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News Blurb: New Cast Announced For “Stargate Universe” 2009-01-19 13:27:33 I have to say, I feel for the Stargate
fans. For the longest time, they had Stargate SG-1, a nice long series with a fairly stable cast. Then they got Stargate Atlantis, with a new cast and a new take on the classic Stargate. Now they are dealing with the ending of the familiar, and [...] Read more:Universe
The Top 10 Most Overdone Anime Cosplays 2009-01-18 23:26:44 How do you know when a cosplay of a certain character is being overdone? It’s when you get three dozen responses, all with the very same character at the top of the list. When I asked around some of the biggest cosplay communities for the most commonly cosplayed anime characters, I expected some variety. And [...] Read more:Anime
Costuming: Dark Knight Joker Make-Up Tutorial Video & Costume Links 2009-01-18 16:15:46 Someone on the Dragon*con LiveJournal community recently posted a series of Dark KnightJoker
Make-Up Tutorial
videos. The tutorial itself is broken into two parts, and then there’s a “finished product” video. The Joker has become of the most popular cosplays at conventions these days. There are some well done ones, and some down right [...]
Con Vids: Zombies Take Over Berlin and Zombie Thriller Orlando 2009-01-18 09:47:09 In honor of my earlier post about Zombification 101, I bring you footage of Berlin
’s Zombie Convention. You’ll note that most of these zombies are kids wearing ratty clothes with fake blood smeared everywhere. They obviously need Bart’s guide to zombie make-up.
Does the United States have any zombie conventions? I [...] Read more:Zombies
, Thriller
, Orlando
For My Regular Readers… 2009-01-18 09:32:31 You can now subscribe to this blog! Currently, the RSS feed settings for Today.com only allow for full feeds. This means when you read the entire entry via your feeder, and don’t click through to the page, I’m missing out on important page views. That is supposed to change, but we don’t quite know when. [...]
Zombification 101 - What You Need to Know to Become a Zombie 2009-01-18 00:15:11 Zombies! We all love them! On the surface, a zombie probably seems like one of the easiest costumes to do for a convention. Get some ratty clothes from a thrift store, and smear some fake blood around, and you’re good, right? Well, if you’re looking to take the zombie costume to the next level, you [...] Read more:Become
News Blurb: Chase Masterson of Star Trek Added to Phoenix Comicon Guest List 2009-01-17 18:33:37 It’s official! Chase Masterson, who played Leeta on Star Trek
: Deep Space Nine, has been added to the Phoenix
Comicon guest list. The convention is being held January 23 - January 25, 2009 at the Mesa Convention Center in Arizona. She’ll be joining the likes of Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Brent Spiner (Star Trek: [...] Read more:Guest
Con Vids: Xena and Gabrielle Bust Out a Tune! 2009-01-17 09:26:32 In honor of the upcoming Creation Entertainment Xena Convention at the end of this month (which Lucy Lawless is sort of attending), I give you a video from a 2007 Xena convention, which features Lucy and Renee O’Connor (her sidekick, Gabrielle
, on the show) singing a little tune.
I think [...]
How Fandom Brings People Together: An Interview with Norm Liddell of the USS Haven 2009-01-17 09:05:23 When I lived in Florida, I was fortunate to run into a very sweet couple at a local Star Trek convention. Their names were Norm and Denise, and they were involved in a Star Trek club. The club was called the USS Haven
, and it is composed of some of the nicest people I’ve ever [...] Read more:Liddell
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