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Irina has been shadowing dragstar Heklina around San Francisco for so long, she may as well get a Tranny Chaser t-shirt! You can get one for yourself at Heklina s legendary party called Trannyshack mucking up our fair city weekly for 12 years, the club night has been officially recognized by our own special mayor, Gavin Newsom. No Cher or Barbara Streisand here, these drag queens do songs by Arcade Fire, Peaches, Missy Elliot, Bjork and the inimitable Kate Bush. Heklina has hosted Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Charo, Gwen Stefani and NY party monster Lady Bunny. Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performed frequently at Trannyshack before moving to New York. Heklina IS a super drag geek and here we get a piece of history and a totally different kind of geek. Episode links: Heklina, Trannyshack, Trannsformation photos [thanks Tara Spalty] Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Irina has been shadowing dragstar Heklina around San Francisco for so long, she may as well get a Tranny Chaser t-shirt! You can get one for yourself at Heklina's legendary party called Trannyshack -- mucking up our fair city weekly for 12 years, the club night has been officially recognized by our own special mayor, Gavin Newsom. No Cher or Barbara Streisand here, these drag queens do songs by Arcade Fire, Peaches, Missy Elliot, Bjork and the inimitable Kate Bush. Heklina has hosted Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Charo, Gwen Stefani and NY party monster Lady Bunny. Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performed frequently at Trannyshack before moving to New York. Heklina IS a super drag geek and here we get a piece of history and a totally different kind of geek.

While some of tech nobodies thought some kind of Apple event crowded out San Francisco with geeky types, Irina knew better. Tens of thousands of people pummeled our fair city with their presence to attend the WWWDC the World Wide Wrestling Developers Conference, where nerdy alter ego s of pale weaklings body-slammed each other deep into the night! Irina s wresting twin, The Kazakhstane Krusher no impostor like Borat (the entire film was shot in Romania!) Irina was born in the nuclear waste fields of the former Soviet republic, and has the anatomic anomalies to prove it. Some of those anomalies are included in her signature moves, the K-Rocket Launchers! Lets see what kind of damage the bone-thin denizens of geekdom can bring in the wresting ring! Episode links: Buzz s WWDC Party, Kazakhstan Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

While some of tech nobodies thought some kind of Apple event crowded out San Francisco with geeky types, Irina knew better. Tens of thousands of people pummeled our fair city with their presence to attend the WWWDC -- the World Wide Wrestling Developers Conference, where nerdy alter ego's of pale weaklings body-slammed each other deep into the night! Irina's wresting twin, The Kazakhstane Krusher -- no impostor like Borat (the entire film was shot in Romania!) -- Irina was born in the nuclear waste fields of the former Soviet republic, and has the anatomic anomalies to prove it. Some of those anomalies are included in her signature moves, the K-Rocket Launchers! Lets see what kind of damage the bone-thin denizens of geekdom can bring in the wresting ring!

June 11 is John Wayne s birthday and what better way to commemorate the Duke s enduring legacy than the John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight at Alamo Square in San Francisco? Don t answer that, let s let Irina try. Episode links: John Wayne, John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight, Music: Doctor Popular Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Ben Huh, chief cheezburger of I Can Has Cheezburger has turned his love of LOLCats into a popular site and even scored a book deal. While at MIT for ROFLCon, he stepped into the role of Stephen LOLking to explain the mysteries of his Universal Theory of LOLS to Irina. Episode Links: I Can Has Cheezburger, ROFLCon Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

JibJab is known for their short, funny music and political videos that you ve no doubt forwarded to your mother or sister at least twice. While at ROLFcon in Boston, we ran into three mustachioed men who are writers and producers for JibJab. Irina demands they be funny. Episode links: JibJab, ROFLcon, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (Irina s photos) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

MC Frontalot, pioneer in the realm of the lyrically nerdcore, sits down with Irina to talk about life, movies and music.

MC Frontalot, pioneer in the realm of the lyrically nerdcore, sits down with Irina to share some thoughts on life, movies and music. Episode links: MC Frontalot, Nerdcore Rising, Doctor Popular, ytcracker Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

While at our favorite geek summer camp known as SXSW Interactive, Irina polls a few peeps on what the Internet and SXSW has done for them lately. The answers are as varied as they are earnest. Episode links: SXSW Interactive, M dot Strange, Guy Kawasaki, AllTop, Tim Ferriss, Michael Verdi, Jason Toney, Liz Gannes, Clarence, Jessica Mah, George Oates, Daniel Burka, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paula Cavagnaro, John Halcyon Styn, Loren Feldman Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

What has the Internet done for you lately? What has SXSW done for you lately? Those are the questions that Irina asks.

O Reilly s Emerging Technology conference is often ground zero for useful and meaningful tech stuff and the geeks who invent these things. In 2004, Flickr debuted here. In 2008, many DIY projects bloom, such as Socialbomb, ariel drones, binary LED watches, modular programmable open source gadgets and cheap open source robots. We talk to a few of their inventors. Episode links: ETech 2008, Socialbomb, Nate True, Bre Pettis, monochrom, IPRE, Bug Labs, EFF Pioneer Awards, Mark Klein Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

It s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player? That s what we really wanted to know too, so Irina invades Fatal1ty s hotel room to find out. Episode links: Fatal1ty, Fatal1ty (wikipedia), PMS Clan Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

What better way to spend Valentine s Day than beating the crap out of someone else s lover with a pillow? That s exactly what happened when over a thousand lost souls gathered in San Francisco on this fateful day for the annual rite of passage known as Pillow Fight. Episode links: Pillow Fight San Francisco, Chocolate Rain 8bit Remix Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Irina Slutsky's full interview with ex-Scientologist Lawrence Wollersheim. See GETV155: Anonymous vs Scientology.

Anonymous is a nebulous and faceless group that normally lives comfortably on the Internet but has chosen to step into meatspace on this particular day to face off with the Church of Scientology, an organization which it considers to be illegal and immorally coercive. Scientology labels Anonymous a cyber terrorist group. Protests against Scientology were organized simultaneously in cities all around the world. Irina pays a visit to the Church s San Francisco headquarters to get a sense of what all the fuss is about. Episode links: Scientology, Anonymous, Project Chanology, Xenu.net, Lawrence Wollersheim, Mike Rinder, BBC Panaroma on Scientology Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Back before there was the Internet, early caveman dialed into computer bulletin board systems or BBSes to get their online fix. Many of these boards distinguished themselves with ANSI art, an early form of electronic cave paintings. ANSI was an extension to the even earlier form of caveman communication known as ASCII used in MS-DOS based computers. It is with great pleasure that we happened upon the San Francisco hacker art gallery 20 goto 10 where an ANSI art exhibition was in progress. Irina Slutsky talks to curator Kevin Olson who takes us on a tour of some of the amazing early work of two ANSI artists, lordjazz and somms. Episode links: ANSI Art (wikipedia), ANSI Art Gallery Show, 20 goto 10 Gallery, Sixteen Colors ANSI Archive, ACiD, Phlogiston (soundtrack) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

We all know that one crazy cat lady who puts her complete love, money and affection into her feline friends. Do you know what happens when crazy cat ladies come together and subject their little love muffins to the scrutiny of the harsh lights and exacting judges? Neither did we which is why Irina Slutsky and Violet Blue decided to visit the Fog City Cat Show in Alameda, California. Episode links: Fog City Cat Show, lolcats, Doctor Popular, Drown Radio, Violet Blue Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Irina Slutsky and Violet Blue descend upon a cat show and get a few words from crazy cat ladies and their feline passions.

Irina Slutsky introduced me to Jess McCabe & Mike Atherton at the NYMIEG/For Your Imagination holiday party on Dec. 12, 2007. Since I was interviewing her for my videoblog, she thought it was appropriate to interview them as well, which I did. I used the same basic questions Nathan Miller of Bicycle-Sidewalk came up with for Vloggercon 2006. I emailed him and asked him what questions he would ask and he wrote me back with these: What got you into videoblogging? Why did you get into videobloging? What is your inspiration? You can find Nathan Miller at bicycle-sidewalk.com, Irina Slutsky hosts Geek Entertainment TV, Jess McCabe at www.thefword.org.uk, & Mike Atherton at www.sizemore.co.uk.Irina Slutsky operated my not so good in the dark camera and I used music from Bre Pettis' free music album.

The Commodore 64 home computer celebrated its 25th birthday at the Computer History Museum with several luminaries of the 8-bit computing era present. We take a peek at this popular pesky piece of silicon and plastic and try to get an idea of why the Commodore 64 was the best selling personal computer in history at 30 million units moved. GETV s Roving Retro Reporter Violet Blue puts the question to Jack Tramiel, founder and head of Commodore, as well as his son Leonard Tramiel. Violet gets a bit of insight from a couple of the C64 s competitors, Steve Wozniak, creator of the first Apple computer, and Bill Lowe, known as the father of the IBM PC. Episode links: Commodore 64, Jack Tramiel, Leonard Tramiel, Steve Wozniak, William Lowe, The Commodore Billboard, C64 sounds [YouTube:Lavoraste], C64 games [YouTube:tr0d], C64 Turns 25 [news.com], Computer History Museum, Violet Blue Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Watch the Video This impromtu interview of Irina Slutsky was conducted at the For Your Imagination/NYMIEG Holiday Bash on Dec. 12, 2007. The camera was held by Jackson West, the questions were written by Nathan Miller of Bicyclesidewalk, and music is by Bre Pettis from his free for use album. This episode's links are GETV, Bicycle Sidewalk, Veterans For Peace