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Google Reader Is Being Retired.

Poll Technica: Where should we go when Google Reader is put out to pasture? 8 Google Reader Alternatives That Will Ease Your RSS Pain.

Manga Reading Site JManga to End Service in May

Twinkies Returning To The US By Summer.

‘Hey, Let’s Fandom!’ Multi-Fandom Friending Meme.

A celebration of Louis Jourdan

Mini-Comics Day 2013 Coming March 24th.

Caroline Skinner steps down as Executive Producer of Doctor Who.

The Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter Project hit its goal of $2 million. As of the last time I looked, it was at $2,589,961, with 29 days to go. It went to $1 million in less than 5 hours.

11 Cult TV Shows Besides Veronica Mars that Deserve Kickstarter-Funded Movies

Warner Bros. claims Tolkien Estate breached Hobbit contract

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 16, A Thief In The Night

Dimestore Dames spotlights Dr. Serling ‘Doc Rocket’ Roquette

DC Histories: Captain Carrot.

Starfire: Where Do I Start?

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: Top Ten Supporting Characters

IDW to reprint Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman comic strips

Alan Cumming Is Not In X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Dani Moonstar

An Interview With Kieron Gillen On Kid Loki and Journey Into Mystery: "Trust Your Instincts" (Part 1 of 2)

Gimmick or Good? – Superman #75

New Man of Steel Still.

The lesson of the comiXology blackout

Top 10 Worst Superhero Movie Costumes

Producer Brandon Vietti Discusses The End Of Young Justice, Looks Back At Series In New Interview

Image of the Day: Favorite Images from Knightfall #2

Image of the Day: Favorite Images from Knightfall #3

How did the Being Human ending compare to past finales?

Xfinity On Demand Comcast Subscribers Can Check In to Bates Motel Early

Five Things to Look For in the Upcoming 'Bates Motel'

DIY: Hellraiser Rubik’s Cube Puzzle Box

The 10 Best Uses Of Canes In Science Fiction.

Look Inside Upcoming ‘How To Speak Klingon’ Audio Phrasebook

Colorado Neurological Institute raffling Back to the Future items to benefit Parkinson's patients

Hot Wheels Heritage 1:18 Scale Ecto-1 Announced

Sigourney Weaver Fighting an Alien and Slimer With a Proton Pack Art Raffle.

Here’s the Theatrical Poster For ‘Birdemic 2: The Resurrection’

Trailers From Hell: Larry Karaszewski on Captain's Courageous

Screen Media Acquires VOD Rights to ‘Coffin Joe’ Films

10 episodes that show why MacGyver was more than a punchline

Neverwhere Clips.

SOAPnet's 50-Hour General Hospital Marathon Kicks Off With Very First Episode

Geekfest Rants, Episode 131: Superman: The Movie (1978)

Comic Issues #109—Shamrocking.

Now Playing Podcast: Jonah Hex (2010)

Remembering Star Trek: Voyager Guest Robin Sachs, 1951-2013. The AV Club remembers him here.

United States Postal Service Dropping Saturday Mail Delivery Starting August 1st.

Joanna Dodd Massey Named Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications & Publicity for The Hub

Nominations continue for the Rare Women Fic Exchange.

Claudia Grant will play Carole Ann Ford (the actress who played Susan) in An Adventure in Space and Time.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Bonnie Baxter.

DC Histories: Oliver Queen (Green Arrow I)

Grant Morrison: The 'Action Comics' Exit Interview

5 Actors Who Could Play The Flash In Justice League.

A visual comparison of Batman character looks & casting between: the Animated Series, Burton's movies, Nolan's movies, and the 1960's show.

Chris Pratt has been cast as Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy.

10 Casting Candidates For The Live-Action Doctor Strange.

The Avengers Cast To Present At The Oscars.

Impress Chris Claremont with your X-Men T-shirt design, win a trip to San Diego

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 synopsis released.

Superhero Noir Captures the Bleakness of Do-Gooding

The Sandman Re-Read: Seasons of Mists.

Bleach, Gintama Creators Take 1 Week Off Due to Flu

Covers For Full Color Dragon Ball Z Manga Revealed

New Sherlock Holmes game Crimes & Punishments announced

Delay Splits Studio Ghibli's Summer Plans

Disney Confirms Stand-Alone Star Wars Films.

Genuine 'Evil Dead II' Prop on the Auction Block

Sam Raimi And The Coen Brothers’ Crimewave Headed To Blu-Ray

13 Directors Who Work With The Same Stars Again And Again. I would add Christopher Nolan to that list.

Video Review: Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hill: In The Beginning… Mom used to watch this show with me, back in 1995. Neither of us knows why we bothered with it now.

Obscurus Lupa Presents: Witchcraft 3: Kiss of Death.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Night Of The Following Day

Charles Michael Davis joins the cast of the Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals.

‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R.R. Martin Signs New Deal With HBO

Camera Operator for 'The Shining' Explains Helicopter Shadows in Opening Credits, Discusses Hallorann Crash Sequence

Starz Unveils its Key Art for Da Vinci’s Demons

6 Filmmaking Tips From Lawrence Kasdan

Theatrical Poster, Trailer And Release For Vincent Cassel-Starrer ‘The Monk’

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Music Collection Coming Next Week.

Now Playing Podcast: Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995)

Comic Issues Podcast #104: The Walking Dead

Nerdist Writer’s Panel #72: Robert Kirkman.

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).

Ned Wertimer has passed away at the age of 89. May he rest in peace. He may be best known as the doorman on The Jeffersons. For MST3K fans, he played reporter Andy Henderson in Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.

News on Peter David’s health.

After 40+ Years, Comic Buyer’s Guide Ends Publication.

Microsoft Axing Messenger On March 15th

Disney Considering Layoffs To Cut Costs.

Turkey lifts ban on thousands of books.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Helen Claiborne.

DC Histories: Doctor Fate.

Superhero Origins: Guardians of the Galaxy.

Latest tv spot for Syfy’s Being Human.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: Young Justice

Stan Lee’s Rants: Fine Dining vs. Diners

Trailer for Army of Frankensteins.

The Hobbit - Misty Mountains - Peter Hollens Acappella

Creepy TNG Test Footage.

Marvel Super Heroes: What The--?! Obnoxio The Clown Returns

BAFTA Award Nominations for 2013

2013 Razzie Nominations: Worst in Movies

Talkin’ Rifftrax: The Avengers.

Release the kraken! 2,000 years of tall tales (and a smattering of truth)

Fox Developing Twin Peaks-Like Thriller From M. Night Shyamalan

Brett Ratner is making a high concept Quantum Leap show.

How To Cope With All The Stages Of Fan Letdown.

1987 PBS documentary celebrates Dark Shadows.

End of an Era: Fred Flintstone Replaced On Fruity Pebbles Box.

Marvel Teases Hulk And Spider-Man Events Coming In April.

Amazing behind the scenes videos from Jeff Pruitt, Buffy stunt coordinator

Short-Stint Imprints: A Look Back at DC's Defunct Lines

Millennium Films Plans Texas Chainsaw 4

Fan Made Poster Puts the Evil Dead in Motion

Limited Edition Evil Dead Shirt.

1983—Anatomy of a Cover—Magik #1.

Phoenix (Green Variant) ECCC Vinyl Figure

P:R Approved: Giovanni Costa’s Spaghetti Gotham

Blackman and Williams on Batwoman

Indiana Jones by Rodrigo Pascoal Lopes da Silva

Trailers From Hell: Alan Spencer on The Nude Bomb.

Jeff Lemire Takes Aim At Green Arrow.

First Look At The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Labyrinth Cake.

Fright Night 2 Has Found Its New Charlie And Evil Ed.

Promotional Photos For The First Episode of NBC’s Hannibal.

Exclusive Photos From Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Big Finish Produces Its Own ‘Five Doctors.’

NBC Renews Days of Our Lives Through 2014.

Are Vampires Returning To Port Charles?

Cyberpunk, multi-booting briefcase.

Jurassic Park 3D Re-Release Gets One Week Only IMAX Engagement.

CR Holiday Interview #21 -- Sean Howe

Exclusive: Spider-Man 2099 To Return.

Sherlock and the case of the Russian knock-off.

10 episodes that show the appeal Hey Arnold held for kids and parents.

Langridge, and Bone Direct The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror

Nerdist Writer’s Panel #68: 2012 In Review, Part 2.

Comic Issues #100—Geek Drinks.

The Batman Universe Podcast, Episode 20.

Just Cool Enough Movie Commentary: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Sandy’s Impact: State By State.

Old skeleton found in tree uprooted by Sandy.

The Comic Industry Faces Sandy Through Twitter.

Thanks to aralias for spotting this one: If this is true, then it appears as though Livejournal plans to cancel paid accounts in the spring.

evilawyer has a brief tutorial on how to cross-post from Dreamwidth to Livejournal. As always, for those that want to leave for Dreamwidth, my username is the same there as it is on LJ. Feel free to add me—or let me know if I haven’t already added you to the circle.

Yuletide Sign-Ups Close At 8 PM CST. I eventually replaced Indiana Jones with The Mummy on the fandoms I’m offering for Yuletide. If I weren’t afraid I would be forced to write a story with Mutt in it, I would have thrown Indiana Jones into the Bucket List section.

Gmail Makes It Easier To Compose Emails With New Function.

This Is Halloween.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Return of the Living Dead.

Longbox of the Damned: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #31 of 31: It! The Terror From Beyond Space.

Rare Halloween Videos: Halloween Party and Safety Videos.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Return of the Living Dead (1985).

24 hours of horror with Joe Dante. He has great taste in horror films.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Horror Express.

Meta Horror Sequels.

Bored at a Halloween party? Time for some secret Pumpkin Tetris.

This Joker pumpkin is simply…smashing.

Watermelon Krang O’Lantern.

Spooky Stories: 10 Comics To Get In The Halloween Spirit.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 12.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Jennifer-Lynn Hayden (Jade/Green Lantern).

Disney Buys LucasFilm For $4 Billion, Announces New Star Wars Movie For 2015.

Dark Horse Comics Reacts To Disney’s Star Wars Purchase.

Bryan Singer Confirmed To Direct X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Let’s Have One More Ghostbusters 3 Update, Seeing As Sony Are In Money Trouble And All.

The Real Ghostbusters Unofficial Complete Series Companion.

A Superman insignia pumpkin.

Two stills from Frankenstein’s Army.

What Is Scarier Than Vampires? Disco Vampires.

25 awesome spooky movies

Bizarro Back Issues: The Existential Dread of Halloween on Bizarro World.

Stephanie Brown Batgirl Returns To DC In Lil Gotham Digital Specials.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Marvel Avengers Battle For Earth.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 10, Season 2: Thomas Jane.

Robot Chicken: The Prime Directive.

The Cinefiles—Neo Grindhouse.

James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Not An Animated Film.

P:R Approved: Katsuhiro Otomo’s Batman

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #6-5.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #4-3.

Major Spoilers Costume Contest 2012: Meet The Finalists.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—Halloween 2012.

From Cracked: The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4).

Doctor Who’s Ten Most Horrifying Moments.

DC Histories: Wally West.

Kaleidoscope buys international rights to release Much Ado About Nothing.

How Dark Shadows brought the supernatural to television drama.

A History of Censorship, Halloween Edition: War of the Worlds.

New poster for Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Promo art for The Woman In Black: Angel of Death.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 61: Ghostbusters.

Forgotten Flix Podcast #85: Halloween (1978)

Pulp Nightmare: Pulp Commentary—Halloween II (1981).

JoBlo Movie Podcast: Halloween II (1981) Commentary

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #133: Halloween II (1981), The Day After Halloween (1979), and Night of the Demons (1988).

F This Movie Podcast: The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise.

Comic Issues Podcast #90: Vampirism.

Now Playing Podcast: License To Kill (1989)

Monster Movie Podcast Episode 26.

Earth Station One Podcast, Episode 134 Bonus: Earth Station Boo.

Pirate Bay Financier Files For Bankruptcy, Focus Shifts To Peter Sunde.

Dimestore Dames spotlight Rachel Summers/Grey (Phoenix/Marvel Girl).

6 Nerdy Parties Throughout History We Would’ve Loved To Attend.

Downtown L.A. Intersection Renamed Ray Bradbury Square.

Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep will be released September 24, 2013.

Marvel brings Amazing Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Captain America And… to an end.

Olivia Cooke and Nicola Peltz join Bates Motel.

Six Developments About Jason Todd From Red Hood And The Outlaws #0.

From Think Geek: Darth Vader Desk Lamp.

Don’t Cross The Streams T-Shirt.

Neon Ghostbusters Sign.

The Amazing Adventure of The Man of Steel and the Psychiatric Censor — Superman vs. Doctor Wertham

Batman, Blood, X-Men: Talking With Comics Legend Neal Adams.

Another clip from Doctor Who: The Power of Three.

Doctor Who Rogues Gallery: The Tereleptils.

Big Finish: September Releases.

20 Things We Love About Chuck.

The Line It Is Drawn #107—Comic Book Characters Mashed Up With Stephen King Stories.

AV Q&A: Skipping the sex and violence.

And Here Is Neil Gaiman Riding A Giant Flamingo.

Nathan Fillion Needs Someone To Play Nathan Fillion In Castle’s Firefly Parody. Whedonesque discusses it here.

Artist Ryem Adds Animated Young Justice Look To New 52.

Mars Rover To Study Pyramid Rock Of Unknown Origin.

Greg Rucka Gets Increasingly Candid About Work For Hire Conditions, Debunks Another Myth.

Revisiting Star Trek TNG: The Naked Now.

Guillermo del Toro’s Vampire Trilogy The Strain Heading To FX.

He-Man And The Masters of the Universe Celebrates 30 Years With A Limited Edition DVD Set.

From Cracked: 5 Terrifying Origin Stories Behind Popular Children’s Songs. I would have expected to see Ring Around The Rosie on there, but it isn’t.

It’s the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit.

Stay Puft Heads Up Broadway: Filmography Finds Famous Movie Shots In NYC.

Fantastic Four: Fashion Forward Honorable Mentions.

IMAX Frankenweenie Poster.

Gaze upon the most disturbing My Little Pony ever made.

First look: Alex Ross’ poster for his Norman Rockwell Museum exhibit.

Alien Plush Chestburster.

34 Things We Learned From The Cabin In The Wood Commentary.

The 8 Most Ridiculously Unlucky Movie Families.

Best Art Ever (This Week) September 21st.

Burger King breaches McDonalds.

Awesome Firefly Art.

Ask Chris #122: The Legion of Super-Heroes.

Scott Lobdell Wants Your Questions.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #385.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 7, Season 2: Apolo Ohno.

Mission Log Podcast #7: Episode 7: Mudd’s Women.

Retroist Podcast, Episode 120: Crocodile Dundee.

Remembering Jeremy Brett.

Beware The Theater Ninjas.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk).

Gail Simone And Jim Calafiore Smash $100,000 On Kickstarter.

Teaser Poster For A&E’s Bates Motel.

Meet The Gunslinger: Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy teaser. Arrival: Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy teaser.

Whodini T-Shirt.

Lionsgate snaps up Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Joss Whedon Offers An Avengers Sequel Update.

Joss Whedon Gives Guided Tour of Cabin in the Woods’ ‘Black Room’.

The Five Best Professor X Stories.

The Many Deaths Of…

Frankenhooker to headline Chicago’s Terror In The Aisles 12.

The Justice League Movie: Facts, Rumors and Fiction.

Remember when Superman disarmed a bomb by disco dancing?

10 Plot Twists From DC’s Original Zero Month.

Six Developments From Batman #0.

The Line It Is Drawn #106—Comic Book Cover Homages. Personal favorite would have to be a tie between the one with Bane smashing the Batmobile into Batman while the Bat Family flees, in homage to Action Comics #1—and the Squirrel Girl homage to The Dark Knight Returns.

Science Fiction’s Greatest Failures (And How They Saved Us All)

Cosplay Round-Up: Baltimore Comic Con 2012.

Gates McFadden Interview, Part 1. Part 2.

Dragon Con cosplayers recreate Astonishing X-Men wedding cover.

Bravo is rebooting Heathers as a potential series.

Brave Little Toaster To Be Developed As CGI Reboot, All of Us Collectively Groan.

When Ewoks Attack.

Hand Painted Star Wars Cookies.

Bruce Campbell’s Cream Of Evil Soup T-Shirt.

Beaker was spotted at Dragon Con.

Alice In Wonderland Cake.

Awesome Dalek Cosplay At Dragon Con 2012.

Hero Complex: The Show interviews Nathan Fillion.

Vote For Your Favorite Classic Universal Monster.

10 Great Canadian Contributions To Nerd-Dom.

New poster for season 2 of Once Upon A Time.

We Are Overloaded With Season Four Images From The Vampire Diaries.

Viggo Mortevsen Will Not Be Dr. Strange.

42 Things We Learned From The Terminator 2: Judgment Day Commentary.

More Live Action Akira Storyboards Surface Care of Chris Weston.

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast, Season 1, Episode 9: Spider-Man.

Saturday B Movie Reel Podcast #79: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit.

Mission Log Podcast #6: Episode 6—The Enemy Within.

Jerry Nelson has passed away, at the age of 78, as a result of various health issues. May he rest in peace. He puppeteered numerous Jim Henson puppets in his 47 year career.

Kodak Seeks Exit From Film.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Lyja

Hammer Launches Youtube Channel.

Rob Liefeld Leaves DC Comics.

Ben Abernathy Leaves DC Comics.

This 100 Year Old Mystery Package Will Be Opened Today.

Cancelled Too Soon: The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Newest poster for Solomon Kane.

Fan trailer for a Captain Planet film.

Universal is remaking Videodrome.

The Blake’s 7 remake is coming to Syfy.

Doctor Who: BBC Worldwide 50th Anniversary Artwork Revealed.

BBC America’s latest Doctor Who trailer.

11th of Hearts T-Shirt.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Billie Piper.

Why The Fades and Doctor Who Confidential were cancelled.

The End Has No End: 10 Unresolved DC Plotlines.

Merlin producers: ‘We needed the show to grow up.’

Robot learns to recognize itself in mirror.

Kurt Busiek wants to know: is it creators or characters that win your money?

Hi-Res photo of Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit.

Cthulhu Wedding Cake.

Your New Fictional Fantastic Birthstone. So with a birthday in August, it goes from peridot to Men In Black’s Miniature Galaxy. Those born in May get to kill Superman with their birthstone.

Wonder Woman and Superman Are A Couple Now Or Well, This Is Stupid.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joins Thor: The Dark World.

First official pictures from the remake of Carrie.

Supercouples: 10 Powerful Comic Book Romances.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Tickets Will Cost The Same For 48 FPS And 24 FPS.

Superman: Mystery Behind The LL Initials.

Full Moon Announces First Slate Of Newly Remastered Blu-Ray Releases.

Rifftrax Live: Birdemic comes to theaters October 24th.

The Line It Is Drawn #103—Video Game Characters Meet Comic Book Characters.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—That Time Spider-Man’s Parents Turned Out To Be Robots.

How To Read An Old Sci-Fi Book…Without Ruining It.

From Cracked: If The Dark Knight Rises Was 10 Times Shorter And More Honest.

Here’s the cast for the adaptation of The Mortal Instruments.

The Oregon Trail Cake.

80’s X-Girls Fan Art.

Trailers From Hell: Dan Ireland on A Nightmare On Elm Street.

So Stan Lee once posed for a naked centerfold. It happened in 1983. I don’t know (and Comic Beat isn’t sure either) if this is NSFW or not, but he’s covered by a comic and a huge smile. Proceed at your own risk.

The Annotated Crisis On Infinite Earths.

The Best Endings In SF/F Series.

A Triceratops Tractor.

Batmobile Limo.

Three Ways To Make An Improved Rocketeer Movie.

R2-D2 Bender Cosplay.

What’s the shortest time it took you to fall in love with a tv show?

How to tell from a pilot if a tv show is going to be any good.

What’s the oldest gadget you still use? My keyboard is from my first computer in the mid-90’s. I still use a VCR from around the same time. The living room television is over 20 years old.

Hettienne Park joins the cast of Hannibal.

Sherlock—do the three words for series three mean it will be the last?

Mission Log Podcast #3: Charlie X.

Now Playing Podcast: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

The Internet Archive Starts Seeding Over A Million Torrents.

Received a Letter From Golden Eye International? Help Is At Hand.

Amazon Says It Closed Its Glaring Authentication Hack Exploit.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The unrevealed mysteries of Mystique and the unpublished debut of Destiny, Rogue and the Hellfire Club.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Greta Hayes (Secret).

Spider-Man’s 10 Best Costumes Ever.

Christopher Nolan on Superman: The Man of Steel.

From Funny Or Die: Bane After Batman.

Paul Dini explains absence from next Batman game.

A Few Distracting Things About Adventures In Babysitting.

Joss Whedon Is On Board For The Avengers 2. Joss Whedon Signs Three Year Deal With Marvel Studios. Whedonesque reacts to the news here and here.

The Outhousers starts campaign to save Joss Whedon’s Avengers Tv show from cancellation.

Brian Bendis unveils Bill Sienkiewicz art from Daredevil: End of Days.

Star Trek Comics Writer Talks Timeline Divergence Leading To 2013 Sequel.

Before They Were Famous: Best Science Fiction Cameos By Today’s Stars.

Top 10 Quantum Leap Episodes. The only episode I ever loved was the one with a young Stephen King.

New Elementary Promo.

6 Ways To Get Through The BBC Sherlock Hiatus.

British Library to publish Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s personal diary from Arctic whaling adventures.

Interview: The Rifftrax crew revisit another ‘classic.’

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots.

Trailers From Hell: Karyn Kusama on Near Dark.

Days of Our Lives Post Olympics Preview Clip.

From Cracked: 6 Movie Heroes Saved By Gaping Plot Holes. Back to the Future Part II and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade make the list.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Steampunk Daredevil, Black Cat, Electro and Mysterio.

Concept art for Disney’s Frozen movies shows off our new Snow Queen.

Get some original fantasy art from the great Kiri Moth.

An extended promo for 666 Park Avenue.

2012 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced.

Extended Cut Of The Shining Headed To UK Theaters.

Good News And Bad News About 48fps Hobbit.

Dark Shadows Dolls Pushed Back To 2013.

Alan Moore Attends Comic Convention.

For The Trophy Room: Alien Skull Replica From Predator II.

Horror Character Ice Pops.

The Halloween 4 Blu-Ray Seems To Be Missing Something.

Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore Kickstart Leaving Megalopolis.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series Soundtrack Announced.

Now Playing Podcast: From Russia With Love (1963).

Film Sack Podcast #126: Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

How To Support Aurora, Colorado.

Christopher Nolan has issued a statement. Parting Thought.

To help the victims, Mile High Comics is having a sale for this next week—10% of proceeds go toward paying for medical expenses and funeral costs.

Viacom Networks Return To DirecTV.

The first step (there isn’t a web based upload form just yet) towards Dreamwidth being able to host images was unveiled.

Cocktails With Stan, Episode 11: Alison Scagliotti.

Catching Up With Robert Beltran, Part 1. Part 2.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #376.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Superman Dressed as a Giant Bird To Protect His Secret I.D.

Clea Duvall joins season 2 of American Horror Story.

They Live cosplayers.

Sixteen San Diego Comic Con Panels In Full Audio.

Two Different Man of Steel Trailers Are Attached To The Dark Knight Rises. The one that played at the theater I went to involved a voiceover from Jor-El.

Both of the teaser trailers for The Man of Steel have been released online. Here’s the one with the Pa Kent voiceover; the one with Jor-El’s voiceover.

TR Contest: The Simple Joys of Nerd-dom.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Your MSTed Movie Characters Avengers Team.

Old School Manos Game Coming.

SDCC 2012: Buffy Turns 20 Panel.

CCI: The Vampire Diaries Panel.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Shanna O’Hara Plunder (Shanna The She-Devil).

Sidekicks, icons and DC public relations.

Hand-painted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bra.

Frank Miller’s Year One Screenplay.

Grimm Fairy Tales The Animated Series SDCC Trailer.

Spook Central Webmaster, Paul Rudoff, Appears In Ghostbusters Comic Book.

Jackie Earle Haley Joins Robocop.

Dueling Sleepy Hollow Series Being Shopped By Fringe, Missing Teams.

1989: Uncanny X-Men size comparisons for the animated series. This would be for Pryde of the X-Men, not the Fox series.

University offers course on how to be a professional alien hunter.

The official trailer for Red Dwarf X.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #134: Stunt Rock (1980)

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Timecop (1994).

Movie Issues Podcast: Junior (1994)

Schlock Treatment 85: Posse (1993)

Richard Zanuck passed away on Friday, following a heart attack, at the age of 77. May he rest in peace. He produced dozens of movies, including the recently released Dark Shadows, Jaws, Alice In Wonderland, Cocoon, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Sage Stallone passed away at the age of 36. May he rest in peace. His father was told immediately after the Expendables panel at Comic Con—condolences to his family.

One of the most recent Livejournal releases managed to break the syndicated feeds. While this post says feeds are updating again, they are not. Several comments confirm that it isn’t just me.

US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually.

Rapidshare Liable For Copyright Infringement.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #375.

LeBeouf Out, Radcliffe In For Horns Adaptation.

Terry Moore To Return To Strangers In Paradise In 2013.

AfterElton interviews Jane Espenson and Brad Bell on Husbands, season 2.

A recap of the Community panel at Comic Con.

New Ghostbusters Prop Ecto Goggles Announced At Comic Con. Courtroom Ray Stantz with Tony Scoleri.

Recovered 1927 Metropolis Film Program Goes Behind The Scenes of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece.

Stan Lee Talks World of Heroes And His Movie Cameos.

Solomon Kane is finally coming out…and there’s a trailer.

6 First Look Pictures From Oz The Great And Powerful.

Comic Con Cosplay: Mister Mxyzptlk.

Best Comic Con Cosplay Gallery Ever—Thursday. The Deadman costume is my favorite.

66 costumed Comic Con fans that have to be seen to be believed. The same guy dressed as Deadman makes an appearance.

Comic Con: Eddie McClintock talks Warehouse 13.

Greystone Park Coming To VOD, DVD—from son of Oliver Stone.

Kieron Gillen Launches A Podcast.

Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog To Air On The CW.

Game of Thrones: Diana Rigg and 13 others join the cast of season 3.

China White To Appear In Arrow.

Dimestore Dames would like to hear from fans of Catwoman.

The Walking Dead returns October 14th.

Booster Gold TV Show Still On Track.

New VOD title from Rifftrax: Bloody Pit of Horror.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Musical Covers.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Natasha Calis Talk The Possession.

Comic Con 2012: Notes From The Firefly Press Conference. Firefly cast and Joss reunite 10 years later—live blog. Watch the panel in its entirety here. The Shiniest Moments From A Closed Door Q&A With The Cast of Firefly.

Interview: Cast and Crew on The CW’s Cult at SDCC.

Comic Con Interview: Atticus Shaffer of Frankenweenie.

Alexis Denisof reveals his role in The Avengers.

How Prematurely Axed TV Series Should Have Ended, According To Their Creators.

Jessica Biel Might Play Viper In The Wolverine. I’ve seen various reports ranging from offered, to cast, to only a rumor. So we’ll see.

Chris Claremont: Dead Should Mean Dead: X-Men mastermind talks the Phoenix and the flame.

The 2012 Eisner Award Winners.

Justice League and Green Lantern Panel.

Nikita Cast Previews Season 3.

Lionsgate TV Taking A Trip To Zenescope’s Wonderland.

Jack Kirby once designed costumes for a college Shakespeare play.

Retroist Podcast, Episode 116: The Golden Girls.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Friday the 13th Commentary.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman Begins (2005)

Movie Issues Podcast: Batman And Robin (1997)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #133: Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991)

For those that are interested, and have access to the channel: From 3 PM-7PM CST, G4 will be having Comic Con Live.

BitTorrent Turns Web Browsers Into A File-Sharing Hub.

Internet Access Is A Human Right, Says United Nations.

So, That’s It For Thunderbird.

Hero Initiative accepting donations for Lobo co-creator Roger Slifer.

Indiana Jones leaps to Blu-Ray.

From Think Geek: Mini Bat Signal.

SDCC 2012: Mini NerdHQ Comic Con runs into mini Comic Con server melt.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Betty Brant.

Ian McKellen raises $354,000 for Christchurch theatre.

Ron Pearlman Is Hellboy Again For Make-A-Wish.

Now and Then: 10 Mind Bending Time Travel Stories In Comics.

Comic Con: Joss Whedon has message for Firefly fans.

San Diego Comic Con 2012: Top 13 Horror Options For When Hall H and Ballroom 20 Are Too Full.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Rewriting The Ends of MSTed Movies.

I Grok Bob: Five Robert A. Heinlein Novels To Start With.

From Cracked: The 6 Craziest Disguises Ever Used In The History of War.

Steampunk Spider-Man.

These Cthulhu Lego sets will drive you insane with little plastic bricks.

A Teaser Poster For Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim.

Library in abandoned house.

Movie Issues Podcast: The Running Man (1987).

Now Playing Podcast: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Schlock Treatment 83: The Phantom (1996)

Quit It Podcast: Geeking Out With Bill Corbett, of Rifftrax and MST3K fame.

Four syndicated feeds (for The One Ring.Net, FearNet, Dimestore Dames, and Blog@newsarama) that I follow on Dreamwidth appear to be broken, so I’ve opened a support ticket. FearNet just switched to a different feed, but I'm not sure why the others broke.

Judy Freudberg has passed away, at the age of 63, as a result of a brain tumor. May she rest in peace. Her work as script typist on Sesame Street earned her seventeen Emmys. She was also the writer for The Land Before Time and An American Tail.

U.S. Government Equates Megaupload To Bank Robbers.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana).

The Lone Ranger is way over budget again, possibly because Gore Verbinski is building his own trains.

The Alan Moore Interview.

Lucy Lawless pleads guilty to trespass.

ESP Guitars Releasing a Limited Edition Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave Guitar.

Brent Spiner joins Warehouse 13 for a recurring role in season 4.

Official panel for The Hobbit at Comic Con 2012?

New poster for The Amazing Spider-Man.

Eureka Star Neil Grayston on End of the World, the Scream of Disaster Movies.

E.T. 30th Anniversary: The Sequel That Never Was and Three Decades of Cameos. You can read the pitch for E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears here.

The 15th anniversary trailer for The Asylum.

The Line It Is Drawn #94: Alternate Reality Character Designs.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns—behind the scenes of the animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel.

The Ghostbusters in the style of Super Mario Bros. characters.

Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven.

James White’s Masters of the Universe Poster.

Jurassic-Sized Velociraptor Yard Statue.

Spectacular Hogwarts Cake.

32 Things We Learned From The Alien Commentary.

Free RPG Day is coming this Saturday.

With Fringe Making Their Farewell Tour At SDCC, Will Bones Be Far Behind?

Hyperrealistic Comic Book Paintings.

The Future Is A Foreign Country: Margaret Wander Bonanno’s Strangers From The Sky.

Fewer movies at Comic Con as TV moves into Hall H.

Stephanie Brown Joins Batman In Smallville Season 11.

It’s the trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution.

10 Great LGBT Superheroes (And Superhero Couples).

Dimestore Dames spotlights Frigga.

Retro Shock Theater: Burnt Offerings From Dark Shadows’ Dan Curtis.

NBC Cancels Awake

Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You have been warned.

The CW picks up The Carrie Diaries, Arrow, a version of Beauty and the Beast with Kristin Kreuk, First Cut, and Cult.

The CW renews Nikita, Gossip Girl, and Hart of Dixie, cancels Ringer and The Secret Circle. Whedonesque reacts to the news of Ringer here.

NBC officially cancels Harry’s Law. ABC cancels Missing, Pan Am, The River—also, GCB.

ABC officially picks up 666 Park Avenue, show details revealed.

The Easter Island statues have bodies.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter Attracts Another Director: Neil Marshall.

From Think Geek: Malcolm Reynolds Metal-Plated Pistol Prop Replica.

Vintage Star Wars Stamps.

The You Are Beautiful Meme.

First drawing of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird sells for $71,700.

Weekend Discussion Thread: What would you do after the apocalypse?

Sign ups are open at Whedonesque.

Nominate your favorite sf/f podcast for the Parsec award.

Dalek from recycled engine parts.

Editorial: Marvel Needs To Re-Hire Joss Whedon For The Avengers 2.

Jane Espenson: Cocktails With Stan Lee.