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Missing Gen Con 2024
Gen Con, the biggest tabletop games convention in North America, will be held this weekend in Indianapolis (starting tomorrow), and once again I’ll be missing it but still thinking about it. This year...
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Highway to Halloween: 5-Foot Animated ‘Ghostbusters’ Slimer
It was the summer of 1984. I had just ended my junior year in high school and was ready for some summer movies. A little Ivan Reitman movie titled Ghostbusters hit cinemas, and comedy films were...
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Highway to Halloween: The FG Square Flesh Eater’s Refuge Halloween Village
In the late 18th century, the tradition of building decorative Christmas villages around the Christmas tree started here in the United States. These became especially popular starting in the 1970’s,...
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Highway to Halloween: Lowe’s Late Summer Online Decoration Drop
Are you a fan of the 999 happy haunts from Disney’s The Haunted Mansion? Or perhaps of the Wednesday series on Netflix? If so, then you’re going to be very happy to hear about Lowe’s upcoming online...
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Creating Community at XOXO
This past weekend I attended XOXO. XOXO was an experimental independent arts festival, or maybe a technology conference, or perhaps the fever dream of a terminally online collective, and this...
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Highway to Halloween: The Animated Ground Breaker Kit From Spider Hill Prop...
We’re well into the spooky season, and you can’t walk into a store without seeing Halloween decorations…which is a good thing! Home Depot, Lowe’s, Spirit Halloween and others have items which you’ll...
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Highway to Halloween: Red Shed 6 ft. Halloween Skeleton Rooster
You expect to see certain things in people’s yards on Halloween. Witches, ghosts, and ghouls are always popular. And of course, what Halloween display is complete without a skeleton or two? Along with...
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Orlando Pen Show 2024
The Orlando Pen Show took place September 8th – 10th at the Florida Hotel in Orlando, FL. This was my first year attending, and I walked out after two days as a fountain pen addict. Expectations First,...
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Highway to Halloween: The Lowe’s Haunted Living 12-ft Talking LED Bone...
We’re almost to October, and already I’ve been seeing people starting to decorate for Halloween around the neighborhood. While I haven’t begun my yard just yet, I have been plotting out what kind of a...
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Highway to Halloween: BoxLunch Seasonal Offerings
BoxLunch, the fandom merch and gifts shop, has several items available for those that love this spooky season. They sent me a couple to check out, which immediately found their way into the hands of my...
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Stack Overflow: Spooky Reads for (Mostly) Kids
We’re halfway into October, the month of pumpkin spice and giant Home Depot skeletons, so today’s stack is spooky books for (mostly) kids! (Look, I do have some spooky books for older readers in my...
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Fun.com: Keeping the Fun In Halloween Costumes for 2024
Fun.com is my go-to place for Halloween costumes thanks to their wide variety of licenses and creative attire. They have everything you could need from a traditional costume to t-shirt costumes. This...
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New York Comic Con Survival Guide – 2024 Edition
I’m one of a very small number of people who have successfully attended every single edition of New York Comic Con from 2006 to 2024 (excluding 2020, natch), including the chaotic first 2006 show and...
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13 Fiendish Tabletop Games for Halloween
It’s spooky season, and while it’s certainly okay to play games about werewolves and ghosts and witches any time of the year, Halloween is always a great time to break out some extra creature features....
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JewCE 2024 – My Favorite Small Convention Returns
Fall is the busiest comic con season for me, kicking off with the spectacular New York Comic Con. But in the last two years, it’s had a sweet finish in the form of JewCE, the Jewish Comic Experience....
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‘MST3K’ Turkey Day Potluck of the Stars Marathon and Mystery Box Giveaway
If there’s one thing us geeks can rely on during these turbulent times, it’s the annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon. And this year, Shout! TV is pulling out all the stops. Tune-in to the star...
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Highway to the Holidays: The Lowe’s Holiday Living 6-ft White & Gold Black...
It seems like just yesterday that I was reviewing Halloween decorations like Lowe’s Haunted Living 12-Ft Talking LED Bone Collector Animatronic. Sure, the spooky season is over (for now!) but that...
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Highway to the Holidays: The FG Square Chicken and Waffles Restaurant...
Ah, the Christmas Village. That ubiquitous indoor holiday tradition that collectors steadily add to, year after year. But how many Santa’s workshops and North Pole trains can one have? Sometimes you...
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Stack Overflow: 2024 Reading Reflections
At the beginning of 2024, a few of us shared some reading resolutions—specific titles we wanted to read, habits we wanted to cultivate, book-related projects we wanted to try. Here, we look back at the...
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Stack Overflow: 2025 Reading Resolutions
Welcome to 2025! The beginning of the year is always a time of reflections and projections, and what more appropriate way to think about turning over a new leaf than by considering the leaves we plan...
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