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An All-Star cast, an awesome director, and one of the most believable super heroes in Marvel's Goodie Bag, this past weekend, I had the pleasure of watching the first adaptation of Iron Man for the big screen.

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SYNOPSIS: Hell, Hell, The Gang's All Here. The conclusion of Black Shadow

Thank you all for making this an awesome journey. Tune in to the end of the episode for more acknowledgments and Thanks.

Also stay tuned to http://stevesaylor.net for more details of a new project on May 11, 2008!

Time: 54:55
Episode Recap: Tee Morris - Podcasting For Dummies, MOREVI, Billibub Baddings - http://teemorris.com
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For those who listen to This Week in Geek you may know already that Mike, Pierce, Stefan, Jordan, and myself have been doing reviews of DVDs, Video Games, and Geek Gadgets since last summer.

Well, I thought I would give it a go on my own with my own reviews of software, hardware, and other geeky gadgets I can get my hands on.

This review is going to be for NewsGator's now free RSS Reader, NetNewsWire

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Stay tuned to http://stevesaylor.net on May 11th 2008 for a very special announcement.

Oh, and since it's also Mother's Day, start getting your mom's some gifts why don't ya?

As always I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

SYNOPSIS: Everything comes to a head in this episode as Black Shadow is faced with the ultimate fight to keep Hell's Armies from breaking through the Portal.

The Second To Last Episode!!!

Stay tuned to May 11th 2008 for a special announcement!

Time: 26:31
Episode Recap: WebGenii - http://webgenii.ca
Promo: Mark Jeffrey - The Two Travellers - http://maxquickseries.com
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For those who remember, back in June of last year, Mike and I interviewed our first major special guest, for This Week in Geek. That guest was composer of Battlestar Galactica, Bear McCreary. Check out the interview here.

This interview was just after Season 3 of BSG (that's short form for Battlestar Galactica for the uninitiated), and we obviously talked about the very hyped "All Along The Watchtower" Caprica cover. So if you were interested to hear from the composer's point of view of how he put that together, check out the interview.

Okay, now on to what I really wanted to talk about in this post. First off, Season 4 of BSG is in full swing, and the music I feel for BSG has kicked up a major notch than the first three seasons. I just love Bear's music in this show, and I've always wanted to know more about how he put the music together, even if I don't know anything about making music.

But instead of having to pore through each episode and wonder how did he do that, have no fear, Bear is doing that for me on his own blog!.

He is going into immense detail for each of the new episodes of Season 4, pretty much as soon as the episode is live. He shows screenshots of what piece is in what part of the show, as well as snippets of his musical composition, for those who are really into sheet music, or just wondered what notes are actually playing.

I highly recommend checking them out. Although I have to warn you, Spoilers are abundant in the posts, so watch the episodes, head to Bear's Blog, and enjoy some awesome behind the scenes action of our favourite Sci-Fi series ever!

So say we all.

As always I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Unfortunately due to studying for exams, and the GRAFITI awards this weekend, Black Shadow Episode #13 will have to be delayed until next week. In the meantime, here is the epic Radio Audio Drama I was involved with, with Mike "The Birdman" Dodd for Niagara College. It's called Wrong Guy, Wrong Time.

Pile-Driving The Shark Productions presents:
Wrong Guy, Wrong Time - An Audio Drama

SYNOPSIS: Dave, a hapless Bank Employee, is caught in the middle of a French terrorist attack at his bank by a mysterious group called, THE BLACK SHADOWS. With the help of some action heroes of our past, Dave is definitely the wrong guy in a wrong time. This hilarious Audio Drama is produced by Pile-driving The Shark Productions in association with CRNC 90.1 FM The Heat, Niagara's New Rock.

Hope you enjoy it.

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I am blogging this from my iPod Touch, however I thought I would at least try to live blog the award ceremony at Niagara College. Today will determine whether This Week in Geek is a two year running award winner.

1:10pm - Waiting for us to be able to go into the auditorium. Right now I'm not feeling really nervous, however the pressure is definitely there. Personally I hope we win, but I won't be too disappointed if we don't. We are up against our best friend and TWiG producer Pierce, but also Erich who if he wins we would be surprised, however all power to him.

Here is a video of a behind the scenes look at today's last show on 90.1 FM of This Week in Geek.

(Oh and there is a post-roll ad, just to let you know)

For those who tuned in this morning, thank you!

Hope you enjoy!

As always, I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Today April 18th at 9:30am EST, my co-host Mike Dodd and I are going to be broadcasting our last radio broadcast on 90.1 FM The Heat.

However, this will not be our last podcast episode, we are still going to be podcasting for a few more months, and more great content will be released at http://thisweekingeek.net, however this post is talk about our journey on 90.1 FM.

The station is of course run by Niagara College Broadcasting Students. As being a broadcasting student, I was excited to hear about the ability to create a Specialty Show to feature on the station for extra credit in our Radio Production Class. At first, I wanted to do a Tech oriented show. Similar to Leo's The Tech Guy Radio Show. I also wanted to do it with a co-host.

I've learned from my podcasting experience, that a person to bounce ideas off of each other and having a conversation about the topics at hand is beneficial to making a great show. However, the friend I had in mind as a co-host did not work out. Mainly due to schedules. I had to make a decision on Air Time in a very short notice of 3 days.

So, the pressure was on, not only to come up with a good format for the show, but for a co-host. Well, I decided to focus in the world of geekdom, and the first person I could think of outside of my normal friend circle was Mike Dodd. He had heard that I wanted to do a show about geekdom and he offered his services as a guest expert on Comic Books. To be honest, he was the only one who offered to help out with the show. So, being that I knew Mike was interested, I asked him if he wanted to be a co-host. He said yes right away.

Mind you, you have to remember, this was all decided 3 days before our first On-Air Show!

Mike and I barely knew each other, and we were going to be co-hosts? Doesn't make sense right? It doesn't, but in a way it does.

On Jan 31, 2007, Mike and I went on air for the first time. We had talked before hand about the show, only briefly, but as soon as the mics turned on, and the On Air Sign turned the colour of red as Mike's Hair, and My Superman T-Shirt, we instantly became not co-hosts, but friends.

Even after our first show, we received an email from a friend that told us that it seemed as if Mike and I were best friends for years! We just had that great of a chemistry.

With that said, the chemistry continued on, and showed in our episodes as we continued to broadcast out of what we call the "fishbowl". This Week in geek later on that April earned us our first Niagara College GRAFITI award for "Best Specialty Show on 90.1 FM" going up against experienced 2nd and 3rd year Broadcasting Students.

When we came back on the air in September, we were pumped and ready to bring our success to the next level. We did not stop, and 33 Radio Broadcasts under our belt, we are not only ending our run on 90.1 FM, we are again nominated for our second GRAFITI award for "Best Specialty Show on 90.1 FM" this Saturday April 19th. Of course Mike and I hope we win, but still the fact that we were nominated again, means that our little show was not just a fluke. We worked hard, and I thank God everyday that this experience changed my life forever. Not only gaining friends, but a career focus, and a once in a life time experience, that I will never forget.

So 90.1 FM, we hardly knew ye, but we always know that you gave us our start.

Tune in live tomorrow if you can by clicking here

As always, I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor