calliopes_pen

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)

24 Hour Comics Day 2013 Commences October 5th.

Abandoned Love: The Titanic Tale of Teen Tony Stark, AKA Iron Teen

ECCC: DC Comics All Access

ECCC: CBR News interviews Gail Simone about taking over as writer for Red Sonja

ECCC ’13 – Liveblogging The Official West Coast Fables Panel

ECCC: Dark Horse Spotlights Superheroes

Viz to Publish My Neighbor Totoro Novel in English

Awesome Art Picks Wonder Woman, X-Men, Batman and More

Comic Based on NBC's Grimm Coming in May from Dynamite Entertainment

Neil Gaiman Updates Tor on HBO’s American Gods, Doctor Who, and More

Zero Hour Cancelled By ABC After Three Episodes.

Drop Dead Diva Renewed For Season 5.

Sam Raimi Plans To Write Evil Dead 4 This Summer. I’m in the ‘wait and see’ camp since this comes up every few years.

Vampires 101: Tomb of Dracula.

Scribner Reveals the Official Artwork for Stephen King's Doctor Sleep

Two More Join The Tomorrow People: Madeleine Mantock and Robbie Amell

Showtime casts Anna Friel in 'The Vatican'

Weekend Discussion Thread: Bits in the Theater.

Terror Transmission, Episode 87: Deep Red (1975)

Death’s Door Prods Podcast: Let’s Watch—Resident Evil (2002)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #166: The Package (2012)

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 94: Starchaser: Legend of Orin (1985)

Macmillan will sell e-books to libraries in pilot program at $25 per title

How Was SFSketchFest/Best of RiffTrax? I managed to go to the Manos screening. Due to an awful movie (one of the Wayans brothers spoofing the Paranormal Activity franchise—I walked in during what seemed to be the guy being jealous as he watched someone loudly having sex with a ghost; not being interested in watching this moment with Dad, we turned and left, opting to stay in the hall until it finished) running too long, Rifftrax wouldn’t have had time for the trivia/joke cards at the start. So the manager let everyone vote—we decided even if it went overly long, we wanted it. Things were fine, until midway through one of the shorts—the power in the whole theater went out. 5-10 minutes later, it came back, and we started where we left off. Someone that had been there for the previous showing (and its interruption by tornado and power outage) said it had happened at that same point, too. The manager (who also personally went in and cleaned up after the previous viewing of that movie) came in and apologized.

Unfortunately, the heat didn’t come back on. Instead, about 20 minutes before the end, the air conditioning was going full blast—so I had my coat on. Got out around 9:45 PM, and made it home shortly before the sleet (which the Weather Channel has dubbed Winter Storm Khan—feel free to insert your own Kirk scream here) started. Outside of all of that, I have to say it was great.

J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode VII.

Who Would You Like To Direct The Next Star Wars?

Star Trek Character Names And Roles Chart.

If only one past Doctor could appear in Doctor Who’s anniversary special, which would you prefer?

Matt Smith Singing in the Rain - Behind the Scenes Exclusive On Top Gear.

An interview with David Tennant.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard Smith on Pirates Of Blood River

We’re Ready To Believe You T-Shirt.

Ghostbusters Fan Art: 55 Central Park West.

One Page Preview Of New Ghostbusters #1.

An interview with Joel Hodgson.

New Oz: The Great And Powerful Poster Spotlights Rachel Weisz. More character posters can be found here.

The Very Last Thing Broadcast On G4’s Attack of the Show Before The Lights Went Out.

Being Human (UK Version) Series 5 Trailer

Being Human (American Version): Meaghan Rath Talks Being Undead, Roommate Romance, Craving Brains, and More

Top 10 Movie Apocalypses.

Top 10 Fairy Tale and Fantasy Movie Adaptation With A Twist.

Supervillain Origins: Deadshot.

Kevin Smith - With Great Power Extended Interview

10 Ways Buckaroo Banzai Has Infiltrated Pop Culture.

10 TV Shows That Deserve A Second Life. They list MST3K, which does have a second life in Rifftrax. I agree with the inclusion of Pushing Daisies.

Impressive Robocop Cake.

Army of Muppet Zombies vs. Bruce Campbell.

Best Art Ever (This Week): January 25th.

The Best Batman Planter You’ve Ever Seen (Hopefully).

Comic Book Legends Revealed #403.

Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen Heading to Broadway in Waiting For Godot

Both The Avengers and The Cabin in the Woods win Golden Tomato Awards.

Alternate Avengers concept art released.

About Those Phantasm II Bonus Features…

All My Children and One Life To Live Set To Premiere Digitally On Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

Tales From The Code: The Near Extinction Of Sheena

Keith Giffen Leaves Legion Of Superheroes After Two Issues?

Movie Issues Podcast: The Covenant (2006)

Mission Log #25—Episode 25: The Devil In The Dark.

Junk Food Dinner #144: Society (1989), No Retreat, No Surrender (1986), and Vampire’s Kiss (1989)

Smodcast On Batman #23: Kevin Smith and Kyle Higgins on Dick Grayson, Part 2.

The Batman Universe Podcast—Bat-Books For Beginners Episode 96: Birds of Prey: Old Friends, New Enemies (Birds of Prey #1-6)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 129: Dungeons And Dragons The Animated Series.

Mystery donor who gave $35,000 to The Oatmeal’s Tesla museum fund revealed.

Holiday Love Meme 2012. Since it's been a rough couple of months, my thread.

A Friending Meme.

CBLDF’s Holiday Gift Guide

Magical Used Book Store Dispenses Random Literary Treasures.

First Official Photo From The Hobbit: There And Back Again Released.

Gandalf Confronts The Goblin King In A New Still From The Hobbit: There And Back Again.

First ever image from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shows one terrified burglar.

The 10 Most Interesting Facts Gleaned From The Hobbit Press Conference.

Philippa Boyens: Del Toro’s Hobbit would have been amazing.

Preview: Sherlock Holmes: The Liverpool Demon #1.

Pan’s Labyrinth Being Adapted As A Stage Musical.

5 great geek crossover TV episodes.

First look at Being Human series 5.

Brian De Palma's The Fury the Latest Cult Favorite Going Blu-ray in 2013

Development Deal: Adam Strange.

Dark Shadows Actress Kathryn Leigh Scott Wants To Help With Your Holiday Shopping

List Of IMAX Theaters Showing 9 Minute Star Trek: Into Darkness Preview Available Now.

Once Upon A Time has cast Gregory Itzin as Victor Frankenstein’s father, Alphonse.

Trailer and poster for Blancanieves, a Spanish-language 1920's set Snow White tale.

Stranger than fiction: Jumanji to be rewritten by Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium scribe Zach Helm

Incredibly Strange and Ridiculously Cheap: Albert Pyun's 30-Year Career in B-Movies

Trailers From Hell: Sam Hamm on The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.

Snow Sculpture Win.

The Evolution of Sigourney Weaver.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—December 7th.

Twenty Years Ago—Spider-Man’s 30th Anniversary.

New Portrait Of Man of Steel’s Superman On Magazine Cover.

Famke Janssen Talks Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Alan Moore’s Essay For The Activist Occupy Comics Anthology.

Keatinge & Dallocchio Take On Starfire for ‘DC Universe Presents’

99 Cent Sale On Dark Horse Digital.

Sandman covers before and after Photoshop.

David Tennant on his Doctor Who pride.

Free, partial TARDIS piñata.

Classic Julie Newmar Catwoman, drawn by Pedro Figue.

Joe Quesada—With Great Power Extended Interview.

Cinemassacre: Public Domain Horror VHS Art.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #396.

Gift Guide: Brain Cube.

Japanese Iron Man 3 Trailer.

10 Most Unlikely Things That Were Influenced By J.R.R. Tolkien.

Are we at the start of a new golden age of superhero TV shows?

Back to the Future Hoverboard Hands On: So This Is What A Real Life Hoverboard Looks Like.

Lee Pace Confirms He’s Auditioning For Guardians of the Galaxy; Says Script Is ‘Great.’

Horror Comedy Death Becomes Her Gets Small Screen Redo.

Return To Nuke ‘Em High Poster Revealed.

48 Things We Learned From The Casino Royale Commentary.

The Bigfoot of Endor T-Shirt.

Movie Issues Podcast: Black Christmas (2006)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #154: Steele Justice (1987)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 125—The Wonder Years.

Youtube has altered their main page again. So if you want to get to your subscriptions, you’ll have to go to this page from now on. After which, update (in Firefox) this script. It will allow you to have the x to remove videos. Loading new videos seems to have a bit of a hang up at the moment, however.

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.

Overview of the Robot Chicken panel.

Confirmed by Dan Didio At DC Comics The New Wave Panel: Barbara Gordon Will Replace Stephanie Brown In Smallville.

New Iron Man 3 Armor Revealed At Comic Con.

Robert Downey Jr.’s entrance to the Iron Man 3 panel.

The Joss Whedon Panel—Killing Your Family.

Season 2 Preview of Once Upon A Time.

The Vampire Diaries Panel: Live-Blogged.

The Nerdist Channel presents Farscape, cut into minisodes.

Hasbro, QMx, DST, Anovos and Hallmark Show Off New Star Trek Merch At SDCC 2012.

Adam Savage’s Comic Con Costumes.

Studio sources refute wild rumor of third Hobbit film.

Teaser for the Deadpool video game.

Thor and Captain America Sequels’ Titles Revealed. They are Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Guardians of the Galaxy Concept Art

The Man of Steel Movie Poster.

An interview with Roberto Orci, about the new Star Trek movie.

DC Nation Short—Bat Man of Shanghai: Catwoman.

AvX’s Phoenix Five Invade Marvel: Avengers Alliance.

John Barrowman interviews Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill at Comic Con, for G4.

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill sing Bohemian Rhapsody at their panel.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

Geek Gear: A Nightmare on Elm Street Screamworks Shirt.

Roswell alien waitress cosplay will make you nostalgic for the 1990’s. I never watched the show, but others might like to see this.

The Amazing Spider-Man Hits $521.4 Million Worldwide.

Elementary creator—The idea of a female Watson came from the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

Breaking News: Three Merlin movies in development and season 6 possibilities for BBC TV series.

The Lost Girl panel at Comic Con, in its entirety.

Mockingbird Lane’s Bryan Fuller On His Munsters Mash-Up And New Growth For Pushing Daisies.

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase 1: Avengers Assemble Promo.

SDCC 2012: DC Comics: Young Justice Panel Liveblogged. According to Lobdell, Tim Drake was never Robin in the new DCU, and went straight to being Red Robin.

Schlock Treatment 84: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

Terror Transmission, Episode 72: Night of the Demon (1957)

Yesterday, I managed to watch the Joss Whedon panel live from Comic Con, because it was streaming through here. You can go through their archived streams section for the panels for that one, Doctor Who, Grimm, Nathan Fillion, Stan Lee, Psych, Robot Chicken, as well as quite a few others.

Neil Gaiman writes about Ray Bradbury.

MPAA: Megaupload Users Can Have Their Files Back, But…

Shakespeare’s long-lost Curtain Theatre has been unearthed in London.

Insanejournal is doing a username purge of inactive accounts. This means journals that you haven’t been logged in with for approximately one year. I’ve just rescued four old ones of mine from the scrap heap.

New Writer Heads Into The Twilight Zone.

Tazlet is hosting a ficathon in honor of the late Ray Bradbury.

Trailer for the new season of The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

Robocop Remake Now Also Stars Samuel L. Jackson.

The 10 Worst Batman Villains Of All Time.

The Line It Is Drawn #93: Cross-Company Team-Ups. My favorite? Deadpool vs. Stormshadow and Snake Eyes, with Martian Manhunter and Marvin the Martian a close second.

Another new image of Karl Urban as Judge Dredd.

A clip from The Amazing Spider-Man—this time, it’s a scene between Peter and Captain Stacy.

Extended trailer for Arrow.

Sherlock’s Molly on season 3, Benedict Cumberbatch, and more.

The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is cancelled.

MST3K’s Tom Servo and Crow in Lego.

Mark Millar Says New Justice League Script Is “Dark and Mature.”

Tickets go on sale tomorrow for Rifftrax Live: Manos The Hands Of Fate.

10 Reasons Not To Bring Someone Back From The Dead.

Logo Nabs Misfits.

David Tennant is playing The Ghost of Christmas Present in an episode of The Catherine Tate Show.

16 Sci-Fi TV Shows Killed In Season 2.

Someone at The AV Club watched Ghostbusters for the first time...and didn’t like it. And seemed to think that people born in 1980-1985 wouldn’t have seen it the first time around. Well, I did when I was 4. Didn’t see it uncut until I was 9 or 10 during a brief time we had HBO, but I saw it.

As can be expected, there are a ton of comments going after the reviewer, while others just quoted the movie. There’s a mention of a Ghostbusters related scene in Zombieland--what was it, since I didn’t watch that movie? The analysis of what did and didn’t work for them is interesting, as is them somehow misunderstanding “ZUUL!” (when Dana opens the fridge) as “SOUP!”

I saw the pictures of what the Doctor is wearing at the beginning of the next episode, and I just have to wonder if Jack would start laughing at him. Or send him somewhere to check his sanity. While I’m not about to spoil Waters of Mars for anyone that hasn’t seen it yet, there will likely be spoilers in the comments.

Four Remedies To Twilight. Mr. Vampire is on the list, as is Christopher Lee’s Dracula.

From the same guy that does I’m A Marvel And I’m A DC, there’s a funny spoof of Twilight--starring Harley Quinn and the Joker. You can watch it here.

The Most Unfairly Cancelled TV Shows. Firefly, Pushing Daisies, and Wonderfalls get mentioned.

Dollhouse has been cancelled. The remaining episodes are supposed to be aired anyway, and there should be a “significant series finale.”

Also cancelled: Hank, so Jordan Hinson will probably head back to Eureka.

For those not sure about signing up for Yuletide, sign-ups close at 8 PM CST.