This year marks my second Brony Bar Trot during BronyCon. It’s the fourth Trot so far, not too shabby considering BronyCon is celebrating its fifth anniversary, no?
I’ve gone “regular” and I’ve gone “VIP”. And honestly? Even though this year’s Trot didn’t include the free three-shooter tickets as have been included in the past, I didn’t miss ’em. But hello sweet VIP commemorative t-shirt! So go VIP if you don’t want to think about what/where to eat, and figure you want another pony shirt to add to your pile. This year it was an extra $20 to upgrade to VIP grub & shirt. I could handle that.
Want to know what to do next year? Dying to see how the other pony half lives (read: how the drinking poinies get down)? Herewith, a step-by-step guide to how to get your Brony Bar Trot on, in easy-peasy bullet-point format because I’m kinda hungover for easy reading!* Continue reading
Who doesn’t love Scrat? Haters that’s who. And we don’t like haters ’round these parts. So, want passes to the Baltimore screening of Scrat (and company) doing their latest thang? Of course you do. But first? Synopsis!
Yeah yeah yeah; everyone’s all about San Diego Comic-Con right now, and probably will be ’til it wraps on July 24th. But what about folks who actually want to, oh y’know, discuss COMIC BOOKS? So many comic-cons get wrapped up with the Hollywood flash, and spend very little time or effort on the creators that got us jazzed for these ‘cons in the first place. (Or the ‘cons are so freakin’ huge it’s rough getting from one creator panel to the next…)
It’s that time of year; the Harvey Awards has released its list of nominees! 
I love short story compilations. I’ve reviewed several of ’em here at GMR, so when Inferno dropped into our in-box, I held out an eager hand. I didn’t care about what was in it, not really. Quite honestly, to paraphrase the horribly overused line from Jerry Maguire, they had me at terror. It wasn’t until I took a good look at the book itself that I realized that the editor of this collection, 
Wreck-It Ralph was one of those films I didn’t think I’d like so I skipped it at the multiplex. Then I caught it on cable and loved it. LOVED it. So when I got the 411 that there’s a sequel in the works, with John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman coming back to voice Ralph and Vanellope, I got stoked.
It’s been said that Guy Fawkes was the only person who ever entered the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions. He honestly meant to blow the place to smithereens, and though he was foiled in his attempt, at least his motives were easy to understand. He and his co-conspirators were striking out against the Protestant monarchy of James I, in the hopes of replacing him with an individual more sympathetic to Roman Catholics. The titular hero of V for Vendetta has a similar plan, but his intentions are darkened by involved self-interest.
Atomic Fangirl 