The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Buy your own unique piece of limited edition Avatar art.
• Ryan Dunlavey has created a gallery of Dr. Seuss / Superhero mash-ups.

Film

• Interview: UGO interviews James Cameron on (what else) Avatar.
• The Chicago Tribune counts down The Top 10 Pirated Movies of 2009.
• Does sex sell movies? Uh, not really. A recent study concluded that nudity and explicit sex scenes don’t translate to success for major motion pictures.
• Find over 150,000 movies to watch online at Movie Monitor.
• MovieFone has taken a poll of the best and worst movies of the year, and Transformers made both sides of the list!
• PopCrunch has compiled a list of The 15 Greatest Dystopian Films Of All Time.
• VideoHound has posted what must be the most disappointing list of the Top Ten Best Films of 2009 I’ve seen yet this year.

Internet

• A new off-Broadway production, Romeo And Juliet: Just As You Misremembered It tells the classic story without bothering with any of Shakespeare’s hallowed words or intricate plot twists. Instead, it relies on the fuzzy recollections of people who read it in high school.

Literature

• Interview: Fantasy Literature interviews Nancy Holzner, author of Deadtown.
• Interview: Locus Magazine interviews Brian Aldiss.
• Interview: Fantasy Hotlist interviews Steven Erikson.
• The BSC wonders Will Ebooks Make Reviewing Easier?
• PoetrySpeaks.com is a way-impressive new online community for poets and poetry. It has been described as “an attempt to create an iTunes, and thus an economic model, for poetry.”
• Zen College Life offers 85 Reasons to be Thankful for Librarians.

Television

• Interview: Joseph Mallozzi interviews actor Peter Kelamis, who plays Stargate: Universe’s Dr. Adam Brody.

Writing

• Rants & Rambling reassures writers that Everyone Gets Rejected.