Like Christmas shopping on Boxing Day.

I know, it's November 1st, but wouldn't this be an interesting change from zombie makeup for Hallowe'en?  The mismatched eye colour is a nice touch as well.

For the benefit of the curious, this is the endlessly talented Emilie Autumn in the role of the Painted Doll from The Devil's Carnival, a short horror film - for want of a better category, it qualifies as fantasy just as easily - written by Terrance Zdunich and produced and directed by Darren Bousman.

- Sid

Seriously, Darth Goofy?

George Lucas has sold Lucasfilm, and by extension the rights to the Star Wars franchise, to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion.  Oh, lord...

I think the above picture pretty much says it all - just shoot me now, somebody.

- Sid

Is the correct pronunciation "Godzilla" or "Gojira"?

Reuters International reports that radiation may be leaking into the ocean from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

I guess we all know what that means...

- Sid

P.S. Just for the record, I thought that the 1998 version of Godzilla was a well-designed update to the classic monster.  Which, also for the record, doesn't mean that it was a good movie, just a good monster.