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• eBook Deal: House Rules: A Joe DeMarco Thriller
• Geek Gear: Doctor Who Shirt ‘Check Exterminate’
• Geek Gear: Robot Dogs Playing Poker
• Movie Review: God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
• Comic Review: Mercy Thompson: Moon Called #8
• Marvel Announces Collected Stories on the Marvel Comics App
• 1870 Photograph On eBay Proves Nicolas Cage Is Immortal
• Acclaimed Writer Harlan Ellison Sues The Makers of ‘In Time’ Over Copyright Infringement
• Buy Now: Limited Edition Signed Lou Reed Art Prints
• Movie Review: Drive
• eBook Deal: The Tale of Despereaux

eBook Deal: House Rules: A Joe DeMarco Thriller Posted: 18 Sep 2011 05:55 AM PDT The eBook deal of the day today for the Amazon Kindle is political thriller House Rules: A Joe DeMarco Thriller by Mike Lawson for only $.99 (that's down from the suggest retail price of $11). Note, this deal is valid only for today, Sunday, September 18, 2011, until 11:59PM PST. If you'd like to own a physical copy of House Rules, the book is also available in paperback for $7.99. The paperback edition is currently part of Amazon's 4-for-3 promotion, where you can purchase four select items for the price of three (see the Special Offers and Product Promotions section of the product page). Text-to-Speech is enabled on this title, which is the third book in the Joe DeMarco Thriller series [...]

Geek Gear: Doctor Who Shirt ‘Check Exterminate’ Posted: 18 Sep 2011 05:27 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is the Doctor Who-themed shirt called "Check Exterminate" by artist AJ Paglia. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Sunday, September 18, 2011, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

Geek Gear: Robot Dogs Playing Poker Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:50 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a called "Robot Dogs Playing Poker" by artist zomboy. The sale began at Teefury today, Sunday, September 18, 2011, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore. The design features popular robotic dog characters in the classic dogs playing poker set-up. Can you pick out all the robot dogs in this design? [...]

Movie Review: God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Posted: 17 Sep 2011 08:56 PM PDT God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Directed by Mike Fleiss, Mike Piscitelli Schweet Entertainment Released date: September 16, 2011 (UK) Limited My local multiplex is usually full of spiky-haired teenagers queuing up for the latest horror or comedy (not that there's anything wrong with that) often hand in clammy hand with their first date. Tonight, however, is different: there are bikers in the car park and men with long hair, leather jackets, and Iron Maiden trainers in the ticket queue. Tonight, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is in town. After the success of MTV show The Osbournes and his brilliant autobiography I Am Ozzy, a documentary about the Prince of Darkness was always going to happen. Being a big fan of Ozzy Osbourne I thought I knew exactly what sort of film I was in for. I was wrong [...]

Comic Review: Mercy Thompson: Moon Called #8 Posted: 17 Sep 2011 05:54 PM PDT Mercy Thompson: Moon Called #8 Written by Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence Art by Tyler Walpole Dynamite Entertainment Release Date: Sept. 8, 2011 Cover Price: $3.99 I haven't read the previous issues in the first volume of the graphic novel adaptation of the Mercy Thompson series by urban fantasy mainstay Patricia Briggs, but I'm familiar with the actual books that the comics are based on. The artwork is well done, and fans of the books will be pleased with the depictions of the central characters, which largely match their descriptions as set out by Briggs. The storyline involves a high risk werewolf mission that Mercy is caught in the middle of. She's as tough as ever, and because of Briggs' direct involvement with the storyline, it's true to her books and the plotline therein. And although Briggs' writing has never suffered from slow pacing in the novels, the same immediacy is conveyed in the graphic novel, but better. Mercy has to rescue a girl named Jesse and her dad, but their captors are intense and very dangerous, which makes their escape difficult [...]

Marvel Announces Collected Stories on the Marvel Comics App Posted: 17 Sep 2011 05:23 PM PDT Comixology, the creators of the Marvel Comics app, has been offering graphic novels from independent publishers on its version of the app for some time. If you are interested in catching up on The Walking Dead, for instance, rather than buying all of those individual issues you can buy the graphic novels each as they were released on good old fashioned paper. Now, finally Marvel has listened to fans and begun releasing "collections." You can grab a bunch of them right now! "We've heard the fans asking for collections on the app and we're happy to deliver them today at an unbeatable price," said Peter Phillips, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Marvel Digital Media Group. "This is only the beginning of some exciting new developments to make the Marvel Comics app an even bigger success." [...]

1870 Photograph On eBay Proves Nicolas Cage Is Immortal Posted: 17 Sep 2011 04:08 PM PDT A photograph was recently discovered being sold on eBay. The photo is of a Tennessee man, and it dates back to around the 1860s or 1870s. But the thing about this particular man, is that he looks an awful lot like a one Mr. Nicolas Cage. So much so that the seller is even using this in his description, claiming the Cage must be some sort of vampire. Now, some have taken the seller to be completely serious in his statements (especially with a Buy It Now price of $1,000,000 set), but as you can see in the Q&A section at the bottom of the page, he's actually a pretty funny dude and, even though it sounds like a legit 19th century photograph, is likely just having some fun with it (unless, of course, someone actually pays up that kinda coin, in which case he would be a genius). You can see the image below and read the seller's description by heading on below now. [...]

Acclaimed Writer Harlan Ellison Sues The Makers of ‘In Time’ Over Copyright Infringement Posted: 17 Sep 2011 02:33 PM PDT The release of the upcoming sci-fi thriller In Time has just come across an obstacle that no one in their right mind ever wants to encounter, and his name is Harlan Ellison. The prolific, award-winning writer who has been working his literary majesty in print, film, and on television over the course of nearly six decades has filed a lawsuit in California federal alleging that the 20th Century Fox film, which stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried and is written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War), is an uncredited adaptation of his classic 1965 short story "Repent Harlequin! Said The Ticktockman". In 1984 Ellison brought legal action against the producers of The Terminator claiming that the James Cameron film pilfered ideas from two of his short stories, "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand." It didn't help the defendants in the case that Cameron had publicly acknowledged this fact in an interview he gave while promoting the movie and it was this interview that brought the matter to Harlan Ellison's attention in the first place. [...]

Buy Now: Limited Edition Signed Lou Reed Art Prints Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:55 AM PDT As the excitement continues to build for the worldwide release of the Lou Reed and Metallica joint project Lulu on October 31, 2011 [North America November 1, 2011], you can still get your hands on a stunning Lou Reed-inspired piece of art. The limited edition print designed by graphic illustrator Jeffrey Everett of El Jefe Design was created for Lou Reed's European tour this past summer. Originally only available to those who attended those concerts, it has since been made available online for everyone to purchase [...]

Movie Review: Drive Posted: 17 Sep 2011 09:24 AM PDT Drive Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Pearlman, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Kaden Leos Release Date: September 16, 2011 Immediately are we distanced from the majority of groggy thrillers as director Nicolas Winding Refn, working in astonishing form (he won best director award at this year's Cannes Festival), achieves insistent thrills from the beginning of his new film Drive. Unfurling from the opening credits onward is an excellence and master-class in control and discipline that cannot be disputed. It is a simple chase scene, a getaway driver discreetly navigating a silver Chevy Impala away from the authorities, set during a gorgeously neon-lit night in the heart of Los Angeles. Refn establishes an atmosphere so distinctive that it calls to mind Mulholland Dr., a great atmospheric film with the same vindictiveness Drive has of Hollywood. Drive's atmosphere is one that glorifies and harbors masculinity, violence, and existential crises [...]

eBook Deal: The Tale of Despereaux Posted: 17 Sep 2011 08:48 AM PDT The eBook deal of the day today for the Amazon Kindle is the 2004 Newbery Medal-winning children's fantasy book The Tale of Despereaux for only $.99 (that's 88% off the list price of $7.99). Note, this deal is valid only for today, Saturday, September 17, 2011, until 11:59PM PST. If you'd like to own a physical copy of The Tale of Despereaux, the book is also available in hardcover for $12.23 and paperback for $7.99. The paperback edition is currently part of Amazon's 4-for-3 promotion, where you can purchase four select items for the price of three (see the Special Offers and Product Promotions section of the product page). Text-to-Speech is enabled on this title, which also includes the illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering [...]

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