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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.

The Yuletide 2012 Tag Set is now open for public review. Ghostbusters did make the cut, as “Ghostbusters - All Media Types.” I don’t believe I saw The Super Dictionary, so I’ll just nominate it next year. Here’s a discussion of the fandoms listed in Other Media. Fandom Primer Post (aka Pimp Your Fandom).

Stained Glass Window Style Fantasy Illustrations By Jian Guo.

Why Gotham Central Should Be The Next Batman Franchise.

Godzilla Script Gets Rewrite, Casting To Begin Soon.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D Perspective Street Art.

An 11-year-old boy has discovered one of the most exquisitely preserved wooly mammoths ever.

31 Days of Horror: Dracula/Let The Right One In.

Gift Guide: Slasher Voodoo Dolls.

Castle’s intro in the style of Firefly.

The Line It Is Drawn #109—Comic Book Characters and the Works of Shakespeare. My favorite would have to be Deadpool and Deathstroke’s Comedy of Errors. Closely followed by Luthor’s Shakespearean Ray.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #387.

Top 10 Best Movie Sequels.

Pop-culture losses we most regret.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Jean Grey’s return in X-Factor resulting in the destruction of Cyclops' character, the death of Madelyne Pryor and a premature wedding?

Rutger Hauer Joins True Blood.

Footage From Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 To Preview At NYCC.

First look at the cast of Hitchcock.

Official Artwork For That Other Hitchcock Drama, The Girl.

4 Memorable Soap Opera Alien Invasions. The Gemini Twins mess on Days of Our Lives gets a mention.

There’s going to be a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie.

10 geek movie cameos that didn’t make the final cut. I didn’t know that Eugene Levy was deleted from a scene in Ghostbusters II.

Amityville house back on the market, blood not included.

Merlin: The Costumes of Season 5.

7 Completely Insane Golden And Silver Age Superhero Origins.

From Cracked: 6 Movie Mysteries The Characters Should’ve Solved Way Sooner.

Best Art Ever (This Week) October 5th.

30 Things We Learned From The Monster Squad Commentary.

12 Gut-Wrenching Scenes That Are Practically Gore-Free.

20 Weird and Wonderful Performances As The Devil.

Retro style print for the first Ghostbusters movie.

From Think Geek: Brain Candle.

Bleeding Cool interviews William Shatner.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Reveals Four New Banners.

Mission Log Podcast #9: Episode 9—Miri.

Nerdist Writers Panel #58: ‘Why Aren’t More People Talking About These Awesome Shows?’

Now Playing Podcast: The Cabin In The Woods (2012)

Movie Issues Podcast: The Addams Family and Addams Family Values.

Java zero-day vulnerability: Why you should disable Java on your browser right now.

Pond Life: Part Three.

Promo: Doctor Who vs. The Nerdist: All Star Celebrity Bowling.

Doctor Who’s 25 Silliest Moments.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Freema Agyeman.

Not Some New Man: The Hidden Pattern Behind The Doctor’s Regenerations.

Fan Expo: John Barrowman Takes Center Stage In Loud And Lurid Panel. Would you expect anything less?

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The New Mutants averted X-Men West but ushered in the nullification of the redeemed Magneto and quite a few unresolved plots.

Joss Whedon To Co-Write S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Show For ABC. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

Spidey At 50: The 9 Weirdest Moments In Spider-Man History.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 Clip 1.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 241: Shadow of the Bat #5.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 242: Batman: The Abduction.

Where next for Batman on the big screen?

Rebooted Batman To Debut In Justice League?

P:R Redesign: Joel H.’s Adam West as Batman ‘Year One’

From College Humor: The Dark Knight Meets The Avengers.

Talking To Dan DiDio About Stephanie Brown And Rob Liefeld.

The Complete And Utter Insanity Of Batman: Odyssey, Part 3.

Life-Size Lego Iron Man Wins Awards.

Parting Thought: Jack Kirby Tribute From Superman: The Animated Series.

The future won’t look like this: 11 unintentionally ridiculous depictions of virtual reality.

Who’s Who In The New Justice League of America.

Should Deadpool Regain His Healing Factor?

Ghostbusters Night Light? Japan Has That.

Ghostbusters drawn with markers.

Barnes and Noble offers huge sale on DC trade paperbacks.

Global James Bond Day Announced For October 5th.

Amazing Race Cast Revealed.

Women Read Comics In Public—But They Always Did.

Fall 2012 Geek TV Preview: Doctor Who, Fringe, And More.

The Eye of Sauron Décor at the Cheesecake Factory.

Back To The Future Trilogy Timeline.

Castle Recruits Jonathan Frakes To Direct.

New cast members added to the CW’s Cult.

Analog Editor Stan Schmidt Retires.

Now Playing Podcast: Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

Comic Issues Podcast #81: Fan Films.

Tony DeZuniga passed away early Wednesday, at the age of 79, as a result of a stroke, heart failure, and brain damage. May he rest in peace. He was the co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid.

10 Things You’ll See In Almost Every Tim Burton Movie.

10 Fictional Scientists We Wish Were Real.

Joss Whedon picks top 10 Buffy episodes for an all day Logo marathon on May 19th.

Confirmed release dates for Ghostbusters Ongoing #’s 9-11.

The Ghostbusters Tour of New York.

An interview with Piers Anthony.

Hugh Dancy Talks About NBC’s Hannibal.

According to TV Tango, if you have Chiller, there’s a Dark Shadows marathon (original series) tomorrow.

Ain’t It Cool News’ video review of Dark Shadows. Blog of Dark Shadows invites people to post their responses to the film. I love Io9’s brutal reaction.

Dark Shadows brought in just $550,000 at midnight screenings this morning. Understandable, given the reviews—but ouch.

Yahoo Movies interviews the original actress to play Victoria Winters—Alexandra Moltke-Isles.

ABC has renewed Revenge and Once Upon A Time for second seasons, while Castle will also get another season.

Random Roles: Jackie Earle Haley.

Pop culture mysteries, and whether we want the answers.

Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar.

The surprisingly complicated legacy of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee.

10 Avengers Comic Stories That Could Make The Perfect Sequel.

Stephen King reveals the plot of his Shining sequel. Dan will be “aided by a prescient cat.”

Praised Zombie Script Maggie Bites Into A Cast.

A clip from Superman Vs. The Elite.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Little, Green, Brilliant.

Behind the scenes video for Snow White And The Huntsman.

The Fairy Tale In The TV Age.

MGM Plans To Adapt Ray Bradbury’s From The Dust Returned.

On May 14th, at 1 PM EST, PBS will host a live chat with Mark Gatiss.

Casting Crowley And Aziraphale For Good Omens. A list that could come in handy for those in RPG’s.

Two International Posters For Prometheus.

R2-D2 Rain Barrel.

Way More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Animaniacs.

A new image of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises.

Tom Wilson answers all of your Back to the Future questions in one handy postcard.

First look at J.H. Williams’ cover for Batwoman #12.

Canadian Media Companies Target CBC’s Free Music Site.

Two new posters for The Amazing Spider-Man.

New Dark Shadows comic book collection.

Nine more images from Dark Shadows.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: The Batman Stories.

Wizard signs The Situation to create a superhero. A horrible idea.

Another clip from The Avengers—this time, a scene featuring Nick Fury and a caged Loki. Clip #5: Thor vs. Iron Man. With each clip, I’m actually interested in this movie. Even though I cannot stand a single actor involved, and plan to wait until it airs on something like Encore.

Colin Ferguson: Eureka’s final season will be “as dark as we’ve ever gone.”

Interview with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: The Unknown Master, Part One.

Everything You Missed From The Cabin In The Woods. Massive spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the film you might want to save this one for later.

Julianne Moore could play Carrie’s mother.

The story behind that Girl In The Fireplace cosplay at PAX East.

The Nerdist interviews Brea Grant.

All five Star Trek captains are due to attend Destination Star Trek London in October.

Sixteen Alex Ross Original Sketch Covers For The Shadow #1.

The tie-in novel for The Dark Knight Rises will be released the same day as the movie.

Brian Azzarello talks Before Watchmen, after the controversy.

Ted Naifeh teases upcoming ‘Ame-Comi Girls’ artwork with early sketches.

The Post-Superhero Era: The Protagonist As Celebrity Or Consultant.

New photo from the set of Star Trek 2.

The first photo of Aaron Eckhart in I, Frankenstein.

New international poster for The Raven.

International Prometheus Trailer.

Nathan Fillion and Robert Downey Jr. do an Avengers/Castle promo.

The teaser for Night Of The Living Dead—Live.

Was 1982 the best ever year for fantasy and and sci-fi movies?

$37,000 for a jewel-encrusted magic mushroom flash drive?

First trailer for Dorothy of Oz shows what happened after the tornado.

The secret lives of avalanche rescue cats.

Check that bought Superman rights sells for $160,000.

Image at 20: The Marvel Exodus, From Marvel’s Perspective.

Titanic 3D pushes the lifetime gross of the film past $2 billion.

TARDIS Lockers At Gallifrey High.

A Dapper TARDIS Suit With Top Hat.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Perfect Weapon (1991).

Terror Transmission: Episode 66: Hellraiser.

36 Things We Learned From The Ghostbusters Commentary Track. Some of these things I didn’t know, like the fact Sigourney Weaver’s audition involved her pretending to be a dog.

For this Halloween, the writers of Castle are planning a Ghostbusters themed episode—and hoping to get a Dan Aykroyd cameo in there.

CBS is planning on remaking Bewitched.

Smurfs 2 is coming, and should be hitting theaters in 2013.

Den of Geek interviews Alan Tudyk.

Syfy has ordered one more episode of Eureka. The series finale.

A trailer for season 2 of Lost Girl.

( Beneath the cut, answering the icon meme for: mackinzie )

Another clip from The Eleventh Hour has just been released—you can watch it through Blogtor Who here, or Youtube here. And then, moments before I posted this, another clip was released. You can watch that one here.

Castle has been renewed for a third season.

Io9 asks about the best character moments. Moments that make you love them—a dramatic speech, a dramatic moment, etc... Like the end of the Angelus and Buffy swordfight in Becoming Part 2. There are a ton of examples in the comments.

Soupy Sales has passed away, at the age of 83. At first, I thought he was in an episode with I Love Lucy, but I was thinking of Harpo Marx. So after checking IMDB, I see that I may have only seen him once before, in an episode of Wings. May he rest in peace.

Io9 has a great clip from Castle --in it, you get references to Buffy, Firefly and--apparently--Underworld. The last one I’ve never seen. Castle finds a body with a stake through its heart, and says Buffy’s been there. His Halloween costume is Mal’s outfit.

The Stephanie Brown PB poll is currently in a two-way tie--I cross-posted it to IJ, so just in case of a tie at the end, I could combine the votes. So now, it’s currently a four-way tie if you combine the votes in both places. Anyone that wants to vote in the poll, please go here.

And now, here are a couple memes, taken from most of my friends list.

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

And:

Never Will I Ever Meme: Name a fic you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of that fic.

Someone nominated The Super Dictionary for Yuletide. I’m just…imagining fanfics with the concept of: “Lex Luthor stole forty cakes. That’s as many as four tens. And that’s terrible.” Somehow continuing on for 1000 words.

And for anyone on my friends list that might be thinking of signing up for yuletide for the first time this year, you can find some helpful hints here.

Joss Whedon will direct an episode of Glee. He confirmed it himself in a comment at whedonesque.

For those interested, the Support Stacie Auction is doing an auction from November 14-15th. It’s called I’ll Be Homemade For Christmas, and rather than doing fanfic, you can make items yourself to be mailed, as well as icons. Everything is explained here. I’ll sit this one out, and wait for the next fanfic auction.

The Best Spin-Offs Never Made. Includes a mention of a Faith spin-off, as well as Ripper and the Buffy animated series.

There’s a new trailer for Sherlock Holmes—you can watch it here, thanks to superherohype. Holmes has apparently killed Watson's bulldog more than once, and it keeps being brought back. And Irene Adler says Holmes and Watson have been "flirting for hours."

There’s a Ninth Doctor/Rose ficathon—timeline and rules are here, and you can pick a prompt from the list here.

Reboot is apparently getting a reboot.

ABC has picked up Castle for a full season.

Oh, and Dad went back to the vet, since he hadn’t heard anything about how much the last few visits were going to cost. The answer? No charge.

For the Support Stacie Auction, there’s going to be a group chat—authors sign up for a certain block of time. I have signed up for the time frame of 5:00-5:30 PM on Saturday, September 12th. For the portion that’s in the Doctor Who fandom and in the Support Stacie Auction, there’s dwsupportstacie--you can clarify on anything you will and won’t write in that fandom here.

Thanks to fillion_daily, I’ve found two sneak previews for season 2 of Castle. Here and here.

azriona has done a great (and with some of the options, hysterical) Choose Your Own Adventure type of fanfic, set during Parting of the Ways.

Guy Ritchie is due to direct a live action Lobo movie. And Guillermo del Toro is supposed to be doing a Deadman movie.