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John McAfee arrested, asks for computer, blogs from jail cell.

Svengoolie Tweets about his recovery.

A Dark Shadows Gift Guide.

Horror Fans Christmas Gift Guide (UK)

iFanboy’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Comics Stuff That Isn’t Comics.

5 Awesome (And Weird) Moments From Christmas Variety Specials.

Richard Armitage talks to The One Ring.Net

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey—13 Minute TV Special.

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 4, Over Hill and Under Hill.

Gandalf Playing Bagpipes And Riding A Unicycle In Portland, Oregon.

Matty Collector offering three Ghostbusters themed bundles.

Ghostbusters mobile game in development by Capcom’s Beeline.

There’s A Beetlejuice Museum In New York…

The Dark Knight Concept Art Featuring Two-Face and Joker’s Bank Robbery.

Mind-Blowing Lego Tumbler Looks As Detailed As The Real Batmobile.

Revisiting Torchwood: what series 2 did right.

First teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness. This Japanese trailer has a bit more footage.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Panels—Days of Future Past.

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Adds Dennis Haysbert. He will be replacing the late Michael Clarke Duncan in the role of Manute.

From Cracked: The 4 Craziest Moments In The History of Christmas Specials.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Season 3 Episode 1: Freddie Wong.

Shock Interview: Silent Night’s Malcolm McDowell

Arrow Meets His Match In John Barrowman’s Merlyn.

Stephen King’s 11/22/63 Loses Its Writer And Director.

The Great Stephen King Re-Read: The Dead Zone.

The Art of the Title: Dreamcatcher.

Gingerbread Star Wars Millennium Falcon.

Artist Olly Moss Teases a Thor: The Dark World Poster Design.

Great Moments In Comics History: Christmas With The Superheroes #1.

An interview with Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

Mary Poppins is a Time Lord.

Free Comic Book Day 2013 Gold Sponsors Announced

Tron 3 is officially online again.

Mark Millar’s auction to name Jupiter’s Children character hits $2550.

Matt Kindt and Geoff Johns Co-Writing Martian Manhunter Back-Up In Justice League of America.

Anatomical Frankenstein limited edition print.

A casting agency for all of your creepy horror child casting needs.

Teaching Controversial Comics: A First-Hand Account.

8 ways X-Men movie continuity is irretrievably screwed.

The Line It Is Drawn #118—A Li’l Collection of Li’l Comic Book Characters.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 341: Legends of the Dark Knight #70.

More White House Petitions Inspired By Movies.

From Think Geek: USB Squirming Tentacle.

Star Talk discusses the science of Star Trek with Wil Wheaton. The discussion is enormously entertaining.

Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck In A Christmas For Shacktown (1952).

Superboy and Wonder Woman DVD’s: Coming December 11th.

Ask Red Dwarf’s Robert Llewellyn all your smegging questions.

Sofa Dogs Podcast: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 277: Alfred Hitchcock Director Spotlight (Part 1).

Collected Comics Library Podcast #341: Major Typos From DC And Marvel.

I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere, Episode 48: Dangerous Work.

Mission Log Podcast #18: Episode 18—Arena.

Tumblr has been hacked.

Over at Fandom Stocking, stockings are being posted—here’s mine.

iFanboy’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Comics For Kids.

Krampus: The Devil of Christmas greeting cards.

Top 51 Sci-Fi Spaceships.

DeLorean taxi takes you to your appointment across town and half an hour ago.

Superman on TV: December 3rd-9th.

The New Man of Steel Poster Is Here.

Chronicle Star Dane DeHaan is Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Star Trek: Into Darkness Poster Revealed.

Beautiful Mucha Style Tenth Doctor T-Shirt.

Little Bilby Goes For A Walk T-Shirt.

Middle Earth Map Dress.

P:R Redesign: Ben Hatke’s Justice League

Superheroes With Mustaches.

Commodore 64 Cake With Cake Monitor.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Superman’s Christmas Adventure.

Awesome Storyboards From 15 of Your Favorite Films.

Cinemassacre: The Terror (1963) Commentary.

Colin Morgan: Merlin movie could leave fans unsatisfied.

J.J. Abrams And The Cast of Fringe Celebrate 100 Episodes.

Batman—Bad Days—Episode 9.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): December 3rd.

Jason Voorhees: Personal Trainer.

Top Ten Rules of Space Opera.

Mission Log—A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast: Supplemental 1—The One With Rod Roddenberry.

Film Sack Podcast #142: Starship Troopers (1997).

Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen Returning For X-Men: Days of Future Past. As are Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Nicholas Hoult.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Strip-mining Wolverine—How he got the adamantium bones and the false memory-implants.

Brett Dalton joins the cast of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Reps Refute Batman Rumors.

First full clip from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Midnight IMAX Screenings Will Have Four Exclusive Posters.

Syfy Remaking Waterworld?

CBLR Spotlight on the Death of Superman.

The Gaiman Foundation Contributes $60,000 to CBLDF For Education Program.

Producer proclaims Sherlock schedule has no delay anticipated.

A Gallery Full of Images From A&E’s Bates Motel.

Flight of the Navigator Remake Hooks Colin Trevorrow And Derek Connolly.

Gift Guide: Little Shop of Horrors Audrey II Earrings.

Doc In The Box T-Shirt.

Homemade TARDIS Control Room.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on Enter the Dragon.

10 strange movie changes.

From Cracked: 6 Creepy Things You Never Noticed About Famous Kids Cartoons.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Sneakers.

Rainbow Brite Body Cozy.

Cate Blanchett to play Cinderella’s evil stepmother, hell and yes.

Zombie Flamingos.

In Honor of Girl Meets World, Five Other TGIF Spin-offs We Need.

11 of the Least Inspirational Speeches Ever Delivered In Science Fiction And Fantasy. I disagree when it comes to the Independence Day speech.

Junk Food Dinner: December Episode Schedule.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #265: Spider-Man 3 (2007).

Forgotten Flix Podcast #87: Dutch (1991)

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984).

The F This Movie Podcast: Home Alone (1990)

Marie Wallace is recovering from her October injury.

Merlin officially not returning for Series 6. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

Merlin final series: Colin Morgan, Anthony Stewart Head on show end.

What’s next for Merlin?

Merlin Spin-Off Planned—But Without The Original Creators

Webcomic Gift Ideas For People Who Don’t Read Webcomics.

J. Michael Straczynski: Moloch, Superman, & Digital Speculation

Superman on TV: November 26th-December 2nd.

This Just Happened: A Romance Is Revealed.

Man of Steel Could Be Linked To Justice League, Zack Snyder Hints.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Way of the Dragon.

Amazon has the Ghostbusters Blu-Ray for $9.49 today.

Sony and Atari shut down PS3 servers for Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

Air New Zealand Shows Off Hobbit Plane.

Literal: The Hobbit Trailer.

Sherlock season 3 might not air until 2014.

The 5 Best (And 1 Worst) Films of John Carpenter.

From Cracked: 5 Insane Pop Culture Crossovers That Almost Happened.

Atop The Fourth Wall: The Incredible Hulk #1.

Alicia Keys sings the Gummi Bears theme son, and it’s beautiful.

That time Jonathan Frakes cosplayed as Captain America.

December 2012 Schedule Details For Justice League Unlimited On Vortexx.

30 Hilariously Untrue Facts About The Avengers.

Star Trek Fine Art Trio Of Spock, Kirk And McCoy From Iron Gut.

Celebrate Syfy/Sci-Fi Channel’s 20th Anniversary.

Hammer takes first steps on stage in Turn of the Screw.

Universal Horror 1930-1946—Filmography

Captain America—Bad Days—Episode 8.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Proposition (2005)

Film Sack Podcast #141: Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Commentary Monthly Monday, Episode 301: Galaxy Quest (1999) Commentary

I am still in need of a beta reader for my Yuletide fanfic. If you don’t know anything about the Pushing Daisies fandom, but have the time to look over the story for spelling or punctuation errors, that’s still fine. As mentioned in another post, it’s 7689 words long.

Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns.

Remember the Lovecraftian horror that was Windows 95 with a new Tumblr.

Mythical Beasts Retro Travel Posters.

Zack Snyder Confirms Man of Steel Trailer With The Hobbit.

First look at evil goateed Zachary Quinto Spock.

Catching Up With LeVar Burton, Part 1. Part 2.

20th Century Fox Cancels Independence Day 3D Plans.

Animaniacs Joins The Hub This December.

Zombie Nutcracker

Here’s the full length trailer for Jack The Giant Slayer.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Teenage Monster

Spider-Man’s 10 Biggest Status Quo Changes.

P:R Approved: Wesley Burt’s Thor

Victoria Winters by Bill Branch.

Interview: Geoff Johns Talks Aquaman, Justice League and Throne of Atlantis.

Libraries: Cathedrals To Our Souls.

843 Holiday Specials, Episodes, Movies and Marathons on TV for November 2012.

From Cracked: 5 Grimm Fairy Tales You Should Only Read To Kids You Hate.

The Hobbit: Q&A With Royd Tolkien.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Season 2 Episode 12: Cara Santa Maria.

Vampires 101: Transylvania.

Two New Guest Stars Announced For The Vampire Diaries Season 4.

The 5 Worst and 5 Best Elseworld Origin Stories With Superman.

35 Comic Book Covers Celebrating Thanksgiving.

DC Histories: Batman Intercompany Crossovers.

Illustrated Collection of Famous Movie, TV, Comic, and Gaming Weapons.

Stay Puft Peruvian Beanie.

Five Things About The Making of Psycho That You Won’t See In Hitchcock.

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Star Trek: The Animated Series.

A New Buffy Book, Just In Time For The Holidays: A Nancy Holder Interview.

Junk Food Dinner’s 400th Movie Will Be Transformers: The Movie.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #264: Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Now Playing Podcast: Quantum of Solace (2008)

Comic Issues Podcast #93: The Great Cosplay Debate.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 275: What We’ve Been Watching 7.

This Yuletide fanfic may just be the longest fanfic I’ve ever written. Before I make sure everything’s done and there aren’t any lingering continuity issues tucked away somewhere, it’s at 7723 words.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 323: Shadow of the Bat #47.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 324: Martian Manhunter #4.

The Dark Knight Rises: The Extras Review.

Batman Vs. Judge Dredd Stories Being Republished For The First Time In Over 20 Years

Atop The Fourth Wall: Brave And The Bold #54.

P:R Approved: Christopher Duran’s Starfire.

Comic Book Casting: The Deathstroke Movie.

Superman on TV: November 19-25th.

The Secret of Crickley Hall author James Herbert reveals his tips for writing horror.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Teenagers From Outer Space.

Nick And More: Thanksgiving Week Marathons And Special Programming

From Cracked: 6 Happy Movie Endings That Actually Ruin The Hero’s Life.

Another Pushing Daisies Alum (Raul Esparza) Joins NBC's Hannibal in Pivotal Role

Amazing H.R. Giger-Themed Mouse.

Scream Factory Releasing 80’s Classics On Blu-Ray.

Stephen King’s Debt To Horror Comics.

Kristen Stewart signs on to Snow White And The Huntsman sequel.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): November 19th.

Original Calvin and Hobbes Page Sells At Auction For More Than $200,000.

Film Sack Podcast #140: Con Air (1997) Commentary.

Current Yuletide Word Count: 5293, and still going. A little more needs to be added to the start.

McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize.

Steve Sinofsky, Windows President, leaving Microsoft effective immediately.

Former WB president taking over MTV programming.

Silicon Knights ordered to destroy code, games related to Epic trial.

Wish List is open for business.

Syfy Will Premiere Continuum This January

Why doesn’t Syfy have a show like Battlestar Galactica any more?

Three Unused Posters For The Dark Knight Rises.

Saw Director James Wan To Direct MacGyver.

Chloe Moretz Talks Carrie, Prom Scene, and Dark Roles.

From Cracked: 6 Insane (But Convincing) Fan Theories About Kids’ Cartoons.

Young Justice Cancelled In February—The Comic Book At Least.

Art Nouveau 80s Heroines.

Friday the 13th Custom Minimates.

10 Episodes That Every Sci-Fi Show Must Have.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Recap Supplement.

Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker join the cast of the S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot.

Hitchcock Movie Clip #1.

When Titans Clash: Execs Fight For Control Of Warner Bros.

The Tomorrow People To Get US Remake. They already did this once in the 90’s.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Comicbooks.

Firefly reunion special delivers big for Science Channel.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #263: Spider-Man (2002).

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 84: Die Another Day (2002)

Yuletide Progress: I’m currently at 2201 words, and still going. I’ll go ahead and admit the fandom and nothing else, for when I eventually need someone to beta read it—-it’s Pushing Daisies.

David Grove passed away last week, following a long struggle with emphysema. May he rest in peace.

Svengoolie host Rich Koz is recovering from heart attack. Best wishes go out to him.

Make Bea Arthur Proud—LBBT Teen Center Destroyed By Sandy Needs Your Help.

Two Comic Book Events For Hurricane Sandy Victims.

‘Six Strikes’ BitTorrent Crackdown May Target Private Trackers.

How an Indonesian ISP took down the mighty Google for 30 minutes.

Gawker’s Website Is Back After Sandy.

Kotaku is Back—And Fully Operational.

Bridget Regan joins the cast of the CW’s Beauty and the Beast.

Here Is Your Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters Knock-Off.

Elementary will have a post-Super Bowl time slot.

Why Elementary Fails Sherlock Holmes Fandom.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind at 35.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who Exploding TARDIS Throw.

Also from Think Geek: All Glory To The Hypnotoad.

Full Moon’s Subspecies II and III Heading To Blu-Ray.

The trailer for Silent Night—it’s a semi-remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week)—November 5th.

The Most Amazing And Inspirational Cosplay From Long Beach Comic Con 2012.

First Look: Katana And The Rest Of The Cast of Beware The Batman.

Release Date, Cover Art Revealed For Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2.

Writer Orci Confirms Universal’s Locke And Key Film Trilogy.

When We First Met—Thor’s Supporting Cast.

Michael Shannon Won’t Deliver Famous Line In Man Of Steel.

Hero Complex interviewed J. Michael Straczynski.

Battlestar Galactica: Blood And Chrome will premiere online on Friday.

School District Keeps Different Seasons On Library Shelves.

No Star On The Hollywood Walk of Fame For George Romero.

Walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman To Get Eaten Alive By Robot Chicken.

Superheroes Defenseless Against Porn Parodies.

New dinosaur named after Sauron from Lord of the Rings.

Lord of the Rings Weather Forecast.

Lord of the Rings marathon in AMC Theatres, too.

Peter Jackson discusses Hobbit, Lord of the Rings comparisons.

ElfQuest Movie May Live Again.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #178: Who is your favorite child in comics?

$19,000 in stolen comic books returned to owner.

Interview: John Carpenter on Reviving They Live.

It’s The Official Website And Logo For World War Z.

Watch Anthony Hopkins Direct As Hitchcock In Several New Images.

MODOK For President.

Which fictional character should run the United States for the next four years? Hey, what about Doc Brown?

Donkey Puft T-Shirt.

A Charlie Brown Christmas posters, by Laurent Durieux

Taking A Knife To Chocolate Helly Kitty For Sweet, Delicious Horrors.

Great Scott! A Back To The Future Wedding Cake!

Stan Lee’s Rants: Bond Girls.

The Cinefiles—Rambo.

Han Solo Venn Diagram.

Egyptian princess’ tomb dating from 2500 BC found near Cairo.

15 Worst Fashion Disasters From James Bond Movies.

Vertigo Casting News For Arrow.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 83: K-911 (1999)

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 62: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Series Roundtable.

Earth Station One: Episode 135: The Twilight Zone.

In other news, sister got out of the hospital last night. And yesterday morning we got word that someone on Dad’s side of the family died. Due to our drama, he was unable to attend the wake (which would have been last night) or the funeral (which was this morning, in Louisiana). The florist we usually use for sending them something is temporarily closed due to the owner apparently being diagnosed with cancer. We eventually managed to find someone who would deliver there.

Meanwhile, Mom found Nellie’s room in the hospital. She’s only allowed ice chips now that it’s the end, but she’s still interested in slaughtering the nurses. She ordered Mom to bring her her mail—all three huge sacks of them, so she could mock the endless political things that had been stuffed in her mailbox. Mom complied.

On the Yuletide side of things, I just need to rewatch a couple more episodes of the show that I was assigned. I’ve come up with several ideas, and chunks that could go into the middle of the fanfic. I’m working on what I think the ending should be like, and a few other little, but important things, making sure I’ve got a handle on characterization, and then (since I’m currently recovering from a migraine) I’ll get started on it.

For all those in the path of the Hurricane Sandy and everything else in its wake, please try to stay safe.

Rapidshare Removes Piracy Deterring Slowdowns.

Random House and Penguin announce merger.

31 Days of Horror: The Exorcist/The Omen.

Horror Education of the Week: John Carpenter’s Halloween.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: The New Teen Titans #3 (1984)

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Taste The Blood Of Dracula.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Puppetmaster (1989).

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Brain Damage.

Longbox of the Damned: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror #18.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #29 of 31: Bloody Birthday.

Rare Halloween Videos: 2009: Spooky Bats and Scaredy Cats.

Top 10 Ridiculous Horror Movie Creatures.

The 20 Most Unintentionally Terrifying Movies Of All Time.

Thirteen Horror Anthologies You Might Have Missed.

Fright Night Sequel Gearing Up For Production In Romania?

Dark Shadows Picture of the Week.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 10.

Matt Smith interview: Doctor Who, Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad.

Skyfall Opens To $77.7 Million Internationally.

Here’s Joss Whedon discussing the possible zombie apocalypse if Romney wins. Funny. Whedonesque discusses it here.

Interview: Joss Whedon, Actor.

Superman on TV: October 29th to November 4th.

Stained Glass Window Ash T-Shirt.

Unsolved Mysteries created scary TV without even meaning to.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #8-7.

Comics Alliance Reviews BloodRayne (2005), Part Two.

Superman—Bad Days—Episode 4.

Move over Van Helsing, there’s a new terrible fairy tale flick—Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week) October 29th.

Young Justice Confirmed Joining Boomerang Line-Up Starting November 2012.

Jewel Staite answers more fan questions for Blastr.

Movie Issues Podcast: Poltergeist (1982).

Tysto Commentary Podcast: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Film Sack Podcast #137: Hellraiser.

Retroist Podcast—Episode 122: Teen Wolf.

And now, a Halloween meme--I’m just spreading it for everyone else to grab, and not really participating.

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.).

Barnes & Noble Stores Have Credit Card Data Breach.

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween On TV: 915 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

Halloween: John Carpenter classic returns for theatrical run.

Ginger Snaps Helmer Directing Orphan Black For BBC America.

Know Thy History: Tales From The Crypt.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Inhumanoids.

Longbox of the Damned: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Volume 1.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #24: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.

Geek Gear: Nightmare In Pumpkin Land Shirt.

Io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 3: Sexy Donatello, Retro Kitty Pryde, and Serious Comic Book Cred.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on I Bury The Living.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 5.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1977: Donny and Marie Osmond’s Halloween Skits.

Unsuspecting UK kids terrorized by Paranormal Activity 4.

Here’s the teaser trailer for Ghostwatch: Behind The Curtains.

New TV Trailer For The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Hobbit Running Time Revealed.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages—Comics To Film: The Joker.

Batman: Nightwing short.

Dinner With DC Entertainment’s Jim Lee and Dan DiDio.

Captain America, Batman, Superman and Spidey adorably storm a children’s hospital.

P:R Approved: Ronnie del Carmen’s Magik.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The all-different X-Men went to Australia and encountered some unresolved mysteries, as well as some unpublished adventures of Longshot.

From Cracked: 5 Famous Monsters That Are Way Scarier In Other Countries.

Alan Tudyk and Gina Torres Q&A at Dallas Comic Con Fan Days. Gina Torres also sang while there.

Lost Girl—New York Comic Con 2012 Panel.

Lo Pan Style.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Bonus Extended Cut: Joe Manganiello.

The Fury of a Time Lord.

10 Wibbly Wobbly Ways Doctor Who Plays With Space/Time.

Learn all about your body with Slim Goodbody. He was on local channels in reruns up through my middle school years.

Evil Fake Wine Bottle Labels.

Earth Station One Podcast, Episode 133: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Revisited

Geekfest Rants Episode 111: Battlestar Galactica.

Now Playing Podcast: The Living Daylights (1987)

The Forgotten Flix Podcast #84: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #132: The Howling (1981), An American Werewolf In Paris (1997), and Silver Bullet (1985).

For Yuletide, I just did a massive overhaul of my sign-up. I realized that it had been too long since I watched Pushing Daisies, and if I didn’t remember major character moments and/or little quirks I couldn’t possibly do them justice if that were my assignment. So I removed that, and replaced it with Fright Night (2011). I’m fine with writing any character for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), so I moved that to the Bucket List section, and replaced that slot with Justice League Unlimited.

So as of now, my offers look like this: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, Fright Night (2011), Ghostbusters, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Addams Family (1991). Bucket List: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Anno Dracula Series - Kim Newman, Beetle Juice (1988), Van Helsing (2004), Mannequin (1987), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004), Soapdish (1991), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996.

If I watch Mockingbird Lane and enjoy it, I’ll throw that into the pile, too.

Posting this a bit early now, before I head out for a double bill showing of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein at the local Cinemark. That’s about three hours, I do believe. Tomorrow night is Rifftrax Live.

Yuletide: Selecting Characters During Sign-Up. Meanwhile, I'm on the brink of adding Beetlejuice and Real Ghostbusters to the offer pile. I'll decide for certain later.

The upcoming schedule for the 2013 round of the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

AMC settles Dish dispute.

Six-Strikes ‘Independent Expert’ Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm.

Marie Wallace injured in Connecticut stage production. Best wishes to her on a speedy recovery.

Dark Shadows: Movie Visual Companion Preview Pictures.

Horror Education of the Week: Poltergeist.

Official Artwork and Synopsis: Mockingbird Lane.

Grandpa Munster Gets Gory In One Of Two New Mockingbird Lane Photos.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Hellraiser.

Longbox of the Damned: The New Teen Titans #12.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1985: The Fall Guy—October The 32nd.

Warner Bros. Now Owns Paramount’s Friday The 13th Library.

5 Horror Movies With Amazing Endings.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 3.

Top 10 Scary Places In 80’s Horror Movies.

Monster In My Pocket Trading Cards Review—Part 1.

Give A Book For All Hallow’s Read 2012.

Trailers From Hell: John Landis on Island of Lost Souls.

Good Bad Flicks Review: Night of the Comet (1984)

Sofie Liv reviews Dracula (1931).

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #45-41.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #40-36.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #35-31.

The 10 Greatest Giant Movie Monsters Of All Time.

Science In Our Comics.

16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world.

Superman on TV: October 22-28.

Star Trek captains boldly go to London convention. This all apparently culminated in Barrowman leaping forward with the request that Scott Bakula sign his right buttock, quite possibly to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

Pocket Paradox’s Flux Capacitor app free until October 25th, 2012.

11 Predictions That Back To The Future II Got Right.

The Cinefiles—Batman Part 2: The Nolan Years.

Producer Eric Radomski Discusses Twenty Years Of Batman: The Animated Series.

Take A Vacation From Gotham City Crime In The Batman Hotel Room.

The AV Club reviews the Justice League episode Starcrossed.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Spider-Man: Power And Responsibility.

Excellent high-voltage warning glyph.

Saint Paul couple opens the Library of Justice.

Live The Wolverine Chat with Mangold and Jackman on October 29th.

Colbert’s Hobbit Cameo Confirmed.

Comics Alliance Reviews BloodRayne (2005), Part One.

From Tor: Ghosts In the Machines, written by Neil Gaiman.

Arrow Gets Full Season From The CW.

Beauty and the Beast gets order for more…scripts.

First Image of Iron Man 3’s New Villain, The Mandarin.

Iron Man 3 gets another trailer teaser.

Star Wars made entirely out of scarecrows wins best Halloween lawn on this Earth.

M.O.D.O.K. marionette is every bit as terrifying as you imagine.

The Avengers Earns Another $33.3 Million From Home Video Sales.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week)—October 22nd.

Please explain Babylon 5 to us.

Blade Runner—30th Anniversary DVD Clip.

Movie Issues Podcast: The Universal Monsters.

Two True Freaks Podcast, Commentary Monthly Monday: Episode 294: Poltergeist (1982)

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 136: Children of the Corn (1984)

Tysto Commentary Podcast: They Live (1988) Commentary

Nerdist Podcast: NY Comic Con.

Next Year In Yuletide. Some people (like me) are already planning what they’ll nominate next year. I’m making a note to nominate the Fred Saberhagen Dracula novels.

In relation to this year’s Yuletide, I’ve just finished signing up—fandoms I’ve offered are: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, Pushing Daisies, Ghostbusters, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Addams Family (1991)—with the fandoms tossed into the bucket section being Last Unicorn (1982), Van Helsing (2004), Mannequin (1987), Soapdish (1991), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996, Anno Dracula Series - Kim Newman.

I threw out Cabin in the Woods, since I wasn’t sure how well I’d be able to write for that one. If it turns out that I enjoy the pilot for Mockingbird Lane, then I’ll edit that in if I’m able.

‘Six strikes’ system goes live this fall, appeals to cost $35.

Paypal Slips ‘No Class Action’ Clause Into Policy Update.

Newsweek to cease print publication.

Penguin To Publish Kids Graphic Novel Line.

TV Tango has updated their list for Halloween on TV: 405 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Double Your J-Horror Comedy With X-Cross.

Longbox of the Damned: Vincent Price Presents #3.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.

Meta Slashers: A Retrospective.

Traveling Halloween Museum.

16 Strange, Weird, And Wonderful Halloween Decorations.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1992: The Three Stooges Fright Night.

Figures & Speech: Toys of Terror—The Ten Scariest Action Figures Ever.

Is Sam Raimi Really Going To Direct The Poltergeist Remake? No, he is not.

Ghostbusters 3 To Start Shooting In 2013, Bill Murray Out. We’ll see if this turns out to be true, or yet another rumor making the rounds.

Brian De Palma Gives Blessing On Carrie Remake.

The Great Stephen King Reread: Carrie.

31 Days Of Horror: Christine/Carrie.

6 Filmmaking Tips From John Carpenter.

The Official Italian Teaser Trailer For Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D.

The Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time.

Horror Europa With Mark Gatiss.

Stunning Nightmare Before Christmas Cake.

10 Great Jump Scares In Horror.

‘I Believe You Said You Wanted More?’ It’s a Little Mermaid/Doctor Who fan art.

8 Highlights From Doctor Who’s Peter Davison at NYCC.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Trailer.

Lego Batman: The Movie—DC Superheroes Unite Trailer.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Batman Beyond

Bela Lugosi: Age 18.

Revisiting Torchwood: first impressions.

Warner Brothers wins court ruling in rights to Superman case. Shuster Estate Set To Appeal Court Ruling. The Legal View: What the Shuster ruling means.

George Takei will guest star in an episode of Hawaii Five-0.

New artwork for Hannibal.

The Line It Is Drawn #111—Comic Book Characters and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Characters.

Animal Practice cancelled.

Jack The Giant Killer Gets Moved Up Three Weeks And A New Title. They’ve changed the word Killer to Slayer.

J.R.R. Tolkien letter reveals poor sales of The Hobbit.

Heathcliff will get a CGI update.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #55-51.

The 10 Most Defining Performances In The History of Genre Television.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 56: Lifeforce (1985) Commentary

The F This Movie Podcast: The Others (2001).

The Arrow In The Head Podcast: Stephen King’s Silver Bullet (1985)

Weinberg’s House of Horrors Podcast, Episode 9: Horror Movies Of The 1980’s.

Mission Log Podcast #11: Episode 11: The Corbomite Maneuver.

Marcus Swayze has passed away, at the age of 99. May he rest in peace. He may be best known for drawing the character of Captain Marvel for Fawcett Comics in the early 1940’s, as well as creating Mary Marvel alongside Otto Binder.

Yuletide sign-ups are now open. About Optional Details. You can find a summary of sign-up offers and requests here. Sign-ups will remain open until October 28th. I know exactly what to request, I just need to whittle down what I’m offering. For example—removing The Shadow upon seeing a couple Dear Yuletide letters, since I’ve only seen the film, and not the radio show, serial or comics. I need to find out if Dark Shadows (60’s version—since I know the 90’s version is on Youtube, but it wasn’t nominated), Pushing Daisies, and Real Ghostbusters are available online for viewing, so I can brush up on canon—been a while since I watched those.

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween on TV: 355 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials On TV In October 2012.

31 Days of Horror: The Evil Dead/Re-Animator.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Troll Trilogy.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Making Contact (1985)

Longbox of the Damned: Eerie #1.

Rare Halloween Videos: Disney’s Quack Pack—House Of Haunts (1997)

Horror Education of the Week: Prometheus.

First Look At Mondo’s New Poster For Karloff’s The Mummy.

Monster Mash: horrific composite of Universal Monsters’ Big Four.

10 of the Grossest and Most Grotesque Vampires From Folklore.

23 Reasons Why Hocus Pocus Is The Best Halloween Movie Of All Time.

How All Family Films Grow Up To Be Horror Movies.

Hannibal Casts Gina Torres. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

Best New York Comic Con Cosplay Ever.

Jonathan Nolan talks The Dark Knight Rises ending.

NYCC: David Goyer, Geoff Johns To Pen 13-Issue Event For DC Comics.

NYCC 2012: DC Comics—Batman—Death Comes To Gotham panel recap.

NYCC: Deadpool Adds Another X-Men Alumn To His Game.

15th Anniversary Buffy Panel At NYCC 2012.

The Evil Dead Panel at NYCC 2012.

The Carrie Panel at NYCC 2012.

Best New York Comic Con 2012 Cosplay Ever—Sunday.

Superman on TV: October 15-21.

George A. Romero Working On A Zombie Comic For Marvel.

Google Creates Homage To Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo In Slumberland.

How Marvel created the modern blockbuster.

Ant Man Gets Release Date, Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 Get 3D.

The Arrow Sizzle Reel From New York Comic Con.

Comics Alliance Reviews Arrow: Pilot (2012)

Comics, Everybody: The History of Hawkeye.

Brannon Braga Talks Hive, TNG, Cosmos, And More, Part 1. Part 2.

Jar Jar Binks attains sainthood in deranged Star Wars religious art.

Don’t Get These Gremlins Pumpkin Carvings Wet.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Where Did Cyclops’ Ruby Quartz Glasses Come From?

A press release describing the plot of Mockingbird Lane.

The Cinefiles—Batman Part 1: The Burton/Schumacher Years.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast: Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)

Film Bin Commentaries Podcast: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

Tysto Commentaries: The Invisible Man (1933)