My So-Called Blog examines the folkways of the blog, or, more precisely, of some teenagers who use LJ.

It’s long, appears accurate enough if highly focused, and, regrettably, will surely lead to some interesting questions for those of us not in adolescence. OMG! Now I can devote the rest my life to explaining that blogs AND comics are not really something exclusively for kids.

defective yeti: The Lord of the Ring of Fire

And then, out of nowhere, a creepy-looking bald-headed creature comes onto the scene.

Father-to-be Matthew Baldwin points out that the whole alllegorical meaning of LOTR has been wildly misinterpreted.

Moorcock´s Weekly Miscellany is a nuke-clone based update to the former multiverse.org, long hosted by the capable Berry Sizemore for Mr. Moorcock.

I interviewed Mike early last year about his current Elric series and the impending movie, and he discusses it quite freely in the PHPBB forums on the new site, mentioning at one point a budget of – $100m!!!

He also mentions that they are aiming at a trilogy; 100 mil is less than half the budget for Jackson’s LOTR but definitely respectable. Fellow ur-geeks will in all likelyhood find a stroll through the site rewarding.