This Week in Geek 2011/12/18

A showcase of this week's finest geek and geek related activities for the week. Mark your calendars.

Nat Geo's Weird but True Series via National Geographic

Longer Term

• Science - National Geographic: Weird but True - Washington, DC - Monday to January 2nd
• Just visiting the website for this event taught me that hippo sweat is red. Imagine the wonders that you could learn from actually stopping in. Become masters of the animal questions in Trivial Pursuit and learn tidbits that will solidify your position as coolest uncle or aunt with the younglings at Christmas. Or better yet, take the visiting family to something other than the usual round of memorials when they ask you to show them the district.
• Art - Seasons: Arts of Japan - Washington , DC - Monday to Friday
• Can't wait until the centennial Cherry Blossom Festival in March? The Freer Gallery should hold you over. Great for geeks whose love of Asian art goes so many centuries beyond the recent anime craze. The current exhibitions include beautiful Japanese screens, ceramics, and paintings.
• Art - Dr. Seuss’s “Secrets Of The Deep” Art Exhibition - P & C Art Gallery - Washington, DC - Tuesday to Saturday
• The exhibition includes pieces of "Suessian" art from private collections, and promises to be a great cross section of his seven decades of creations. If you can't make it, here's a link to some of his additional work. Wait, Suess wrote a book called The Seven Lady Godivas? According to Wikipedia, it looks safe for both work and kids except for a few butts. How have I never heard of this?
• Holidays - Festivus - Everywhere - Friday to Saturday
• There's all brands of holiday celebration this week: Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Pixmas (and the inevitable discussion of that Wintereenmas foolishness - or vice versa, depending on your webcomic persuasion), and Hogswatch. But beyond all of these, free from the hassle of decorations, is Seinfeld's Festivus. "For the rest of us."

Festivus cheer! via M. Keefe

Tuesday

• Gaming - DCGN is Only Human - Washington, DC - 6 PM
• At Bread and Brew from 10 until 2 this Tuesday, there shall be Game Night, well day, but the DC Game Night group will be there. Sounds like there's Dominion players showing up, but pack some games and get out there to meet a few new friends.

Saturday

• Holidays - Santarchy - Oxon Hill, MD - 1 PM
• "This unusual annual event features a water-skiing Santa, flying elves, the Jet-skiing Grinch, and Frosty the Snowman performing on the Potomac River." Convince the young ones that not only is Santa real, he's kind of a badass. This sounds like a great event given the persistent mild weather we've been having.

Happy Holidays everyone! An exciting week! Get to it! Other weekly reoccurring events are listed on our website (such as Rocky, CCG tournaments, crazy themed happy hours). For more information, check out the calendars at DC Geeks.