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Nimoy. Sunset. Pie.

that's right, folks. The entire tumblr is a collection of images involving Leonard Nimoy (mostly as Spock), sunsets, and pies.

be still, my heart!

Have we mentioned how much we all love Doctor Who around here?

Because we really, really love Doctor Who.

I had vague recollections of having watched the old show on PBS with my grandma (who is also the amazing woman who introduced me to Star Trek), but I didn't even know about the new series until after David Tennant took over in season two. A friend and I watched most of "Tooth and Claw" on the screen over the bar at T.G.I. Fridays and even without the sound, we were hooked.

I really enjoyed Tennant's run on the show, which comes as no surprise, as I was one of the very, very few who preferred Davison over Baker in the original show (Tyler and David Tennant himself being pretty much the only other people I can think of who felt likewise). When I got around to watching the backlog of Eccleston episodes that I'd missed, I wasn't surprised to love him, either. After all, I'd enjoyed him on Heroes, and in Elisabeth and Gone in 60 Seconds (shut up, I have a weak spot for movies with awesome cars in them).

So far, I'm a little underwhelmed by the writing quality of pretty much every episode of the new season that veteran writer and new executive producer Steven Moffat hasn't personally written, but I have faith. Mostly, because I absolutely adore the characters of Amy Pond and her bumbling fiance, Rory, but also because I've been really, really enjoying the performance of Matt Smith, and have faith in his continued ability to make terrible writing watchable.

Pretty much the only complaint I have about him is that I'm having a difficult time drawing him. I think it's his general lack of eyebrows that throws me off. Ah, well. Perhaps I just need more practice.

for those of you unsure of where you stand

here is a handy flow chart, courtesy of fellow nerd bloggers Opaque Lucidity. you can view the original here.


Sorry about how quiet the blog has been as of late. PAX and Anime Boston took more out of us than we'd anticipated, and I've been busily digging through boxes of old photos in preparation for a cosplay retrospective that should be going up soon, prompted by some of the silliness in the YGW Review for Anime Boston, which will be up here as soon as Tyler finishes censoring our terrible language.

Ever wondered what a fat man dancing to Beyonce in a unitard looks like?

Well, now you know.


I fucking love this guy! look at him rock out!


UPDATE!

when the YGW Away Team and some friends were talking about this video during a late night trip to Ihop, someone at another table overheard us and showed us this on his laptop. Apparently, this video is even older news than we thought, because Beyonce herself knew about it, and brought the guy onstage at a show last fall!

HUNTING FOR GHOSTIES

So, Tyler, Chris, myself, and another friend went on an 'adventure' earlier this week, and ended up on a creepy back road that Chris insisted he'd been on before, and ended up unknowingly driving deep into the wampanoag reservation in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest, which; well, to call it disreputable would be a harsh understatement. Had Tyler not spotted the sign as we were leaving one of the most dangerous areas in the region, we would never have had a clue that we'd just cheated death.

Upon getting home, Chris decided to see just how much trouble we could have been in, and did a bit of googling. Turns out, we were mere feet away from the Hockomock Swamp, square in the middle of the Freetown Triangle, one of the most concentrated areas of paranormal sightings in the world.

So, naturally, we had to go back.

I packed a native american exorcism kit and a camera. Tyler brought a night vision monocular and a flashlight. We were good to go. Well, except for the part where our Mystery Machine for the evening (a beige oldsmobile coupe) was low on gas, and neither of us had eaten. So, our adventure began in Fall River, in the Harbor Mall parking lot, where I stopped to deposit a paycheck so we could put gas in the car.


Next stop: Stop and Shop for gas. Alas, they were closed. Unthwarted, we moved on to Taco Bell so Tyler could get some quesadillas. Not wanting to risk death by stomach ulcer, I opted to get Wendy's. After ten minutes of waiting in line and not even getting to order yet, I lost my patience, and we shot up the road to stop for gas.

I made the mistake of making Captain Kirk get out and pump, so of course, one of his exes pulled up to the next pump. Ten minutes of awkward conversation later, we had a full tank, and made our escape. We were almost ready to go ghost hunting, but I still had no food! So, we detoured into the very same parking lot we started in so I could get Burger King. Now we were ready to go find us some ghosts!

Our first stop for the evening was Route 44 in Rehoboth, so we could track down the Red Headed Hitchhiker, made famous by Charles Turek Robinson's book "New England Ghost Files." Unfortunately, we couldn't seem to find any information more specific than that he showed up on that road in that town, so we decided to be thorough and drive the entire length of it. Twice.

Now, the first thing you should know if you decide to go looking for the Hitchhiker is that 90% of the stretch of Route 44 that resides in Rehoboth is occupied by businesses and homes. Car dealerships, package stores, and restaurants litter the roadside frequently enough that it's hard to find a stretch of road that looks like the kind of place where someone might find a hitchhiker, much less a phantom one.

About two miles from the Seekonk line, however, there is a long corner that looks feasible for a haunt, with fields and forests stretching out beyond the guard rails. We slowed down for this leg of the trip, pulling over a few times to let impatient drivers get by. No dice. We made another pass, pulling over to take pictures and scan the area with the night vision monocular. After about ten minutes of sitting by the road, we gave up and decided to move on to our second landmark of the night: The Hornbine School.

First, it's worth noting that nothing traumatic ever happened in the Hornbine School. It didn't burn down with a class trapped inside or anything that might justify the rumors that the school is haunted by phantom children.
Second, it's also worth noting that all roads that lead to the Hornbine School are terrifying, pitch-black, twisting country back roads that wind through old, run-down farms and overgrown woodlands, all of which look like they were taken straight out of a particularly effective horror movie.
We were genuinely creeped out for the entire ride through rural Rehoboth. We decided to leave the radio off so that any little sounds would scare us half to death, genuinely wanting something terrifying to happen, even if it was just a deer jumping out of the woods. Alas, no such luck. The trip to the Hornbine School was painfully uneventful, and upon arrival, we discovered that the windows had been boarded over for the winter, so even if there were creepy ghost children giving us the stinkeye from the windows, we wouldn't have seen them. Disappointed, we didn't even get out of the car, agreeing to return in the summer when we might actually be able to see something.

Conclusion? A return trip in better weather is needed. Possibly with Scooby Gang costumes.

Get Your Comic Published In Five Easy Steps

1. Find a famous person to latch onto and ride the coattails. Bonus points if that person is a relative!

2. Trace your favorite comic panels and use them with little or no alteration. I mean, the originals sell thousands of copies worldwide, right? Maybe you can borrow a little of their success!

3. Take distinctive character designs from popular manga and mash them together, or mask their blatant plagarism with minor alterations. How could Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist look cooler? Give him a facial scar! How could Kenpachi from Bleach look any cooler? Give him white hair and change his clothes! Who is more popular in horror manga than Alucard from Hellsing? L from DeathNote! Put Alucard's mouth on L and you'd have a bloodsucking, crime fighting machine that will fly off of shelves!

4. ????

5. Profit!






So, for those who haven't heard, Gene Simmons' son, Nick Simmons, recently got a comic published in which pretty much every panel is a trace from Tite Kubo's long running hit series Bleach. According to this livejournal community, Kubo has been made aware of the situation, but wether he or VIZ (who own the U.S. distribution rights to Bleach) plan to take legal action is still unknown.

Kirsten Dunst is a Japanophile? Not Really. She's Just Pretending.

If you didn't already hate her for her run as Mary Jane in Spiderman, now she's taking being an annoying tool in a whole new direction: cosplay, and molesting random passersby in Akihabra. All while performing an overproduced cover of a song with racist connotations about the very people she is invading. Talk about class.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v19838048wrs3Dgdy


Her 'serious business' sex-face is pretty hilarious, though. Especially with the blue wig.