A Twist of Things to Come

I have been a lax webmistress. It all comes of having a brain that can only effectively think of one thing at a time. Oy.

Oh, let's see. Nightsky gave us "The Hobbit" / "Doctor Who" Update of the Day detailing some interesting Doctor Who/Hobbit news and making a case for Tom Baker as king of the Mirkwood elves. Woo-ee.

Then there was our resident vampire, Mv2.3's The Vampire Follies -- An Insider Rant which was a bit of a take-down of the online vampire community. :D

Pearce took another theatrical bullet for us and tells us about it in her review Paranormal Activity Meh.

Beatrice Blythe took a look at some top-tier geek goodness in Clash of the Geeks - Entertaining Insanity for a Good Cause.

Then we got some real casting news from Nightsky in A Pan-Geekdom Hobbit. Martin Freeman!!!

We had agirlnamedluna guest-blogging for an article on Vampire Mob, a really cool web series that you should check out, because it's funny.

Then we had our Geeka-Boo story by Jesse, Fairy Godmother, which stirred up some controversy, and kind of pissed me off as well (mostly from a copy-editing POV, but I guess you get what you pay for, i.e. if I'm not paying for the story, the writer doesn't have to use spell check, capital letters, or punctuation). *sigh* I did stir the pot a bit. I admit it.

Once again, Pearce throws herself in front of the bad movie bus to spare GC readers the pain, in Don't Waste Your Time - More Movie-Related Sacrifice. That woman really knows how to take one for the team! ;)

There was also a lovely book review by Beatrice Blythe, Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Mirror Dance. She's refreshing her memory before reading the newest Miles novel. Can't wait for the follow-up!

A Nonny Mouse, GC's resident Geek Overseas, filed an article on ebooks, The Awesomeness of eBooks. Evidently, it's much easier to get ebooks when you're overseas than it is to lay hands on the paper kind. ;) Plus much, much more.

Then we got a post-midterm election rant from Jesse, Are We A Nation of Fools? which honestly got much less of a reaction than I expected, considering the fact that not all GeekaChicas share political opinions. I really thought this one might get more action than it did. Most of GC's contributors do not get political, so I was hoping some controversy might boost our stats. (Yep, I'm mercenary like that.) But no luck.

Pearce profiled a young up-and-coming filmmaker in Tennyson Stead's Shot at the New Filmmaking Model. Fascinating look at a possible new way to finance films.

Today we have Jesse's latest round-up of facts, rumors and speculation about the next Batman film in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. *crosses fingers* Please, movie gods, bring Cillian Murphy to New Orleans. OHPLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASE!! We'll only stalk him a little.

That is all for now, but we have a couple of great articles in the queue!