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Richard Briers has passed away at the age of 79, following a long struggle with a lung condition. May he rest in peace. For Doctor Who fans, he appeared in the Seventh Doctor story Paradise Towers, playing the Chief Caretaker. He also played the role of Henry Parker, in the Torchwood episode A Day In The Death. I also remember that he played Smee in the 2003 version (which I think I saw on Encore once) of Peter Pan, and had a role in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).

CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it

Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Scholars Say

SDCC Hotel Reservations Tuesday, February 26 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

Comic-Con 2013 Badge Registration Recap: The Highs and The Lows

Barefoot Gen Manga's Unfinished Sequel Draft Found

Reece Shearsmith has been cast as Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time

The 10 Best Moments in The 24 Hours of Gallifrey One

Interview: The Odyssey of Neal Adams.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages: Death of the Family—Batman #17.

Image of the Day: Best BTAS Screenshots #1.

Preview: Nightwing #17.

Ain’t It Cool News talks with Dustin Nguyen about L’il Gotham.

Comics You Should Own – Sandman Mystery Theatre

Superman on TV: February 18th-24th.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Superman Gained the Ability to Shoot a Mini-Superman Out of His Hands

Comic Book Casting: Madman Live-Action Movie.

Mark Waid on reinventing comics for the digital era.

New Lego Marvel Super Heroes Concept Art Arrives Online.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Night of Atop The Fourth Wall Live.

First clip from Oz the Great and Powerful shows the wicked temper of Oz's witches

Benedict Cumberbatch Narrates The New Star Trek Into Darkness Motion Poster

Introducing the movie neighbors from hell.

Slimer Deluxe Wall Relief Now Available On eBay.

Restored Back to the Future Hero DeLorean Time Machine now on display at Universal Studios

5 Horror Sequels We’d Love To See.

From Cracked: 5 Grimms’ Fairy Tales Way Too Dark To Read To Kids.

Revenge, Italian Style: 5 Spaghetti Westerns Worth Your Time

Crowning the Better Holmes & Watson

The Best Hardee’s Premium Offer Ever? Gremlins’ Albums and Storybooks. I think I had those when I was 3 or 4.

Watch a clip from the 2004 unaired pilot of Dark Shadows

Joss Whedon Talks of 'Hopeful' S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot, Plans for Maria Hill and Other Marvel Characters

Silly Hobbitssess and Goofy Giants: When Did Fantasy Movies Get Taken Over by Comic Relief?

The Top 5: Cartoon Characters That’d Make Memorable Presidents

Trailers From Hell: Max Landis on Love Exposure

Tom Hanks vs. the Fonz: 35-plus Oscar nominees in weird TV guest spots

Comics Alliance Reviews 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret Of The Ooze' (1991), Part One

Fandom Manifesto: Dollhouse.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): February 18th.

The Downey Files, Episode 10: Mermen. Chris Downey talks with David Fury.

Film Sack Podcast #150: The Warriors (1979)

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast: The One With Mark Altman

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 80: Guyver: Mutronics (1991)

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).

Supervillain Origins: The Mandarin.

Movie Legends Revealed: Was Roger Moore Really Ian Fleming’s First Choice To Play James Bond?

Why do so many villains get caught on purpose?

Hayley Atwell Won’t Appear In Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Gerry Anderson’s greatest hits.

Carrie has been pushed back from March to October.

Revisiting Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Leela Maxi-Bust: Doctor Who Masterpiece Collection

Doctor Who Horse Mask Cosplay

Looking back at 2005’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

Images And Descriptions For January 5th DC Nation Premieres.

William Shatner Offers JJ Abrams Some Critical Star Trek Advice Plus More TNG Doc Details

Gingerbread Star Trek Communicator.

10 To Watch In 2012: Comic Book Movies.

The Ten Best Geek Shows of 2012.

Gatchaman CG Feature Film Lawsuit Settled

Bradley James not interested in Merlin spin-off.

Monster-Sized Collection of Munsters Fan Art.

Michael Rosenbaum Reads For Guardians of the Galaxy.

Neil Gaiman Sings Fireball XL5.

First Official Clip From Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2.

Bizarro Back Issues: Batman’s Deadly New Year (1972).

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 7

Michael Graziadei Leaving The Young And The Restless.

Bookcase/steamer trunk.

Familiar Faces: The Next 12 Forgotten Christmas Specials.

Abandoned Love: The Punisher’s A Supernatural Killer Angel?

Twin Peaks To Be Reborn In Third Series? Producer Mark Frost Dismisses The Rumor.

What Did Fringe Stars Hope to Steal from the Set?

An Evil Dead Remake Trailer Is Just Around The Corner.

David Tennant in Spies of Warsaw

Hey Kids, Comics, Season 2, Episode 4: Knightfall, Part 2.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 280: 2012 Year In Review.

Mission Log #22: Episode 22: Space Seed.

SurfTheChannel Owner Sentenced For Contempt Of Court.

Dark Shadows marathon Thanksgiving Day on Chiller TV (1991 version). Unfortunately, I don’t have that channel.

1987 Marvel Comics Parade Float.

The classic clip from the Thanksgiving episode of WKRP.

Turkey Day Stream From Rifftrax.

Comics Alliance’s Guide To Black Friday/Cyber Monday Bargains.

CA Classic: Batman In The Worst Thanksgiving Ever.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Make Great Holiday Gifts.

The Best Comics To Give This Holiday Season.

The Best Gifts for Action Figure Addicts and Collectors of Collectibles.

Amazing, Experimental Science Gifts That You Can Make Or Buy.

Gift Guide: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Box Set.

From Hero Complex: Holiday gift guide 2012: The Hobbit, Star Wars, superheroes, and more.

CA Classic: The Superhero Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons of Nedroid.

Mimoco Reveals Star Trek Mimobot Flash Drives.

Great E-Mail Threads: The JLA Work On Thanksgiving.

Fan Creation: Real Ghostbusters inspired Slimer sculpt.

Motion Poster For The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Jamie Lee Curtis’ one time only Halloween Panel at HorrorHound Weekend 2012.

The Implications of Amazing Spider-Man #698.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: Tourist Trap.

Revisiting Torchwood: Gwen Cooper.

Sherlock Holmes Celebrates 125 Years.

The Line It Is Drawn #116—A Very Tarzan Thanksgiving.

Two Clips From The Dark Knight Rises Bonus Features.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: Top Ten Comic Book Villains.

Education finally gets serious about the undead apocalypse with this Zombie Scholarship.

The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 2, ‘Roast Mutton.’

The 20 Best Cliffhangers Ever Shown On Science Fiction Or Fantasy TV.

Hitchcock Movie Clip #5.

Hitchcock Movie Clip #6.

The trailer for Ripper Street.

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast, Season 1, Episode 19: Blackest Night 3.

It looks as though I’m finished with the Yuletide story. It’s currently in the middle of its first beta reading—once that’s done, I’ll see about getting a second beta reader to check it over.

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Related To Tax Hack, Not Piracy.

Trading popular files on BitTorrent? You’ll be spotted within 3 hours.

‘Kids Like Chains’ And More Wisdom From Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, and Stan Lee Circa 1991.

Nick Briggs does a Dalek prank for The One Show.

Life Outside The TARDIS: John Barrowman.

Doctor Who premiere breaks BBC America ratings record.

Another clip from Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship.

Instead of Shawn Levy, Paul McGuigan will now be directing a Frankenstein movie for Fox.

Lawsuit over Smallville profits heads to jury trial.

Shuster estate says 1992 deal shouldn’t stop bid for Superman rights.

Katie Cassidy interview, about her character’s role in Arrow.

Batman: The Animated Series just turned 20 years old.

Graphic Spoiler Alert: The Dark Knight Rises. A funny comic strip. Given the title, there’s the usual massive spoiler warning if you intend to see the film, but haven’t yet.

From Funny Or Die: Bane The Telemarketer.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 Clip 2.

Five Developments From Detective Comics #0.

Preview Batgirl #0.

There is a rumor going around that Bane’s origin will be included in The Dark Knight Rises Blu-Ray Director’s Cut. However, as Christopher Nolan doesn’t tend to release deleted scenes, I doubt it’s true.

Thundercats appears to be canceled…again.

Tony Fleecs’ comics-themed retro pulp covers,

Elfquest is back…at Boing Boing.

Young Justice 2-Pack Pre-Order Canceled.

The Best of Boris Karloff.

Brent Spiner Joins Star Trek London Guest List.

Frances Conroy returns to American Horror Story: Asylum.

What if the X-Men starred in Star Wars?

Neal Stephenson Interview.

The Line It Is Drawn #105—Superheroes Get New Sidekicks.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase One Box Set will be released, but it will be next spring instead of later this month.

New stills from EW’s Fall TV Preview Issue for The Vampire Diaries, Grimm, and Revolution.

Jerry Ordway’s variant cover to Shazam: The Complete Live Action Series.

Killer Klowns star talks the upcoming sequel.

We Hate Movies Podcast: WHM Mailbag—Chickens ‘n’ CHUD.

Hey Kids Comics Podcast, Season 1, Episode 8: Hellblazer.

Nearly half a million Yahoo passwords leaked following hack. If you want to see if you were on the list, you can go here and check for your e-mail—I’m safe, from the looks of it.

Kristen Chenoweth was injured on the set of The Good Wife after being hit on the head by a falling piece of lighting equipment. As a result of which, she had a seizure and was hospitalized—so best wishes to her on a speedy recovery.

First Clip From Total Recall. The international poster.

Alex Ross To Paint All Of Chris Roberson’s Masks, With The Shadow, Green Hornet And Zorro.

The Dark Knight Rises VHS Cover.

TNT Renews Falling Skies For 10 Episode Third Season.

Nickelodeon Orders Second Season Of The Legend Of Korra.

Drew Goddard Rewriting The End of World War Z. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

A New Space Adventure Show From Buffy’s Steven DeKnight? Starz also announces a new Dracula show by J. Michael Straczynski.

Model for Max Fleischer’s Superman found to be a 1950s pro wrestler.

Face To Face With The Hobbit Trolls—The Shrounds Have Come Off Weta’s Wonderful Creations.

The Hobbit at Comic Con: Peter Jackson’s San Diego plan.

The AV Club interviews Darwyn Cooke.

Dark Shadows Movies (House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows) Blu-Ray Covers Revealed. Very nice.

Looking back at Batman Begins.

Fall 2012 Complete Schedule For ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, And NBC With Trailers Of New Series.

Which new TV show will be your crack? Our First Impressions.

Get Under The Cloak Of Arrow.

J. Michael Straczynski Creates Studio JMS.

Science Aims To Misbehave With Firefly-Focused Browncoats Unite Special This Fall.

Fox Gung Ho On Fantastic Four Reboot, Lock Josh Trank As Director. Meanwhile, if Fox doesn’t find a new director for Daredevil soon, the rights revert back to Marvel/Disney.

The Line It Is Drawn #97: Comic Book Characters And Star Trek Characters.

First Look At Guy Gardner On Green Lantern Animated Series.

P:R Redesign: Daniel Irizarri’s Superboy.

Pajiba recasts Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedonesque discusses it here. I disagree with most of the choices.

Why Did You Join Twitter? At this point in time, I have not.

Famous science fiction movies, depicted as 16th century Ottoman paintings.

The Art of Frankenweenie Exhibition Photo Gallery.

NECA Show Off Prometheus Action Figures.

Two new clips from The Dark Knight Rises.

Could We Build Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise.

Plush Spock.

First image of Skyfall’s Q.

20 Facts About Life of Brian That Might Make You Feel Like Whistling A Cheery Tune.

Digitally created portrait of Merida from Brave.

Stephanie Brown Dropped From Smallville In Favor Of Barbara Gordon?

Nerdist Writers Panel #46: Len Wein, Ed Brubaker, and Jackson Publick.

As of April 2014, Microsoft will no longer send out support/patches for Windows XP. Ah, well. I’ll just upgrade when that time rolls around if I have to.

This internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.

8 Shows That Never Should Have Left High School.

Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey will co-star in drama series called True Detective. That sounds like it’s bound to be strange, just for that pairing.

New high res image of Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises. Plus, a few images found in Entertainment Weekly—there are no spoilers in these.

Steampunk Nintendo Game Boy.

New tv spot for The Avengers—this one focuses more on Thor. “You people are so petty. And tiny.”

Fox to celebrate its birthday by re-airing the Married With Children pilot.

Fandom Appreciation Challenge 2012.

Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 4 of 5)

The 10 least educational (and most dangerous) schools of nerd-dom. Xavier’s clocks in at #4, while Sunnydale High is #2.

Eight Killer Private Schools. It’s all the schools you’d have to avoid to survive a horror movie.

Concept art from The Munsters remake Mockingbird Lane shows us Grandpa and Lily.

Bryan Fuller discusses Mockingbird Lane.

Donald Glover’s Spider-Man Easter Egg.

Lizzie Brochere has been added to the season 2 cast of American Horror Story.

Interview with Brian K. Vaughn.

Short Circuit remake: Johnny 5 will be “threatening.”

Erica Henderson’s redesign of Storm.

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making Of Psycho is getting a title change—now it will simply be called Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock on content vs technique.

After Elton interviews Matt Bomer.

Behold My True Power: 8 SFF Characters That Went Into God-Mode.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch will be getting her own superhero movie.

Erector Set Shelving System.

Igloo made of stacked books.

What happens when you push the button?

Amazon’s trade-in program now accepts your old CDs.

How to bring back Firefly in five terrible steps.

Wolverine’s 10 Most Mortifying Moments.

J.K. Rowling’s new book has been announced.

General Hospital has been saved from cancellation.

Why Bad Movies Matter

Infographic: How Indiana Jones Survived Nuking The Fridge.

Fictional Character Birthday Calendars. Looks like Lois Lane was born on mine.

Comics Everybody: The History of Captain Marvel/Shazam Explained.

Frank Brana has passed away, at the age of 77, as a result of lung failure. May he rest in peace. MST3K fans may remember him from Pod People. He was a character actor in over 170 films.

The 10 strangest short-lived supervillain makeovers.

such_heights is hosting a Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover Fest Fills Post.

Katie Cassidy will play the role of Dinah Lance in the Green Arrow pilot. Willa Holland has been cast as Thea Queen.

For Valentine’s Day, Neil Gaiman gave Amanda Palmer a flashmob.

From Newsarama: The 10 Worst Justice League Members Of All Time.

Grant Wilson is leaving Ghost Hunters.

Trailer for Dorothy and the Witches of Oz.

Shawn Yap’s redesign of Generation X—part 1 includes Skin, Jubilee, and Chamber.

Simon Kenberg discusses the X-Men: First Class sequel.

Kristen Kreuk will star in Beauty and the Beast—the CW version, not the version due for ABC or the movie from Guillermo del Toro.

It would appear the workaround script for the Youtube homepage (so you can have an x for each video) no longer works as of this morning. When the one who wrote the code for it updates with a new fix, I’ll link to it.

The Hobbit Cast Assembles.

Io9 dissects each image from the X-Men: First Class trailer.

Michael Rosenbaum is returning to Smallville for the series finale. Dad's the only one in this house still watching the show, but I might check out the finale. He wanted to update me on every single detail since I quit watching, but no. I don't want to know.

Io9 has a snippet of the original audition tape (included on the most recent DVD for the U.S.) for Paul McGann for the Doctor Who movie. Back when they were planning to go with the Master and Doctor as secret brothers.

And now, a meme, from wanderlustlover:

Comment here and I'll pick 5 of your icons for you to write about.

( Beneath the cut are the five she picked for me. )

In other news, this week we had a lot of snow. Today, the snow is just starting to melt. Starting Monday, we should hit 60 or 70 degrees outside--until the end of the week. After that, I assume it's back to freezing temperatures again. Make up your mind, Mother Nature.

A developing story is that Wizard Magazine may be dead. Calls go unanswered, the subscription page of their site returns a 404, their “bullpen website” is down, and numerous other suspicious things are going on. Toyfare may continue being published for now, but I wouldn't count on that lasting too long given the evidence. I had just renewed my subscription to Wizard for another year and they’ve cashed that check, so they owe me--and many other people.

ETA: Good, just checked and I hadn't renewed my subscription to Toyfare yet. Now I won't be doing that.

ETA 2: An update on the developing story. They now say that Toyfare will also be ceasing publication immediately.

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? I had a problem with one rather large snake on the front porch (Dad decapitated it with a shovel) which just refused to slither off when I was little, but thousands inside the house? I would have lost it. According to someone in both the Gawker and Jezebel comments, that house was featured on an episode of Animal Planet’s series Infested. If you want to see news footage of the house, head for the Gawker link.

Booster Gold has been cast on Smallville. He will be played by Eric Martsolf, who I know as Brady from Days of Our Lives. And, formerly, Ethan from Passions. He doesn’t really seem right for the role, but he can act.

And now, just spreading a meme from a few on my IJ friends list:

1. Name one of my RP characters and one of yours (or one of someone else's if your really want).
2. Name a destination, anywhere in the known or created universes.
3. I'll write you my character's postcard to the other, from that destination.

There’s two more days for bidding in the auction to help Australia at qldfloodauction, and my thread is here. Bidding was at $10 as of the last I checked.

Matthew Vaughn cut 12 pages of X-Men: First Class after seeing Inception. Apparently, that movie was too similar to a scene set on the astral plane.

From Cracked: 5 Ridiculous Attempts At Crime Fighting (That Actually Worked).

The Nerdy Bird posts about what happened at Comic Con. She met Stan Lee, and ran into the person dressed as Darkseid. So you now have a better picture of that costume.

sherlockbbc is hosting a friending meme.

The CW are planning to replace Smallville with another DC related superhero show. noscans_daily discusses it here.

Gina Torres talks about Firefly/Serenity, Cleopatra 2525, and her other roles in an interview. whedonesque discusses it here.

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

Post an image in my comments of what you think describes me when you think about what/who I am. Give no written explanation. Just an image.

Post this in your journal and see what images you get.

In other news, before the heat index, the temperature is currently 105 degrees. I'll find out how bad the heat index is this evening, but I suspect it's 115 degrees. And it feels like it. My kingdom for an unlimited supply of iced tea.

(We have a lot, and everyone's drinking a lot of it--don't worry about that, I'm just being weird.)

ETA: And I was close. According to the local news, as of 5 PM the heat index was 117 degrees.

Here’s the footage of Blue Beetle transforming that debuted at Comic-Con. It looks more like something that should be on Power Rangers or Big Bad Beetleborgs. I think I read somewhere that it’s for a transformation sequence in Smallville. Booster Gold and Blue Beetle will be in the final season, but it will be Jaime, not Ted.

Io9 lists The Best Cosplay of Comic-Con. Some of those costumes are great. My favorites are the guy dressed as Lobo in #21, Bender in #33—same one who was in the protests, Cloak and Dagger in #38, (well, mostly Cloak with a mannequin of Dagger attached at the hip) and Mystique in #47.

Topless Robot lists 11 Bad Draculas. The list includes Morgan Freeman in The Electric Company, along with the version of Dracula that appeared on Buffy. I liked Love at First Bite and Dracula Dead And Loving It, and they’re on the list.

Found via blognewsarama: Fake Stan Lee visits Comic Con back in 2009. It’s funny.

To help bring attention to the fact the budget for The New York Public Library has been dramatically slashed, Improv Everywhere staged a skit where people dressed as ghosts (wearing sheets) and wandered through the building. Then, four people dressed as the Ghostbusters show up. You can watch it here. Some behind the scenes stuff is here. Yes, Winston wasn’t there when the Ghostbusters investigated it in the movie, but I’m okay with that. Personally, I think they needed a Janine to scream “We got one!” Or that a flash mob should do this sort of thing at a museum, bringing along a portrait of Vigo. …someone please do this in my town. We have Zombie Flash Mobs marching down the streets every October, we need the Ghostbusters, too.

Io9 interviews Steven Moffat.

Three new clips of the next episode of Doctor Who have just been released.

Smallville ends after the next season—season 10 to be exact. Tom Welling broke the news. I still doubt he’ll ever wear the tights, even at the end of the series.

Sidenote: Dad still watches even if I gave up on it long ago, and says he’s very happy that it’s ending—because now I can force him to watch something else. It’s the only way he ends up watching stuff, apparently. Because of me, he says he’s “watched Buffy, Angel, Veronica Mars, Life on Mars, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Highlander, Merlin and Thundercats.” The last is very random, but apparently he got hooked at some point long, long ago when I wouldn’t let him leave the room when it was on. Probably around the age of 6 or 7.

There are a few promo banner for Torchwood, for the Support Stacie Auction, over here. And I might as well link to my own revised Doctor Who sign up again--you can read it here, in a comment at dwsupportstacie. I added that I am willing to write something OT3 related—I was surprised that I had forgotten to include that, as I’ve been in the OT3 ficathon a few times now.

From Cracked.com: As Seen On TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads.

50 Films That Nearly Had Very Different Casts. Ghostbusters is at the top of the list. Gozer was nearly played by Pee Wee Herman. If Sandra Bernhard had been Janine, I would have avoided this movie like the plague. Christopher Lloyd as Peter? I just can’t see him working in the role, even if I think he’s great.

At Dragon Con, James Marsters received a birthday present from some of his fans—apparently, a Storm Trooper costume. Here’s the whedonesque post about it, which includes Youtube links showing it. If you don’t want to go to their site, go here and it continues here.

Kristen Kreuk is joining the cast of Chuck.

AbeBooks now has a section for listing the weirder books out there. Yes, I will be looking through there shortly.

Sherlock Holmes vs. zombies? It’s due to happen in a comic published by Wildstorm, called Victorian Undead.

Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, slashfilm says that British tabloids mentioned Brad Pitt would be playing Moriarty in the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It doesn’t seem like it’s true, though.

Apparently, the Wonder Twins might be showing up on Smallville. So...it was possible for Smallville to either get worse or get even stranger. Who knew?

How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you. It’s funny.

Everyone remembers the DDOS attacks on LJ? LJ is offering everyone with a paid account a three day extension added on to thei account, if it was affected by everything. Read more about it here. For a brief moment, I thought I could do that for the x_meggan journal, until I remembered that the money orders I sent never did arrive, so it’s not a paid account.

Oh, and for those that are interested? Mom thinks the bug in my drink was a firefly—I Googled to make sure, and it was definitely that. A mutant one, given the length, but a firefly nonetheless.