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Brad Bufanda has passed away at the age of 34, after committing suicide. May he rest in peace. I had no idea who he was, until Bleeding Cool mentioned he played Felix Toombs on Veronica Mars. The name was vaguely familiar; after consulting the Veronica Mars Wiki, I remembered him. It was Felix that was stabbed, and Logan was framed for it.

He was apparently on Days of Our Lives as someone named Joe for five episodes, back in 2002. If I had a last name for the character he played or what storyline he was involved in for those few episodes, that might help. Otherwise, I don’t remember the character.

ETA: After digging through articles, I eventually found out via Soap Opera Spy that he played a gang member that threatened Rex and Cassie when they first arrived in Salem. I remember that, and the weirdness of their arrival, but not him specifically.

Malachi Throne has passed away at the age of 84. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans will remember him as Commodore Mendez in the TOS episode The Menagerie, as well as the leader of the Talosians in The Cage, and was Senator Pardek in the Star Trek: TNG two-parter Unification. He played False Face in the Adam West Batman series—I recently managed to catch an episode with him, courtesy of ME-TV. He was the narrator for the original 1977 trailer for Star Wars. A quick check of IMDB, tells me he was also the narrator of the cartoon Visionaries: Knights of the Magic Light.

Paramount Censors Torrentz’s Torrentless Homepage from Google

A Few Favorite Red Nose Day Moments.

A Global Zombie Walk Is Coming This May.

The History of TNT’s Monstervision. From back when I watched, pre-Joe Bob Briggs.

Veronica Mars Movie Budget Coming Entirely From Kickstarter, More Rewards To Be Added

Today in ‘What’s being Kickstarted?’: Maybe Pushing Daisies, definitely not Firefly.

BFI: The Second Doctor Panel.

10 Minor Doctor Who Characters That Should Have Been Companions.

The Line It Is Drawn #130—Song Lyrics Starring Comic Book Characters.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #410.

Ask Chris #145: Looking Forward To Batman’s Past.

10 Marvel Events That Had A Major Impact.

San Diego Comic-Con Update: convention center expansion approved; D23 may threaten Marvel’s participation

Dave Bautista will play Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Commercials

90-year-old Stan Lee is a parkour master with his own theme song, obviously

Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection Trailer

World Premiere Of ‘Teen Titans Go’ Slated For Wondercon 2013 In Anaheim

Image of the Day: Favorite Images From Knightfall #4.

Image of the Day: Favorite Images From Knightfall #5.

New Beware the Batman Promo Poster Released

Cartoon Theme Songs Sure Were Weird.

Why Sherlock Comics Should Be A Thing.

Andy Diggle, Scott Lobdell, Greg Pak and Scott Snyder Celebrate Superman, Part 1.

Wonder Woman Documentary To Air On PBS April 15th.

Jurassic Park 4’s director will be Colin Trevorrow.

Top 10 Hilarious Movie Deaths

33 Things We Learned from the ‘Psycho’ Commentary

Vintage Horror Cinema: F.W. Murnau's 'Faust'

Cosplay We Love: The most amazing Cthulhu costume you’ll ever see.

How It Should Have Ended: Portal.

MST3K Volume XXVI Trailer

Trailers From Hell: Allan Arkush on The Actress

Top 10 Unlikely Action Stars

The 10 Greatest Personality Tests In Science Fiction And Fantasy

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 290: The Shining

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 87: Rock ‘n’ Rule (1983).

Mission Log Podcast #32—Episode 32: The Changeling

Smodcast #30: Christopher Drake: Music of the Knight.

Movie Issues Podcast: Josie and the Pussycats (2001).

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.

Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT. The site in question is UKNova.

Rapidshare Goes Down Locally.

Dropbox upgrades security with two-factor authentication.

Karl Kesel, Marvel Comics Writer, Sells Comic Book Collection For Adoption Of Baby With Heroin Exposure.

Fan Expo Canada: Marvel’s X-Men Panel In Art.

Fan Expo Canada: Darwyn Cooke vs. Amanda Conner…To The Death, But Not Really.

Fan Expo: James Marsters and Juliet Landau Look Back On Buffy.

Geoff Johns and David Finch add Stargirl, Catwoman, and more to the brand new Justice League of America.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—So How Many Ice Maidens Are There?

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 239: Detective Comics #610.

When We First Met—The Life Of Roy Harper.

Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain will return.

17 Fictional TV Towns With Personality.

David Hadju reads from The Ten-Cent Plague.

Comics in the classroom: news and resources round-up.

Hobbyist builds working S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.

5 Horror Movies With Horrible Endings.

Dancing With The Stars: Sabrina Bryan wins viewers’ choice vote.

Deadpool Pie.

Probably Not What Batman Would Carry: Batarang Knives.

Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves In Fantasy.

The first five pages of Justice League #12.

The Dark Knight Rises Box Office Update.

Superman on TV: From August 27th, to September 2nd.

Michael Dorn Talks Trek, Kickstarter, and More, Part 1. Part 2.

Doctor Who Prequel: Pond Life, Part 1.

A Warm Welcome For Doctor Who In New York.

More Pics of Carrie Before And After Her Blood Drenching.

Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch recreate a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Steampunk Madam Vader Cosplay.

4 Cool New Posters For American Horror Story: Asylum.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Part One.

Kevin Feige On Why Guardians of the Galaxy Was Greenlit; Seemingly Confirms Thanos.

Perhaps the most disturbing cereal ad ever filmed.

Watching reruns can actually help restore willpower.

Continuum renewed for second season. Now when will the U.S. get it?

Norman Bates’ mother has been cast in A&E’s Psycho tv series: Vera Farmiga.

Jo Blo Podcast Commentary: Jaws (1975)

Film Sack Podcast #128: Wild Wild West.

Weirdly, I was just nominated for the Wicked Awards for a ship_manifesto essay I wrote for Angel/Darla back in 2006. I have until September 1st to accept or reject this nomination. Looking through it now, I see almost all of the links are dead (a couple went to Geocities) and gone, several fanfic sites turned to dust, and at least one journal has been deleted and purged. I’m leaning towards rejecting this nomination due to the fact it wouldn’t be of any practical use to people these days, and is barely an overview.

Demonoid Faces Prolonged Downtime After DDos Attack.

Either Romana Or Fred: Remembering Mary Tamm.

DirecTV spot with John Cleese.

TARDIS “materializes” at Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Burning Question Answered: Did The Doctor Light The Olympic Flame?

New Doctor Who Trailer Coming August 2nd.

Short trailer for season 5 of Merlin.

5 Batman Villains Who Deserved The Christopher Nolan Treatment. Mild spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman’s Moron College Friends.

Grant Morrison’s Guide To Batman On the Big Screen: 1950’s Batman Serial.

Warner Bros. tones down the guns in Beware The Batman cartoon.

Rare Batman Comics That Everyone Should Read.

The Dark Knight Rises: Description of a Deleted Scene With Miranda Tate And Lucius Fox. While this scene could be considered a very mild spoiler, I suggest you avoid the comments entirely if you haven’t seen the film. Several comments give away major plot points.

A guide to the fantastical work of Joe Dante.

Interview with the developer of the Manos game.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #337.

New Rifftrax VOD Title: Future Force.

Marvel Cancels Thanos: Son Of Titan Mini-Series.

Robert Kirkman On The Future Of The Walking Dead.

Alexa Vega joins Machete Kills—and so does Lady Gaga.

Todd McFarlane Spider-Man Cover Sells For $675,250.

Writer of Steel: 10 super-names for Action Comics.

An Ode To Jasper Fforde: Introducing His Works and Worlds.

How To Watch Battlestar Galactica.

20 Things We Love About Babylon 5.

Young And The Restless Replaces Head Writer.

The CW Looking To Bring Battle Royale To The Small Screen As A Weekly Series.

Is Indiana Jones Dead At Last? Crystal Skull Was Indiana Jones’ Last Hurrah, Frank Marshall Says.

What If 60s/70s Marvel Comics Had DC Comics Covers?

Dancing With The Stars Cast Revealed.

Franka Potente joins American Horror Story.

Director And Cast Talk About The Possession.

The best cult shows on TV—what’s your #1?

Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie Characters In Olympics

Kerrith Johnson Casts Superheroes And Their Alter Egos In Motivational Posters.

The CineFiles- Cronenberg Films, Part 2.

Fake Stan Lee vs. Comic Con 2012.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #135: Deathstalker II: Duel Of The Titans (1987). After which, they have a brief discussion of The Dark Knight Rises. So if you’re not interested in hearing about that, stop listening at the 45 minute mark, or skip ahead to 53 minutes.

Movie Issues Podcast: Commando (1985).

Schlock Treatment 86: Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year For Murder.

Thursday evening, following a severe thunderstorm, Comcast accidentally snipped a fiber optic cable. Service wasn’t resumed for the area until earlier today.

Leo Dillon passed away on May 26th, at the age of 79. He was a “Hugo Award and Caldecott Medal-winning sci-fi and fantasy artist,” whose work appeared on hundreds of science fiction and fantasy book covers. May he rest in peace.

ACTA: Unredacted Docs Show European Commission Negotiation Failures.

Cyber-weapon Flame, “most complex malware ever,” identified by Kaspersky Lab.

10 Important Life Lessons Learned From Superhero Comics, Movies, And Cartoons.

SoapNet will air a four episode marathon of Veronica Mars on June 17th.

Looking back at Shaun of the Dead.

Christopher Lee’s Top Five Horror Films.

New Prometheus Featurette Is All About The Ship.

Bill and Ted/Back to the Future Shirt.

The fourth tv spot for The Dark Knight Rises.

Spoof trailer for Tetris: The Movie.

Mysterious Cities of Gold cartoon sequel is actually happening.

If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this.

Watch the Japanese trailer for Starship Troopers: Invasion.

The Battlestar Galactica USB Drive.

Guess the tv show character.

Comics Alliance Reviews Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987), Part One.

Star Wars Characters Posing With Bunnies.

The SFX Factor: Greatest TV Title Sequences Round 12. It’s down to the final three: Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, and Game of Thrones.

Molly Burnett is leaving Days of Our Lives.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 60: The Skulls (2000).

Found via meret: Pet Food Alerts And Recalls.

ephemere is hosting a Love Meme.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Kate Spencer/Manhunter VI.

Mozilla Slams CISPA.

Apple Is Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox Functionality.

Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost, Shares Unblocking Tips.

Virgin Media Starts Pirate Bay Blockade.

Sony Put Video Service On Hold Due To Comcast Data Caps.

From Cracked: 5 Ridiculous Origins of Famous Urban Legends.

An Optical Illusion That Explains The Origins of Imaginary Monsters.

Disneyland Paris is getting a Star Wars Land.

New tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman.

You Don’t Know Poe: 10 Weird Thing About Edgar Allan Poe.

ComicsAlliance Guide To The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2012.

Reverse Parthenogenesis—a short film starring Amber Benson and Adam Busch—is now online.

New trailer for Tron: Uprising.

Bizarro Back Issues: Robin, Batgirl, and the Devil-Worshipping Ghost of Benedict Arnold.

Andy MacDonald’s X-Men Redesign.

Creepy Prometheus Viral Audio Reveals Scene.

Give your home a Brood infestation with DST’s latest wave of Minimates.

Handmade TARDIS Ipad Case.

From Pajiba: 10 Shows That Are Better When Viewed In One Long Lazy Marathon.

Inspector Spacetime T-Shirt.

Texting In Movies: What Life Might Be Like.

Gollum Lord of the Rings Cake.

Hungry for power? Make a Game of Thrones cake.

10 Insanely Awkward Superhero Romantic Subplots.

Superhero Finger Costumes.

New Dark Shadows Featurette Looks at a Strange Family.

In The Salem Branch, by Lara Parker, apparently you’ll get to read all about David and Barnabas eating pot brownies, and Angelique getting spanked (but not by those two).

The Hunger Games’ Gary Ross might make one of those half-dozen Houdini movies.

Make a comic book t-shirt with Neil Gaiman and Threadless.

Bruce Campbell chats about the Evil Dead remake and Burn Notice.

Behind the scenes photos from the Adam West Batman series.

When cancellation is the best thing that can happen to a tv series.

Top 10 Literary Works In The Comic Book Medium.

Three clips from Men In Black 3.

Two new images from Pixar’s Brave.

Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year Old With?

What’s the most underrated show of the 80’s? Vulture says it’s the 80’s version of The Twilight Zone.

Episode Guide: The MST3K Scrapbook.

New photos of The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man.

Doctor Who: Ace Adventures Exclusive Featurette.

Stan Lee on Marvel movie history, his favorite cameos, and Michael Jackson as Spider-Man.

Never-Before-Seen Concept Art From David Cronenberg’s Total Recall.

What The World Needs Now: A Little Shop Of Horrors Remake.

Gateways To Geekery: Exploring Steven Moffat’s work on Sherlock, Doctor Who, Coupling and beyond.

Snuffed Out: TV Series That Were Gone Too Soon. Good to know I’m not the only one that remembers The Five Mrs. Buchanans. I would also add Women of the House, starring Delta Burke, which almost nobody remembers.

Nerdist Writers Panel #37: Jane Espenson and Douglas Petrie.

According to a couple people Mom just checked with in our area, the Comcast issue isn’t just us. And it’s being done in such a way that everyone affected will believe it’s something wrong on their end, rather than Comcast’s. Another thing I plan to point out when (and if—they said if they don’t bother, we can get a $20 credit, which doesn’t help) they arrive on Saturday.

Al Ross, cartoonist for The New Yorker, has passed away at the age of 100. May he rest in peace.

Variety is up for sale.

To cash in on the Dark Shadows movie, they’re selling nail polish. The four colors include: Decades of Dysfunction, Buried Alive, Grave Mistake, and Mysterious Curse. For those that wonder, mysterious curses involve a shade of purple when they aren’t turning someone into an undead creature of the night.

Two new tv spots are out for Dark Shadows. Here’s the first. Here’s the second. Behind the scenes photos.

First tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman.

How to claim your free $5 of print comics through Marvel.

Ten minute featurette for Wrath of the Titans.

Ten more images from The Avengers. And a new featurette is here.

The Hunger Games made an estimated $155 million opening weekend alone.

Medieval monks complained about their jobs in the margins of ancient manuscripts.

Zombie mall promises movie-style undead battle.

The BBC has renewed Being Human for a fifth season.

You have a second chance to purchase tickets for Comic Con: March 27th. The hotel reservation system will open on Thursday at 9 AM PT.

Five days left to sign up for the Finish-A-Thon.

Batwoman wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

Here’s the new season seven teaser trailer for Doctor Who. Read an interview with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill at BBC’s Official Doctor Who Convention.

World’s Finest Interviews Young Justice Lead Character Designer Phil Bourassa.

10 Nerdtastic DVD and Blu-Ray Exclusives That You May Have Missed.

Clive Barker discusses his recent illness which resulted in a coma, his recovery, his current dog’s health (and late pets), and various books.

Chris Claremont’s dream X-Men movie involved James Cameron as director, with Bob Hoskins as Wolverine, and Angela Bassett as Storm.

A Farewell To SoapNet, Home of Time-Shifted Soaps. The transition to Disney Junior began on the 23rd. For those who still have access to SoapNet in April, you can watch Veronica Mars. Given that it was showing One Tree Hill when I checked a few minutes ago, I still have SoapNet. No idea how long that could last, though.

Art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was.

Behind the scenes of Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope.

Top 10 Worst Movie Monsters.

The AV Club gives an overview of all of Doctor Who.

25 Flashback Episodes You Love. Buffy and Firefly are on the list. whedonesque lists the Buffy (and other shows, like Veronica Mars and DS9) episodes that should have made the cut.

The 10 Creepiest Ventriloquist Tales of All Time. I remember Making Contact—I almost rented it when I was little, and from what I’ve heard since then, it’s good that I didn’t. Since I (and Mom) have a slight phobia towards ventriloquist dummies. I’m surprised they didn’t list Slappy from Night of the Living Dummy—and a couple of other Goosebumps episodes, I believe. And they didn’t list the dummy that wasn’t really evil from Buffy.

In relation to the Support Stacie Auction: Since bidding has been paid for, you’re getting whatever fanfic you desire, wiggiemomsi. You can send me your prompt via PM, (unless you’ve already done so and LJ just ate it in the downtime) e-mail, or in a comment. Anything I mentioned I was willing to write, including that special offer I made toward the end of the auction, of a timestamp to any Doctor Who related story I’ve written if you so wish.

I’ll also get started on the three drabbles I owe people tomorrow.

Great news, everyone. Veronica Mars has been renewed! Information about the renewal can be found here and here.

Now, if CW airs on a station that Comcast allows us to have, I will be very happy.

Anyone have news on whether or not Smallville has been picked up yet?

Okay, I just finished watching the first episode of Veronica Mars. Love it. I have a few questions, which I'll put behind the cut.

( Veronica Mars Questions )

I'm considering giving Veronica Mars a shot. I have a few questions before I watch it. So far, the only thing I know is that the show is a mystery. (And that Joss Whedon will guest star very soon.)

1. Are there any places on LJ that explain what has happened up to this point?

2. Is it worth watching? Or is it just a lot of teen angst?

3. What week does Joss Whedon guest-star? Is it this week? (And does it normally air on Thursdays?)

Those are all the questions I can think of for now.