy box that was the DC Universe and after 6 issues and about 10 ancillary issues, I was left completely scratching my head.

The only other really nerdy thing was Super Bowl commercials for “G.I. Joe, Rise of Cobra“, “Star Trek” and “Transformers 2, Revenge of the Fallen“.  I found links HERE, HERE and HERE respectfully.  G.I. Joe – hmmmm.  Star Trek – not a lot of new footage but still looks promising.  Transformers – the problem with giant transforming robots fighting…it all just looks like a whole pile of metal mess.  Will I probably see all three movies when they hit theaters, ahhhhh, yeah, but just not blown away by the trailers.

One last thing, keep checking out “The New Frontiersmen” web site as they continue to deliver neat little “Watchmen” nuggets.