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Looking Forward

• Remembering the Glory Days (via dashPunk)
• Shine Like Thunder

Theater, Renters, ALP’s

• Theater or Renter: November 2009 (via dashPunk)
• DVD Releases: November 3, 2009 (via dashPunk)
• Netflix

Dollhouse Fandom

• Musicians, the Dollhouse fandom needs you! (via Whedonesque)
• Audible

The Best, The Worst, and The Odd

• Best
  • After its December run, Dollhouse set to return January 8th for 2010 episodes. (via Whedonesque)
  • Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin in Thor (via /Film)
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  • Filk comment on Horsetamer’s Daughter on Speculative Fiction Today #428 “Return Of The dashPunk” (thanks sffilk) (via dashPunk)
• On This Day
  • 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.  (wikipedia)

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Hugo Gernsback forged the modern Science Fiction genre in 1926 when he founded Amazing Stories magazine.  In the letters section, he published the addresses of the fans who wrote in.  Readers began to organize themselves into local clubs.  In 1934, Hugo founded the Science Fiction League, a correspondence club where local clubs could apply for membership.

Chicago’s Science Correspondence Club published the first known science fiction fanzine, The Comet, in 1930.  The first convention was held nine years later when at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, when the World Science Fiction Society held the first WorldCon.

Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth, members of a New York fan club called The Futurians, wrote the oldest known filks in the 1950’s by taking the music from folk protest songs and changing the lyrics.

It wasn’t until the  1970 that the conventions grew in popularity as a result of Speculative Fiction taking on the role of mythology.  More people found Speculative Fiction gave them a set of values, goals, and practices. Through our conventions, filksings, fanfic, and fanfilm, we have developed a culture that is uniquely ours.

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Culture

• What’s Up with dashPunk and Speculative Fiction Today
• Brief mentions from Shore Leave Convention
• The Eagle Has Landed footage of (get clip of song to play) (via Hulu)
• Goggles for Hard Negotiations (via dashPunk)

Movie

• Marilyn Manson casts Emma Watson in his Musical Cinderella (via dashPunk)
• “9″ Clip featuring The Winged Beast (via dashPunk)
• Thor’ casts Natalie Portman as Jane Foster (via Entertainment News)
• ‘Karate Kid’ remake starring Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith (via Entertainment News)

TV

• Simpsons Worth More on Hulu Than on FOX (via NewTeeVee)
• Ugly Betty (via Hulu)
• Sean Bean to star in HBO’s A Game of Thrones (via SCI FI Wire)

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• P:SI #326 “Farpoint In The Trenches” (0)