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Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight Signing!
Featuring Chris Onstad Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. 7pm-close @ The Central, 603 Markham Street (next door to The Beguiling) FREE RSVP on the Facebook event page here The Beguiling will be welcoming Chris Onstad, creator of the online comic strip Achewood, to his exclusive Toronto tour stop in support of his new book The Great Outdoor Fight. ACHEWOOD was chosen by Time Magazine as The Best Graphic Novel of 2007, and Onstad is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. The online strip sees more than 100,000 readers every day…
Read MoreWatchmen artist Dave Gibbons at World’s Biggest Bookstore
Rgbfilter will be attending, and covering for an upcoming podcast episode, a very cool event happening at the World’s Biggest Bookstore this Sunday, November 2 : Come meet artist Dave Gibbons one of the creators of the Watchmen graphic novel as he introduces his new book Watching the Watchmen as well as interviews, a Q&A session, and a book signing. Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008 Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm Location: World’s Biggest Bookstore: 20 Edward St. Street: One block North of Dundas, between Yonge and Bay City/Town: Toronto, ON For…
Read MoreNeal Stephenson Video Contest and Event!
The good people at Harper Collins are offering www.hardcorenerdity.com users a chance to be creative with a video camera and for five HcN members to win a whole whack of Neal Stephenson stuff! Neal will be appearing at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto on Oct 30th and rgbFilter will be there to cover the event. Also, we will be posting a full review of his new book, Anathem, as soon as we finish this monster (in size!) of a book…
Read MoreFanExpo : Random Fandom 1
What happens when fans of Team Fortress 2 dressed in opposing teams meet for the first time on the convention floor?
Read MoreNew Bell ads channel Daft Hands, Apple Eater Bites
Along with the launch of Bell’s new advertising campaign, which seems like a mash up of Telus ads and a Daft Punk song, was the launch of their Apple iphone competitor, the Samsung Instinct. Boldly proclaiming it an ‘Apple eater’, and a slew of other adjectives (stunner, sexier, cooler, sleeker, everything-er), Bell is hoping this phone (judging by the amount of billboards and ads plaster around Toronto) will be the handset that turns around their flagging cellular arm. Early reports however from the popular cell-phone geek website HowardForums, and a…
Read MoreBell Beavers let go. Norm MacDonald fired again.
Bell announced on Friday that they are (finally!) axing their beaver mascots, Frank and Gordon. In newspaper ad’s run across the country the two lovable critters declared “It’s been a blast, nature is calling and we have been invited back to the forest to become teachers for a whole new generation of spokecritters.” Canada weeps.
Read MoreJoin us at the APOCALIPSTIX Graphic novel launch party
rgbFILTER will be covering this event for our podcast and we hope you will join us for what we are sure will be a great party. Details below about the event from the facebook event page THE APOCALIPSTIX is the new graphic novel by Toronto authors Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart, and fresh from their sold out pre-release at the San Diego Comic Convention these two top graphic novelists return to “play” their hometown with a book launch party featuring bands, prizes, and more THE APOCALIPSTIX: RAGNAROCK PARTY will feature…
Read MoreFanboys declare Dark Knight as the ‘Greatest Movie Ever!’
Not only has The Dark Knight achieved a record highest opening weekend ever (an estimated $155 million, beating Spiderman 3’s opening in 2007), but the film is now “officially” the “Greatest Movie of All-Time”. As of midnight, Monday, over 46 000 users of The Internet Movie Database have given The Dark Knight an average score of 9.5. This puts it in the top spot of IMDB’s Top 250 Movies as Voted by Our Users list. What are these people smoking? The Dark Knight is a very good movie, and not…
Read MoreMore E3 trailer goodness
Dawn of War II, the new real time strategy game from Relic.This very cool cinematic E3 trailer – even you never heard of Warhammer 40K – is a must watch and for the fans the reveal at the end is probably sending them into a frenzy of anticipation!
Read MoreSony follows Microsoft’s lead and also gives Canadians the finger
[UPDATE – In an article on the gloabeandmail.com Matt Levitan, marketing and PR representative for PlayStation Canada is quoted as saying – “It’s a top priority for us to get it up as quickly as possible” How soon that is remains to be seen] On Tuesday Sony held their E3 press conference, and just like Microsoft they, too, now have downloadable movies available through their Playstation Store. This is not a deal with a third party, like Netflix, but something more akin to what has been available on the Xbox…
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