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Comic Con Booth Babes

Comic Con Booth Babes

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Galleries of pictures taken at the record-smashing Comic Con 2006 are already starting to post. ComingSoon.net has more than a hundred photos although most are not of people, but more importantly the booth babe galleries are starting to post, such as this Flickr gallery by Greg O’Connell, as reported by Comic Book Conventions.

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Good Night

Good Night

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I’m apparently going to a dinner at The Omni and then getting some sleep tonight. However, everyone else appears to be going to the X-Sanguin V ball. Blue Blood has posted some photos from X-Sanguin IV.

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More Comic Con Pictures

More Comic Con Pictures

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Here is a link to a second gallery of Comic Con photos on Blue Blood. I’m busy shopping for collectible Creature from the Black Lagoon Dolls networking at the Comic Con, so I’m not ranging very far afield for my posts this week.

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Blue Blood and The Brotherhood Do Comic Con

Blue Blood and The Brotherhood Do Comic Con

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Blue Blood is going to have a few flyers for my little site in booth 433 at the Comic Con. The booth is sponsored by The Brotherhood. Here is gallery number one of the adventures in that booth last year. Thanks so much, guys.

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Mars Dust in Print

Mars Dust in Print

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I pleased to be able to report that Mars Dust, the well-dressed fandom web site, has printed a prototype of a magazine they hope to do. Their first issue covers psychobilling and horror rock, Bruce Campbell, cosplay, Star Wars artist Sara Wilkinson, and Wonder Woman model Diana Knight of Blue Blood fame, and an article [...]

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Classic Science Fiction Novels

Classic Science Fiction Novels

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Fun Trivia has a section devoted to science fiction fen. The first quiz is on Classic Science Fiction Novels and I just want you all to know that I got 25 out of 25 correct. I just want you to know you are in expert hands with me here. (via Blue Blood)

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Lucasfilm announces “Adult” Star Wars Novel Line

Lucasfilm announces “Adult” Star Wars Novel Line

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Today Lucasfilm announced the licensing of a new line of “Adult” Star Wars novels. “While the movies were still an ongoing project, it was important to portray all aspects of the Star Wars universe as wholesome family entertainment,” said Lucasfilm spokesmen Dirk Merdespieler. “However, now that the cycle of films is done, we can finally [...]

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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I seem to have spent much of this holiday season on the topic of constructed lovers. I’ve touched on dolls, robots, and androids, and the boxes Daleks travel in which are practically the same thing, and other mechanisms for sexual delight. There is something about making love to inanimate objects which seems very appropriate for [...]

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A Very Merry

A Very Merry

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Wikipedia has launched a delightful new project called Wikiquote. Harlan Ellison on the subject of this time of year: Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by [...]

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Is Narnia a Real Place?

Is Narnia a Real Place?

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Narni is an ancient hilltown and comune of Umbria in central Italy, with 20,100 inhabitants according to the 2003 census; at altitude 240 m (787 ft) it overhangs a narrow gorge of the Nera River in Terni province. The area around Narni was already inhabited in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages, as attested by finds [...]

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Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?

Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. Chaucer was [...]

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Does the Microdoll Make You Feel Like a Big Man?

Does the Microdoll Make You Feel Like a Big Man?

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Does the Microdoll make you feel like a big man? Well, it certainly ought to. She is only around fourteen centimeters in height. The Microdoll site bills it as “the smallest sex doll.” I’m not sure how they know no one has built smaller female simulcra to penetrate, but these are serious enthusiasts, so perhaps [...]

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