No, no. He doesn't HAVE shoes. Obviously, he's a wereshoe.

If you're the type of person who enjoys it, it's fun This year it's in Chicago again. Basically, it's designed around panels and parties. Most of the day has a half dozen or so panels going on at any one time, anything from writers talking about how to create a universe to working scientist telling how they built a laser for a space elevator in their basement (there's a yearly contest to see who can get the damned thing to actually move up the ribbon). At night geeks gather to drink and procreate, although it's a far cry from Dragon Con. It's non-profit, with leftover money forwarded to the group putting next years con on, they don't try to bring in hoards of fans.

Basically, if you're the type of person who wants to be in a small room with Greg Bear, or the guy who named the Mars rock "Yogi", you'll fit right in.

My local Battleship loving reviewer gave Rock of Ages one star but said to go see it, as it IS fun, and everyone who doesn't hate its guts will watch it a dozen times. The "Momma Mia" of rock movies

Given you're saying this the week the new RUSH album comes out, I'm going to have to respectably disagree.

You could buy it in paperback at any mall bookstore in the 80's, right next to the Satanic Bible. I think I flipped through it but remember nothing really standing out. I assume someone was just stealing the name, and the contents were just your usual occult/new age stuff.

There is a group out there, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, doing both short films based on Lovecraft and 1930's style radio shows. I quite like their Mountains of Madness radio episode, and their silent film for Call of Cthulu is also fun (and something people here can appreciate on a film making level).

To be fair, unless you've already heard of their particular reviews that doesn't help
(is there anyone who HASN'T done Star Wars prequel reviews?)

So you didn't get your happy ending?

And he hasn't gone insane like Dave Sims, always a plus!

(a thread about creators, in all art forms, who have gone over the edge might be interesting)

Usagi Yojimbo. The only furry animal comic you need to read, about a samurai rabbit in Japan. Stan Sakai uses such simple lines to convey so much emotion and detail...

Captain Horatio Hornblower, by C.S. Forester. Captain Kirk, when Trek wasn't being sold as Wagontrain to the stars, was defined as being a futuristic Hornblower (although, perhaps, Pike in the original pilot fit better).

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, by John L. Stephens. OK, picture this: it's 1839. An American adventurer convinces the President to send him to Guatemala to be the representative to the new United States of Central America. He's actually going, though, so he can muck around in the jungle with an artist friend and look for rumored Mayan cities, which nobody has seen since the conquest. Getting to Guatemala City, he finds a strongman in power, the various "states" at war with each other, and the whole central government falling apart. Over two volumes, our narrator runs ahead of and trails behind armies, describes for the first time Mayan ruins like Copan, asks the next reader to visit the town he just left to beat up the guy who gave him bum directions, tells us why a canal in Panama is a stupid idea and won't work, and much much more. Find it. Read it. A true classic.
(make sure it's a pre-1970 edition, as after that they started cutting out huge chunks with 1830's racism, leaving just the Mayan stuff)

If you did a movie that covered the Gospels and the book of Acts, he'd die in the first half or sooner. Hmm, I seem to remember a mini-series called AD or something that started with his death, and was longer than most movies about Jesus.

As with most stories, it's all in where you start and stop.