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If you’re a serious reader of Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, chances are you’ve heard of John Granger, the Hogwarts Professor (and if you haven’t heard of him, you should go ahead and click on that link). He introduced me both to literary alchemy and ring composition, which I’ve touched on before here and here. In light of the first teaser trailer of Mockingjay Part 1 released just last week, I’d like ...

From the official press release: AMNESIA, an apocalyptic mini-series, set sometime in the near future, will be starring Kevin Sorbo, Al Snow, Martin Klebba, and Andrew Roth. The mini-series has been described as “LOST meets The Walking Dead (minus the zombies)”. The story is about a man who wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world with amnesia and desperately searches for ...

Using the bumpy beats of Derulo’s “Talk Dirty to Me”, K-Face Rules created the FANDOM parody version, “Talk Nerdy to Me”. Is THIS the new FANDOM theme song? Nerds get up and dance! SING ALONG Get nerdy wit me… Tell me what game that you get on, is it COD or EVE? What kind of class do you play girl, ...

The New Age by John Evans   I am with you on the bridge, Of life and unlife, Where the shades of noon, Drift groggily toward Armageddon. I am with you at the pinnacle, Between feeling and knowing, Where the whispers of the wounded, Rise from the bowels of your contempt. I am with you on the ledge, Bleeding love ...

  High Culture Graffiti There’s no way I’m the only one who sees an obscene word or symbol spray painted on the side of a building or an overpass and rolls my eyes, wondering what the point of defacing public spaces is. Of course, that’s the basic stuff, the lower order of graffiti. There are true artists with a spray ...

J.K. Rowling Writes Again (Sorta) The bad news is that the Harry Potter series is over and done with. Harry’s adventures are finished and he’s now settled down to a quiet life as an Auror and family man. The good news is that his creator has continued to do what writers do- which is write. Her third post/non-Harry related book ...

Empire Magazine has released a preview of the two cover choices for its upcoming magazine! Inside the mag we have our complete report from the film’s UK set, as well as updates from director James Gunn and his cast, including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillen, Lee Pace and Dave Bautista. “There’s a lot of strange stuff in the movie,” ...

Legendarium’s Exclusive Interview with Artist and Illustrator Charles Vess!   “…one of the things I really, really like about mythology and folklore is that they are really fun stories but also when you are reading them you are learning about another person’s mythology, another person’s folklore and you’re starting to understand a different group of people on the planet and ...

A couple of days ago I decided to go and seek an adventure in getting to know the Vikings a bit more in The Netherlands. There were two events this weekend which involved Vikings. So the adventure started at the remains of Castle Teylingen. Although I set sail to this event there were lots of cancellations in activities which I ...

The folks over at the Harry Potter Alliance must be real wizards, because when they held their wands out and shouted “Accio Books!” over 50,000 books flew in to Michigan. One simple summoning charm, one huge response, one brand new library for the Brightmoor Community Center in Detroit. The Harry Potter Alliance is a group of fans who try to make ...