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Casey plays a Bounty Hunter named Kruss on the Vrook Lamar server in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The network formerly known as the Sci Fi Channel is planning some Sci Fi programming.
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There is a bill making its way through the US legislature that could break the Internet. It is an over-reaching piece of legislation that gives too much power to corporate copyright holders. They could be allowed to take down websites at the DNS level without due process. Proponents of the bill and of the PIPA bill say this is to fight copyright infringement from abroad.
Casey is encouraging everyone to steal his profile pictures from Facebook and Google+ to use as your own on this day of protest.
Vince wishes that there had been an outcry similar to the current blackout during the debate about passing the NDAA, particularly the indefinite detention provisions. Legislation that restricts our liberty and puts more power in the hands of the government isn’t new. It is disappointing though.
List of Supporters: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act
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I’m going to have a conversation with Gini Koch, author of the Touched by an Alien series.
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Thank you for listening. This is show 203. I’m Vince. (Two-Oh-Three)
And I’m Casey. We’re on the feed January 1st, 2012.
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Interesting information you might want to reference on the show
Samoa and Tokelau switch to the western side of the International Date Line, skipping 30 December entirely.
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@scifisurplus I bought the hunger games trilogy on my nook to read on the plane… but accidentally finished all 3 a week before I left.
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Watchmen 2 Artwork Leaking
Over the past week lawyers at DC have been working a little bit of overtime trying to get leaked artwork for a sequel to the Watchmen taken off the web. Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool dot com somehow received and posted the artwork online. Then they received a takedown notice from DC comics, lending to the legitimacy of the project. It appears that DC comics really is working on a sequel to Watchmen.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/25/watchmen-2-art-nite-owl-by-andy-kubert-joe-kubert/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/25/watchmen-2-art-comedian-by-jg-jones/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/31/silk-spectre-art-by-amanda-conner/
Thor 2 Has A New Director
Marvel has announced that Alan Taylor will be directing Thor 2. They originally had an agreement with Patty Jenkins to direct the film but she left because of creative differences with the Marvel executives over the movie. Alan Taylor has been directing Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, among other projects.
Thor 2 is expected to be released in theatres on November 15th, 2013.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/thor-2-director-will-be-game-of-thrones-helmer-alan-taylor/
MTV Reality Show About Geeks
The geniuses that produced The Jersey Shore have put out a casting call seeking:
the most passionately obsessed, proudly self-identified pop culture fanatics from the worlds of comics, graphic novels, sci-fi, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.
… for an “experimental documentary series”.
If that sounds interesting to you then visit fandomcasting.com. Remember though, this is for MTV … the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar come to mind.
http://scifimafia.com/2011/12/mtv-is-looking-for-people-like-us-for-upcoming-reality-show/
Speaking of reality shows …
The owner of the brothel featured in HBO’s long-running series, Cathouse, recently purchased a rundown brothel near the Nevada Test Site and plans on converting it to a science fiction themed whorehouse. He’s wants it to appeal to folks with more than a passing interest in Area 51, but not enough of a passing interest to realize that the Nevada Test Site is downwind from where the Government used to test nuclear weapons and not anywhere close to where they store the remains from the alien autopsies.
http://io9.com/5870980/inevitably-depressing-alien+themed-brothel-to-open-in-nevada
Harrison Ford in Ender’s Game
It’s official, Harrison Ford is joining the cast of Ender’sas Game. Ford will be playing Col. Graff.
Also signed on is Abigail Breslin who will be playing Valentine Wiggin, Ender’s older sister.
They are joining Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin, Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian, Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham, Brendan Meyer as Stilson and Khylin Rhambo as Dink. The film is planned for release March 15th, 2013.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118047827.html?cmpid=RSS%257CNews%257CLatestNews
Fin.
I’m going to kick off 2012 with “Casey’s Countdown to Destruction” to celebrate the new year (end of days according to the Mayan calendar.) The plan was for this to already be done and on the feed but alas it didn’t come to be. In fact, I’m not sure sure what I’m counting down yet but I’m leaning toward “Worst End-of-year Countdown Lists.”
This seriously lame-ass way of letting you know how excited we are that Sci Fi Surplus is available on Stitcher Smart Radio is not quite what I had in mind but it will have to do for now. So on with the big announcement!
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