The Stephen King Joyland Blog Tour Makes a Stop at Fruitless Pursuits!

Come one, come all! Step right up to have an opportunity to win some fun Stephen King prizes! We promise the games aren't rigged, and I think the prizes are better than a giant stuffed bear that's been out in the sun too long! Titan Books is sponsoring a contest to win some cool swag, and the details are behind the cut. Take a look....if you dare!

If you're new here following the carnival around the widest of the World Wide Web, welcome! Check out some of our more recent posts on pop culture and other nerdy endeavors to your right, and we hope you stick around after the carny folk leave town!

Winner of our Scallywags Giveaway!

The winner of our Scallywags giveaway is ye Master Jeffro!

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Master Jeffro please send an email to jtagmire@fruitlesspursuits.com to claim your prize. Thanks to all who participated. You arrrgh the best!

Delayed Forbidden Era Contest Winner!

My apologies for the delay, but we have a winner for our Forbidden Era book contest.

Our winner is CBarton!

CBarton, email me at your earliest convenience (jeff.raymond@gmail.com) and I'll get you hooked in. Thanks again for Amanda Mondoux for the contest!

The Oscars 2012 Prediction Challenge!

The Oscar nominees have been revealed (OLD NEWS) and like every year, I will be predicting the winners of multiple awards for many movies that I've never seen. Just like my fantasy football team, my picks are 60% random, 30% semi-educated guesses, and %10 people with funny names.

For anyone that wants to join in on this challenge (I'M TALKING TO YOU LUKE MILTON) add your predictions in the comments. I will start with mine, but don't bite off of my winning predictions.

And together on February 26th, we will watch the Oscars, look at our lists, and see how terribly we all did!

Click through the jump for the complete list of nominees, and place your votes in the comments!

All I Want For Christmas Is Steve Jobs to Come Back, But NOT as a Freakin' Zombie!

If you've followed my personal blog, blogzilly, for any length of time, you pretty much know the full story behind a charitable foundation that sprang forth from an iPad contest gone disastrously wrong over the Spring and Summer earlier this year.

That organization, which came to be known as Mission: iPossible!, went on to complete its Mission One project at a pace I think everyone, myself included, was stunned by.

In some unreal number like 76 days or some such, the Special Needs Community pooled its collective resources, came together and raised slightly more than $11,000.00 to purchase and ship 20 iPads to 20 kids with communication-related disabilities.

Well, we're at it again. Wanna find out more? Then JUMP!

CONTEST - Win This Dunny!

Thats right kids, Fruitless Pursuits is holding its first contest! This contest will require a bit of the ole' creative juices from you, so get ready to be creative. How's that you say? Read on after the jump to find out!

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