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Morgan Spurlock Tweets To My “Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope” Blog Post

Morgan Spurlock sent a Twitter tweet reaction to my blog post called “Why Is Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope So White?” I wrote the post in response to the trailer for the movie I saw. In fact, just before I continue, I’m going to look at it again: And Morgan’s point-well-taken is that

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Tech Bloggers, Politics Bloggers, Comics Bloggers Wanted At Zennie62.com

Zennie62.com is growing and now on WordPress, moved from Blogger.com. And while we like using Blogger, WordPress signals our objective of building a large blog system, similar to Demand Media or the Yahoo Publishers Network. To that end, we’re looking to build a base of 100 bloggers to start. Join Zennie62.com as a tech blogger

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Spike TV Launched Deadliest Warrior At Comic Con 2011, Aires Wednesday

Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior launch at Comic Con 2011 was the catalyst for one of the best interviews I’ve ever done. Originally, the panel was to include horror movie legend Wes Craven, but he had to back out at the last minute “due to unforeseen circumstances.” Still, the Comic Con 2011 press event that featured

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Star Wars Blueprint Book Introduced At Comic Con 2011

For sci-fi fans like this blogger, owning the Star Trek Blueprints of the late 70s were like owning gold. Now, Star Wars fans can enjoy the same engineering drawings for the Star Wars movies, but with a big difference: the blueprints are real. They’re featured in a giant, $500 book called the Star Wars Blueprint

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CNET Base Station Social Media Marketing At Comic Con 2011

This was a great idea: to make a deal with a restaurant next to Comic Con, then take out its normal tables and make it into a bar and gaming center. That’s what CNET, the online tech news source, did to Lou and Mickey’s bar and restaurant at 224 5th Avenue in San Diego’s GasLamp

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Comic Con 2011 – David Glanzer, Comic Con PR Exec’s Review

This is what’s become my annual video-blog check-in with David Glanzer, Vice President Of Marketing and Public Relations for Comic Con International. This one after the 42nd annual Comic Con 2011 in San Diego (trip sponsored by Tout.com); the first one we did last year at Wonder Con 2010 – this will be the fifth

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Simon Pegg’s “A Fantastic Fear of Everything” By Maker Of “Griff The Invisible”

The movie A Fantastic Fear of Everything starring Simon Pegg (Star Trek) and is currently being made at Shepperton Studios in London, has been acquired by The Indomina Group, makers of the upcoming Griff The Invisible. The Indomina Group is a firm out of LA and The Dominican Republic, launched in 2008 by Vice Chairman

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Green Hornet’s Black Beauty Versus Medusa From Bellflower

The Medusa from the movie Bellflower is worth as much, or more in value, than the Black Beauty from The Green Hornet. That means it’s worth about $2 million. That comes from no one other than this blogger, who as of this writing is probably the only one to have talked to the makers of

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Social Media Pretzel Crisps Sends Zennie62 Gift For Comic Con Coverage!

Social Media is valuable. This blogger really worked hard to bring innovative coverage of Comic Con, and to the point of partnering with Tout.com, who sponsored the hotel part of the trip to San Diego. But I didn’t expect to get a year’s worth of free pretzel crisps from Pretzel Crisps! The result of my

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Comic Con 2011 Jeff Fahey, Tony Todd, Mark Hamill On Sushi Girl The Movie

Sushi Girl is a “grindhouse” style movie, which this blogger is dying to see, and is best described as a dinner over a naked chic that ends badly. My objective at the Sushi Girl Red Carpet held at Comic Con 2011 (trip sponsored by Tout.com), was to find out how badly the movie ends! Getting

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Bellflower’s Entourage At Comic Con As Fun As Bellflower The Movie

On YouTube, Metacafe, Blip Tv. As of now, there’s one “Entourage” that’s known as a group of hip, East Coast-transplanted Hollywood types, who live their lives around the actions of Vincent Chase. But that entourage is fictional. The real entourage just appeared at Comic Con 2011, and produced a sure-fire hit movie called Bellflower, that

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Comic Con 2011: Apes, Twilight, Torchwood, An Actor Talks Candidly

Comic Con 2011 (coverage here sponsored by Tout.com) is not only in full swing… Check out the CNET Base Station at 5th and Harbor in San Diego…. …but an image of this 42nd version is unfolding: and it’s this: the floor talk wasn’t about The Rise of Planet Of The Apes, everyone’s sick of “Twilight.”

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