★ Good things come in threes: Musketeers, Amigos, Stooges and Yada’s ★

This week we welcome Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible to the show! We also welcome back Josh the Intern who moved to Austin with his band, Know More Robots!

Episode 0000048 Features

Austin Grossman wrote the book on superheroes — literally.

from wikipedia:
The novel {Soon I Will Be Invincible} is told through two alternating first person narratives of the characters Dr. Impossible and Fatale. Dr. Impossible is a self-proclaimed supervillain of the mad genius variety, who suffers from “Malign Hypercognition Disorder” (”evil genius” syndrome). Fatale is a female cyborg and the novel begins with her called up to join the superhero group The Champions, a Justice League of America/Avengers-style team in the wake of the disappearance of the superhero CoreFire.

Visit the book’s website: sooniwillbeinvincible.com and tell Austin we said hello!

We also welcome Josh the Intern to the show, who’s up & re-located to Austin with his band Know More Robots.

Photo supplied by Gary Cooper and stolen from the KMR site, so nyaaa.

Visit Know More Robots online: myspace.com/knowmorerobots and the official KMR site: knowmorerobotsband.com

This week we welcome author Paul Malmont back to the show!

Paul first appeared on The Roundtable in June of 2006 to discuss his book “Chinatown Death Cloud Peril”, and he’s returned to tell the world about his latest book: “Jack London in Paradise“.

SFGATE, Home of the San Francisco Chronicle says:

“Jack London in Paradise” reveals London as a creature of the cinematic age and a writer intrigued with cultures and races not his own. He emerges as our contemporary, not a musty figure from the past. In Hawaii, he comes to grips with his tangled self and sees himself for the first time as he really is. He’s a tragic hero, though he can also be a bit of a buffoon. Like the real London, he makes speeches and pontificates. Moreover, he’s afraid that he’s been cursed; his great wealth and fame only add to his woes.

Visit Paul’s website: www.paulmalmont.com and check-out Jack London in Paradise!

This week we bring back the roundtable, with actual discussating. It was a little exhausting, but we covered every topic known to genii from pole to pole.

Featured in episode 0000046:

We discussed what we had for lunch, Red Stripe Lauger, Blood River and Beer from the Republic of Congo, Frank Miller’s The Spirit, Sin City, The chase scenes in Ronin, The Hawk, Gill Gerrard, Erin Grey, F. Murray Abraham, Ben Folds, Randy Newman, The Killing of a Porno Queen, Kojak, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Cale and Vitamin D, Music for the Knee Plays, U2’s The Unforgettable Fire, Ray Stevens, Motley Crue, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Armageddon, Michael Bay and the rest of the global impact films, Bruce Willis, Moonlighting, Unbreakable, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, The Dark Knight, the Batman franchise, The Bionic Genius Hat Company, Tom Wopat, Bernadette Peters, Obama’s Manatees, Obamafication, man caves, the ATF, The Comics Curmudgeon, former intern Josh, Comics Curdungeon, and snoods from every corner of wikipedia.

Thanks again to our sponsor, The Bionic Genius Hat Company.

You may already know that there’s awesome things to see on Facebook, like bacon or Matt Hofmann’s hair.

{Matt was a special guest who glistened during the Iron Jedi match on Episode 0000043 “A Jedi Thanksgiving”.}
Photo used without permission, and I’ll likely be subject to a Vulcan pinch, a mind-meld, or whatever the Cylons do to their enemies.

But I digress.

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Happy Christmas, Geniuses!

This week I changed the format completely with a shocking twist.

Please don’t tell Roy and Terry.
Maybe they won’t even realize that I taped-over the Larry David interview.

Thanks again to our sponsor, The Bionic Genius Hat Company.

Re-posted from SLASHFOOD

Sure, many folks go to an Alice B. Toklas place when creative brownie making is mentioned, but for a goody two-shoes like me (with a cop pal as my afternoon’s company to boot!), there’s much swoony satisfaction in a recipe that highlights some of my favorite legal vices. I’m hardly the first to alight at bacon brownies, but I decided to borrow a step from the bourbon balls I’m often rolling up ’round this time of year for holiday party purposes. A double-soak — once pre and once mid-toasting of a half cup of pecans in bourbon, and a swap-in of the nut-infused bourbon for the traditional vanilla brings a slightly tipsy edge to a deeply fudgy brownie. A grind of fresh black pepper (inspired by a Chanterelle Staff Meals brownie recipe, which credited the technique to Maida Heatter) strums the palate to life; a subtle note of smoked salt lets the bolder bacon sing.

Had there not been half a foot of snow atop my grill cover, I’d have seen what came of an attempt to tobacco-smoke the pecans and chocolate, but for now, these are more than sufficiently wicked.

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Episode 0000044 things and what-not:

This week, The Geniuses return for a rapidly-failing attempt at anything resembling comedy!

Features include:

• Can you really call these features?
• What does a genius eat for lunch?
  
• Break for our sponsor: The Bionic Genius Hat Company
• Airing of the Grievances
• ‘The Interviews’ and why they suck
  
• The Universe’s Fastest-Growing Quiz Sensation: Seinfeld Girlfriend, or Go-Go?
• Excessive Blurting
• Random “This Year in Death” recap from the Dead People Server
• No Festivus Miracles were found on wikipedia either
• Twisted Sister Recorded a Christmas song, “O come All You faithful”

That’s about it.

Apologies and kind thanks to our sponsor, The Bionic Genius Hat Company.

PSST!
Roy wanted to know what Dinosaurs had to do with Christmas.
A kind listener sent us this:

The Christosaur