{"id":4781,"date":"2011-10-24T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:39:12","slug":"from-kansas-city-to-geek-media-expo-vol-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4781","title":{"rendered":"From Kansas City to Geek Media Expo Vol. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been going from pillar to post the last few weeks. The bulk of our time was taken up preparing for and then taking a trip to Kansas City to see my brother and his family. Eli and Liza were very excited to see their cousins. The four of them immediately formed a band and posed for their first album cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeAlbumCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeAlbumCover-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eli, Liza and their cousins\" title=\"Eli, Liza and their cousins\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeAlbumCover-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeAlbumCover-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeAlbumCover.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, not how they normally behaved. <i>This<\/i> is how they normally behaved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeKidsMugging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeKidsMugging-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Eli, Liza and their cousins mug for the camera\" title=\"Eli, Liza and their cousins mug for the camera\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeKidsMugging-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeKidsMugging-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/GranadeKidsMugging.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will be surprised to discover that Granade kids can be hams, I&#8217;m sure. We also got to hear a great concert of Virgil Thomson&#8217;s music. Thomson was a composer and music critic from Kansas City. The concert, which took place in the beautiful Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, was part of a planned PBS special. My brother the musicologist was one of the hosts, which meant he got to go up on stage and educate us about Thomson while also being funny.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNHhUZyOrY0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before the concert we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklahomajoesbbq.com\/\">Oklahoma Joe&#8217;s<\/a>, a barbeque restaurant in a gas station. I didn&#8217;t include &#8220;housed in a gas station&#8221; in my <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/23\/choosing-a-barbeque-restaurant\/\">rundown of how to choose a barbeque restaurant<\/a>, but I should have: two of the best barbeque places I&#8217;ve eaten at were in gas stations. We dressed up for our night on the town, went to Oklahoma Joe&#8217;s, and then went to the concert smelling faintly of meat and awesome.<\/p>\n<p>When we came back I headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmediaexpo.com\/\">Geek Media Expo<\/a>, where I did my usual guest schtick of talking about science, My Little Pony, and more science. Crispy and I taped our 100th episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatthecast.com\/\">WhatTheCast<\/a> there, complete with new theme music and several defunct Zunes to mark Microsoft&#8217;s ignominious withdrawal from the world of mp3 players, and the two of us provided sports commentary for the Race of the Tauntauns, in which our racers leapt around a ballroom in ThinkGeek tauntaun sleeping bags. This was highly entertaining, especially in the final race which involved two tauntaun racers checking each other, shoving each other into the ballroom&#8217;s pillars, and trying to step on the other racer&#8217;s tauntaun&#8217;s tail. I also did an unusual thing for me: I wore a costume for part of the convention. If I can find a picture of me being Jamie Hyneman, I&#8217;ll post it here. In the meantime, please enjoy this picture of me in my Super Saiyan form that Thomas Kerns took.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/303113_10150367016049894_803529893_7997132_604098424_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/303113_10150367016049894_803529893_7997132_604098424_n-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen as a Super Saiyan\" title=\"Stephen as a Super Saiyan\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/303113_10150367016049894_803529893_7997132_604098424_n-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/303113_10150367016049894_803529893_7997132_604098424_n.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got video of my exoplanet talk which I&#8217;ll be posting later as well as the 100th episode of WhatTheCast. With luck, you&#8217;ll also get to see me wearing a beret and a scowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been going from pillar to post the last few weeks. The bulk of our time was taken up preparing for and then taking a trip to Kansas City to see my brother and his family. Eli and Liza were very excited to see their cousins. The four of them immediately formed a band and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Kansas City to Geek Media Expo Vol. 3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}