Not that it’s necessarily geek news, but fantasy writers beware! Using your eighth-grade trauma to inspire your superhero’s journey? Think again! You can’t mix fiction with non-fiction, or you will get a taste of Oprah’s wrath. Well, let’s be honest. That’s if you claim that you actually were that superhero, and while we all know…
Deviant Art, a website devoted to the “art and skin community” (i.e. tattoos and other cool stuff) has a post today that combines two of 2007’s most popular fictional locations. Posted by Sam, who seems to be something of a Potterphile (including his favorite Wii game), it contains 45 of J. K. Rowling’s finest. “This is…
No, you geek, I’m not talking about Bilbo’s birthday of September 22, 2890 of the Third Age, being born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took. That’s tomorrow. But seventy years ago today, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London published the first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in September 1937, illustrated with many black-and-white…
So a bunch of us Mixologists were having dinner in a suburb of Chicago having what EIC Gold claims are the best hamburgers in the world (pretty good, but that’s another post) and we started talking about who looks down on whom — Doctor Who fans looking down on Dark Shadows fans, who in turn…
