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Grant Imahara has passed away, at the age of 49, due to a sudden brain aneurysm. May he rest in peace.

It’s been well over a decade since I watched a single episode of Mythbusters. However, I do remember liking him. He just seemed like a genuinely good guy, and will be missed. I’ve also just learned that he built Geoff, Craig Ferguson’s robot sidekick. He was also Sulu for Star Trek Continues.

William Asher has passed away at the age of 90. May he rest in peace. He worked on I Love Lucy and Bewitched, and co-created The Patty Duke Show.

Archive of Our Own will be down for a planned maintenance lasting approximately three hours on Friday.

Air-Conditioned Pants.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Batman.

Looking back at The Dark Knight.

This Is How You Paint A 150 Foot Tall Batman.

A reminder: Misfits makes its debut on Logo on July 19th.

Farwell, Eureka. Why Eureka Will Be Missed.

20th Anniversary Power Rangers Mural Celebrates Series Box Set Release.

SDCC 2012 Fringe panel, in its entirety.

SDCC 2012 Supernatural panel, in its entirety.

American Horror Story: Mark Consuelos joins season 2.

Universal Pictures has hired Juliet Snowden and Stiles White to rewrite the script for Ouija.

From FearNet: 10 Grisly Deaths In Comics.

SDCC Costumes: Stay Puft.

The My Little Pony Stormtrooper Cosplay.

A Guide To The Characters of Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Impressive Cosplay From Comic Con 2012.

The Biggest Winners And Losers Of Comic Con 2012.

Hellboy 3 Might Be Underway Thanks To One Boy’s Wish.

Amazing Shrek Meets Sleeping Beauty Cake.

A New Sleeping Beauty Adaptation Will Feature A Stalker Take On The Classic Tale.

Benedict Cumberbatch to give Sherlock Masterclass at Edinburgh Television Festival.

Doctor Who Cast Reveal Comic Con Mission.

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill…In A Pedicab.

Image of the Day: Captain Mal Meets The Doctor For Comic Con Squee.

G4 Interview: Joss Whedon Talks Firefly, The Avengers, And Comic Book From Comic Con 2012.

Random Roles: Fred Willard.

Rosemary’s Baby Comes To Blu-Ray On October 30th.

Bryan Fuller previews Mockingbird Lane and Hannibal at Comic Con.

Scott Ngo’s X-Men Redesign.

Get A Sneak Peek of the Mythbusters’ Fall Season.

Comic Con 2012: A Look Back, Trek Style.

Marvel at Comic Con: Movie Panel Clips.

Thought Bubble #2: Why Don’t Hit Superhero Movies Lead To More Comic Sales?

Legend of Korra Book 2 SDCC Concept Art.

San Diego Comic Fest: A Comic Con Reboot?

A filk song about the John Scalzi novel Redshirts, sung by Jonathan Coulton.

Stan’s Rants: The Dark Knight Rises.

Marvel Knights Animation Season 2 Trailer.

The Cinefiles: The Films of Cronenberg, Part 1.

What does a favorite character do to escape the summer heat?

Anthony Mackie Rumored As Falcon In Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Sebastian Stan Reportedly Back.

Amanda Plummer joins The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Comic Convention Signs That Aren’t Real But Should Be.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 256: Hellraiser (1987) Commentary. During the course of the commentary, at one point they get to the topic of The Dark Knight Rises, and a spoiler that Letterman said on his talk show, in regards to the ending of the film. I skipped ahead as I’ve been avoiding that one. My best advice would be that if you planned to listen to this podcast, wait until you’ve seen The Dark Knight Rises, so you won’t need to do the same.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 67: Spawn.

Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000.

Scientists Resurrect 500 Million Year Old Gene Inside Modern Organism. So many horror movies start this way.

NVIDIA Hacked, Usernames and E-Mails Stolen.

Deleted account purge in progress at Dreamwidth.

Happy Friday the 13th!

Dimestore Dames spotlights Ororo Munroe/Storm.

From Neil Gaiman himself: A new Sandman miniseries will be released in 2013.

DC reveals Before Watchmen variants by Steranko, Rude, Pope, more.

Frankenweenie Poster. Frankenweenie trailer released at Comic Con.

Great Opening Sentences From Classic Fantasy Novels.

Yes To Timothy Hunter, No To Renee Montoya: DC Comics’ The Dark And The Edge Panel.

The Asylum Is Prepping To Release Its First Theatrical Film.

The trailer for Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great And Powerful.

Trekkies Guide To San Diego Comic Con 2012.

Interview: Mike and Denise Okuda on Star Trek: TNG Blu-Ray Season 1.

Contents of Indiana Jones Quadrilogy Bonus Disc Revealed.

Mythbusters’ Adam Savage spent the day wandering Comic Con while disguised as a Nazgul.

Teen Wolf Renewed for an Extended Season 3.

Psych Comic Con Panel: Boss previews 2-hour musical episode.

Karen Gillan will be in Oculus.

Official Plot Blurb For Robocop Remake.

Hearse Converted Into Ecto-1.

IDW Ghostbusters Monthly Comic #14, Ghostbusters 100 Pack Spooktacular, The Real Ghostbusters Omnibus Solicitations.

Enjoy the nasty parts of Choose Your Own Adventure books at You Chose Wrong.

Todd Williams joins The Vampire Diaries.

This Is The Sinister Face Of Comic Con 2012.

The Giant Lego Creations of Comic Con.

Use These Interlocking Wooden Ninja Stars As Coasters, Trivets, Or Weapons.

The Fourth Clip From The Dark Knight Rises.

Back To The Future Hoverboard Cake.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 255: Lucio Fulci.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Crash And Burn (1990).

Film Sack Podcast #123: Night of the Comet (1984).

Comic Book Club Podcast: Geoff Johns and Eliza Skinner.

TV’s All-Time Greatest Writers. There are a lot of great ones that were left off the list.

Chandler Massey Wins Daytime Emmy Award For Days Of Our Lives.

After 24 years, Live With Regis And Kelly finally won an Emmy.

Alex Ross Designs For Flash Gordon And Ming The Merciless.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Stan Is Spider-Man.

Elementary Casts Jon Michael Hill.

There is a chance Malcolm McDowell could play the role of Father Merrin in the stage play of The Exorcist.

CR Interview: Ed Brubaker.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Tomb.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked: So How Did Storm And The Black Panther First Meet Exactly?

Animal prints teach children their Elvish ABCs.

Brave earned nearly $68 million for its opening weekend.

Hobbit mockbuster set to shoot next month. Yes, it’s from The Asylum.

Whither those frosty, fruit-filled snacks?

Kids’ Book Versions of R-Rated Movies.

Exclusive First Look: Dalek Crash- Doctor Who: Death To The Daleks.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on The Gamma People.

Gwen Stacy And The Amazing Spider-Man.

New video of Leonard Nimoy talking about last minute changes to his final scene in TWOK.

The 10 Nerdiest Myths Mythbusters Busted.

The Origins of Continuum.

New Short Film Series By Alan Moore Announced.

Rocketeer inspired t-shirt.

Custom Alien Lamp.

11 Great Television Shows That Are Lost Forever.

Infographic: Know Your Vampire Hunter.

DIY Doctor Who Dalek Cake.

The “Minute” Details: Before Watchmen’s Darwyn Cooke.

Going by the latest at theljstaff, it seems that the Writer’s Block is not going away after all. It is only being removed from the homepage.

Megaupload Shutdown Inflicts Pleasure And Pain On Other Trackers.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Monica Rambeau (Captain Marvel/Photon/Pulsar).

Michael Lumsford’s redesign of the original five X-Men.

The new official logo for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.

Star Trek Cake: The Enterprise vs. The Borg Cube.

Ghostbusters by Shaun Lynch.

Find a Ghostbusters slot machine near you. Just for the novelty factor.

Every Bat-Climb Window Cameo From Batman ’66 In One 13 Minute Video.

A clip from Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope.

Why are fantasy world accents British?

What happened to comic book ads?

A sequel to Twins—called Triplets—is in development, with the third in the trio to be played by Eddie Murphy. April Fool’s Day isn’t for another two days—so I don’t know if this is an early one or not.

Joss Whedon answers fan questions in an interview about The Cabin In the Woods.

Snow White’s Strange Cinematic History. I will always love Snow White: A Tale of Terror.

Twenty Must Read Retold Tales: An Introduction To The Genre.

The Best Movies Loosely Based On Fairy Tales You Probably Haven’t Seen. The Company Of Wolves is one that’s on my list to see someday, as well as Little Otik and Hanna.

Doctor Who Minimalist Posters

Whooligans—a Doctor Who documentary made by fans, for fans.

Firefly ‘Serenity Sake’ Shirt.

Banner revealed for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Atlanta photographer reimagines DC heroes and villains in new exhibit.

How many explosions, how much duct tape and how many myths have the Mythbusters busted so far?

The ships of Battlestar Galactica, immortalized in thousands of Lego bricks.

Stan Lee gives Ultimate Spider-Man his seal of approval.

The shortlist of directors for Captain American 2 is narrowing.

A piece of Big Trouble In Little China fan art.

The latest Junk Food Dinner podcast focuses on UHF, Chopping Mall, and Big Trouble In Little China.

The Film Sack podcast discusses Starcrash.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Grace Choi.

Importing posts from LJ to Dreamwidth has been re-enabled. Cross-posting has not.

8 More of the Nerdiest Musicals of All Time.

The start date for season 2 of Sherlock has been confirmed: episode 1 airs on New Year’s Day in the UK.

The History of Ms. Marvel. While I knew most of this, the only bits I ever read in the comics were the draining by Rogue, and a couple issues with Carol as Binary.

When Mythbusters misses a target with a cannonball, things get insane. While I haven’t cared to watch the show in several years, I seem to recall at least one other instance where they shattered several windows in one area.

Some viral marketing for The Dark Knight Rises.

Godzilla Christmas Tree.

Back in 1996, Rob Liefeld (of all people) and Ty Templeton appeared in a segment of The Anti-Gravity Room, to teach people how to draw comics. I loved that show—and Sci-Fi Buzz—but I must have missed this episode.

A clip from the next episode of Merlin.

Michelle Pfeiffer talks about filming Dark Shadows.

Jerry Robinson passed away in his sleep last night, at the age of 89. May he rest in peace. He was a creator rights advocate, co-created Robin, and created the Joker.

Different subject: liliaeth--I sent a PM your way. The DDOS has been messing with notifications for several people, so you may not have seen it. Or for all I know, they may have just gone into the void since at one point when I sent it the thing had Frank the Goat’s varnish error face while simultaneously claiming it went through. (I also spotted an awkward phrasing that I didn't see before--fixed that, and thought of a title that fits a bit better)

Starz released an 11 minute behind the scenes featurette for Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Details of Anne Hathaway’s costume in The Dark Knight Rises. From the sound of it, they’re using the costume I prefer for the character. At least it’s not the purple spandex from the 90’s comics.

The new Thundercats cartoon premieres on July 29th.

There’s going to be a screening of Ghostbusters on July 3rd—in a cemetery in L.A. If I lived there, I would attend it.

From Cracked: 6 Beloved 80’s Toys With Bizarrely Horrifying Origin Stories. I remember watching The Hugga Bunch. I think the origin of Rainbow Brite was the only episode I liked (because it was dark) when I was little.

Adam Savage sings “I will survive” as Gollum, with Neil Gaiman building up to it on a radio show.

I’ve just received confirmation via their website that the Cinemark theater around here will be showing Rifftrax Live on August 17th. So I'm pleased.

There are two new tv spots for X-Men: First Class. First one is here. Second one is here. There’s also a behind the scenes video here, which doesn’t spoil anything. I’m not linking to the 20 minute behind the scenes footage, because that reportedly spoils everything. Plus, another scene was released—this one involves a young Xavier and Mystique.

Adam Savage from Mythbusters recreates the Doctor Who theme with electricity.

Two workers were injured on the set of The Hobbit, and were briefly hospitalized.

A third clip has been released for The Almost People. I think there’s a chance I’m going to like this episode better than part 1, if this is any indication.

All those in the path of these tornadoes, please try to stay safe. We’re due to get something of it here in the next couple of hours. Anywhere from 5 PM-9 PM. I knew it before the local news told, judging by the massive migraine I had yesterday.