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Finally, something in English about the Scrapbook issue. Tags are being removed, everything will be compiled into one gallery--I needed those tags, it was how I kept track of everything. The whole format worked fine for me before, I never had any issues with it.

Comcast Praises Voluntary BitTorrent Crackdown Agreement.

How to get the old Gmail back.

The brand new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

The Silliest Complaints By British Moviegoers.

We might see a new Hulk from Marvel in 2015.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: From Hell, Part 2.

When We First Met: The Evolution of Red And Green Kryptonite.

Major Star Trek Sequel Spoilers Confirmed. If you don’t want to know the character Benedict Cumberbatch will play, or who might have a possible cameo, you’ll want to avoid this.

Scott Lobdell To Take Over Superman From Jurgens And Giffen.

Egon Bobble Head.

Real Ghostbusters t-shirt design.

New character posters for Snow White And the Huntsman.

An interview with Ty Templeton.

From SFX: 20 Things We Love About Angel.

50 Greatest Friends And Foes Of Spider-Man: Supporting Cast #1-3. Villains #1-3.

The Nerdist gives an overview of the Trailers From Hell website.

From Cracked: 5 Movie Apocalypses That Would Defeat Themselves.

The 5 Weirdest Avengers Plots—Ever.

Dark Shadows Movie Media Round-Up. A sequel is already under consideration. The latest issue of Screem has two Dark Shadows covers—one with Quentin, Angelique and Barnabas from the original series, and one with three images of Barnabas from the new movie. I’ll be looking for the former.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles chalkboard art for the Illinois coffee shop Expresso Royale.

Gaiman settlement cost Todd McFarlane $1,100,000.

House of Dark Shadows available from Amazon digitally.

A reboot of Van Helsing is on the way…with Tom Cruise attached to star in and produce the latter.

Chemistry Tea Set.

Sign-ups are open for the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

Last year’s Rifftrax Live: Jack The Giant Killer is now available on DVD.

Make sure you stay all the way through the end credits, because there is a second end credits sequence.

The 30 Nerdiest Mad Magazine Covers.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 56: The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993).

Now Playing Podcast: Captain America: The First Avenger.

Comcast appears to be having some serious problems. Long stretches of time when it looks like the internet’s down, or having temporary hang-ups. I can’t watch anything on Youtube or Blip, since it never loads—or if it starts to, it will constantly buffer. A call to customer service seems to think it’s on my end, when I seriously doubt that. Their server keeps dying if anyone tries to check e-mail. (Except for a brief window this morning) Earliest they can bother to check around and see if there’s something messing up is Saturday afternoon, around 11 AM-1 PM. Maybe.

To watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, I had to use Download Accelerator Plus, since it kept trying even when the connection dropped out. So I watched a fuzzy quality version of the HD trailer, but at least I was able to see it.

(Yahoo is insane, because it’s been working for me at times, even when Comcast wasn’t, in certain windows of time. So I can keep tagging back in the Genosha logs. Watch the confusion!)

Mike Wallace passed away yesterday, at the age of 93. May he rest in peace. In addition to being a wonderful journalist on 60 Minutes, MST3K fans will likely also remember him as the narrator in the English dub of The Sword And The Dragon.

The Hugo Award Nominations.

The Geek Guide To Easter Headgear.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked: So Is She A Clone Of Gwen Or What?

The first 4 minutes of Lockout.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Dracula (1931).

Toonami is back, and their schedule includes Rifftrax and MST3K.

The TARDIS trash can.

From Cracked: 6 Amazing Rich Kid Versions of the Toys You Grew Up With.

What ever happened to the American arcade?

Batman/Ghostbusters Venkman Shirt.

Doctor Who clockwork android cosplay is delightfully creepy.

So You Wanna Go To Comic Con...The Hero’s Journey Begins.

Rapidshare was declared legal in court in Germany, and told that they must monitor external sites that link to copyrighted material they host, and ensure those files become inaccessible. They plan to take the case to the Supreme Court.

The next Rifftrax Live has officially been announced: on August 16th, Manos: The Hands of Fate will be riffed, and simulcast nationwide via Fathom Events. That’s the day before my birthday. If I’m able, and the local theater participates, I’ll likely be there.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Scandal Savage.

Insanejournal is having a Tax Time Sale—from now until April 17th, permanent accounts are 20% off.

The Dark Knight Rises will not have a panel at Comic Con 2012.

Rare Dracula poster discovered, sold for $143,400.

From Next Movie: Our 15 Favorite Lady Villains In Movies.

Four movies from Elvira’s Movie Macabre will be coming to DVD on May 8th.

Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Set, in limited edition coffin packaging is delayed again—it will now be released on July 10th.

Featurette: Eureka: A Look Back.

Major highlights in the history of space opera.

How to build a robotic squirrel-squirting water sentry-gun. Why did I see this, and think of Squirrel Girl?

What makes a good book-to-film adaptation?

A unique interview (since the one interviewing is 12 years old) with Mark Sheppard, while he was attending the Doctor Who convention last weekend.

Watch a clip and behind the scenes interview for The Wicker Tree, the sequel to (the Christopher Lee version, not the Nicholas Cage remake) The Wicker Man.

Justin Lin is attached to direct an adaptation of Lone Wolf And Cub.

Dan Didio: The Crisis Years.

Jamie McKelvie talks to Newsarama about his Carol Danvers redesign.

The 10 Most Awesome Moments From Game of Thrones’ First Season.

From Cracked: The 7 Biggest Jerk Moves In The History Of Superheroes.

This latest tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman shows more footage. Io9 interviews the director, Rupert Sanders.

Joss Whedon carefully selects which Avenger he’ll doom forever in these adorable behind-the-scenes pics.

Emma Stone and Marc Webb discuss the character of Gwey Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Emily Andras will be the new show runner for season 3 of Lost Girl.

Michael Bay, take a cue from these Ninja Turtles designs.

Hunger Games Cake.

Todd Spence’s fantastic Back to the Future painting.

David Tennant on his role as Charles Darwin in The Pirates: An Adventure With Scientists.

Now Playing Podcast discusses The Hulk—the one directed by Ang Lee. In the late 90’s, they wanted Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler to be the Hulk. Also, it would have been a comedy. I never knew that. So...it could have been so much worse.

Thousands of spiders blanket an Australian farm after escaping a flood. Welcome to my nightmare. Especially since they’re all the same type that I found in the tub a while back, all the same size.

Chrome finally breached in Google’s Hackathon.

A huge coronal mass ejection slammed into Earth today. I’m so happy that someone else at Io9 (in the comments, specifically the one by mayssm) thought of Night of the Comet. Saw that for the first time a couple months ago on Logo, and it was the first thing I thought of when the news mentioned it.

10 movies with the word Terminator in the title (that are 100% unrelated to the Terminator). I watched Lady Terminator after seeing The Cinema Snob’s review of it—it’s gloriously insane if you like bad movies.

Elizabeth Blackmore and Jessica Lucas have joined the cast of the remake of The Evil Dead.

TV Tropes interviews Doug Walker, aka The Nostalgia Critic.

Toy Story meets The Shining.

A Wrinkle In Time turns 50.

Real Fear: The Truth Behind The Movies premieres on Chiller TV on March 11th.

Two new Rifftrax DVD’s are available: The Galaxy Invader and The Crater Lake Monster.

Four new images for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Aidan Quinn is joining the cast of Elementary, in the role of New York Police Department’s Captain Gregson.

The Austin Chronicle talks to Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard about The Cabin In the Woods. In the process, Goddard reveals everything about the ending of the film. So if you want to go into this film unspoiled, don’t read it. whedonesque discusses the article and huge plot reveal here.

Trailers From Hell talks about I Was A Teenage Werewolf.

Trailer for the next season of Community.

New tv spot for The Hunger Games.

Victorian Star Trek daguerreotypes.

Thanks to a recent Kindertrauma post about Witchery (aka Witchcraft, aka La Casa 4), I stumbled across this old format for Prevue Guide (which would eventually morph into the TV Guide Channel). From 1991. That would be back before anyone except Memphis (at least around this area) really had that channel, so I only ever saw it when we stayed at a hotel there for my sister’s eye doctor appointments. Strangely enough, I saw this exact one—makes sense, I probably would have been there watching June of 1991.

The entire history of Doctor Who in 10 minutes.

Funny Foreign Film Titles. When you go to Hong Kong, Batman And Robin becomes Come to My Cave and Wear this Rubber Codpiece, Cute Boy.

Lucasfilm and Nerdist will team up for a lightsaber relay race before San Diego Comic Con, with profits going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Doctor Who will begin shooting the newest season on February 20th.

Time Out Chicago interviews Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy.

Behind the scenes of Curse of the Fatal Death: Part 1. Part 2.

The AV Club discusses crushes on fictional characters.

NBC has pushed production of its Mockingbird Lane pilot back to June for some retooling.

A French poster advertising Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Tor discusses Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

The producers of the V remake are bringing back Space: 1999—it will be called Space: 2099.

Cyborg costume made from old Apple computers.

mockingbird is hosting Galentine’s Day 2012. My thread.

Elegant Brown, in the Dusty Foot style has won the poll, and I’ve just switched my Dreamwidth layout over to that. I copied everything regarding my previous style into a Word document, so I can easily switch back to those exact settings if there’s a problem with this one. I'll be looking for any issues that need fixing--so far, that's primarily been changing the number of posts per page from 20 back to 30.

Etta James has passed away, at the age of 73. May she rest in peace. She had been battling leukemia for some time, as well as dealing with Hepatitis C and dementia. She was perhaps best known for the jazz song At Last.

The U.S. House and Senate are indefinitely postponing votes on SOPA and PIPA—OPEN could be another possibility.

In the wake of Megaupload being taken down, other servers (link includes the list) are contemplating their options, deleting files, and blocking IP address in the U.S.

Extended bloopers for Merlin, season 4.

More progress in the Manos restoration.

The newest offering from Rifftrax is Ghosthouse.

For the fan with money to burn, the complete Dark Shadows series will be released in a DVD set: the cost is $599.98. While you get a 30% discount for pre-ordering which saves you over $175, I still say it’s too much.

A warts-and-all documentary will show (unless Julie Taymor’s lawsuit stops it in its tracks) what goes on behind the scenes of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

Conan spoofs Bane’s voice.

Buy a Marvel digital comic on Saturday, get $5 off Marvel print comics on Sunday.

A Spider-Man themed bathroom.

An orchestral performance of the Ghostbusters theme.

Karen Gillan and Martin Freeman on The Graham Norton Show.

Leonard Nimoy and Steve Wozniak at The Enterprise Disruption Event. Nimoy discusses his memories of Star Trek, as well as early fan encounters.

Alcatraz: An Introduction From J.J. Abrams.

New images from The Hobbit and Snow White And The Huntsman, as well as Prometheus, The Avengers, Men In Black 3, Brave, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century is coming to DVD in February.

Production notes for various episodes of the original Dark Shadows.

Rifftrax sample for Captain America.

SFX posts 35 facts learned from the new biography of Patrick Troughton.

The Nerdist will feature Nathan Fillion, Wil Wheaton, and David Tennant on December 24th.

Listen to David Tennant read several vampire themed stories for Radio 4.

The 7 Weirdest Christmas TV Episodes And Specials

Official trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

The trailer for the next episode (The Sword In The Stone Part 2) of Merlin.

The next on the list for Svengoolie is The World of Abbott and Costello.

Great trainwrecks of science fiction: movies where the director was fired in the middle.

Lego Christmas Dalek

Here’s the official trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. At least until it gets pulled again.

New photo of Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

The Rifftrax of Magic Christmas Tree is apparently free for viewing at Hulu. If it’s made available anywhere else, I’ll link to it.

German trailer for The Avengers.

A very Calvin and Hobbes Christmas.

BBC Radio Wales interviews Colin Morgan and Bradley James.

Two clips have been released for the new season of Sherlock—from A Scandal In Belgravia. Clip #1. Clip #2.

Tor’s staff picks for All Hallow’s Read.

Now that Batman: Arkham City is out, Mark Hamill has retired from voicing the Joker.

The best moments from the Scream Awards. It includes George Lucas and Darth Vader onstage—more footage than I linked to in the Geeks of Doom post. I have yet to see any footage floating around of Matt Smith accepting his award.

Misfits may be getting an American remake, from the producer of Gossip Girl. While I’ve never seen the UK version, I know this is a terrible idea.

How It Should Have Ended takes on Ghostbusters.

Rifftrax has provided more information about their Halloween plans—their online Halloween double feature has moved to October 27th.

From Newsarama: 10 Worst Comic Book Animated Series of All Time.

Stan Lee will receive the Visual Effects Society 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Warner Bros. has greenlit the American version of Akira.

A 6 minute Dark Knight Rises prologue is attached to the screening of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Not even that would make me go anywhere near a Tom Cruise movie. I’ll just wait for it to hit the internet.

Halloween Shows.Net remembers Mr. Boogedy. As with yesterday’s Zeke the Plumber, you can view it on their website. Like all the copies I’ve found, this one is missing Michael Eisner’s intro. However, you can see what may be what I recall at the beginning of Bride of Boogedy.

I was reading about a UK show called The Fades. Is it worth watching? I’ve been looking to find another show to watch, since the only things I currently keep track of are Doctor Who (which won’t be back until the Christmas special) and Merlin. Any recommendations for any other shows? I gave Bedlam a shot, but didn’t care for it—ended up mocking it MST3K style with Mom. Tried and didn’t care for American Horror Story.

Rifftrax Live will be doing a few shows this month, including a Halloween double feature marathon—all online.

The AV Club discusses their favorite unhappy endings, either from a series or a movie.

A second Free Comic Book Day, tied to Halloween 2012, is being planned by Diamond Comics Distributor.

The Ghostbusters Fans review of Mattel’s ghost trap.

Final trailer for The Muppets.

Patty Jenkins will direct Thor 2.

Just in time for Halloween, it looks like Amazon is lowering their prices on all Dark Shadows (original series) DVD’s, with savings of up to 50%.

According to the Avengers panel at New York Comic Con, Storm will join the team this January. You can watch the Avengers movie panel in its entirety here.

From Cracked: 8 Terrifying Robots Now Stalking Your Local Hospital.

Sneak peek from the beginning of Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

New York Comic Con: Saturday Costume Parade.

I found out what movie will play following the Zombie Walk on the 29th. The Lost Boys. I will try to make that showing, once I find out whether or not we can get to the theater after the zombies pass us on the road, and still manage to find an empty seat. Because that’s where all the zombies are going, too. While I try to decide on that, on the 18th I’ll be going to see An American Werewolf In London.

Gateways To Geekery: Mystery Science Theater 3000.

To celebrate the release of Star Wars on Blu-ray, George Lucas sent Jawas (and a Stormtrooper) to take over Times Square.

Sign-ups for the hlh_shortcuts 2011 fic exchange are now open.

A new print of Horror of Dracula has been unearthed—the longer, more explicit version reportedly only seen in Japan until now.

Bruce Campbell discusses the Evil Dead remake.

The CW is remaking the 80’s Beauty and the Beast tv series.

The Nine Lives of Chloe King has been cancelled.

Promo for the next episode of Lost Girl

Fox is supposedly considering creating a channel that would air nothing but The Simpsons.

Satellite News asks who your dream riffer would be for Rifftrax.

Watch Sylvester McCoy deliver the Doctor’s Pandorica speech, at DragonCon.

Linkara and The Nostalgia Chick interview Mike Nelson for Radio Dead Air.

Preview for the season finale of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

For those in search of RPG related memes, over on Insanejournal someone started the group rpmemes. Compiling the memes one at a time.

A very elegant TARDIS dress was spotted at Dragon-Con.

From The AV Club: 21 Forgotten TV Subplots.

A look at the Terror Dog lamp when it’s in use.

Confirmation as to the character Juno Temple will play in The Dark Knight Rises.

Check out this Dalek Car, guarded by a Stormtrooper, at Burning Man.

Sign-ups start today for this year’s spook_me, and end on the 15th.

In other news, thanks to something Dad did to the computer, which wrecked IE 7, I upgraded to IE 8 (yes, I know I’m behind) this morning. While I love it so far, there are a few sites that don’t cooperate now, so I’m trying to figure out what they have in common, that IE 8 might be lacking, so I can fix it. So far, it’s Whedonesque, Comics Alliance, and Kindertrauma. The message is “IE cannot open the internet site __. Operation aborted.” At which point, it switches to “IE cannot display this page.” Those are the only three that I've come across that give me that message.

ETA: SFX is also on the list of sites this happens to.

The trailer for The Woman In Black. Not a fan of Daniel Radcliffe, but it looks nice and creepy. Is the original worth tracking down?

Two clips from Let’s Kill Hitler.

Listen to Roddy McDowell as Peter Vincent and Chris Sarandon as Jerry from Fright Night, singing a duet of Amy, Awake.

Today’s Dimestore Dames focuses on Kitty Pryde. It was actually Kitty that got me interested in comics—I believe my first issue of Uncanny X-Men was the one where she found Lockheed on the Brood homeworld. I was 2, meaning I’ve been both a Kitty Pryde fan as well as an X-Men fan for 28 years.

A fan tells how he is creating the Indiana Jones World Map.

For Rifftrax Live, at the theater I went to we had a grand total of 6 people—and that’s counting me, and counting Dad. Having a brain fried from attempting to tackle a strange computer issue for over 7 hours (involved a Windows Update gone wrong, and something with Spyware Doctor, seems to be fixed as of yesterday evening--periodic breaks for logging saved my sanity) is not particularly conducive to enjoying either the experience or a birthday as a whole, but it was quite nice. Satellite News has a place for detailing your experiences here.