I've gone and done it...I've registered for Season 2 auditions for NBC's "The Voice". No word on audition times and places yet. Singing is a great love of mine, and life's short, so I'm going to give it a go. The truth is, I'd be happy just to mak
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Holly, Cat, and I visited my nomination...The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, England. For Geek Pride Day (tomorrow!), name your favorite Geek Shrine.
Read more…As a budding writer/editor, I will be attending my first convention this weekend as a GUEST and not as a fan.
The inaugural Pulp Ark gathering in Batesville, Arkansas is both a summit for new/current pulp creators and a traditional convention for eve
Read more…I made my minivan into a personal Batmobile. :)
Oh...and there's a TARDIS decal on the back...
Read more…So, wait, is Canada having an election, or thinking about having an election, or what?
American politics is nuts, but Canadian politics is mystifying.
Read more…There was a wonderful add-on/plugin my browser used to have -- I keep thinking it was called writebox, but Google can't find it for me under that name -- that would let me right click on a message board box and pull up a new window with many more opt
Read more…"Complete aside, but is it true that George Marshall was given the special title 'General of the Army' because otherwise he would have been called Marshal Marshall?"
-- Figserello
Read more…My co-worker's husband runs Online Action Figure Entertainment, a website dedicated to collecting action figures and offers reviews for them too.
The other day he got a really neat figure in the mail -- a homemade action figure from a U.S. Soldier in
Read more…"We're free! We're free! No! Wait! What's this? It's pulling us back in!"
Read more…"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/09/julie-taymor-to-leave-spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-musical/ I know it's a mess, but I still want to see it. :)
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You're responsible for every kid going through a magic phase...thank you, Harry.
Read more…For those that haven't heard, Mattel announced a couple of weeks ago that they would be ending the Justice League Unlimited action figure line at the end of 2011. I stopped collecting the series a few years ago, but after a nine-year run, and probab
Read more…I don't expect to sleep much tonight since the campus is three blocks from my house. ;)
Read more…While looking at past discussions, I realized that I have been posting here for exactly one year. Before this, I was only at the Mister Silver Age form, which I still miss. I still am only here since I have neither the time or the knowledge of any ca
Read more…This is the kind of thing I think up when I've had very little sleep.
And sometimes, when I have had more sleep, I do it again.
Read more…"Your Majesty, would you like...your sceptre?"
Dooooo-doot, dooooo-doot! Dooooo-doot, dooooo-doot!"
(If you don't know what that's all about, see here and here.)
Anyhow, now that I've got that out of my system, let me ramble on a bit about my tho
Read more…I may have asked this question before on the old board, but I can't check it, so I apologize if I'm asking something for a second time.
I was thinking over the film Back to the Future, and I started thinking over what might happen if I, and my '01
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