Worth Your Consideration #019 - A GF5 Linkdump

• Ain’t It Cool News and Lostpedia hooked us up with the promotional poster for the fifth season of Lost last night, and I have to say that I’m a big fan of this thing. Blue Eagle Islander at the Lostpedia Blog calls it “too much of a clone of the Season 4 poster,” but I have to respectfully disagree. If it’s close in theme to the season four poster, it deviates in how much more attention is given to the characters, as opposed to the landscape. It’s a subtle difference, but could actually end up being a telling one.
• If Lost inspires you to write, as it sure as hell does for me, then Forty Chapters might be worth checking out. Mashable offers a pretty favorable review.
• The Nine Inch Nails tour that I and others have been telling you to go and see since the summer now has trailer. It’s brief, but it gives you a full-motion snippet of what you’re in for if you’re lucky enough to score a ticket.
• I have never been a big fan of music subscription services like the Zune Pass—as Uncle Steve suggests, I’d rather own my music—but a recent development has piqued my Interest. As reported today by Electronista, the $15 monthly Zune Pass now gives subscribers the option of keeping 10 songs permanently at the end of each month. That’s a really tempting offer. Access to all of the music in their library, plus 10 songs per month to keep even if/when I quit the service? If Apple/iTunes offered that, I’d be signing up today.

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Geek Force Utterz #042 - Lost Premiere Date

The premiere date for the fifth season of Lost has been set, and that should be cause for excitement, but some fans are upset that they’ll have to wait until January 21, 2009 for new episodes. Um, hello?!? Think, McFly. Think! When did it premiere last year? At the end of January. It’s actually coming back on air a week earlier this year, so let’s not get our panties in a bunch. Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz is all about this hullabaloo. Listen via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

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Geek Force Utterz #036 - Lost RPG?

I’m still behind on getting the site back on track (next week is looking more likely right now), but I have been thinking a lot about what I’m going to do, once I have time to do something. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is a bi-weekly comics column (alternating weeks with Shawn Lampron’s, which I promise is coming back really soon) focused on my past experiences with comic books and comic book stores. And thinking about that got me thinking about role playing games, specifically Rifts, and specifically how the more sci-fi parts of the Lost mythology remind me of Rifts campaigns I used to dream of running before everyone I played RPGs with got sick of Rifts altogether.

Listen in to today’s call via the embed above or via Utterli.com, then add your two cents in the comments.

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Geek Force Utterz #025 - Entertainment as Reward

In today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz, I talk about why I’m happy that new episodes of Lost won’t premiere until late January or early February. And if you can’t see/hear the embed above, and you absolutely have to hear what I’ve got to say on this matter, remember that you can listen to this call over at Utterli.com, too.

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Spoiling Season Five #03

This week in Lost spoilers seems to have focused in on a carpet-cleaning van and the various actors seen in or around it. If you can stomach some spoilers, let’s jump below the fold and have ourselves a chat about what the heck is going on in the world of our favorite castaways.

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