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OMG.

You want to talk about the worst they can say is no! Billy Joel sings “New York State of Mind” with a cheeky college student as his piano accompaniment. It’s *wonderful*. Watch through to the end for the jazzy bits. :)

Spider-Mom

Last summer I bought a Spider-Man hoodie. I actually went in for a Captain America one, because I’d seen somebody wearing one and thought it was awesome beyond words, but they were sold out. (Oh look. Think Geek has one. *stares at it covetously*) Ahem. Anyway. But they had the Spidey one, and I’ve had a crush on Spider-Man since I was like three, so I got it. Yesterday I went to a performance of the musical my sister has written, directed and produced (! how freaking awesome is that?…

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Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

Joss Whedon JDIFF Q&A

The Q&A after Much Ado was much shorter than I hoped it would be! And the moderator, in introducing Joss again, asked the question I wanted to ask, which was: “You made Much Ado on a twelve day shoot between finishing filming Avengers and starting to edit it. (“No,” Joss said, parenthetically, “we’d already started editing Avengers…”) So the burning question here is, what’s wrong with you?” “Workaholism,” Joss said sadly. “There’s no known cure.” Which had been more or less what I wanted to ask, although I might have…

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Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing”

The verdict: just because Kenneth Branagh’s “Much Ado About Nothing” was perfect does not mean that Joss Whedon’s is not *also* perfect. Thanks to Ted’s quick purchasing, last night we got to go to the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival’s hottest, server-crashing ticket of the festival, the premiere of Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” at which the man himself was in attendance. Because we are great big geeks, we were literally first in line: I arrived to hold a place at around 4pm (before, in fact, they had even…

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Elfquest: Skywise & Cutter

Elfquest: The Final Quest

Page, um. 24. I’m a little behind. * Page One Page Two Page Three Page Four Page Five Page Six Page 7 (this is where I left off) Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 (The best bit about this page is Wendy posted the profiles frame on FB and someone commented how Cutter’s nose had lost its snub, and (more tragically) Skywise’s had lost its arch. And when she posted the final version, their noses had been restored to their…

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