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Marcus trying to look cool.Marcus Alexander Hart was born in 1976, making him exactly the same age as the VHS recorder.

He grew up in Fulton, New York, spent much of the '90s in Sarasota, Florida, and then jumped over to Los Angeles, California at the turn of the century. He hopes to someday move to Seattle, just so that he can see what that corner of the country is like.

Marcus is the author of Caster's Blog: A Geek Love Story, the tale of one improbable year told as an online journal; and Walkin' on Sunshine: A Quantum Physics Sex Farce. His apocalyptic comedy novel The Oblivion Society was a 2008 IPPY Award gold medalist.

Marcus also contributed to the book From Hollywood Experts and Published Authors: Words of Wisdom for Starving Artists, which was a silver medalist in the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

Marcus is the former editor-in-chief of misinformer.com, and is currently a senior editor at Geek Monthly magazine. He enjoys Halloween, tacos, and half-inch video tape with an anti-despooling mechanism.

Walkin' on Sunshine: A Quantum Physics Sex Farce

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When a doomsday weapon capable of vaporizing the entire universe falls into the hands of a suicidal 184-year-old woman, humanity's only hope for survival lies with a satellite repair man, a student intern, an extra-terrestrial pervert, a mad scientist, a fanatical soldier, and a blond bombshell with a secret agenda.

Lost in space on a derelict spaceship traveling at the impossible speed of light, the crew must contend with a malfunctioning time machine and a robotic saboteur who can transplant brains with a touch of her fingertips!

Smart, sexy, and relentlessly fast-paced, this show's comedy runs the gamut from Einsteinian physics to gratuitous booby jokes. Walkin' on Sunshine is like an episode of Three's Company written by Stephen W. Hawking!

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Caster's Blog: A Geek Love Story

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Ray Caster is a regular guy who drew the short stick on life. He works in a miserable office doing a miserable job. He gets no respect from his co-workers. For that matter, he gets no respect from his friends. Caster's existence is one pathetic downward spiral of TiVo and fast food until the day his life is turned upside-down by a goddess from an auto parts store.

With its snappy, conversational writing style, Caster's Blog captures the comedy and tragedy of geek life from a first-hand perspective.

To learn more about Caster's Blog, or to download the entire book as a free PDF, visit CastersBlog.com.
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  • Bullet Point Review: The Fourth Kind

    2009 Nov 08

    The Fourth Kind• The Fourth Kind is, if the marketing is to be believed, based on "archival footage" of "the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented." This actual footage is combined with reenactments, with ghoulish psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler played by hot model/actress Milla Jovovich.

    • First off, for the sake of argument, let's assume that the "real" footage in this film really is really real, with no quotes. In that case, the real footage in this film is absolutely chilling. If some of these real clips of real people don't send a shiver up your spine, you are simply not alive. They run the gamut from disturbing to outright terrifying. Because they are real. Really real. You believe they're real, because they have a lot of people screaming, and they get crazy distorted whenever something interesting happens.

    • The real footage is gold. The trouble with the movie comes in the reenactments, which are poorly acted and horribly shot. As I've said before, if a film is directed poorly enough that I notice it, then somebody has really gone out of their way to do a shitty job. Oh, I get it, aliens come from the sky! So we should have lots of really high crane shots, 'cause that's how aliens see us parking our cars! And there is no such thing as "too long" when it comes to tight profile shots of a man's talking lips. And, you know what? Go ahead and spin that camera whenever you can. It won't take us out of the movie and make us sick at the same time. It'll be great.

    • For example, we hear a horrifying totally real, real-world audiotape of Dr. Tyler's bloodcurdling screams while an unknown entity speaks Sumerian to her in an inhuman voice. After taking us to the edge of our seats, why on earth would you dilute the real Dr. Tyler's reaction to this with a frenetic bullshit montage of scrolling 24 squares full of a pensive Milla Jovovich and a tape deck rewinding? It's like the director is trying his damnedest to destroy all of the totally real, real-world tension of the moment.

    • It's safe to say that the only thing this movie has going for it is the incredible totally real, real-world archive footage that is its heart and driving force. Because, were this movie to be fictional, it would be completely boring and pointless. As they say, "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." We forgive The Fourth Kind for being an illogical mess of loose ends and unmotivated choices because it's totally real, real life, and not an unforgivably poorly written script that no rational person would possibly believe.

    • On an unrelated note, outside of a few scattered mentions on freshly made websites that no longer exist, nobody has ever heard of totally real, real-world psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler.

  • Geek Monthly - November 2009

    2009 Nov 05

    November Geek It's November, so that means, purely in theory, there is a November issue of Geek Monthly.

    Should this issue actually exist, you can find my Random Reviews on pages 76 and 78 including Think Gum, the Shred Sled, Minoru 3D Webcam, the Beamz, MARBS, and Nerf N-Strike for Wii.

    Do you want to be reviewed in an increasingly improbable magazine? Send your stuff for review here:
    Geek Monthly
    Attn: Random Reviews
    29219 Canwood St. Suite 100
    Agoura Hills, CA 91301

  • Where's the costumes?

    2009 Nov 03

    All right, it's November 3. Where are everybody's Halloween costume pictures?

    You haven't all left us for Facebook, have you?

  • Never work with kids or ewoks...

    2009 Nov 02

    This is what live TV is all about. Stick with it, it only gets better.

  • Halloween: MacAbree Manor 2009

    2009 Nov 02

    Here it is, November first, and all of the creepy creeps and haunted hangers-on of MacAbree Manor have slipped into the ether for another year. Thanks to everyone for another great party!

    Amanda has posted a bunch of pictures, and so has Gary

    This year our old pal Boris tried his hand at setting up a photo studio in the middle of the mansion. The results are here.

    Our costumes were pretty simple this year. After last year's Borg vs. Dalek debacle, we made a vow that this year we would we would have costumes that let us sit down and fit through doorways. Our vow for next year? No mustaches.




    From what I learned at the party, if you were born before 1980, you'll recognize us as Magnum, P.I.'s Jonathan Higgins and Thomas Magnum. If you were born after 1980, you'll recognize us as Fat Hitler and Vacation Mario.

    Here's a refresher course for those of you in the latter camp. Although, to be fair, I do look more like Mario. My face conspires against me.