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- Spring Events with Ethan
- Free Teen Creative Writing Program at Somerville Public Library
- Get out of yourself: "Joan Didion and Bob Seger Meet in a Bar" & "Where I'm From" Exercise
- Funny or Disgusting? A Review of "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie"
- A Review of Death Row Narrative "Anatomy of Injustice"
- Got Heroes? Viggo Mortensen Lists His Top 230
- Viggo sees through the eyes of an outsider
- Mitt Romney as a D&D Character?
- Stunning Stormtrooper Cake Hits the Spot
- Make-A-Wish Makes a Castle
- Memoir Recounts Youthful Quest for Meaning in D&D, Comics, Zeppelin
- Unknown Tolkien Letter Falls Out of Book
- Change the past: A review of Stephen King's "11/22/63"
- Muppet evolution: A timeline of key moments in Muppets history.
- Are the Muppets obsolete?
- Movie review: Road to Freedom’ is paved with inanity
- Movie review: "Creature" has usual chumps, chomps in horrid horror flick
- Movie Review: Puncture portrays lawyer on smack
- Seeing the light in cancer story: Seth Rogen helps turn his friend’s screenplay into comedy-drama ‘50/50’
- Baroque, or bloated: My review of the new Neal Stephenson novel "REAMDE"
- Cold, blue-white-lit, MacBook-fueled terror. AKA writer’s block.
- MOVIE REVIEW: "Griff the Invisible" joins the growing ranks of DIY superheroes
- New Pixar Movies Announced
- Guillermo Del Toro: The Interview, Part II
- Guillermo Del Toro: The Interview, Part I
- Horror story: With “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” Guillermo del Toro keeps infusing horror with “beautiful and moving images”
- Gygax Biopic in the works
- Two New Books Lavish in 80s Video Game Culture
- Sculptor for Gygax Memorial Named
- My Super 8 Summer of Escapism
- Soylent Green, and Gaming, Is People: Final Thoughts From Gen Con
- 6 Things I’m Looking Forward to at Gen Con
- Happy Birthday, MTV
- On His Birthday (Today), You Can Help the Memory of Gary Gygax Last Forever
- ‘Trollhunter’ director pays homage to Norwegian folklore
- Video games and kids: How young is too young?
- Gygax memorial makes progress
- Stake Land hits its mark
- D&D Haiku, Tolkien on Crack, and Other Mischief: Latest FF&GG newsletter
- D&D poems [starring the Umber Hulk, Gelatinous Cube and girls]
- Let's Put on a Show!
- Hobbit talk
- The Uncle in Carbonite
- A Hard Day's Knight
- Classic Video Game Competition Returns to Funspot
- Tolkien hippie stickers resurface
- "Funny As A Crutch" comes to Cambridge 6/13/1
- Reconnecting separated siblings
- Taken for a ride
- Sucker Punch misses
- What's up with alien invasion movies?
- "Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far, far away": Hanging with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg
- "like swimming with a shark in dark waters": Review of Tornado Alley
- How do you have a day without creativity, imagination, and thought?
- From fart jokes to infidelity
- When is shock just schlock?
- Wading through garbage to pick out the gems
- Geek love
- YouTube playlist of Tolkien-themed videos!
- We're gonna need more holy water
- Is steampunk the new goth?
- 16 books to buy the geek on your list
- Geek poetry contest winners!
- You must see Marwencol
- Geek pride comes to Providence
- Violent Video Games Are Good for You
- win free copies of FF&GG!
- Picking up steam: Why is Boston the hub of steampunk?
- We all role-play now
- read the Sept 2010 newsletter!
- On the appeal of fantasy role-playing games
- Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life
- A virtual world that breaks real barriers
- Impulsive Traveler: Boston's Harbor Islands shelter a multitude of surprises
- Geek Out!
- When literary authors slum in genre
- Pixels of the Past
- Real-Life Role-Playing
- Facing Facebook
- ‘Extra Lives’ asks: What’s in a game?
- Not dead yet: Zombie movies are unalive and well
- Does Justin Cronin's "The Passage" live up to the hype?
- The Robin Hood we deserve, and desire, most
- Dreams Die Hard
- Are you a compulsive hoarder?
- Harry Potter to the rescue
- The Game Loft fosters risk-taking, leadership, and camaraderie.
- Top 10 Science Fiction Movie Quotes
- Avatar-bashing
- Avatar is about transformation
- “Geek” Is No Longer a Four-Letter Word
- "Avatar" takes the gamer dream a step further
- Avatar lets us return to Eden
- Yep, I'm giving them away for free...
- A heartbreaking tale of staggering geekiness
- Magic Moments and Imaginary Friends
- The Holiday Role You Play
- Ethan Gilsdorf on TheOneRing.net Radio Show: Sunday Dec 6th
- Could fantasy have prevented the Fort Hood slayings?
- It's OK for kids to dress up evil for Halloween
- Online gaming creates another self
- Do. Or do not! There is no try: Part 2
- Do. Or do not! There is no try: Part 1
- Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
- Pop Ten blog
- more reviews and coverage
- Fantasy Freaks on Grinding to Valhalla
- The book in its natural habitat
- first amazon.com review -- 4 stars
- X Games: The Movie 3D does not move me
- a night with "Dormia"
- A Postmodern Kindle Book selling moment
- See Second Skin
- Roll for damage (extra bases)!
- Kirkus Reviews feature
- Proposed Gygax monument
- Lost Tolkien / Lewis manuscript notes found
- geek camp in Boston
- Harry Potter comes to Boston!
- Hobbiton under construction
- Newsweek and Penthouse sexing up the con scene
- The best fantasy franchise is...
- wizard rock radio!
- PSAs from the future
- cardboard tube war
- Egad! someone who does not like Harry Potter?
- Mommy, I want this for my birthday
- Comic-Con turns 40 years young....
- some fries with that...
- The Author in New Zealand
- 10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons
- Harry and the Potters in a cave
- China Miéville on why Tolkien rocks
- Q&A with Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro
- Harry and Potters video
- a D&D commercial
- If you need to know more...
- "dwarf"and "elf" are out, "dyslexic" and "database" are in
- Harry and the Potters 500th show
- A blog begins
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- November 1, 2009 - November 7, 2009 (6)
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