What is the Geekerati Newsletter?
The Geekerati Newsletter is a re-envisioning of my old Geekerati blog and the Geekerati podcast (episodes also available on Spotify). Over time, it will completely merge those two sites as I create new written, spoken, and video content about a wide range of Geek Culture.
The old Geekerati blog was a web journal that engaged in general interest discussion of films, TV shows, role playing games, and Science Fiction and Fantasy literature. The discussions ranged from news and reviews to gaming related posts that contained game content. I also included discussions of how to run games and how parents can introduce their children into the tabletop gaming hobby. As a father of twin daughters, with whom I play a wide variety of games, I love introducing my hobbies and obsessions with others.
The new Geekerati Newsletter covers similar ground, but is much more focused on building a community. My (roughly) weekly “Geekly Rundown” not only includes my thoughts on random geeky topics (the weekly “Oddity”), it also includes numerous links to other geek sites I found interesting (“Glimpes from the Substackosphere and Blogoverse”). The Weekly Geekly Rundown is more than a series of links though. I add detailed thoughts regarding why I’m sharing those particular pages in a way that promotes the other sites and creates dialogue. I also regularly feature film reviews from Luke Y Thompson and Courtney Howard with my thoughts about them in my “Film Cavalcade” section. Additionally, my Rundown includes one Role Playing Game recommendation, a number of music recommendations, and a film recommendation. It’s a real Newsletter in the traditional sense.
In addition to the Rundown, I regularly publish reviews of film, television, and tabletop games as well as discussions about role playing games and how to have great play experiences. In essence, if you can “geek out” about a topic there will probably be at least one post about it here at some point.
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