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From Newsarama: Spider-Man’s 10 Greatest Villains.

Julie Taymor is suing the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for unpaid royalties and creative rights.

The Positive Words Meme.

A new documentary will discuss Chris Claremont’s run on The Uncanny X-Men, from 1974-1991.

More details of The Dark Knight Rises prologue.

November 11th, 2011 is Eleventh Doctor Day, and people are expected to dress like him.

New clip for the next episode (The Secret Sharer) of Merlin.

10 Issues of Ongoing Comics That Prove Single Issues Can Be Great.

Watch David Tennant (in character as Peter Vincent) in a short Fright Night featurette.

Bill Keane has passed away, at the age of 89. May he rest in peace. He was the cartoonist for a comic strip called The Family Circus.

Once Dad was finished reformatting his laptop, (he just needs a new one, but won’t listen—it’s 6 ½ years old, and keeps crawling pitifully on) I decided to test the four websites that I can’t access on this computer. Just like on here, those four—That Guy With The Glasses, Demonoid, Clique Clack, and Insanejournal—refuse to open. Ping requests cannot find them, and nothing turns up. Back on mine, I tried to surf to Insanejournal via the IP address, which didn’t work in IE, almost in Chrome, and only got the main page in Firefox. With Firefox, just like the one on this computer, I could log in, but not do anything else. I can’t get to my journal, or any other page outside of the homepage.

With Demonoid, using the IP address, I can get to the page, log in, and perform a search. I can’t get anything for CliqueClack or That Guy With The Glasses, and I can’t get to my journal at IJ. Ideas? What do these four sites have in common? This all started on Tuesday.

Edit: Oh, right. The other day I went ahead and posted my wish list to wish_list. Might as well just link to it now, so I don’t lose track of it.

The Holiday Wish List Meme is going around, so I thought I would do it again this year. I’ll also cross-post it to wish_list and holiday_wishes in a little while. Beneath the cut, I’ve posted the instructions for the wish list meme, as well as the list.

( Click here for the Holiday Wish List Meme. I could only think of nine things. )

Thanks to lannamichaels for mentioning this (and basically summing up exactly my thoughts on it) in her LJ, or I never would have known. A couple months back, I mentioned I heard about a new movie involving Methos, Amanda, and Joe called Highlander: Reunion? Where Methos is supposed to be getting married? Well, looks like it’s now up over at Hulu--it’s only 16 minutes long, and can be watched here. It doesn’t really seem like Amanda would be keeping a stripper pole in the bedroom, if we were going by the canon of the series...

Over at metaquotes, they’ve got an interesting discussion going about 80’s movies that scarred children for life. I agree with Return to Oz, but I’ve never seen The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, or The Dark Crystal before. And an interesting TV Tropes article found in all those comments: Nightmare Fuel.

I’ve also thought of something to add to my wish list, but I won’t, since I’ve already linked my list at wish_list and holiday_wishes. Basically, if anyone out there ever finds a bittorrent of House of Frankenstein 1997, I would love it if someone could let me know. I’ve looked, and have yet to find it anywhere--other than a burned to DVD copy somewhere at Ioffer, but I’ve been informed Ioffer isn’t reliable.

ETA: Just stumbled across this a few minutes ago, so I had to add it. The Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments. Includes Ghostbusters, and Darby O’Gill And The Little People’s banshee. The rest are movies I’ve either never seen before (Willy Wonka, Poltergeist) or never seen more than a moment of. Or that I don’t remember at all—Big Bertha from Pee Wee Herman’s movie. I think I’ve seen it, but the only thing I remember is he rode a bicycle.

It's a funny review, but might not be safe for work because of some language used.

Okay, so it looks like I might be writing two Yuletide stories, rather than one. Going by all the ideas I’ve gotten for this fandom.

And now, here’s the Christmas Wishlist meme that’s been going around my friends list.

# Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV"). The important thing is to make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
# If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!
# Make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO
# Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part...
# If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes one person's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use - or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.
# You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf - to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not - it's your call. There are no guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Beneath the cut, just in case it’s too long. )

ETA: I finally thought of something for #8, so I've edited that in.

I discovered a Doctor Who rating group, and as of right now—with one vote—it looks like they think I might be like Nyssa. The group is doctorwhorating and my post is here, if anyone is interested in this sort of thing. Going by the sheer number of people you could be rated with, they are very thorough over there.

And the following meme was taken from wachey: The Holiday Wishes Meme.

( The Holiday Wishes Meme has been cut due to its length. Please click here to view the list. )

Taken from aliasagent and kyanoswolf.

( The Wish Meme is beneath the cut. )