You know what's better than watching a car fishtail because the driver has no winter driving skills?

Watching three cars in a row do it.

Two polls

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2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announces the nominees for the 2012 Nebula Awards (presented 2013), nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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An icon of American culture I somehow overlooked until today

Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲 Hayakawa Sesshū?, June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. [...] Hayakawa was active at the outset of the American film industry. He was the first and remains one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States and Europe. He is the first Asian American as well as the first Japanese American movie star and the first Asian American Leading Man. His "broodingly handsome"[...] good looks and typecasting as a sinister villain with sexual dominance made him a heartthrob among American women, and the first male sex symbol of Hollywood, several years in advance of Valentino.

Attention Matthew Hughes fans

An excerpt from his upcoming novel To Hell and Back: Hell to Pay is now available.

Marilee Layman Hospitalized

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Lesson learned during Trail of Cthulhu

A Thompson is a lousy weapon if the guy you are chasing has a baby in his arms.

Marvel Heroic RPG

is going to be next week's game. We're playing pre-gen characters, which means characters from out of the MU continuity:
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