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Tattooed Voltaire

Tattooed Voltaire

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It has been a little while since I posted a gallery I like, so here is a free gallery featuring ethereal altmodel Voltaire with her interesting fantasy cat tattoo work.

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Sci Fi Conventions

Sci Fi Conventions

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Sci Fi Conventions is a helpful little site which gives a really nice overview of what a newcomer to fandom (or at least to cons) can expect from the convention experience. There are sites with more complete calendars of events, but this site has really informative articles on how to both attend and run conventions. [...]

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Mars Dust Attitude

Mars Dust Attitude

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While ego searching on Google, I discovered a site called Mars Dust. Specifically I discovered an oldish editorial by MarsDust editor-in-chief Jason Prentice Ahlquist on the topic of ghettoization in fandom. The editorial discusses mapping what territory is encompassed by fandom and includes a humorous series of examples of the oddly divisive thinking which sometimes [...]

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Jeremy Piven is Brilliant in his Entourage Role as Ruthless Lovable Agent Ari Gold

Jeremy Piven is Brilliant in his Entourage Role as Ruthless Lovable Agent Ari Gold

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I’ve been informed that I violated various Los Angeles city ordinances by mentioning HBO’s hit show Entourage without mentioning that Jeremy Piven is brilliant in his role as the Machiavellian talent agent Ari Gold who answers his stylish cell phone with “You’ve got Gold” and whose idea of pillow talk with his wife is, “I’m [...]

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Dillon Family Fandom Trivia

Dillon Family Fandom Trivia

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Kevin Dillon and Matt Dillon’s great uncle Alex Raymond was the creator of the Flash Gordon comic strip. Raymond’s sister Bea Dillon was the grandmother of Kevin and Matt. Alex Raymond’s other sibling Jim drew Blondie for Chic Young for approximately forty years. In 1933, Alex Raymond, who had been ghost illustrating for Blondie, was [...]

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Viking Quest

Viking Quest

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For those of you who missed the Jesse Jane episode of Entourage, I recommend picking up the series on DVD. The series is set in the milieu of Hollywood hipsters and movie makers. The basic premise is that a young movie star in the making is graduating from indie films to big budget and his [...]

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Zenthura Opens

Zenthura Opens

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The Zathura site features a creative gallery of flash games. More importantly, did any of you see the episode of The Apprentice where one of the supposed businesswomen on the show kept pronouncing Zathura as Zenthura in her presentation to Jon Favreau? Did any of you see the episode of Entourage where pornstar Jesse Jane [...]

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Donald Trump and Darth Vader Star Wars Apprentice Double Team

Donald Trump and Darth Vader Star Wars Apprentice Double Team

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Tonight is the Star Wars episode of The Apprentice. For those of you who have not taken note of anything not sf-related in the last couple of years, The Apprentice is a reality show starring Donald Trump. He and two of his top executives, George Ross and Carolyn Kepcher, judge a group of eighteen potential [...]

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Play Magazine Girls of Gaming Issue 3 w/ Bonus Mature Content

Play Magazine Girls of Gaming Issue 3 w/ Bonus Mature Content

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Yes, Girls of Gaming #3 might be a PDF, but there are still two different collectible covers. One highlights the girls of Deathwatch and one highlights the girls of Dead or Alive 4. Deathwatch looks hotter, if you had any question on that point. This particular issue also features “Bonus Mature Content” and the preview [...]

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Winner of the Cryogenically Frozen People’s Choice Award

Winner of the Cryogenically Frozen People’s Choice Award

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Slashdong reminded me that I hadn’t talked about the Svedka robot babe yet. Los Angeles currently has its fair share of billboards featuring pinups of this fembot hottie. The concept is that, in the future, there is a brief new alcohol prohibition that only Svedka is courageous enough to continue distilling during. Svedka vodka and [...]

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Beep Sex from Slash Dong

Beep Sex from Slash Dong

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Oh, how I love Slashdong. Let me count the ways. It is on the cutting edge of useful technology, it is educational, and the writing is funny. Slashdong’s most recent sex tech endeavor is bringing what they term BeepSex to the masses. Essentially, as I understand it, this involves using a fairly old programming language [...]

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Frankenwand

Frankenwand

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A true testament to human ingenuity and San Francisco know-how is the Frankenwand. “Half power tool; half vibrator — FrankenWand always gets the job done right; and without getting to much in the way. The grip converts from pistol grip to inline grip with the touch of a button, for even the toughest vibrating jobs. [...]

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