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John McAfee arrested, asks for computer, blogs from jail cell.

Svengoolie Tweets about his recovery.

A Dark Shadows Gift Guide.

Horror Fans Christmas Gift Guide (UK)

iFanboy’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Comics Stuff That Isn’t Comics.

5 Awesome (And Weird) Moments From Christmas Variety Specials.

Richard Armitage talks to The One Ring.Net

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey—13 Minute TV Special.

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 4, Over Hill and Under Hill.

Gandalf Playing Bagpipes And Riding A Unicycle In Portland, Oregon.

Matty Collector offering three Ghostbusters themed bundles.

Ghostbusters mobile game in development by Capcom’s Beeline.

There’s A Beetlejuice Museum In New York…

The Dark Knight Concept Art Featuring Two-Face and Joker’s Bank Robbery.

Mind-Blowing Lego Tumbler Looks As Detailed As The Real Batmobile.

Revisiting Torchwood: what series 2 did right.

First teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness. This Japanese trailer has a bit more footage.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Panels—Days of Future Past.

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Adds Dennis Haysbert. He will be replacing the late Michael Clarke Duncan in the role of Manute.

From Cracked: The 4 Craziest Moments In The History of Christmas Specials.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Season 3 Episode 1: Freddie Wong.

Shock Interview: Silent Night’s Malcolm McDowell

Arrow Meets His Match In John Barrowman’s Merlyn.

Stephen King’s 11/22/63 Loses Its Writer And Director.

The Great Stephen King Re-Read: The Dead Zone.

The Art of the Title: Dreamcatcher.

Gingerbread Star Wars Millennium Falcon.

Artist Olly Moss Teases a Thor: The Dark World Poster Design.

Great Moments In Comics History: Christmas With The Superheroes #1.

An interview with Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

Mary Poppins is a Time Lord.

Free Comic Book Day 2013 Gold Sponsors Announced

Tron 3 is officially online again.

Mark Millar’s auction to name Jupiter’s Children character hits $2550.

Matt Kindt and Geoff Johns Co-Writing Martian Manhunter Back-Up In Justice League of America.

Anatomical Frankenstein limited edition print.

A casting agency for all of your creepy horror child casting needs.

Teaching Controversial Comics: A First-Hand Account.

8 ways X-Men movie continuity is irretrievably screwed.

The Line It Is Drawn #118—A Li’l Collection of Li’l Comic Book Characters.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 341: Legends of the Dark Knight #70.

More White House Petitions Inspired By Movies.

From Think Geek: USB Squirming Tentacle.

Star Talk discusses the science of Star Trek with Wil Wheaton. The discussion is enormously entertaining.

Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck In A Christmas For Shacktown (1952).

Superboy and Wonder Woman DVD’s: Coming December 11th.

Ask Red Dwarf’s Robert Llewellyn all your smegging questions.

Sofa Dogs Podcast: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 277: Alfred Hitchcock Director Spotlight (Part 1).

Collected Comics Library Podcast #341: Major Typos From DC And Marvel.

I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere, Episode 48: Dangerous Work.

Mission Log Podcast #18: Episode 18—Arena.

Publishers abandon fight against Google book scanning.

AMC FearFest 2012 Schedule (tell it to sort alphabetically, for the full list). TCM’s horror movie schedule. Looks like Fright Night Part 2 will be airing on AMC on the 27th at 2 AM CST, for those that are interested.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Fright Night (1985).

Classic Gothic horror cinema show in Montreal.

Experience The Vampire Diaries’ twisting plot and many thrills in 10 episodes.

Guillermo del Toro Talks Frankenstein, Hulk And More./a>

Top 10 1980s Horror Movie Posters.

The Weekly Geek: Geeky Halloween Costumes.

31 Days of Horror: Carnival of Souls/Insidious.

A Beginner’s Guide To Italian Horror: Mario Bava on Blu-Ray.

Celebrate Halloween with ‘Lyndhurst After Dark’.

How It Should Have Ended: The Amazing Spider-Man Bonus Scene.

First full image of Captain Hook in Once Upon A Time.

The Wizard of Oz is getting a 3D re-release.

Looking back at Young Sherlock Holmes.

Did Tru Calling deserve to be axed?

Life Outside The TARDIS: The Classic Companions’ Best Roles.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Elisabeth Sladen.

Doctor Who Rogues Gallery: The Time Lords.

Power Corrupts: 10 Omnipotent Characters That Went Too Far.

Six Developments From Avengers vs. X-Men #12.

An excerpt of Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics, The Untold Story.

IDW announces Mars Attacks the Real Ghostbusters.

Ellen Greene joins the cast of Hannibal.

Ally Sheedy returns for the musical episode of Psych.

The History of Lois Lane – Part 2: TV, Cartoons and Everything Else Leading to 'Man of Steel'.

As the showing of Rifftrax Live: Birdemic approaches, Boing Boing interviews Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, and Michael J. Nelson.

Ten Worst One-Liners From Batman And Robin. Oh, the pain.

Batman Hates Bronies.

Honest Trailers—The Dark Knight.

27 Of The Most Insane Martial Arts Battles Ever Filmed.

Star Wars, Gremlins, And Indiana Jones By Patrick Schoenmaker.

Should Filmmakers Explain Their Movies?

Red Dwarf: a beginner’s guide.

Robot Chicken: Cast Away Reboot.

The 32 Greatest Unscripted Movie Scenes.

Gateways To Geekery: Where to start with Tales From Earthsea author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #129: Vamp (1986), Stake Land (2010), and Interview With The Vampire (1994).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 268: Night Fright.

Steven Franken has passed away, at the age of 80, as a result of cancer. May he rest in peace. If he’s who I’m thinking of, he played a warlock who was henpecked by his mother, and had a crush on Samantha on Bewitched. Where he also played five other characters. He was also in an episode of the Adam West version of Batman as a valet, and was the voice of someone in Batman: The Animated Series. His best remembered role would be as the rich and snobby Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and for MST3K fans he ended up in Stranded In Space.

In Praise Of The Doomsday Machine (and William Windom).

U.S. Returns Seized Domains To Streaming Links Site (After 18 Months).

Own e-books? Publishers to pay back millions over price fixing charges.

Oracle knew about currently exploited Java vulnerabilities for months, researcher says.

How It Should Have Ended: The Dark Knight Rises—Bane Bonus.

Read a preview of Detective Comics #0.

Talking Rifftrax: Ghosthouse.

Pond Life: Part 4.

Doctor Who Episode Posters Released.

8 Female Candidates Who Could Theoretically Play The 12th Doctor In Doctor Who.

Jorge Garcia guest stars in Once Upon A Time.

The Evil Cat’s Out Of The Bag In This Grimm Clip.

The Many Kisses of Superman and Wonder Woman.

The Justice League/Transformers Comic That Never Was.

Warner Bros. must be kicking themselves that they let Joss Whedon get away.

Michael Keaton Replaces Hugh Laurie In Robocop.

The Line It Is Drawn #104—Superheroes Get New Jobs.

More of the Hero Complex interview with Neal Adams.

New Diamond Select Trek Toys On The Way.

Geek Gear: Monty Python/Dark Knight Rises ‘The Black Knight Rises’ Shirt.

Marvel Tease The Return Of Dark Phoenix.

Stan Lee’s Bloggerin’ Time.

The Weekly Geek: Dragon Con.

Make your own Barnabas Collins costume.

Has Dark Shadows outgrown Victoria Winters?

310 TV Series And Movie Marathons And Events For Labor Day Weekend 2012. Logo will be having a Buffy marathon, BBC America will have a Doctor Who marathon, and Encore will have a Superheroes Labor Day marathon which includes Darkman, Spawn, The Shadow, Flash Gordon, Hulk, The Green Hornet, Superman 1-4, and Batman Returns. Those that have Chiller TV have a Buffy marathon there, too.

Dr. Horrible sequel to hopefully be in production ‘within the next year.’

Neil Gaiman on a trampoline.

The Law Office of Lando Calrissian.

The secret allure of the spoiler.

The 5 Coolest (And 5 Strangest) Marvel Comics Foodstuffs.

Psylocke Redesign By Bryan Lee O’Malley.

The inspiration for Comic Sans gives his verdict on this ‘awful’ font.

From Cracked: 6 Ironic Coincidences Behind the Scenes of Famous Movies.

Premiere Date For Red Dwarf X.

P:R Regulars: Yasmin Liang’s Art.

Sherlock Re-Imagined in New Paradigm’s Watson and Sherlock.

Comics Aren’t Just For Eyes Anymore.

Burger King Stormtrooper.

Watch a fake ad for the Back to the Future Hoverboard.

Grand Theft Auto: Hill Valley, Back To The Future Version.

10 Things We Know About The Psycho Prequel TV Pilot Bates Motel.

Katie Longua Imagines Superheroes As Pokemon Trainers.

Fringe Season 5 Promo #2.

Not The Droids You’re Look For T-Shirt. Crossing over with MST3K.

Watch The Avengers In Theaters This Labor Day Weekend. Whedonesque discusses the news here.

Comic Book Club Podcast: J.K. Woodward.

Hey Kids Comics Podcast, Season 1 Episode 7: Transmetropolitan.

Mission Log Podcast #4, Episode 4: Where No Man Has Gone Before.

And now, a meme, taken from a few on my friends list:

Name a fictional character and I'll tell you three reasons I wouldn't want to date them.

Carlo Rambaldi has passed away at the age of 86. May he rest in peace. He helped design E.T., as well as the xenomorph in Alien and contributed to the 1976 remake of King Kong. He worked on Dario Argento’s Deep Red, Conan The Destroyer, Silver Bullet, Cameron’s Closet, Cat’s Eye, and numerous other films.

Google Fined $22.5 Million Over Safari Privacy Violation.

From Funny Or Die: The Olympic Ticket Scalper With Sir Patrick Stewart.

Watch the first 10 minutes of The Awakening.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Marrow.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Kitty Pryde and the substitute X-Men.

BBC America seeks first memories of Doctor Who.

MoCCA Gets A New Lease On Life At Society Of Illustrators.

Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters will be rated R.

Another Amityville Horror-Inspired Project Is On The Way.

Improved by low expectations.

The 10 Best Episodes of The Tick.

New Skyfall posters released.

Burn Gorman will apparently be in The Game of Thrones.

The top 100 most suggestive comic book panels.

Creepy robot fairies made from recycled parts.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #379.

More of Scott Ngo’s X-Men.

Spider-Man At 50 Part One: A Few Thoughts On Amazing Spider-Man #1-150. Part Two: David Brothers On How Spider-Man Is The Ultimate And Best Superhero. Part Three: Kiel Phegley On Spider-Man's Existence Outside Of The Comic Books. Part Four: A John Romita Sr. Interview From 2002.

Zombie Red Shirts Dance To Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Darth Vader Mail box.

Steampunk Darth Vader Mask.

Masters of the Whoniverse T-Shirt.

Interview: Scott Lobdell on Superman, Existing Villains And Catching Speeding Bullets.

A Comic Book Store That Looks Like A Comic Book.

Check out the world’s most beautiful libraries.

Arrow Adds Byron Mann.

Bill and Ted 3 gets the Galaxy Quest director.

This weekend: the Perseid meteor shower.

Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.—The Wondrous Threads Of Robin.

Batgirl—Gay Icon?

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 14: Roger Cross.

Welcome To The New Red Dwarf Sleeping Quarters.

Image of the Day: Brilliant Doctor Who wedding cake topper.

The BBC’s first teaser trailer for Ripper Street.

Introducing Mission Log. Mission Log Podcast #1, Episode 1: The Cage.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #253: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992) Commentary.

RapidGator Goes Down, Suspended By Hosting Company.

Open WiFi Owner Not Liable For Illegal File-Sharing, Court Rules.

The Doctor Who Experience will open its doors to the public on July 20th.

Two new images from the next series of Red Dwarf, direct from the editing chair.

Exclusive four minute preview of The Amazing Spider-Man.

NBC decides you might also like a show about pirates.

New clip from Prometheus.

Sci-Fi And Fantasy Puppet Masters.

New Dracula 3D Trailer.

22 Things You May Not Have Known About Composer Danny Elfman.

17 Things We Learned From The Edward Scissorhands Commentary.

Take Back The Nerd: Five Ways To Be A Good Fan.

Idris Elba Back For Thor 2.

The Nine Weirdest Coffins You Can Actually Buy.

10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Timelines.

Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg’s Bible.

Ghostheads Podcast: Episode 31.

Terror Transmission, Episode 68: House of Usher (1960).