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Ryan Reynolds is awesome, video at 11.

TDF Pamela — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:38:59 +0000

At the Green Lantern panel at San Diego Comic Con, Ryan Reynolds recited the Green Lantern’s oath for a very excited little fanboy.

If I didn’t already have a crush on the guy, this would’ve created one. :D

TDF Pamela

The Discriminating Fangirl, who is more likely to answer to Pamela if you shout it at her, is the proud owner of an MA in English, focusing on children's/young adult literature and popular culture. Because of her ample free time thanks to being gainfully unemployed, she reads voraciously. She also loves geeky movies and tv shows, reads comic books as often as she can buy them, and when she's procrastinating, she enjoys playing video games. She can be contacted at t.d.fangirl @ gmail.com and followed on Twitter at the link below.

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Kitty Hugs

TDF Pamela — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:25:27 +0000

I should be working on a review and transcribing an interview, but I have a cold. [sadface]

So I’m posting a vid of a kitty hug. Better than cold medicine, I’ve heard.

Link Roundup: July 19, 2010

TDF Pamela — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:50:49 +0000

Yay, I’m back at my own computer! I can use tabbed browsing and upload images and everything! I love my iPad, don’t get me wrong, but writing blog posts on it was a bit of a pain in the ass.

I’ve also got an obscene number of items in my Google Reader, so I figured I’d start a new regular feature here: the Link Roundup! In which I post all kinds of random things that are cool. Rock on.

Books/Writing

Why editors are important when you write. –Amen!
A Paranormal Editorial Roundtable at Tor.com –A great discussion of the ubiquitous kick-ass heroine in urban fantasy.
Suvudu’s Free Library –Check out this month’s free ebooks before they’re gone!

TV/Movies

I’m way late on this one, but io9 created a hilariously awesome 80s Firefly opening credits vid:
And in case you were wondering, here’s why Simon Tam wasn’t in the Firefly intro:
Blastr (formerly SciFi Wire) tells you what you shouldn’t miss at San Diego Comic Com
New pics from the upcoming Thor and Green Lantern movies. –Oh, Ryan Reynolds. [happy sigh]
And another new pic from Thor. –is it just me, or is Thor looking worryingly cheesy?
Two pics from the upcoming Conan The Barbarian remake. –Why hello there, Jason Momoa’s muscular chest.

Science/History

What cool stuff have you stumbled across today? Let me know in the comments. :D

Join TDF Elsewhere on the Web!

TDF Pamela — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:21:12 +0000

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Fangirl Hawaii Update!

TDF Pamela — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:18:21 +0000

Aloha again from sunny Waikiki, dear readers! Just wanted to check in, make you all a little jealous (kidding!), and generally say hello and all.

We’ve been here in Hawaii for almost a month and I’m not sick of it yet. ;) Our first two weeks were on the Big Island, which I really enjoyed. The main reason for that? VOLCANOES. I spent a good chunk of my teenage years wanting to be a volcanologist, and even though I ended up with an MA in English instead (not even close!), I’m still fascinated by volcanoes. So, as you can imagine, it was a big freaking deal to me to get to stand on Kilauea and watch the gas plume rise out of Halema’uma’u crater. SO COOL. Stargazing on top of Mauna Kea was pretty damned awesome, too.

We’re finishing up our two weeks on Oahu, and will be leaving for Maui on Thursday. I’m excited to report that this afternoon, I’ll be going on a Lost tour. We’re going to be driven around in a Hummer to see a bunch of filming locations. I’m imagining stops like, “And here is the log that Hurley rested on in episode blah blah blah,” but we’ll get to see the big valley where they jump started the Dharma van (which is also the valley in the gallimimus-running-from-t-rex scene in Jurassic Park). I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures and imagine Sawyer standing in those places with his shirt off. Maybe I’ll even photoshop him in for you.

In bookish news, I just finished reading Anne Bishop’s Belladonna (see my review of Sebastian here) and hope to have a review written soon. I’m currently in the middle of Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer! by Vern, one of Ain’t It Cool News’s movie reviewers, and I will definitely have a review of that for you all as soon as I finish it up. I’ve got to say, it’s making me want to write more movie reviews, heh.

Hope everyone’s enjoying their summer and reading like maniacs! I will leave you with a pic of me and a Dharma Beer, taken at Daniel Dae Kim’s hamburger restaurant in Kalaha. :D

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Aloha from the Fangirl!

TDF Pamela — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:19:40 +0000

Hey, folks! Your distinguished fangirl editor (that is, me) will be on vacation for the next month and a half! We’re heading to the sunny islands where my Fanfiancé was born; we’ll be on the Big Island for two weeks, then on Oahu for two, and finally on Maui for two more.

I’ve got a couple of reviews coming down the pipeline, but our Internet access in Hilo will be sketchy. I’ll get ‘em posted as soon as I can!

Also, keep your eyes on TDF early next week for a freaking sweet giveaway! I’ll give you a really obvious hint: Jacqueline Carey. ;)

I hope you guys are all having fun this summer! I’ll post as often as I can, and if we can get the cameras in order, I might even post some video blogs about Hawaii.

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Introductions & Reintroductions

TDF Pamela — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:23:49 +0000

Image by alborzshawn at Flickr

The Discriminating Fangirl has a few new faces, so I thought it would be a good time to make some introductions and some reintroductions as well!

The New Reviewers:

Stacy B, anthropologist, historian, individual of diverse interests, would like to be either a secret agent or a bookstore owner when she grows up. Finding an occupation that would encompass both would really ring her bell. In the meantime, she reads, writes, and has as little as possible to do with arithmetic. Stacy’s been reviewing for a few months now, but your esteemed editor forgot to make an intro post for her. Mea culpa!

Tarte Amandine, or Amanda, has loved to read since she was 3 and was a fangirl from the start. She has a B.A. in French and studied in France. This fall she will start her MLIS program at Kent State. She hopes to work as an academic or reference librarian. TA will be reviewing gay romance here at TDF!

The Old Faces:

TDF Pamela (yours truly), is the proud owner of an MA in English, focusing on children’s/young adult literature and popular culture. Because of her ample free time thanks to being gainfully unemployed, she reads voraciously. She also loves geeky movies and tv shows, reads comic books as often as she can buy them, and when she’s procrastinating, she enjoys playing video games.

The Bibliomaniac likes the weird and the strange, which explains most of her friends. Married, with two daughters, she has earned a B.A. in Literature and a B.S. in Criminal Justice. Her interests include reading and writing (of course!), gardening, poetry, comic books, herbalism, chocolate, tea, mythology and fairy tales, comparative theology and alternative religions, Celtic and darkwave music, role-playing games and LARPing, horror movies, hiking and camping, SF conventions, and the martial arts. She lives with her husband, her younger daughter, five cats, a dog, and a houseful of gargoyles somewhere east of Chicago.

Emily is a book nerd currently living in New York City. She recently completed a master’s degree at New York University and doesn’t really know what to do with her free time. When she is not reading, working or sleeping, she is planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

Finn is a fangirl that turns her nose up to tradition by being a mom who is actually cool – at least in her own mind. She also lives happily under the delusion that one day a knight in shining armor will ride up on a white horse, hand her a stack of comic books and sweep her away to somewhere she’s always wanted to go…a fantasy/sci-fi convention.

StrangenessAbounds may be more of a truthful moniker than the author will admit to — when she is not obsessively playing RPGs and arguing over what is canon in “The Legend of Zelda,” she is planning her next sushi outing. Erin “StrangenessAbounds” Leanne is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and plays “editor” to other authors’ works. She graduated in 2009 with her BA in English and is returning for her MS in English in the Fall of 2010.

Wenchie, also known as Brittany, is a college graduate with a BFA in New Media. She is an avid reader of almost any genre that has a good romance plot to the story. She loves movies of all kinds (mostly period dramas if her dvd collection is anything to go by), anything Joss Whedon, tv shows, and comics. She games almost every day and has gotten very good at playing Left 4 Dead over the last few months. She loves dark chocolate, her cat Remus, and has developed a passion for growing Angel Trumpets.

WereGeek is reading 5-7 books at any given time, not including comics. These can range from alternative universe fiction to historical fact and from theoretical physics to Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. She’s recently rediscovered the joys of Netflix, catching up on series like The Big Bang Theory and is slowly, counter to her love of the original Battlestar Galactica, working her way through the new BSG. But Dirk Benedict will always be her Starbuck. Her ringtone is the theme from Airwolf and she can kick your little bahookie at Trivial Pursuit.

It’s been one of those days…

TDF Pamela — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:38:45 +0000

You know the kind, where you have a crapton of stuff to do and absolutely zero willpower with which to get all of that crap done. I’ve got a ten page minimum paper to write before Tuesday, and I just can’t make myself write it. Nevermind the fact that it’s on something awesome (the women of Firefly/Serenity), I just plain don’t want to write it.

So… I’m posting a gif of a clumsy raptor. Yes, this is what I’ve been entertaining myself with today. I think I’ve finally gone off the deep end.

Back to work!

Wolverine’s Banana Hammock

TDF Pamela — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:29:21 +0000

Today’s been batshit crazy. There was a shooting at the Wal-Mart in my tiny little town, and even though I wasn’t there (I tried to go there about half an hour after it happened and found it blocked off), it’s left me feeling way unsettled.

So, in response to today’s (heck, the past month’s) insanity, here is Wolverine in a banana hammock, hitting on alien babes.

Nice speedos.

Please feel free to make me laugh with silly Wolverine pics in the comments.

An announcement of a personal nature…

TDF Pamela — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:08:16 +0000

The Fanboyfriend is now the Fanfiancé. Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, but it’s more accurate. Woo hoo! :D

Best. Valentine's Day. Present. Ever.