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Yesterday was Fred Hembeck’s 60th birthday.

An interview with Joel Hodgson.

A Brief History of J.J. Abrams’ Path To Power.

Remembering Boris Karloff.

Mark Gatiss: Sherlock to ‘Hide in Plain Sight’ in Season 3 Return

Stan Lee Cancels Megacon Appearance.

Iron Man 3 Super Bowl TV Spot

New Iron Man 3 Poster.

X-Men: Days of Future Past To Be Set Over Ten Years After The Events of First Class.

Review: Tracy Hickman’s Wayne of Gotham. I had the exact same issues with the author’s interpretation of Bruce and Alfred’s relationship.

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: The Laughing Fish and Night of the Ninja.

Here’s a snow sculpture of Batman fighting a shark.

Is This The Swankiest Batman Collectible Ever Made?

12 Things That Ruined Superman

Superman Unbound Trailer.

Warner Bros. Releases New “Beware The Batman,” “Teen Titans Go!” Images

Frankenweenie's Performance Stalls Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio?

The Great Stephen King Re-Read: Thinner.

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 11, On The Doorstep.

Production Art From Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings.

Why Star Trek Phasers Don’t Exist Yet.

Star Trek Props And Costumes At Auction On eBay.

Great international poster for The Prestige.

35 Things Learned On The Set Of Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Doctor Who: The Aztecs Special Edition: Full DVD Details

Movie Legends Revealed: He-Man And Spider-Man Films Became Cyborg?

Will Gluck Will Direct Will Smith and Jay-Z’s ‘Annie’ Remake, But Willow Smith Won’t Star.

Mr. Fusion Ad T-Shirt.

Top 10 Horror Television Shows.

NPR’s Watch This: Neil Gaiman's Imaginative Favorites

Mission Log Podcast #26—Episode 26: Errand of Mercy.

Hey, Kids Comics, Volume 2, Episode 5: Farewell, Hellblazer Part 2.

The encore presentation of Rifftrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space is this Thursday.

Rifftrax: Say No To Strangers (Sample).

A Words And Deeds Love Meme is being hosted by Staranise. My post is here.

Disney closes Epic Mickey creator Junction Point Studios

All Original Watchmen Art Is Now Up For Auction.

SDCC ’13: Pro Badge-o-ween has come…and gone

There’s a fan petition to save Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

BBC Worldwide’s playlist for the First Doctor.

The ‘Doctor Who’ Knitting Circle: Part 2

Beautiful Retro Doctor Who Books Reissued For 50th Anniversary.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Airline Arrival Delays

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part Two Animated Feature Now Available On Home Video, Download

JLA Profiles: Catwoman Brings Villainous Slant To Team

What it means to be an alien: David S. Goyer talks Man of Steel

The 10 Greatest Superman Villains Of All Time.

On the Scene: Superman at 75, Celebrating America’s Most Enduring Hero

More Images From Aborted Superman Lives Show Nicholas Cage In Costume

Justice League Depends On How Well Man of Steel Does.

Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick, The Power Behind The New Captain Marvel

Being Human (UK)—Cast Promotional Group Photo.

Audio downloads available at Cinemassacre. One of them is a commentary for the 1931 version of Dracula.

The new poster for The Lone Ranger.

From Cracked: 6 Unknown Artists Who Made All Of Our Favorite Movie Moments.

David Cronenberg To Star In Haunting Thriller ‘Body Art’

Have The 501st At Your Wedding And Help a Worthy Charity

Star Wars/Star Trek Movie Art: 15 Favorite Fan-Made Mashups

Lucasfilm cancels 3D re-releases of Star Wars to focus on Episode VII.

Cast Update For Stephen King’s Under The Dome--Jolene Purdy and Nicholas Strong join the show.

Gaumont’s Barbarella TV series coming to life with Skyfall writers; Nicolas Winding Refn will direct.

BBC orders a second series of Ripper Street for 2014.

CBS Renews Entire Daytime Line-Up For 2013-2014 Season Including The Young And The Restless and The Bold And The Beautiful.

Fiction Into Reality: Why We Borrow From What We Love.

He’s Still Got It: Ex-Green Power Ranger Breaks World Record For Karate Chopping Wood Blocks While Skydiving.

Girl Meets World Gets Official Pilot Order From Disney. Cory and Topanga’s daughter will be played by Rowan Blanchard.

How The Return of the Living Dead thumbs its nose at traditional zombie lore.

Wil Wheaton reflects on Star Trek: The Next Generation’s season 3.

Julia Wagner Joins Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

10 Greatest Prison Breaks In Science Fiction And Fantasy.

Ten Fairy Tales That Scream For The Horror Film Treatment.

NBC’s Alice In Wonderland sequel gets pilot order.

The Best Fictional Libraries In Pop Culture.

Nine Genre Movies Not To Look Forward To In 2013.

From Think Geek: Pac Man Multi-Color Ghost Lamp.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #188: Plan a comic book convention that would be perfect for you.

Nerdist Podcast: Mark Hamill.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast: Judge Dredd (1995)

The Batman Universe, Episode 108.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 95: This Means War (2012)

And now, a meme taken from several people on my friends list:

If you could sit me down and get me to share one canon, be it a book or movie or show, what would you share with me? What made you pick that one?

Cracking tool milks weakness to reveal some Mega passwords.

For those interested, I found the original Michael Eisner intro for Mr. Boogedy, over on Youtube. I remembered him floating away after putting on the cape, but that was the intro for Bride of Boogedy.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Emily ‘Lia’ Briggs (Looker).

DC Histories: Two-Face

Doctor Who returns on March 30th.

Lego Doctor Who: Don’t Blink.

Atari bankruptcy: Remembering the 2600, 7 bestselling games.

The Art of the Title: Murder By Death (1976)

1972 Flame Gun Ad…wait, what?

Kurtzman & Orci’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Goes Into Development For Fox

NBC orders The Sixth Gun Pilot.

Alex Kingston Cast As Laurel Lance’s Mother In Arrow.

Smallville: The DC Connection—From The Archives.

Cassidy Freeman Has A ‘Tiny’ Role In Once Upon A Time.

Man of Steel MPAA Rating Revealed. As expected, it’s PG-13.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Denies 'Man Of Steel' Rumors

P:R Redesign: Marco Antonio Laranjeira’s Supergirl

JLA's Vibe Will Be Guardian of Gateway to the Multiverse

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Watch The Metal Men Answer Their Critics.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Car Washes

Stan Lee's Real Life Gambit Exploding Cards

Amazing Arizona Comic Con Brings Marvel's Stan Lee and DC Comics' Jim Lee to Phoenix in January

Supernatural Superheroes: 10 Magical Comic Book Characters.

Diamond Drops Marvel UK Titles.

Anatomy of a Cover: Uncanny X-Men Annual #11.

IDW is hiring an editor.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Horror Of Frankenstein

Teen Witch Gets A Musical.

Ron Howard Might Take A Trip Through Gaiman’s Graveyard.

Not Your Typical Star Wars Van.

Star Wars R2-D2 Dog Collar.

From Think Geek: Victorian Web Pocket Watch.

5 Actors That Should Be Considered For Skeletor In Jon Chu’s He-Man Movie.

10 Best Gonzo Science Fiction Movies In The Whole Crazy Universe.

Extra terror, hold the gore: 8 truly scary PG-13 movies.

Powerpuff Girls Cake.

Jeff Eastin answers some questions about White Collar.

Classic Penguin paperback covers of the 1970s, by David Pelham

Devil’s Due loses much of its inventory in December warehouse fire.

The Sandman Re-Read: The Doll’s House.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Linkara Riffs: Just A Spark.

Comic Issues #102: Rogues Galleries.

Now Playing Podcast: Die Hard (1988)

Geekfest Rants Podcast, Episode 124: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) Commentary.

The F This Movie Podcast: The Fifth Element (1997).

Atari Files For Bankruptcy Protection.

Joss Whedon’s Never Ending Story.

Clear eyes, full hearts, eh, I’ll just wait for the TV show: 14 TV series that usurped their original film versions. Stargate SG-1 and Buffy are on the list.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Linkara Riffs—Let’s Be Good Citizens At School.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Transformers #31.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Phantom Of The Opera

Doctor Who Weeping Angel Cake.

A Companion To The Doctors: The First Doctor.

Superman on TV: January 21-27.

P:R Redesign: Kerwin Siméus’ Green Goblin

How Well Do You Know Goosebumps Titles?

Best of the Worst: Russian Terminator, Ninja Vengeance, and Never Too Young to Die

Yep, There’s A Remake Of The Orphanage On The Way.

Toby Jones Will Return For Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Drew Struzan Has Been Asked To Do Posters For New ‘Star Wars’ Movies

Hobbit PSA posters warn this is your brain on the ring.

The Great Alan Moore Re-Read: The All-Time Top 10 Best Comics Written By Alan Moore.

‘Totoro, ‘Princess Mononoke’ returning to theaters for Ghibli series.

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 147: Deep Impact (1998)

The Collinsport Historical Society, Episode 5: Doctor Mabuse.

Sean Pultz Commentaries: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Canadian Court Refuses To Ship Megaupload Servers To The US.

New Images, Cast Interviews for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2.

Could Damian Wayne Kill The Joker?

Possible New Wonder Woman Has Experience At Torchwood, As A Misfit And Of Being Human.

Justice League Exclusive, Part 3: Making The Animated Series.

Your Living Room Needs These Justice League Prints.

Director Roman Coppola almost made a Doctor Strange movie back in 1992

Alphas cancelled by Syfy.

Syfy Finalizing A Straight-to-Series Deal for Ron Moore's Helix

Horror Poster Redux: Mondo Does Jaws…

Two New Images from Frankenstein's Army

Warner Bros. Planning Gremlins Reboot. Again.

Gremlins 3? Only If There’s a CGI-Limitation Clause In The Contract, Please

10 Marvel Heroes That Should Meet With Their Past Selves.

British Shows On DVD and Blu-Ray For January.

11 Heart-Melting Doctor Who Moments.

Revisiting Torchwood: what is its legacy?

Stephen King Reveals Shining Sequel Details.

The Great Stephen King Re-Read: Christine.

Geeky Nesting Dolls.

How It Should Have Ended: The Hobbit. Worth a watch, especially for their version of Misty Mountains at the very end.

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 9, Barrels Out of Bond.

Gateways To Geekery: Kathryn Bigelow.

Marvel Characters Typography.

Sam Raimi’s Horror Short That Inspired The Evil Dead—Within The Woods.

From Cracked: 6 Deleted Backstories That Totally Change Classic Movies.

Patrick Lussier, Laeta Kalogridis To Pen New Terminator Film.

Deadpool Shot First: A Collection of Ridiculous Deadpool Crossover Art.

Sherlock series 3: what do we know so far – and what can we deduce?

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 283: Alfred Hitchcock Director Spotlight (Part 3).

Saturday B Movie Reel #95—Starcrash.

Mission Log #24—Episode 24—This Side of Paradise.

Bob Gale donates memorabilia to help save Californian comic book store

Watch the First Four Minutes of Syfy's Being Human Season 3 Premiere

CW President Discusses Amazon, Supernatural, And More.

The CW's Amazon Casting Now, No Plans for Batman Show

Jim Zub and Robert Venditti pulled off Birds of Prey and Constantine before they even started

DC cancels I, Vampire, DC Universe Presents and Saucer Country.

David Tennant has done an audio recording of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Bernard Cribbins and Russell T Davies interview

CBS Sets Premiere Date For Stephen King’s Under the Dome

Las Revenants Gets Another Chance At Life.

Bates Motel Posters.

Brave Wins Best Animated Film Golden Globe.

Previews World interviews Paul Cornell.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Raver #1.

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk: A Review With Linkara, Nash, and Film Brain

Comics Alliance Reviews Tank Girl (1995), Part Two.

Oz The Great and Powerful New Trailer

The Five Best (And Five Worst) Ways To Handle A Fourth Film In A Franchise.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on The Stranger.

Superman on TV: January 14th-20th.

New clip from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2.

New images and poster for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

5 Ways to Correctly Reboot The Twilight Zone

Otter Xbox Cake.

The 17 Best Failed TV Shows Of The 80’s (As Judged By Their Openings).

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): January 14th.

Film Sack Podcast #146: The Toxic Avenger (1984)

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.

PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly Hosting Provider PRQ.

Due to everything going on, I forgot to link to my Fandom Stocking again—so here’s that.

New Star Trek: Into Darkness Images From Empire Magazine

Ginger Smith Named Showrunner Of All My Children.

The Hub Is Airing Holiday-Themed Episodes Of Batman: The Animated Series On Christmas Day.

Superman on TV: December 24th-30th.

Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan Reveals First Photo From Oculus.

Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman discuss the 2012 Christmas Special.

Watch a new stop-motion Doctor Who Christmas special.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Batman: Noel

From Cracked: 10 Christmas Decorations That Will Haunt Your Dreams. #7…looks like something the Joker has done to himself recently in the comics.

Great Pages: DCU Holiday Bash II.

Sign-ups are open at Whedonesque for the next couple days.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): December 24th.

This Computer Mouse Would Make H.R. Giger Proud.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 359: Planet Comics #5.

Wayne Dorrington’s Back To The Future Poster.

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 144: Equilibrium (2002)

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 71: Timey’s Christmas Commentary Roulette.

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night (2012)

On the snow/ice storm front: Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, we’re expected to get anywhere up to a foot of snow. Could be more than 12 inches, could be less, but if it’s heavy and wet anywhere they’re already warning that there could be power outages. Sleet is also expected as it turns into a blizzard. Mom and I are gathering coats and blankets just in case the power goes out. We have so much bread and regular food, we have water, we have blankets and warm clothing, we…have discovered that the gas heater we obtained was installed incorrectly and therefore cannot be turned on. It would wreck the wall to remove it, so there it will stay. It also has a bit of fine print against the wall stating not to use it if there’s anyone anemic in the house or planning to be in the house. We are trying to find the little propane heaters Dad bought after the ice storm years back.

(If anyone wonders, yes, he will be stranded at the hospital for the duration.)

Oh, and they’ve named it Winter Storm Euclid. So we can blame the Father of Geometry.

All of the prompts for this year’s Yuletide can be found here.

Penguin settles e-book suit with DoJ; Apple, Macmillan lone holdouts

Stan Lee’s Rants: Refrigerator Lights.

Talkin’ Rifftrax: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

New Oz: The Great And Powerful Poster.

Hammer launches visitor attraction.

DC Histories: The Creeper.

Shelly Bond Promoted To Executive Editor of Vertigo.

Trailers From Hell: David DeCoteau on Mansion of the Doomed.

The Long, Twisted History of Marvel Comics: A Talk With Sean Howe.

CR Holiday Interview—Scott Snyder.

New TARDIS Interior Revealed.

Doctor Who: The Snowmen—A clip of The Doctor and Strax.

Doctor Who Monsters: Your Scariest Moments.

Dave McKean Reveals Artwork For Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean At The End of the Lane.

Gollum-Smeagol Bookends.

What Frodo would have looked like as Gollum.

Star Trek Flapjacks.

Mr. Stay Puft Store Could Quite Possibly Destroy You.

Uncanny X-Men #141 and its homages.

James Callis Joins Arrow.

Superman Is Weirdly Jealous Of Gasoline In Bizarre 1946 Ads.

Roger Corman Remaking Several Edgar Allan Poe Stories.

That Time They Bound Stephen King’s Firestarter in Asbestos.

Bryan Singer Reviving The Twilight Zone For CBS

Totoro Snowman.

Bizarro Back Issues: The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus (1974)

Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2012.

BBC America Orders Up More Nerdist.

Geeky Holiday Gift Guide.

TV Legends Revealed: Were Disney’s Last Written Words ‘Kurt Russell?’

Comic Issues #97: Holiday Trailers.

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990).

End of Year Feedback Meme.

50+ Glorious Opening Voiceovers From Science Fiction Movies.

From Think Geek: Victorian Retro Phone Handset.

11 must-read sci-fi novels that would make perfect gifts.

New trailer for Doctor Who: The Snowmen.

Doctor Who To Return April 2013.

Matt Smith On Future: ‘All Good Things Come To An End.’

TARDIS Desktop PC: Harness the raw computing power of the Time Vortex.

Holiday Gift Guide: Neal Adams Sketch Of Batman Riding A Unicorn.

Interview: Kyle Higgins Goes For The Jugular In Nightwing #15. Newsarama interviews him here.

DC Histories: Edward Nigma (The Riddler).

Stan Lee’s Rants: For Women’s Rights.

Sophia Myles Toplines Supernatural Thriller Blackwood.

On Arrow, Roy Harper will be played by Colton Haynes.

A new clip from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as they sing the Misty Mountains song. I might not be a fan, but I have to say that bit is wonderfully done.

33 Hobbit and Lord of the Rings T-Shirts.

Terence Stamp Talks Destiny, Vanity and His Thoughts On Michael Shannon Playing General Zod In Man of Steel.

Syfy’s 20th Anniversary Special…Some Thoughts.

Off-Duty: Hanie Mohd’s Captain Marvel In Formal Wear

X-Men: First Class Concept Art Featuring Alternate Costumes For Havok and Mystique.

10 More Episodes That Every Sci-Fi Show Must Have.

Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. Kills Weird Desk?

Beautiful Vintage Firefly Necklaces And Lockets.

Top 10 Cartoons of the 1980s.

Seth Rogen, Jack Black and Rainn Wilson Are Ghostbusters…For Jason Reitman’s Live Read. Terrible, terrible casting even if it isn’t actually a new movie.

10 episodes that show how Buffy the Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV.

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out (1989)

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: Caveman (1981)

Nerdist Writer’s Panel #67: 2012 In Review, Part 1.

Comic Issues #96—Who Likes The Holidays.

Had a trip to the doctor earlier, for my regular appointment. For those interested, Hemoglobin was 14.7, and Hematocrit was 44.3 So everything’s fine there. (For those that might be new to my friends list and wonder, I almost died 9 1/2 years ago when the hemoglobin was 2.0, in addition to double pneumonia. So I keep tabs on it.)