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Two new collections of lycanthrope-themed short stories turned up in a recent visit to Barnes & Noble Booksellers. First up is Full Moon City, edited by Darrel Schweitzer and Martin H. Greenberg (in paperback, from Pocket Editions). Here’s the publisher’s description from Amazon.com: “From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world’s finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnations of an age-old terror that strikes when the moon is full . . . the werewolf. No longer confined to the forests, these modern monsters can be found in places you frequent every day—and never before thought to fear. Carrie Vaughn’s popular werewolf radio host Kitty Norville is drawn into a controversy as to whether it’s fair to ban lycanthropy from professional sports. New York’s famous Plaza Hotel is the setting for  Esther M. Friesner’s tale of one very grisly little girl, while Beverly Hills may never quite recover from Ron Goulart’s middle-aged Hollywood screenwriter who falls prey to a most unusual problem. Celebrated fantasy author Peter S Beagle tells a chillingly lyrical story of three Louisiana loup garoux locked into a deadly dance of death. Plus many more biting tales from award-winning authors Holly Black, P.D. Cacek, Gregory Frost, Tanith Lee, Holly Phillips, Mike Resnick, Darrel Schweitzer, Lisa Tuttle, Ian Watson, Gene Wolfe, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Then there’s Running with the Pack, edited by Ekaterina Sedia (this one in paperback from Prime Books). The description goes: “Remember the werewolves of classic stories and films, those bloodthirsty monsters that transformed under the full moon, reminding us of the terrible nature that lives within all of us? Today’s werewolves are much more suave – and even sexy – and they’ve moved from British moors to New York City lofts, shaved, and got jobs. But as the tales of these writers will show you, they remain no less wild and passionate, and they still tug at the part of our being where a wild animal used to be. Running With the Pack includes stories from Carrie Vaughn, Laura Anne Gilman, and C.E. Murphy [and others -- ye ed-otter] and they will convince you that despite their gentrification, werewolves remain as fascinating and terrifying as ever.” You heard ‘em.

"Want to play a game? Some of you may've seen the concept art (and other things) floating about, but now it's official: Last Res0rt has its own tabletop RPG! Whether you're looking to take a couple of friends out for a night around Wonder or get up to no good on one of the many planets in the galaxy, this game'll give you what you need to set up a character and cut loose! And in case you're wondering what I'm charging for this… it's free."

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Now all those tags that have been handed out around AnthroCon for tracking fursuiters migratory patterns can be now be... tracked.

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"Have we as a society grown so irrational and psychotic that we have to be reminded that there is a boundary between the reality outside our heads and the fantasies within? Are we in danger of drifting into a stupefied slumber where the figments of our dreams can claim the rights that we have previously reserved for concrete entities? The characters of fiction, written down as literature, drawn as manga or anime, expressed in the multitude of means technology has granted to us, lack independent agency. By hijacking our mind's ability to empathise and reason about other minds they creat

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"Johnny Depp has always been a chameleon when it comes to his movie roles, and now he actually gets to play one. Well, voice one, rather. Check out the awesome new trailer for Rango, from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. It's the story of a chameleon who has problems "blending in," a Western and it looks like loads of fun. It's painful knowing it won't hit theaters until March. Is it too early to camp out for tickets?"

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No more Doctor Who for the cast to love, so instead the boys turn to Lego Rock Band for their entertainment needs.

Alright, here is episode 12!

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A dragon is notably missing in this episode, and so he’s been replaced. Maybe not the most energetic, but hey, we can’t be awesome all the time!

Questions, Comments and so on go to [email protected]

Episode 12 – Quick Fox - Alright, here is episode 12! A dragon is notably missing in this episode, and so he’s been replaced. Maybe not the most energetic, but hey, we can’t be awesome all the time! Questions, Comments and so on go to [email protected]

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Time to make that cow fursuit pay off. Each year, the Chick-Fil-A restaurants celebrate Cow Appreciation Day, an unofficial holiday, in the month of July. The restaurant gives away a free Chick-fil-A combo meal to people dressed like cows on Cow Appreciation Day. The restaurant will only give away free meals to those who are "dressed like a cow from head to toe".

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"Admit it, you've sat at home imagining what goes on each year at Anthrocon when human-sized animals roam the city of Pittsburgh. You may have even taken a drive past the Convention Center just for glimpse. This year a small group of us decided we would get up close and personal with these large fuzzy creatures because really how much do we know about our Furry friends? Well we had questions and I was willing to ask them."

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"The Anthrocon convention opened in Pittsburgh Thursday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, at least the fifth year the group has convened in the Steel City. Anthrocon is a gathering of those "fascinated with anthropomorphics, which are humanlike animal characters," according to the group's website; the group also refers to themselves as "furries." According to Pittsburgh Business Times research, the 2008 Anthrocon had 3,390 attendees, and accounted for 2,475 hotel room nights. It ranked as the 13th-largest convention of that year. The 2010 Anthrocon runs through Sunday

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"The furries are in town for the annual Anthrocon convention, the world's largest convention for those fascinated with anthropomorphics, human-like animal characters. Thousands of furries come every year in June and cause quite a stir on the streets on Pittsburgh. Most people stop and stare. Some even take photos with the furries. "It's part of expressing yourself physically and emotionally. It's an alter-ego. It has a lot to do with art," said a furry who said she was dressed as a monster. "A lot of my personality traits fit a husky. I love being cold. I love being outs

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Would the furry or business mascot wandering around in Scotland please contact the media? They're bored and looking for someone to interview.

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"First off: happy birthday to anybody out there who might have a birthday today, but I'm not naming names. Second off: Another AnthroCon has come and gone, and it was fun; not a big winner moneywise, alas, but as we were basically doing a clearance sale of old material, that was expected. Until I have a good, solid new project, I am coasting a bit, and the sales reflected that. The new buttons were a hit, which pleased me. I was deliberately going with something more generic than Suburban Jungle-specific buttons with this batch, and I think it paid off. I am always amused at "other fando

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"The furries turn me into that little boy. I mean, how can you NOT smile when you see this walking down the street? SO. MUCH. AWESOME. Every year I look forward to Anthrocon weekend in Pittsburgh. Usually I'm all about the chance run-in with someone in a fursuit, but this year, I took it to another level."

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"This past weekend I landed, quite by accident, in the middle of Anthrocon 2010 -- the annual conference at which the whole Furry Fandom convenes. It was a happy accident: I happened to be at a wedding in Pittsburgh, and our flagging after-party sure roared to life when a half-dozen costume-clad furries lumbered in. I took a Little Red Riding Hood-esque picture with a big, bad wolf -- who, underneath all that plush, is a vet. My friends mugged with a ... black sheep. And, on the drive home, I couldn't help telling my sister all about the rather surreal scene -- half the lobby was wea

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The Last Airbender (2010)
Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone

The Last Airbender is a pointless movie. Who remakes a TV series into a film? Plenty of people have used film to extend the stories of canceled shows. And other people use movies to adapt written word to a visual medium. But Avatar: The Last Airbender is already a visual medium, with a finished story that doesn’t benefit from a white kid with leukemia and that Indian guy from The Daily Show.

The Last Airbender is the story of a boy named Aang, who is the fabled Avatar, a reincarnated entity that can control all four elements. He’s also the last of the Airbending Nomads, after the Fire Nation killed them all in an attempt to destroy him. So Aang, with the help of his new friends has to learn the other three elements and use them to bring peace to the world. The film attempts to take the entire first season of the TV show and compress it into an hour and a half. “But that sounds impossible!” you say? That’s because it is impossible. The result is an incomprehensible mess that plays like a bad YouTube montage of the story.

Actually montages would have really helped this stupid movie because at least then there would be some semblance of time passing. The editing in this film is so bad that the multiple weeks of journeying and training look like it happens in three days. One of the characters has to awkwardly jam in a line about “these past few weeks” otherwise you’d have no way of knowing.

Seriously, I’ve seen the fucking show and I had no idea what was going on.

It’s hard to say which is worse: the writing or the acting. They crash against each other, building in power until it’s a perfect storm of shitty movie. Exposition is forced and unnatural, all of the humor falls flat, and the serious moments end up unintentionally funny. People in the theater actually laughed during a scene where someone sacrifices their life to save the kingdom. Every actor is completely wrong for the film. Dev Patel screams and broods a lot. And Aasif Mandvi is supposed to be believable as a god-killing warlord? Even the extras are so mismatched that they stick out like sore thumbs. It literally looks like they hired the background warriors from the attendees at Comic-Con. The only redeeming factor about the casting is that amazingly, M Night Shyamalan didn’t force himself into the movie.

It’s also very apparent that the 3D was tacked on last minute, as nearly ever special effect shot of fireballs and water jets is directed away from the camera.

You want to know the worst part of this stupid movie? It’s the fact that if it does well, there will be two more of them to suffer through.

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FFC Sermon from Anthrocon 2010 from Wolfin on Vimeo.

Each year at Anthrocon; the Christian furries gather together and have a service; this is the recording of the message portion of that service for 2010. Enjoy!

Presenter: Firekeeper, FFC