I have three things to say regarding musical theater tonight.

1) After closing in Toronto a while back, the 'Lord of the Rings' musical is now retooled and running in London. People say it looks pretty, but that in order to make sense of the plot you need to have read the books. Is that entirely a bad thing? Anyway, on the official site you can ( Read more... )

To return to Lord of the Rings for a moment:

Whether or not you've ever played D&D or similar games (I haven't really, for instance), you should have a look at this, which is a hilarious take on the question, "What if LOTR was acted out by D&D players?" Graphic novel form, lots of pages, still continuing!

Kudos to creator Shamus Young, and to astroman-rich ( Read more... )

I've been wrestling with this decision, but it's time I confessed some things to you guys. (*deep breath*) Here goes ( Read more... )

If you drew any of the artwork listed below for me, for the Two Towers parody, for CafePress gear a few years ago, please email me! I may have one to three dollars for you. Woohoo ( Read more... )

Postscript ( Read more... )

Questions for those of the legal persuasion:

People have asked me when I'm going to "publish" my Lord of the Rings parodies. Some have gotten almost belligerent about it: "Why aren't they published yet??! What are you waiting for???!!" and so forth. :) I kind of figured I couldn't publish them, since they use names and plot points that I didn't ( Read more... )

To bring us back to Lord of the Rings news:

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh wrote a letter to fans, stating they won't be working on a film version of The Hobbit with New Line, due to disputes over LOTR profits. However, hints from MGM--who, if I understand correctly, owns the distribution rights (then what does New Line own? Anyway...)--indicate ( Read more... )

Although the fandom world has had some sad news from Australia recently in the loss of everyone's favorite TV reptile wrangler, Steve Irwin, some of you will be glad to know that there is also good news from that quadrant of the world. Namely, a group of college students is planning to film a low-budget, informal version of my All-Slash All-the- ( Read more... )

I have a request from an anonymous seeker ( Read more... )

As to last Wednesday's "Lost," I have little to say, since they didn't advance the plot much until the last ten seconds. I heart Bernard and Rose, of course, and I'm glad the island did something good for her. But that Jack-and-Kate-smashed-together-in-a-net scene...what, were the writers trying to spark some NC17 Kate/Jack fanfic or something? ( Read more... )