Le Chic Geek

This month is huge for cashback for multiple portals, including two big promotions. Rakuten (formerly, Ebates) is doing $40 cashback for $40 in spend (100% cashback) for brand new accounts.  They also increased cashback for existing accounts. Sign up for Rakuten here to receive the $40 cashback promo.  (One account allowed …

The Geek Comedy Tour is usually a group you can only see in person at some of the nerdy cons (GenCon, KatsuCon, etc), or in a DC-comedy club. I’m thrilled to see that as part of GenCon moving online, the Geek Comedy tour will be doing their whole show online …

Hi everyone! We are live!  Come say hi! I’m not on camera the whole time (check me out at the beginning and end), but I will be on the live chat the whole time.  So come hang out with me! Click here to go to the livestream event (I can’t …

I hope to see you guys all at Noon ET on America’s Hometown Picnic!  I just wanted to let you know that there’s a giveaway going on too:   Enter to win over $550 worth of gift certificates, gas cards, and more to recreate your own #HometownPicnic here: https://bit.ly/2CDceLU! 🍉 Hope to see you …

With all my traveling taken off my schedule, I’ve been discovering the outdoors locally here in North Carolina. Tomorrow (or today, if you are one of the newsletter readers), I’ll be live streaming from a picnic from one of our great outdoors spots (properly socially distanced and within all outdoor …

During the Covid-19 crisis, I started hearing a lot of restaurants complaining about GrubHub because of its fees and practices. At first, I thought these claims were a little overblown because a service can’t run without earning money in some sort of way.  I figured these were restaurants that newly …

We have some interesting needs now in this situation.  My hair has gotten pretty long.  I was already overdue for a haircut, but since my hair was already long, it’s not a huge deal. I have family and friends whose hair has gotten to near-top knot state.  But with barbershops …

Ashley Barno started receiving text messages from a phone number she didn’t know commenting on many personal things about her–what flight she was on, how attractive she was, and the creepiest of all to me, a text describing her current outfit. The anonymous texter confessed he was an American Airlines …

Haymount is a district of Fayetteville, NC a bit up the road from the Downtown area.  It’s what I like to call “New Yorker” walking distance at just over a mile. It has some pretty unique stores, including one that is moving online. The first stop for me was Bertie’s …

I wanted to remind everyone of one of my favorite geeky tshirt spots–SnarkFish T-Shirts this holiday season. Their nifty t-shirts, prints, pins, cute tank tops, and vinyl decals, which embody dorkitude and gaming, are among my go-to items.  And they are a small business run by the dude who manages …