"AMC has put in development The Terror [as in 'The Erebus and'], a drama series adaptation of the 2007 bestselling novel by Dan Simmons .... set in 1847 when the crew of a Royal Naval expedition to find the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator - a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a ( Read more... )

Generation X author moves from fiction to fashion
"From jackets to scarves, caps and bracelets, the Roots x Douglas Coupland line is intended, said the author of Generation X and Girlfriend in a Coma, to "explore a new way of seeing Canada" far removed from "birch bark and moose and Mounties"."
 

I was computer-less all afternoon thanks to a virus, but I came back to this: Margaret Atwood to sing in Score: A Hockey Musical - so really, it's all okay now.
 

via the lovely merith, ad campaigns you need to steal and mail to me:

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Tagged by slidellra with the prompt "sweat." Oooh, my!

Title: Dillon
Fandom: RPS
Pairing: Callum angry!sex
Notes: post-HCL, pre-Headstones' "Nickels For Your Nightmares"
given the ol' once-over (arr) by mrs_laugh_track

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I never read many of the Marvel comic "What If" series, but google has just informed that a Wolverine/due South crossover is less crazy than one would think:

What If? - Wolverine #1 (Feb 2006) - "Public Enemy Number One"
(Logan has been working in a bar for a guy named Gerard who has taken in Logan, his ladyfriend and their son) The next day, the ( Read more... )

Hee! Go read today's Comics Curmudgeon - and don't fall for any emails from the widow of the late Canadian Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, eh?

The fun one: Voyager 2 discovers solar system is bent
Pssht. The slashers coulda told you that!

The 'huh' one: U.S. refuses `Any Wounded Soldier' mail
Due to fear of anthrax and threats; Last season . . . as many as 450,000 pieces of mail not addressed to anyone in particular managed to reach Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. But ( Read more... )

Soooooooooo . . . I might need Dead Man on Campus fic. Maybe. You know, if you want to point me to it. And I hope you do.

ETA for the Canada-types: And Don MacKeller as 'Sir Not Appearing in This Film'. mikeneko continues her adventures in Canadian media. Thing is, Don McKellar seems like such a nice, friendly, normal person in these commentary tracks ( Read more... )