Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ tag

Many thanks to our guest, today, Professor Randolph Lyall. He comes direct from Gail Carriger’s London, in her deliciously entertaining steampunk series, The Parasol Protectorate. GSB: I know your time is precious, so I’ll jump right in, if you’ll forgive me bypassing the usual niceties. For anyone who may not yet be acquainted with …

Start saving your pennies,  my fellow Brickheads….LEGO® announced, today, that they’re introducing Darth Vader’s flagship personal Super Star Destroyer, in the fall. Per the official news release from LEGO® (that we couldn’t share, till today): Darth Vader Gets a LEGO® Flagship The Super Star Destroyer™ Executor is the longest model in the LEGO Star Wars™ [...]

If you’re like me and countless other wenches and knaves, you’re dying to see the next piratical installment of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. (We’ll forgive them for At World’s End.) On Stranger Tides looks like it’ll be rollicking good fun; besides, I’m sort of ethically bound to love it, I think, since they’re [...]

A bit of weekend fun with a liberal dash of teasing…Here’s the clip BBC1 kindly shared, today, previewing next week’s Doctor Who episode, “The Doctor’s Wife”. In case you’re curious (and I know you are, you cheeky geeks) this is the episode written by none other than Neil Gaiman. Yes, THAT Neil Gaiman. So watch [...]

So…..How many of you watched the premier of A Game of Thrones on HBO, last week? Raise your mouse….That’s what I thought. A lot of us were looking forward to this series debut. A lot of us watched it (or one of the reruns.) The television reviewer for the New York Times, Ginia Bellafante, also [...]

Terri Garey’s RITA-award winning Nicki Styx series has been haunting my bookshelves for years. Wild, wacky, and original, those tale have delighted me from the first chapter of Dead Girls are Easy; the first book in the Nicki Styx series. However, my goal wasn’t to tempt you with tales of Nicki’s shenanigans. (At least, not [...]

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the catastrophe that struck Japan – the 8.9 earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. Many groups are coming together to share resources and give help to Japan. To find the quick and easy spots, you can even hit the Google page that [...]

Whether you’re into fangs, or you’re just randomly aware of social media, you’ve probably scene some of True Blood, HBO’s huge hit. They’ve won awards, and introduced a whole new sort of night life to Americans. In the same vein, the big cable companies are looking to some of the staples of geekdom for new [...]