WRITE FASTER, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I just started reading the first book of Game of Thrones novels, A Song of Fire and Ice, and I am hooked. Like Greg DiCostanzo and Paul Sabourin, I want George R.R. Martin to "write like the wind" and finish this classic series.

"I CAN'T BE THE BAD GUY"

Jswinney1 gives us an incredible tribute to seasons 1 through 4 of Breaking Bad.

BATMAN IS BRUCE WAYNE

All Commissioner Gordon has to do is look at Bruce Wayne's overbite to tell he's Batman.

THE ROBOT AND HOGARTH

Paul Shipper gives us a poster for The Iron Giant.

THE RETURN OF THE KING

This is the final season for Breaking Bad but AMC  is splitting with the season over two years.  We won't see how Walt's reign ends until 2013.

PEZ-TASTIC!

There are lots of fantasy PEZ out there but this Alien dispenser is amazing.  I don't know who created it but I stumbled across it on comic book scribe Steve Niles' site.

TONY STARK'S SCOOTER

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IF PIXAR MADE THE AVENGERS

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DISASSEMBLED

WHERE NO STAINED GLASS HAS GONE BEFORE

AidanT gives us Star Trek's Captain Kirk in stained glass.

PEZ-TASTIC!

Mygibzone created a giant ceramic PEZ for her husband.  Using five pounds of clay, a kiln and lots of paint, she created a work of art and the ultimate PEZ collectable.  Learn how to create your own for your collection!

GOOBER SAYS "BYE"

Actor George Lindsey, Goober from The Andy Griffith Show, has passed away at 83.  Huffington Post has the details:

The Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

"America has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober."

He joined "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer's cousin, replaced him.

"At that time, we were the best acting ensemble on TV," Lindsey once told an interviewer. "The scripts were terrific. Andy is the best script constructionist I've ever been involved with. And you have to lift your acting level up to his; he's awfully good."

In a statement released through the funeral home, Griffith said, "George Lindsey was my friend. I had great respect for his talent and his human spirit. In recent years, we spoke often by telephone. Our last conversation was a few days ago ... I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our eighties, we were not afraid to say, `I love you.' That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. `I love you.'"

Although he was best known as Goober, Lindsey had other roles during a long TV career. Earlier, he often was a "heavy" and once shot Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke."

His other TV credits included roles on "MASH," `'The Wonderful World of Disney," `'CHIPs," `'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour," `'The Real McCoys," `'Rifleman," `'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," `'Twilight Zone" and "Love American Style."

Reflecting on his career, he said in 1985: "There's a residual effect of knowing I've made America laugh. I'm not the only one, but I've contributed something."