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the adventures of Kevin Maher, writer-comedian

Monthly Archives: April 2011

Fan Festivals, Conventions, Paloozas and What Have You

by Kevin on April 19th, 2011

Report from Blobfest, 2010 by KevinMaher

Archive

  • ► 2018 (1)
    • ► September (1)
      • about SHOCK ROCK
  • ► 2016 (5)
    • ► February (1)
      • Podcast where I watch PREDATOR for the first time
    • ► January (4)
      • Kevin Geeks Out with Pete & Alex from STAR WARS MINUTE
      • Forget ELVIS/NIXON
      • A FIELD GUIDE TO SUPER VILLAINS podcast
      • STAR WARS Talking Points - and the stuff I didn't get to say on NPR
  • ► 2015 (27)
    • ► November (1)
      • TOP 3 - a podcast favorite
    • ► October (3)
      • KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT STEPHEN KING - 10/29 at Nitehawk Cinema
      • Let's Go Mets
      • ADVICE TO YOUNG FILMMAKERS OR MURDERERS
    • ► September (3)
      • Next two KGO shows will be intense
      • Photo recap of KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT LADY ROBOTS
      • 2 Big Show in September
    • ► August (1)
      • Kevin Geeks Out About LADY ROBOTS
    • ► July (1)
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Super Villains
    • ► June (2)
      • Edgar Allen Poe's THE RAVEN: Lego playset
      • Kevin Geeks Out returns to Brooklyn, teams up with Nitehawk Cinema
    • ► April (3)
      • THE BAD NEWS BEARS & 5 MORE MOVIES THAT ARE SECRETLY ABOUT VIETNAM
      • Kid Pitches a Sequel to THE SHINING
      • Ripoff, Homage or Coincidence: OFFICE SPACE edition
    • ► March (11)
      • RICHARD NIXON AND THE LYING AUTHORITY FIGURES IN SOME OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES
      • My Favorite Flask - Mrs. Wormer in ANIMAL HOUSE
      • 10 Questions for Your Zombie Screenplay
      • NAME THAT ZOMBIE MOVIE: a cinema quiz
      • TURN ME ON, DEAD MAN - Mike "The Main Event" Edison on The Undertaker
      • The Outlaw Shot in BETTER CALL SAUL, BREAKING BAD and THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
      • OOKLA, WE RIDE!
      • COMING SOON TO THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE IN YONKERS
      • Photos from THE BROOKLYN BRAIN JAM
      • Time And Time Again
      • The 2nd ever BROOKLYN BRAIN JAM - Sunday 3/15
    • ► January (2)
      • Joe Franklin's phone call
      • Guest Presentation on NAZI ZOMBIES
  • ► 2014 (42)
    • ► December (3)
      • Merry Christmas
      • BATMAN podcast
      • DREAM DATES GONE WRONG - part 3
    • ► October (12)
      • Guest Post: THE ART OF EATING ZOMBIE
      • HORROR MOVIES A to Z
      • DREAM DATES GONE WRONG - part 2
      • 8 GREAT HORROR MOVIES YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF (But I have, because I'm better than you) ***PARODY***
      • ZOMBIE-MOVIE MADNESS at Brooklyn's NiteHawk Cinema
      • FREE TICKET to KEVIN GEEKS OUT - NY COMIC CON SHOW
      • DREAM DATES GONE WRONG -- part 1
      • NERD COMEDY: For Nerds, By Nerds
      • Sarah Palin's True Calling?
      • Michael Boo-Berryman
      • R.I.P. Richard Kiel
      • Comic Con P.S.A. (and show calendar)
    • ► September (4)
      • How to Scientifically Determine When To Turn Down A Job
      • Flat Stan Lee Goes to FUNSPOT
      • Kevin Geeks Out -- As seen in The New York Times
      • Full Schedule for the BROOKLYN BRAIN JAM
    • ► August (3)
      • Dr. Butcher, MD
      • UPCOMING SHOWS
      • WHY I HATE "WALKING WITH DINOSAURS"
    • ► July (7)
      • SHARKMANIA: deleted jokes, observations and opinions
      • Movie Quiz: Graffiti in Films
      • The 3rd type of Shark Movie Poster: HANDS!!!
      • Happy Blobfest
      • The Kevin Maher Summer Tour
      • THE TEXAS CHAINSAW TRIVIAL PURSUIT
      • Women & Fireworks - photo gallery
    • ► June (3)
      • I was a guest on STAR WARS MINUTE
      • STAR WARS MINUTE: LIVE special
      • Bobcat Goldthwait and the missing late-night video
    • ► May (3)
      • Babs & Godzilla
      • Ralph Bakshi and The Great Train Robbery
      • 5/05
    • ► April (2)
      • 12-Step, Suicide and the Star Wars Special Editions
      • Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay - STAR WARS, COPYCAT COMIC and DIRTY, NERDY NURSERY RHYMES
    • ► March (4)
      • Wrestling A to Z
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Wrestling (at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers)
      • More ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY
      • Save the date: Saturday 3/29
    • ► January (1)
      • Articulating my distaste for WALKING WITH DINOSAURS
  • ► 2013 (31)
    • ► December (1)
      • BILLY JACK: A look back
    • ► October (4)
      • HORROR MOVIES A-Z: a poem
      • 8 Great Horror Movies You’ve Never Heard of (But I Have, Because I’m Better Than You) [***A PARODY***]
      • Sh!t Nerds Never Say
      • Who's More Racist? Comic Con Edition
    • ► September (3)
      • Kevin Geeks Out joins The Alamo Drafthouse
      • KING KONG: DELETED SCENE
      • FIRST LOOK at the new ROBOCOP poster
    • ► July (2)
      • Celebrate Shark Week with Kevin Maher and Matt Glasson
      • Hot Dog Eating Contest -- FOR KIDS!
    • ► June (1)
      • Final KGO show at the 92Y Tribeca
    • ► May (1)
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Rip-Off Cinema
    • ► April (3)
      • Orwellian Clip Show
      • People Who Missed their calling in the WWE (part II)
      • This Friday: Kevin Geeks Out ALL-STARS SHOW!
    • ► March (8)
      • Wrestling A - Z
      • Truth-teller
      • This Saturday - Kevin Geeks Out About Wrestling
      • Kevin Geeks Out About...Wrestling
      • ENCORE SHOWS of KEVIN GEEKS OUT
      • Watch my new web-series: ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY
      • The kid digs KING KONG!
      • KILLER MACHINES AND ME
    • ► February (2)
      • The Duke of Doubt and Mascot nemeses
      • The Price is Right!
    • ► January (6)
      • Orwell presentation
      • GROWN-UP WORDS: Cordial Responses for Gifts You Do Not Want
      • Upcoming Show - Friday 1/18
      • Photoshopped Penguin Signs
      • GROWN-UP WORDS: The Pregnant Couple
      • Don Coscarelli Double-Feature
  • ► 2012 (46)
    • ► December (11)
      • GROWN-UP WORDS: Ice Breakers for Non-Parents
      • Traumafession: my first entry at Kindertrauma
      • Awesome Trailer, Not So Awesome Movie
      • GROWN-UP WORDS: Dodging Advice
      • GROWN-UP WORDS: Decoding Disinterest
      • GROWN-UP WORDS: teaser
      • Hobbit Fever!
      • Who Sang it Better? BATMAN edition
      • SHARKS VS. SUPER-HEROES
      • 12 SHELVED MOVIES THAT YOU MAY NEVER GET TO SEE
      • 12 Sequels You (Probably) Didn't Know About
    • ► November (1)
      • LIVE TAPING: Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay
    • ► October (5)
      • Star Wars of Italian Dish?
      • Post-Apocalyptic Trivia Quiz!
      • A's for APOCALYPSE: #7 in a series of pop culture primers
      • How to Lose An Election
      • NERD GRAFFITI
    • ► September (4)
      • CORRECTION
      • Kevin Geeks Out About The Post-Apocalypse
      • This Friday - come to the Banned Book Party
      • Coming Soon...
    • ► August (5)
      • FLASH GORDON and me
      • JAWSFEST 2012 and the BROOKLYN OBSERVATORY screening
      • Coloring Book Contest at KEVIN & MATT GEEK OUT ABOUT SHARK MOVIES
      • JAWS joke
      • Countdown to JAWSfest
    • ► July (1)
      • Shark Movie Mayhem at the Brooklyn Observatory
    • ► April (6)
      • A "LOST" LATE NIGHT CLIP: Bobcat's Trouser Snake on The Arsenio Hall Show
      • Upcoming shows
      • 10 Promised Sequels that Never Happened
      • A IS FOR ANDRE
      • 10 People Who Missed their calling in the WWE
      • A IS FOR AEON: #5 in a series of pop culture primers
    • ► March (4)
      • The Top Pop Culture Experts in Pop Culture
      • Troublemaker at the Comedy Institute
      • The Flat Stan Lee Project
      • Kevin Geeks Out About WRASSLIN'
    • ► February (3)
      • The Blog's the thing: Geoff Geeks out about Hamlet
      • Weird books my 1st grader has to read
      • The Blockheads - who knew?
    • ► January (6)
      • Don't trust the MTA
      • Pop Culture Blogger of the Year (my acceptance speech)
      • SECRETS OF A POP CULTURE EXPERT
      • Imaginary conversations about DUNE and THE DOORS
      • Save the Date: Kevin Geeks Out about WRASSLIN'
      • Early morning poetry on the C train
  • ▼ 2011 (70)
    • ► December (3)
      • Sorry, Matthew
      • R.I.P. Jerry Robinson
      • the return of KEVIN GEEKS OUT - HOLIDAY GRAB BAG SHOW!
    • ► November (5)
      • Recap of my guest lecture at the School of Visual Arts
      • Cute Kids urge you to support my Kickstarter Campaign for ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY
      • Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay - fundraising update
      • Live from Comic Con: Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay
      • Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay: a new video project by Kevin Maher
    • ► October (3)
      • Frankenstein & Me
      • SEXY NERDS & DIRTY WORDS - show recap with photos
      • "Why do you give into these impulses?"
    • ► September (7)
      • Save the Date: Sunday October 9th
      • Words to live by
      • 8 Reasons I'm psyched to see ALLIGATOR this Monday
      • A few thoughts about SHARK NIGHT 3-D
      • Just Sayin'
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Rip-Off Cinema
      • Separated at Birth?
    • ► August (14)
      • A IS FOR ANTHRAX: #4 in a series of pop culture primers
      • My wife is funnier than me
      • A is for AUTOMAN: #3 in a series of pop culture primers
      • 3 PEANUTS parodies that I like more than the JAWS one
      • THE FUTURE IS THE INTERNET: a true subway story
      • Freelancer's Company Picnic
      • The real ELECTRIC BANANA
      • A is for ANAKIN: #2 in a series of pop culture primers
      • One more thing about RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
      • APES movie during SHARK WEEK
      • Kevin Geeks Out About: Rise of/Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
      • JAWS vs. SHARK NIGHT: two kinds of shark movie posters
      • Happy Shark Week!
      • A IS FOR ALIEN: #1 in a series of pop culture primers
    • ► July (8)
      • Two killer jokes
      • What are you doing for the next 82 hours?
      • The Sober Surfer
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Evil Dogs of 1978
      • Working Class Stock Photo
      • Kevin Geeks Out About... EVIL CHILDREN
      • Hey Baby, it's the 4th of July
      • Kevin Geeks Out about... meeting Max Kalmanowicz, director of THE CHILDREN (1980)
    • ► June (10)
      • Kim Jong Il's Monster Movie
      • DON'T GO TO SLEEP: the movie that will forever change the way you look at pizza cutters
      • LONE DRIFTER: a look back. Also - help save UNDER St. Mark's
      • Kevin and Rusty talk about THE HAND (1981)
      • MOVIEOKE - wish list
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Casting Disasters
      • Is this what you want?
      • Kevin Geeks Out About: Douglas Coupland
      • Look at the Birds, up in the trees. ("we're not birds, we're a jug-band")
      • Separated at Birth?
    • ► May (6)
      • SAVE THE DATE - Thursday July 7th
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Mazes & Monsters
      • Happy Vincentennial
      • An important message about unimportant things
      • Kevin Geeks Out about EATEN ALIVE
      • The Hulk and Me
    • ▼ April (1)
      • Fan Festivals, Conventions, Paloozas and What Have You
    • ► March (3)
      • Look at me, look at me
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Dream Sequences (sort of)
      • Happy Anniversary KING KONG!
    • ► February (6)
      • Kevin Maher hosts The Oscar Screening Part at the Paley Center
      • Kevin Geeks Out About ROLLERBALL
      • About KEVIN MAHER
      • Oscar Party @ The Paley Center - hosted by ME
      • SHOCK WAVES: or How I learned to overcome zombie fatigue and love undead monster movies
      • Hey Tanzania, we got COMMANDO covered....
    • ► January (4)
      • F.A.Q. FOR THE GUY WITH THE HUGE NUTSACK (old comedy sketch)
      • THE SWEET SMELL OF CESS (old comedy sketch)
      • AUTOMATIC PILOT (old comedy sketch)
      • THE FORTUNE TELLER sketch (old comedy sketch I wrote)
  • ► 2010 (38)
    • ► December (4)
      • KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT GENRE BUSTERS - recap and bonus material
      • Who owns "They Live"? : a half-assed essay
      • My video series, OLD PEOPLE NEWS: The Tech Report
      • The trouble with Superman II: The Richard Donner cut
    • ► November (5)
      • Leslie Nielsen (1926 - 2010)
      • Something Old, Something New
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Genre Busters
      • Calvin Does Commando
      • We love Halloween
    • ► September (1)
      • GENRE BUSTERS: part of the Brooklyn Book Festival
    • ► August (6)
      • You're Gonna Need a Bigger Blog: Shark Show recap and bonus material
      • I'll Become the Sea: a Romance novel
      • Book of the year: another truly geeky thing about me
      • Friend, Good!
      • Sex, Love and "Bachelor Party"
      • LUCID: a movie I can't wait to see...
    • ► July (4)
      • Family Photos
      • Deleted Sequence from "KEVIN & MATT GEEK OUT ABOUT SHARKS"
      • SHARK FASHION
      • KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT SHARKS: Art Gallery
    • ► May (7)
      • The End of KEVIN GEEKS OUT
      • LOST Finale: H.W.G.A.S. edition
      • Kevin Geeks Out: A look back
      • TOP 5 RUMORS ABOUT THE END OF KEVIN GEEKS OUT
      • GEEK BINGO: the home edition
      • Tin Foil Hat Competition at this Friday's KEVIN GEEKS OUT
      • Kevin Geeks Out About ALIENS!
    • ► April (1)
      • Danomation - the letter D
    • ► March (2)
      • Death of a Geek: John McGarr
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Monkeys (a recap)
    • ► February (5)
      • Apes on Covers (seen at KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT MONKEYS)
      • Kevin Geeks Out About SHARKS
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Visions of the Future: Show Recap
      • Kevin Geeks Out about Monkeys!
      • SCI-FIVE: Five Cartoon Visions of the Future
    • ► January (3)
      • The ULTIMATE guide to ELEKTRO the Moto-Man, essay by M. Sweeney Lawless
      • Who Wore It Better?
      • VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
  • ► 2009 (49)
    • ► December (6)
      • Belated Obit: The Werewolf's Werewolf
      • BEST FILMS OF THE DECADE (as written by some dipshit)
      • This Friday: MYSTERY CUPCAKES!
      • Guy Smiley and Me (an embarrassing true story)
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Dummy Deaths: show recap
      • Freddy vs. the Tall Man: a deleted scene from Kevin Geeks Out About Dummy Deaths
    • ► November (4)
      • BATMAN Pancakes
      • Kingdom of the Spiders
      • Faces of Dummy Deaths: a fun photo quiz
      • Save the date: November 20th is DUMMY DEATH Night
    • ► October (10)
      • Kevin Geeks Out About Vincent Price: a recap
      • Vincent Price Impressions
      • Vincent Price and the Chocolate Factory
      • My Man Adam Rifkin talks Vincent Price
      • Recipes NOT Found in the Vincent Price Cookbook
      • Joss Whedon and Dr. Goldfoot
      • Vincent Price Night!
      • Geek Out with Me
      • Just let them put it in a little....
      • thanks for making WEREWOLF Night so rockin'...
    • ► September (10)
      • Six Cool Clips Not Being Shown at WEREWOLF Night!
      • Five Great Things About Werewolf Cupcakes
      • Werewolf Jukebox
      • 5 Music Videos About Werewolves
      • Werewolf New Yorker Cartoons
      • Are you ready for the Howling Contest?
      • Marx and Werewolves (and Vampires)
      • Werewolf Snacks
      • Hitler & Werewolves
      • WEREWOLF Night!
    • ► August (4)
      • Puppet Rodeo
      • Behind-the-Scenes: PUPPET RODEO
      • Behind the Scenes: OLD PEOPLE NEWS
      • Who Wore It Better?
    • ► June (3)
      • The real HBO Summer Film Series (schedule)
      • At Last: The Best of the Sci Fi Screening Room
      • Kevin needs food badly
    • ► May (3)
      • Bonus material from ROBOT Night!
      • Wednesday Night is ROBOT Night!
      • VOTE for the summer film festival
    • ► April (1)
      • REVISED Screening Schedule
    • ► March (4)
      • The Best of the Sci Fi Screening Room
      • Coming Soon...
      • SUPERHERO Night!
      • FANBOYS interview
    • ► February (2)
      • VIDEO-GAME-MOVIE Night!
      • The End of The Road
    • ► January (2)
      • LABYRINTH sing-along
      • Old People News
  • ► 2008 (85)
    • ► December (10)
      • Christmas on Mars
      • Five Freaky Frankenstein Films
      • Variations on a Theme
      • Wednesday is SCI FI MUSICAL Night!
      • Hi, I'm Kevin Maher's Blog...
      • SCI FI MUSICAL Night!
      • Please don't adapt THE ROAD as a TV Show
      • Why Not TRON-fest?
      • The Barbarella and other Sci-Fi Cocktails
      • BIGFOOT Night! A Look Back...
    • ► November (4)
      • Five More Hungry Actors
      • BIGFOOT Night!
      • Post-Election Day Special
      • Scary Sci Fi
    • ► October (5)
      • FRANKENSTEIN Night!
      • Toxic Avenger - the Musical
      • Reign of Fire
      • More than Super-Friends
      • Fly Fun Facts
    • ► September (11)
      • The Case For (and Against) Sci-Fi Comedies
      • 5 Actors Who Needed The Money
      • 5 Things You (Maybe) Didn't Know About Escape From New York
      • Attack of the Super Plants!
      • Monster Self-Defense
      • Everything You Wanted to Ask About the Sci Fi Screening Room, But Were Afraid to Know...
      • KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
      • Super-heroes Super-Styles
      • Actors we love to love: Brad Dourif
      • Dark City
      • X-Files FAQ
    • ► July (3)
      • BLOBFEST 2008
      • Creepy Clown Cinema
      • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (at the Bronx Zoo)
    • ► June (7)
      • SCI FI SCREENING ROOM: ROCK & RULE
      • WALL-E and other E.T. rip-offs
      • The Toxic Avenger: and other Sci Fi Musicals
      • Sports of the Future
      • F.A.Q.: King Kong (1976)
      • A tiger-bear sounds terrifying!
      • Thanks for BATMAN Night
    • ► May (7)
      • BATMAN Night! (a.k.a. The Dork Knight)
      • They Live
      • Fantastic Planet
      • Adult Films Inspired by Science-Fiction
      • Thanks for THE APPLE Night!
      • Join us for THE APPLE Night!
      • The Lost Subgenre: Sci Fi Buddy Cop Movies
    • ► April (5)
      • Obligatory Comic Con Episode
      • Beware of Your Computer
      • Sequels I Still Wanna See
      • Sci Fi Auto Show
      • Return of the Superhero Parody
    • ► March (6)
      • For the children...
      • Time Travel Movie Guide
      • KISS NIGHT rocked
      • KISS NIGHT is March 11th
      • The Asylum's Bread & Butter
      • Sci-Five: Oscar-Winners in B-Movie Trash
    • ► February (27)
      • George Romero talks Zombies
      • The Top 5 Spider movies
      • Comic Book Movies
      • Biker Heaven
      • A Boy and His Dog
      • The Destruction Tour of Sci Fi New York
      • American Idol and The Apple
      • Peter Jackson's first movie: Bad Taste
      • Franchise Face-Offs
      • An Oral History of The Star Wars Holiday Special
      • He Is Legend: Richard Matheson 101
      • Close Encounters with Bob Balaban
      • The Golden Compass
      • Now Playing in an Alternate Universe
      • Kaiju Big Battel/ Alien Vs. Predator Fever
      • Movies Not on Netflix
      • Southland Tales
      • Son of Casting Disasters
      • Employee Review (the lost webisode!)
      • Halloween Adventure
      • Casting Disasters
      • Dinosaur Madness
      • Robot Madness
      • How Will you survive Dragon Wars
      • Return of Return of the Living Dead
      • Worst Whatever Ever
      • Flash Gordon 101
  • ► 2007 (8)
    • ► June (8)
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      • MEDIA PARODIES
      • STREET BEAT
      • CELEBRITY GOSSIP TABLOID NEWS JOURNALISM
      • MASH-UPS and other trendy media gimmicks
      • MISC.
      • OTHER MOVIES
      • KEVIN MAHER BIO
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