According to "An Egocentric and Convoluted History of Early 'Filk' and Filking" by Lee Gold, the word "filk" was born as a typo in an early 1950s essay submitted to a fanzine about the influence of ...

Second chances don’t always come, especially for senior wrestlers. One mistake at tournament time can mean the end of a promising season and career. That’s exactly what happened to Hutchinson’s senior ...

I am totally in love with this band Goblin Cock, whose entire goal in life is to sing about geeky topics in a register that can only be described as Spinal Tappian. This video from their song “Stumped ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Some singers and songwriters gathered recently in the East Bay to sing their songs - albeit singing slightly off-beat - and deliberately so. It's a new type of music on the ...

LOS ANGELES --At a suburban hotel here, in a windowless conference room called the "Hollywood" suite, a rapt circle of geeks sings songs about spaceships. Accompanied by acoustic guitars, clarinets ...

The latest movie by Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, is a lot like their other movies in which a guy endures a lot of terrible things happening to him. This one's different though, in that ...

HOUSTON — As two dozen people eased into their seats in a small hotel conference room, Rob Balder stood at the edge of the stage for a preconcert sound check. An iPod, plugged into the room's sound ...

What has 30 legs, five laptops, four kazoos and one Yoda? A filk singing circle. Filk is a little-known genre of folk music composed and performed by science-fiction fans, usually revolving around sci ...

I love the highly-specific title of this academic paper by Melissa Tatum, Robert Spoo, and Banjamin Pope: “Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the ...

Dallas has seen more than its share of conventions this year, with something for almost every geeky interest there is. For the literary nerd who scoffs at A-Kon and those other low-brow affairs, there ...

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