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Spider rain wasn’t so strange. Those with a massive fear of spiders probably shouldn’t watch the video. I’d say being stuck there at that particular moment in time would be my own nightmare.

Kentucky Experiences Real-Life ‘Birds’ Terror As Millions Flock To Small City. Instead of spiders, a city a short distance from here is getting this.

Saturn Award Nominees. Whedonesque reacts to The Avengers and The Cabin In The Woods being nominated here.

CCI Issues Statement Regarding Registration Technical Issues

X-Men Sequel Days of Future Past Teased for SDCC 2013

How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry

Stan Lee’s Rants: Pennies.

CBR News interviews Brian Michael Bendis

DC Announces Venditti, Fialkov, Jordan and Giffen on Green Lantern Titles

DC Histories: Vibe.

Kyle Higgins Talks Nightwing’s Big Move Out Of Gotham

Image of the Day: Best BTAS Screenshots #3

Top 10 Most Terrifying Toy Commercials Of The 80’s—Part 2.

Rachelle Lefevre Joins Under The Dome

Kirk Ward joins the Zombieland series as Tallahassee

An Adventure in Space and Time: TARDIS designer cast

Bruce Campbell Wants To Buy You An Evil Dead Tattoo

Proton Pack To Be Given Away At Retro Con 2013.

The Sandman Re-Read: Fables and Reflections.

Eileen Davidson Returning To Young And The Restless.

Random Roles: Jeffrey Combs on Re-Animator’s endurance, playing H.P. Lovecraft, and more.

Oz The Great and Powerful—Behind the Scenes

Oz The Great and Powerful Extended Sneak Peek

Horror Etc, Episode 287: Long Live The New Flesh

Now Playing Podcast: A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

Comic Issues #106—Spoiler Alert.

Geekfest Rants, Episode 128: New York Toy Fair 2013—Part 1

Film Bin Podcast: Outland (1981)

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?

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.