The Monolith is back, and it’s found a new home! We’re getting our feet wet, but it looks like the new laptop works, so we’re going to give it a shot.

THE UNBOXING:

Pimps of the Geek:

Lejon: Dark Knight Rises

Bob: Dark Knight Rises

In an effort to evolve the podcast, we’ve decided that the show notes should be more complete. So, here’s a summary of what’s in the show:

Yoda Rant.

Doctor Who: is it For Kids – Friendly for Adults or For Adults – Friendly for Kids ~ What went wrong?

The Doctor’s jaunts into C.S. Lewis and Charles Dickens; Clever, Very Clever, doing the Locomotion.

Do Touchers want to be touched by the opening Rant?

Where’s Wall-E. Sonic the Hedgehog, there are many versions.

Hugo Nominees for Dramatic Short Form Presentation – Heavily weighted to Doctor Who. Where was Fringe?

Community: the Hugo Awards episode Explanation. What is The World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon), but more important Where is it?

Brigadoon.

How it turns out that Lexx is all Kai’s story.

Inception Still  not in 3-D.

Pimps of the Geek:

Lejon: None – Discussion of Total Recall

Bob: None – Discussion of Total Recall

The name pretty much says it all, folks.

Pimps of the Geek:

Lejon: Pocket Ref

Bob: Appreciation for the Style of World Building, details in the background

http://lejonajohnson.net/touchingthemonolith/wp-content/uploads/TTM_EP95_Craptacular.mp3

This week Bob and Lejon are all over the place. Literally. You may have noticed that the website has moved… with no fanfare, and we aren’t saying anything about it.

Pimps of the Geek:

Bob: Game of Thrones

Lejon: Phineas and Ferb

Well, that was a hiatus wasn’t it? We’re back again with a game that Bob came up with, and it makes this ep important to listen to, too.

Pimps of the Geek:

Bob: Attack the Block

Lejon: Soap

This week, Bob and Lejon rip the Doctor Who 2011 Christmas Episode to shreds. They’re brutal. But you’ll like it anyway.

Pimps of the Geek:

Lejon: WebMage series by Kelly McCullough

Bob: Sherlock

This week, Bob and Lejon relay tails of bad shopping experiences during the Christmas season. Yeah, don’t let this stuff happen to you.

No Pimps this week. We forgot.

The Christmas season has arrived again, and Lejon and Bob are revisiting their annual tradition of shopping suggestions for gifting to Geeks. Well, that’s where they started anyway…

Pimps of the Geek:

Bob: Shopping online

Lejon: Santiago by Mike Resnick

This week’s discussion… The potential Doctor Who Movie… Possibly.

Pimps of the Geek

Bob: Assassin’s Creed 2 or www.1980-games.com

Lejon: The Cornish Pasty

The Captains

This week is all about SHATNER, and the Shatnerian production called “The Captains”. Written by Shatner. Starring Shatner. Produced by Shatner.

Harold Hecuba couldn’t be more proud.

Pimps of the Geek:

Bob: The Captains

Lejon: The Captains