FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for March 3rd 2014! Character Appropriate Cosplay!

This week we ask the pertinent question, "Which characters could YOU conceivably cosplay as?" Are you a Spider-Man or a Spider-Ham? We list who we think we could get away with! Plus, we talk about Tom Hiddleston in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and come up with a foolproof plan to lay the foundations for Ghostbusters III. Listen to this nonsense!

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Thursday Threesome: Three Shows I'm Watching Instead of Doing NaNoWriMo Rewrites

Among the excuses I've given for not doing rewrites on my NaNoWriMo project include not feeling so hot, the baby, work, the amount of books I have to read, the amount of books I want to read, depression, anger, pure joy, and the fact that we don't currently own a cat.

The real answer is less exciting: there's just a lot of good television distracting me lately. Yeah, True Detective is ruining my life, but that's not really the full issue. Truly, I've discovered two new shows, and I've had a favorite return, that has essentially changed my viewing landscape in the short term and is distracting me from more useful endeavors. So, well, let's ruin your free time, too.

The Book Was Better Episode 76: Terminator 2! (with guest host Lizzy Unpronounceable!)

This week we finely-tuned future people travel back to the turbulent nineties where we set our sights on the novelization of robo-Arnie blockbuster Terminator 2! Joining me through time is adorable guest host Lizzy Unpronounceable who you may remember helped me battle the sickening forces of Shaun Hutson's explicit sex-fuelled adaption of the original Terminator. Now, this book isn't quite so sexy... and yet we still found it to be relatively sexy. Hasta la vista! Whatever that means!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for February 24th! Pop Culture Art!

This week we delve into our favourite pop culture art books! We are cultured and sophisticated! We also talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, Fantastic Four casting, and crappy X-Men photo shoots! And squirrels and elephants that can paint! And probably some other stuff! This thing belongs in your ears! Put it there!

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Thank GIF it's Friday!

I just spat cider everywhere. WHAT A RASCAL.

True Detective is Ruining My Life

On Friday in the United States, one of my favorite shows going right now ended up streaming on Netflix, House of Cards. I got through two episodes this weekend largely because I was pointed in the direction of True Detective, an HBO program that's currently at the midpoint of its first, self-contained season. I thought it was a police procedural, I knew it starred two actors that I'm not really a fan of, and, frankly, I watch enough television as is. I don't need another show.

Then things got Weird.

New York Toy Fair 2014 Photo Recap

I had the opportunity to take a pretty quick stroll through New York Toy Fair, gazing at all of the amazing new toys and games for 2014. Hasbro was in a secret offsite location and Lego was walled off with tons of security, so you won't see much from them here. But KidRobot was wide open! Same with Funko, Fantasy Flight and many others.

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A Field Guide to Brandon Sanderson

In a couple weeks, arguably the most anticipated fantasy novel since A Memory of Light (the book that concluded The Wheel of Time, which Sanderson had a role in) is set to be released. The book, Words of Radiance, is the second book in Sanderson's epic fantasy series The Stormlight Archive, a series that is planned for ten volumes and have so far ended up being over 1000 pages each.

Yeah, it's one of those.

You might know of Brandon Sanderson for a few reasons, whether it be his work on The Wheel of Time, or someone's recommended some of his books to you, or you've seen his short fiction for iPad games, or you know me personally and I've tried to force you to read Mistborn. Either way, if you somehow don't know Sanderson's name now, and have some interest at all in genre fiction, now might be a good time to get to know who might end up being your new favorite author.

The Book Was Better Podcast Episode 75: Labyrinth! (with guest hosts Laura and Hannah!)

This week we keep it all in the family as my two sisters - Laura and Hannah - and I journey to the very heart of the labyrinth! That's right - we're reading the super rare novelization of Jim Henson, George Lucas, David Bowie and Terry Jone's crazy eighties goblin-filled acid trip: Labyrinth. So if you're ready for some dance magic, jump magic, then stick it in your ears like it's David Bowie's codpiece!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for February 17th 2014! The Best of iOS!

In this eclectic show, we bitch about television, take the Top Gear challenge in Forza on the Xbox One, discuss our current favourite iOS games, and HATCH A GODDAMN DRAGON AGE live on the show! You miss this and you're an insane person!

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