Fannish Items of Interest

Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. May he rest in peace. He was best known as the concept artist for Star Wars.

crack_van’s fandom overview for Sherlock. If you haven’t seen all of season 2, there are spoilers.

The latest Film Sack podcast discusses Dragnet (1987).

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Ghost.

Radio Times has The A to Z of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. whedonesque discusses it here.

A Steampunk Thing from The Addams Family.

You know those welcome signs that have messages in front of a church? Looks like Friday's madness caused the wind to punch a hole straight through that sign at church, and then rip the plastic out and letters off. The metal around the edges is still there--they're working on fixing it. Roof leaked over where the instruments are kept and a couple pews, a handful of shingles blew away, and the heating was briefly knocked out. Aside from that, it looks like everything held up well.