Entries are by date, starting at the earliest.

Casting Call: Elric
James Marsters ("Spike") has been talked about lately for the Elric role. I really like this casting. He has the look and can pull off the brooding, sardonic thing well. I'm still slightly leaning towards Jude Law for my preference....

Movie News: Van Helsing
Hugh Jackman has been cast as Van Helsing in the movie due out next year. The movie will be directed by the same guy that directed The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. After seeing the pictures on the website flash...

Claimh Solais
Welcome to my new blog! I decided it was time to have a seperate blog for all my game-related blogging and thanks to MaBarry, my gaming blog has a home. Why Claimh Solais? Claimh Solais was the sword of light...

Van Helsing news
Not really gaming news, but news that appeals to my inner geek: In what may be the first example of synergy from their proposed merger, NBC and Universal have agreed to develop a dramatic TV series, Transylvania, inspired by director...

Zelazny and Moorcock
The post in which Nuadha will likely offend several of his Amber-playing friends Recently, a friend's Livejournal had someone post in his comments that Michael Moorcock was dead. I replied letting him know that MM was alive and well, living...

More on Zelazny and Moorcock
Flipping through the Fall 2003 issue of Black Gate (a magazine for Fantasy Fiction), I saw a page with the cover of Stormbringer. It turns out it is an article surveys several sword & sorcery authors, including Zelazny and Moorcock....

Thanks to the Ferrett...
...Claimh Solais is now readable through Livejournal! The LJ user ID is jarnoldi. The LJ site is here....

MI5
...is coming out soon on DVD. Cool....

Switch
A friend emailed me this parody of the Apple commercials: Switch

Fan Fiction
I've only read one or two fan fics in my life (three of four if I count the Batman/Michael Myers fanfic that a high school friend of mine wrote and I had to read out of friendly duty). There's not...

Cool News!
Earlier, avowed comics fan [Joss] Whedon confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he may be writing a series of X-Men comics for Marvel. "I can't answer that question at all, because I'm really not officially doing it," he said. "It sort of leaked out that I wanted to do it. I'd say the same thing I say about the show, I really like the characters, and so I want to put them in pain." -from SciFi Wire

Rest in Peace
The newest issue of Locus has Julius Schwartz on the cover. He passed away on February 8th. He was 88 years old. Rest in peace, Julie....

Quote
Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world. -Julius Schwartz (1915-2004)...

Mentality of the Collector
(I posted this earlier in the week and then couldn't figure out where it went. It has been located and placed in its proper location.) Mark Rosewater, the head of R&D for Magic the Gathering, wrote this really neat article...

Song Meme (with answers)
Not really gaming related, but it looked like a fun game to play. (from Eternal Eponine) On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down...

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
The music video can be seen here: http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html

William Shatner's Turn!
Lucy in the Sky...

The Star Trek Lifestyle
Ever wish you could live the Star Trek lifestyle? Well, win this eBay auction and you can! Link: a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2397756436&category=12605&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:UK:1

Filk!
A co-worker made me a CD with a whole bunch of filk music. Filk is fantasy fiction related music and much of the music on the CD seems to be related to Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books. The songs are a...

Quickie Reviews- Sky Captain, Blue Beetle and more!
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Movie, 2004)- Possibly the coolest movie I saw this year, I highly recommend it to anyone who likes bigger-than-life popcorn-munching pulp adventure movies like Indiana Jones or Star Wars. There's not a whole...

Kirk/Spock '04
The Ferrett has uncovered the shocking truth about the Kirk/Spock ticket. Given the proven evidence of Kirk's flip-flopping, I'm afraid that I will also have to vote for his Republican opponent, Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Link: http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/392479.html Great stuff, Bill! (I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed, but I knew every episode he referenced....)