The Secret Lair

In this highly unedited show, witness the wonder, the non-stop action that is Chris’s last game night with Overlord Johnson and the rest of the gaming crew.

Better show notes to follow, when Overlord Johnson has escaped from the Metaquantum Frabulator which his young padawan made from Legos and some spare plutonium.

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Det visar anteckningar för detta avsnitt var oavsiktligt förlorade när köra genom vårt nya översättningen motor från Ikea. När vi får unBorked kommer vi att få några riktigt påpekar upp.

No, really.

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[Insert obligatory announcement about sacking those responsible for the previous notes here.]

A word of warning: there is some very uncensored language in this episode. We usually try to keep it fairly clean (though we do have an “explicit” tag), but the potty-mouths runneth over a couple of times.

And now, the show notes.

The Secret Library

• We discuss the graphic novel Shooting War by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman. Shooting War was suggested by Troy in our GoodReads group, and he has written a review as well.
• Chris likes the word whinging.
• We will eventually be discussing The Sky People by S.M. Stirling, but Mr. Newquist seems to have recovered some of the suppressed memories of our previous encounter and, as a result, has become rather evasive.¹
• We will also eventually be discussing Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. Though Scalzi and Sterling use many of the same words in their respective books, the ordering of those words is vastly different from one novel to the other, so we would strong suggest that you read them both to avoid confusion.

The Screening Room

• Iron Man, was very entertaining and we both liked it. A lot.
  • The name of the doctor who helps Tony Stark build the original armor is Yinsen, and he was portrayed by Shaun Toub.
• The Incredible Hulk appears to hearken back to the television series starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. We’re both looking forward to it.
  • We both like Tim Roth (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), who plays Emil Blonsky.
• Marvel is tying their superhero movies together in preparation for an Avengers movie. Go, Marvel, go!
• Kris is really looking forward to Captain America: The First Avenger. I mean really looking forward to it. If you happen to be in the theater when he sees it for the first time, do not be surprised if he throws his panties at the screen.
• We discuss the casting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
• Other superhero movies on the horizon that we’re looking forward to: Hellboy II: The Golden Army and The Dark Knight.
• Will there be a Thor movie? We’d watch it.
• There was a fourth Indiana Jones movie. You may have heard of it. We have more than heard of it, we have seen it. Armed with this advantage, we feel comfortable discussing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Pepsi and comparing it to the other three.
  • There is some degree of dissent in the Lair as to the relative merits of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
  • At one point, our in-studio audience can no longer hold her objections, so she gets all up in Chris’ grill.
• The commentary tracks on the 3-disc special edition of Hellboy are very good; so says Kris.²
• Kris recently saw Cube Zero and provides a brief, insightful, reasoned and well-supported opinion of the entire series.
• Kris will soon watch In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. Chris has already seen it. The cast is very intriguing. The very idea of Ray Liotta as a dark wizard boggles the mind.
• Regarding Renaissance, Kris meant “motion-capture”, not “stop-motion”. Get it together, Johnson!
• Chris saw Prince Caspian and provides a comparison to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
• Kris didn’t make it all the way through The Golden Compass, based on the first book of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series.
• Chris did make it all the way through Revolver, starring Jason Statham and Ray Liotta, but it wasn’t quite what he expected.

Lairkeeping

• Our theme music is “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Jonathan Coulton. Cleveland-area fans can see Mr. Coulton live at the Beachland Ballroom on Friday, 11 July 2008 at 7pm.
• We welcome your feedback at The Secret Lair. Dot com. Such feedback may be submitted via electronic mail or our online contact form.
• It would not kill you to visit our official community.³
• Information and commentary on books we have discussed, may be in the process of discussing and will one day discuss is available at The Secret Library.

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1. It has been suggested that the source of the delay is internal to The Secret Lair. Kris may or may not have failed to e-mail Mr. Newquist with the details of our recording schedule for the weekend, but that is entirely irrelevent. History will decide who is to blame. [↩]
2. Keep in mind that this is a man who recently wished he had a womb so he could bear director Guillermo del Toro’s offspring. [↩]
3. This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA, the AMA, or anyone who could reliably determine whether our official community is, in fact, capable of inducing death. [↩]

Due to an unfortunate accident, The Secret Lair’s official stenographer was eaten by a crocodile last week.¹ While our search for a replacement continues, it has fallen to me to provide show notes for The Secret Lair Episode 0009.² Unfortunately, I’m a very busy overlord lately and rather than delay release of the episode and further,³ I’m going to post the scraps⁴ I’ve got now and fill in the rest once I get an hour or so to myself.

April Fool’s Day

• Economic Stimulation Package. Did American Public Radio’s Marketplace play an April Fool’s Day joke on Chris?
• YouTube rickrolled everyone.
• So did Mahalo Daily.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation is moving their headquarters.
• Twatr is an interesting new Twitter-clone…for your genitals.

WordPress 2.5

• …has a new administrator interface. Chris isn’t a fan.
• …has a new image/media management system…which doesn’t seem to work on The Secret Lair.
• …has a redesigned Write Post screen. We don’t much care for it.
• Kris has more to say about WordPress 2.5 on his blog.

Unquiet Desperation

• Unquiet Desperation is an online poetry ‘zine.
• It is also Chris’ blog and podcast.
• Awkward!

Minion Recruiting Board

• Thanks to P.G. Holyfield and Scott Sigler, we have a number of job openings at the Lair.
• Fill out our super-secret minion application form, if you can find it.

The Secret Library

• Our current novel is The Sky People by S.M. Stirling.
• Our current graphic novel is Shooting War by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman .
• NEW! At the request of our minions, we have decided to add a podiobook section to The Secret Library. Our first selection is The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey. Subscribe at Podiobooks.com.

RPGs

• The Dresden Files RPG bleeding edge beta continues.
• Gunnar scored some WarHammer RPG 2nd Edition sourcebooks and Half-Price Books recently.

Movies and Television

• Kris saw Spider-Man 3 and wishes he hadn’t.
• Chris says it was worse than Batman and Robin.
• Check out How It Should Have Ended. (YouTube)
• The Spectacular Spider-Man is on the Kids’ WB and is far more entertaining.

Housekeeping

• We have a feedback address, where you may send us feedback. At The Secret Lair. Dot Com.
• There’s also a contact form, which no one has used yet. Will you be the first?
• It is entirely possible to join our official community, should you be so inclined.
• Our theme music is “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Intertroubadour extraordinaire, Jonathan Coulton.

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1. Let’s not be concerned with who may or may not have forgotten to engage the magnetic couplers in the holding environment. Pointing fingers isn’t going to get us a new stenographer and playing The Blame Game isn’t helping morale. [↩]
2. Writing the show notes is not punishment. As co-overlord, I’m above punishment, even if you could prove conclusively that it was me. Which you can’t. [↩]
3. What’s that? Maybe I should have delayed release of the crocodile? Oh, great. That’s very mature. How about this: maybe you should think twice before you go hiring your relatives, okay? People get eaten, gassed, disintegrated, mutated and shunted to other dimensions around here all the time, but when it’s your cousin it’s suddenly a big deal. [↩]
4. Shut up. Just shut up! [↩]

Your Overlords would like to publicly thank Natalie Metzger for her fine work on the logo for The Secret Lair. She has been named the Secretary of Artistic Propaganda, will be give one of the office near the cappuccino machine, and has a boy on order from Barbados to serve as a personal assistant. Bow to her, and give her the respect she deserves.

-The Mgmt.

“Infidel Defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood.”
- Thulsa Doom