This was one of the best weekends I've had in awhile.  On Friday night, I met up with my book group for a Feminist Movie Night, where we watched Teeth (a horror movie about Vagina Dentata)  and the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  I was definitely glad to have a comedy to watch after Teeth, although the rest of the group seemed to find much ( Read more... )

For as long as I can remember, I've been plagued with ideas for stories. Even when I am dreaming, at least the dreams I can remember, my subconscious drums up overarching plot lines, beginnings, middles, endings, characters, devices, inventions, viewpoints, and desires all in exacting detail .  During the day when I day dream I have the same ( Read more... )

Quoted from Nodwick.com:

"And from the "but what will it mean?" files comes the long-running court case over the rights to Superman. In the article it says that DC/Time-Warner will lose the copyright to Supes around the year 2013 and won't be able to exploit the character without licensing it from the estates of Seigel & Schuster. While ( Read more... )

Yesterday sucked. It just goes to show that you should never look at your life and say, "Wow! Things are going great!".  The universe will immediately locate the nearest cricket bat of doom and womp you upside the head ( Read more... )

This is pretty cool. It's the first poster to change when it thinks no one is looking.

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On Saturday I went and played Kickball for the first time since Elementary school. You might not think the game is very athletic, but when you only have four people on each team you end up either running around the bases or running for the ball 24/7 for 9 innings. Lets just say you can really feel it in your legs afterward.  I also did a one hour ( Read more... )

Here we find Neil Gaiman being interviewed in a bathtub with Amanda Palmer.

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I finally got off my crutches over the weekend, and back into regular shoes.  The bottom of my feet are still kind of tender, but I can walk around for short periods of time pain-free.  Currently I'm really not looking forward to my ER bill showing up in the mail, but I have to admit they did a great job ( Read more... )

Beatles!   Rockband!   So......Happy......Right.....Now....

Click the link to watch the beautiful opening Sequence:

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php
Now I need to buy an Xbox....

Odin has been cast for the Thor movie:

http://io9.com/5276266/brian-blessed-to-bring-booming-voice-brian-blessed+ness-to-thors-odin

I think he could work beautifully, but I'm interested in what
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