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The government leaves Google alone—what it means for users.

Gifts will be revealed at Fandom Stocking on Monday, January 7th. (Might as well link to mine one more time, since I haven’t done so very much)

John Barrowman injured in Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime horse fall. The injury was reportedly minor.

Matt Smith, Michelle Dockery Read Poems For Disney Junior.

10 To Watch In 2013: Events That Will Shape The New Year.

Chiller TV’s Winter Schedule Includes The First Re-Air Of Pushing Daisies. Unfortunately, I don’t have this channel.

Why can’t any Sherlock Holmes adaptation get Irene Adler right?

Sam Humphries’ Tumblr celebrates mohawk-era Storm.

Q&A With Young Justice Producers.

Awesome Art Picks: Spider-Man, Batman, X-Men and More

The Scream Factory Brings Home Lifeforce and The Vampire Lovers In April.

The Long Road To Remaking The Evil Dead.

Agnes Nixon Releases Statement Confirming Return Of All My Children And One Life To Live.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Disagreeing with the Brains.

Dave Bardin Draws Junior Punisher, Bat-Squirrel, And The Fashion History of Superman.

Drawing Crazy Patterns—Other Characters Lifting Thor’s Hammer.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #400 (Part 2)

From Cracked: 6 Important Things You Won’t Believe Were Invented In Comics.

Watch Two Clips From Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Bates Motel: 5 facts about the Psycho prequel.

Compare: Animated Storyboards For Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, Non-Animated Storyboards For Psycho’s Shower Scene

5 Episodes To Get You Into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Schlock Treatment 107: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

The Collinsport Historical Society Podcast, Episode 2: Morbius The Living Vampire

Marie Wallace Returns Home

Fan Granted Dying Wish For Early Screening Of Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 363: Uncanny X-Men #213.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—So Where Was Superman Born?

Top 10 Films of 2012: The Cabin In The Woods.

DC Comics In 2012: The Year In Review.

10 To Watch In 2013: Comic Book Series/Graphic Novels.

Awesome Art Picks: Human Torch, Batman, Spider-Man and More.

New Godzilla Still Surveys The Damage.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Required Musicals.

Blink To The Future: A Doctor Who/Back To The Future Mash-Up.

A Good First Stab At A Vampire Diaries Drinking Game (Disguised As A Workout Routine).

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #157: Money Train (1995)

What passed through last night was dubbed Winter Storm Freyr. It didn’t dump nearly as much as the other one. Oddly amusing to name it that, as Freyr was a Norse god associated with fair weather.

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.

Syfy pulled last night’s episode of Haven out of respect to the victims of the Newtown Elementary shooting, as it dealt with violence occurring within a school. The date for when it will be aired instead is currently undecided.

Syfy will show the entire first series of K-9 on Christmas Day.

Best Art Ever (This Week): December 14th.

Awesome Art Picks: Psylocke, Catwoman, Colossus and More.

Frozen Concept Art

Concept Art From Unproduced Fourth Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie.

Jian Guo Illuminates Scenes From The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

The Joss Whedon/Bryan Hitch Spider-Man Comic That Never Was.

Geeky Gingerbread Men.

Flux Capacitor Tattoo.

Back To The Future/Oregon Trail Design T-Shirt.

Studio letterhead used during production of Back to the Future in the mid-’80s.

The World’s Greatest Hobbit Cupcakes.

Christmas Hobbit Cake.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Opens To Record $37.5 Million On Friday.

Romulan Ale Energy Drink.

BBC America’s trailer for Doctor Who: The Snowmen.

Isn’t It About Time You Gave Red Dwarf ‘Back To Earth’ Another Chance?

Costume Clues Reveal All In The Cabin In The Woods. Whedonesque discusses it here.

Collector pays $1.2 million for rare posters, including Metropolis.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Good Characters, Bad Decisions.

Worldwide Release Dates For The Wolverine.

From Cracked: The 4 Weirdest Anime DVD Extras (Are Weirder Than You Think).

Jonathan Nolan On Constructing The Dark Knight Rises, Robin, Justice League And What’s Next.

Evolution of the Batman Symbol.

Six canceled comic movies we would love to have seen.

The Shadow knows…

Saturday B Movie Reel #90: Dragon Wasps.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #155: Pray For Death (1985)

Smodcast: The Dini Dossiers, Part 3: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) Commentary. Paul Dini and Kevin Smith are watching the uncut version. Here’s part 1 which discusses two episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, and here’s part 2, which discusses Mask of the Phantasm.

Masters of None Podcast: He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special (1985) Audio Commentary.

Paul Rauch has passed away, at the age of 78. May he rest in peace. He was the producer for numerous soap operas over the decades, including One Life To Live, Young and the Restless, and Santa Barbara.

Dallas Sets Date For J.R.’s Funeral.

A Gravestone For Shel Dorf, The Founder of Comic Con?

Why Gmail went down; Google misconfigured Chrome’s sync server.

Sir Ian McKellen On His Fight With Cancer.

The deadline for Yuletide stories to be uploaded is December 20th; the deadline for defaulting without it counting against you is before December 16th.

The Best Holiday Entertainment For Nerds.

New Full Trailer For Man of Steel

What secrets does the Man of Steel trailer hold? Shot-By-Shot Breakdown.

A very short clip from Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Another Corner Of The New TARDIS Revealed.

Behold—The Perfect Doctor Who Cupcakes.

CBLDF Establishes Advisory Board: Denis Kitchen and Neil Gaiman Named Co-Chairs.

Interview: Peter Tomasi Talks Future of Batman And Robin.

Kickstart Art: Nightwing: The Series.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 345: Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #3.

Top 5: Actors Who Were Almost Batman.

I Can’t Cover What I Am—Marvel’s 70’s Anniversary Covers.

Random Roles: Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel.

Japanese Poster For Oz: The Great And Powerful.

New poster for Jack The Giant Slayer.

New Image From Star Trek: Into Darkness Features Cumberbatch Villain With Kirk And Spock.

Essential Star Trek Novels That Even Non-Trekkers Should Read.

Star Trek’s Enterprise Made From An Old Hard Drive.

Alice Eve’s Character Plus 7 More Star Trek Into Darkness Spoilers Revealed.

Interview: Lost Girl Star Kris Holden-Ried Talks Love And Life.

George Takei On Teaming Up With Archie’s Kevin Keller.

Honest Trailers: The Lord of the Rings.

Warner Bros. Blocks Release of The Asylum’s Age of the Hobbits.

Hobbit Dwaves Cheat Sheet.

25 Things You Might Not Know About The Hobbit.

Remember This?: Werewolf: The Series.

Looking back at David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone.

New trailer for The Lone Ranger.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #183: What is your favorite superhero comic book trope or cliché?

Bizarro Back Issues: Christmas With The Punisher Is Not Exactly Jolly (1995)

Brian Wood’s Lost DC Pitches.

Nathan Fillion on Attack of the Show, discussing Castle and Firefly’s 10th anniversary.

Bob Gale provides photos for Hoverboard propers vs. replicas comparison.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 346: Web of Spider-Man #87.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 68: Die Hard (1988) Commentary.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 88: Eight Crazy Nights (2002).

Hope of All Trades Podcast Special: Once Upon A Time.

Soulless Minions Podcast: Timecop (1994) Commentary.

BitTorrent Wants To Be Hollywood’s New Best Friend.

MTV Geek’s Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For The Doctor Who Fan.

Nerdy Gifts For Comic Book Fans.

Radio Times Doctor Who Cover (Christmas 2012).

Jenna-Louise Coleman: Becoming The Companion.

Karen Gillan on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.

Inside Lost Girl—An Interview with Consulting Producer and Writer Emily Andras.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey TV Spot #9.

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has left the Highlander remake.

Will Gail Simone Leave Batgirl? DC Creative Changes In The Next Few Months.

From Cracked: The 5 Most Hilariously Misguided Comic Book Adaptations.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite In-Theater Sound Effect.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages: Mystique.

Zombify Your Christmas Tree Ornaments, Non-Zombie Edition.

New Night of the Demons 2, Monster Squad DVD/Blu-Ray art and details.

Rick Baker Gets A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Another ‘If Only’ Sequel Poster from Strange Kids Club—The Bride of Dr. Phibes.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—November 30th.

Awesome Art Picks: Batman, Jean Grey, Optimus Prime and More.

City of Heroes Goes Out With A Roar And A Bang.

Saturday B Movie Reel Podcast #88—American Horror House.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #153: Dinosaur Island (1994).

Terror Transmission, Episode 81: Peeping Tom (1960)

Commentary Track Stars: Aliens of the Deep (2005) Commentary.

SurfTheChannel Owner Sentenced For Contempt Of Court.

Dark Shadows marathon Thanksgiving Day on Chiller TV (1991 version). Unfortunately, I don’t have that channel.

1987 Marvel Comics Parade Float.

The classic clip from the Thanksgiving episode of WKRP.

Turkey Day Stream From Rifftrax.

Comics Alliance’s Guide To Black Friday/Cyber Monday Bargains.

CA Classic: Batman In The Worst Thanksgiving Ever.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Make Great Holiday Gifts.

The Best Comics To Give This Holiday Season.

The Best Gifts for Action Figure Addicts and Collectors of Collectibles.

Amazing, Experimental Science Gifts That You Can Make Or Buy.

Gift Guide: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Box Set.

From Hero Complex: Holiday gift guide 2012: The Hobbit, Star Wars, superheroes, and more.

CA Classic: The Superhero Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons of Nedroid.

Mimoco Reveals Star Trek Mimobot Flash Drives.

Great E-Mail Threads: The JLA Work On Thanksgiving.

Fan Creation: Real Ghostbusters inspired Slimer sculpt.

Motion Poster For The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Jamie Lee Curtis’ one time only Halloween Panel at HorrorHound Weekend 2012.

The Implications of Amazing Spider-Man #698.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: Tourist Trap.

Revisiting Torchwood: Gwen Cooper.

Sherlock Holmes Celebrates 125 Years.

The Line It Is Drawn #116—A Very Tarzan Thanksgiving.

Two Clips From The Dark Knight Rises Bonus Features.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: Top Ten Comic Book Villains.

Education finally gets serious about the undead apocalypse with this Zombie Scholarship.

The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 2, ‘Roast Mutton.’

The 20 Best Cliffhangers Ever Shown On Science Fiction Or Fantasy TV.

Hitchcock Movie Clip #5.

Hitchcock Movie Clip #6.

The trailer for Ripper Street.

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast, Season 1, Episode 19: Blackest Night 3.

It looks as though I’m finished with the Yuletide story. It’s currently in the middle of its first beta reading—once that’s done, I’ll see about getting a second beta reader to check it over.

The trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Killer snowmen just makes me think of Jack Frost.

Christmas Special: BBC America Press Release.

Doctor Who Extra: 5 Thoughts About This Year’s Children In Need Minisode.

ABC cancels 666 Park Avenue and Last Resort.

Friday With Kim Newman and the Lord of the Undead

Arrow casts Janina Gavankar.

The seventh TV spot for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Hitchcock Movie Clip #4.

All The Best Shows Were Cancelled Despite Being Awesome.

Gotham City High Is Batman’s Worst Nightmare.

Awesome Art Picks: Skeletor, Batman, Wolverine and More.

New Package Artwork For Young Justice: Invasion—Destiny Calling DVD Release.

From Cracked: The 6 Most Brutal Murders Committed By Batman.

Head Back To 1984 When The News Reported On A Haunted Toaster.

Scripts Revealed For Scrapped Star Trek Final Frontier Animated Series.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Brushes With (semi-) Greatness.

Earth Station Who, Episode 22: The Doctor Who Movie (1996).

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #151: The Eden Formula (2006).

Schlock Treatment 101: MacGyver.

31 Days of Horror: Rocky Horror Picture Show/Young Frankenstein.

31 Days of Horror: Planet Terror/Death Proof.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 2.

The deadline for Spook Me is October 26th.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: TerrorVision (1986)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Return To Oz

Longbox of the Damned: The Walking Dead Volume 1.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #20: The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog (1927).

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #21: Equinox (1970)

Rare Halloween Videos: 1979 The Flintstones Meet Rockula And Frankenstone.

Mystery Science Theater alums bring out the mutant, murderous CGI birds.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Werewolf of London.

From Cracked: 5 Things That Have Almost Destroyed Halloween. Trunk-or-treat (located in at least 10 churches that I’m aware of around here) would be the reason we rarely get trick-or-treaters in this area.

How many characters can you identify in this massive original Star Trek poster?

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #50-46.

Even More NYCC Cosplay Pics.

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: The Forgotten and Be A Clown.

Terror Transmission interviews Tom Savini.

Iron Man 3 Teaser Trailer.

In the world’s most cheerful cemetery, the tombstones are brightly painted and jokes are written on the graves.

Commentary Track Stars Podcast: The Cabin In The Woods.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Nude For Satan (1974)

Movie Issues Podcast: Halloween: Resurrection (2002).

Michael O’Hare has passed away, at the age of 60, following a heart attack that led to a coma. May he rest in peace. He is likely best known for his role as Jeffrey Sinclair in Babylon 5.

Stan Lee is recuperating following surgery to implant a pacemaker. Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.

Inside NZ Police Megaupload files: US investigation began in 2010.

Vortexx Adds Sonic X Starting October 6th.

Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield will return for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Silence Plush Doll.

10 Most Depressing Departures of Doctor Who’s Companions.

Let The Right One In is headed for the stage.

Awesome Art Picks: Batwoman, Spider-Man, Daredevil and more.

AMC To Livestream Walking Dead Premiere For Dish Customers.

A Fascinating Look Inside The Great Nickelodeon Time Capsule of 1992.

Barry Bostwick will guest star in an episode (the two hour musical episode, to be exact) of Psych.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reveals a new character scroll.

The Nerdist interviews Anna Torv.

Where To Start With Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies That Should Be Re-Riffed.

From Cracked: 4 Fictional Works People Insist Are Real.

Firefly And Lessons In Contract Law.

Boomerang’s Halloween programming.

For the Halloween season, BBC America will be showing an encore run of Hex, a season 2 premiere of Bedlam, and The Secret of Crickley Hall.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast, Episode 144: Savage Beach (1989)

Janet Fielding is fighting cancer, and Peter Davison (with the aid of Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, and David Tennant) is launching a fund-raising effort called Project Motor Mouth with the aim to ‘not only raise money for a good cause but also keep Janet's spirits up.’

Dimestore Dames spotlights Wendy Jones (Windfall).

A brand new full-length trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Another clip from The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1.

The opening for Doctor Who: The Power of Three.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Noel Clarke.

Eco Sonic Screwdriver T-Shirt.

Newsarama discusses Death of the Family, #0’s, and the Red Robin decision with Scott Lobdell.

Happy Birthday To The Original Batman, Adam West.

Four Developments From Batgirl #0.

The 6th Annual Highlander Holiday Fic Exchange is open for sign-ups.

James Gunn Confirmed To Direct Guardians Of The Galaxy.

From Cracked: 7 Movies That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Never Noticed.

Photo Parade: Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo 2012

Tales From The Crypt Comes To FearNet.

Sony To Debut First Looks At Carrie and Evil Dead At NYCC.

The CW is developing a new take on Alice In Wonderland.

Marvel tells appeals court Friedrich signed away Ghost Rider rights.

Supervillain Origins: Juggernaut.

Robot Chicken: A Giant Hand.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Good Looking Heroes.

The Deadpool Costume T-Shirt.

Superman’s Bad Day.

The Proudly Resents Podcast talks to Kevin Murphy about MST3K and Rifftrax.

Now Playing Podcast: Moonraker (1979)

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 266: Leprechaun.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Twin Peaks Pilot Commentary.

Comic Issues Podcast #84: Piratical Talk.

Fandom Brainstorming For Yuletide 2012. Nominations begin later this month. I’ve been planning my nominations for a few months now. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996 will be in one of the three slots, since I’ve already come up with a prompt. If someone else nominates Ghostbusters and Dark Shadows (90’s version) then I won’t need to, and I can go for the original Fright Night. For the final nomination, it depends on which one of these people want to see end up on the list more: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Mr. Boogedy, The Librarian series of movies, Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula novels, Innocent Blood (1992), or The Mercury Men.

Christian Bale Fulfills Sick Child’s Wish of Meeting Batman.

The 11 Biggest Lies Ever Told By Our Favorite Heroes And Villains.

Batgirl: The Secret Origin.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages—X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Justice League: 7 Actors Who Should Play The Flash.

Introducing…Flashbacca.

The Pros and Cons of Rebooting Batman In Justice League First.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—The Strange Sexual Journey of Ice Maiden.

Jeffrey Wright joins The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Small preview of what’s next for IDW’s Ghostbusters.

Trek Sequel Title Confirmed—Star Trek: Into Darkness.

John Carpenter’s Halloween Back In Theaters This October.

Awesome Art Picks: Ant-Man, Superman, Thanos and More.

Why can’t we see this trashtastic Heavy Metal TV show in the U.S.?

Sixteen new stills from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Theme Rides Based On MSTed Movies.

Unused footage from Raiders of the Lost Ark reveals what Indiana Jones’ marketplace battle was supposed to look like.

Nerdist Podcast: Ambassador Class. John Barrowman pops in for a few minutes. Near the end, there are vague spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises as someone imitates Bane.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #141: Miami Connection (1987).

House To Astonish Podcast, Episode 90.

Schlock Treatment 92: Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky.