Lots of great stuff today, including a ton of emails!

Slow week, but we keep on keepin on! There's talk of 64 bit clients finally being here, 5% hits the Dragon Soul raid, talk of Panderan mounts, transmog issues hit some players, WoW competing with itself, getting cash from Alliance to Horde, Reckoning is on it's way, and you calls and emails! Join us?

A long look in the 'meer', we help people, it is NOT Mick Romney, no more pink goo for McDonalds, women all eat the same, Taco Bell has food poisoning again, hotel worker responds to missing towells, really mean reviews of Lana Del Rey, Drug Improvement, Therapy Thursday, Justin Robert Young, and MORE!

This episode: The Final Battle is Here! Will the Layman's Initiative win, or will the Dungeon Master achieve a Total Party Kill? It's the epic conclusion to season four of Critical Hit!

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As we approach the anniversary of the crash that took the lives of The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly, let’s honor their music (again) with a podcast of covers of their songs! (46 minutes)

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Featuring:

	Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist	More
1	Chantilly Lace	Atlantics	American Graffiti Revisited	Big Bopper
2	Come On, Let’s Go	Girl In A Coma	Adventures In Coverland	Ritchie Valens
3	Oh Donna	MxPx	Let It Happen	Ritchie Valens
4	La Bamba	The Checkered Cabs	Skandalous: I’ve Gotcha Covered Volume 2	Ritchie Valens
5	American Pie	Crane	American Pie	Don McLean
6	Maybe Baby	Hutch	Hollylake & Silverwood	Buddy Holly
7	Well Alright	Pat Dinizio	Pat Dinizio/Buddy Holly	Buddy Holly
8	Peggy Sue	The Hollies	Buddy Holly (Expanded Edition)	Buddy Holly
9	Dearest	The Black Keys	Rave On Buddy Holly	Buddy Holly
10	Everyday	Ruth	EMI Film and TV: Covers	Buddy Holly
11	Oh Boy	Bil McRackin	Oldies But Goodies!	Buddy Holly
12	I’m Gonna Love You Too	Christi Ellen Harris	Platinum Girl – A Tribute To Blondie	Buddy Holly
13	Words of Love	Jessica Lea Mayfield	Sweetheart	Buddy Holly

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Farting UPS men, more towells go missing, Newt sued for using Eye of the Tiger, Gary Glitter makes a lot of money, paper clip dentist, Android means more than you think, Lana Del Ray hates WoW, Miley broke her bum, Avery Brooks went all glub glub, Recomentals with Nicole, and Corporate Twits! And MORE!

People upset about the whole gay marriage thing in ToR, 1.1.1 is HERE, Amazon has a deal for you, MMO msg boards still suck, server downtimes and what Bioware can do about them, 30+ peeps are down in the dumps, big fonts come up again, freelancer might have the answer, rooms and dummies, and how affection is bad for lower skill missions.

The multipoo, George on Trek, British think they are funny on twitter, WikiLeaks founder playing himself on The Simpsons, Spam tied to risks, car chase ends in dude's bed, Seinfeld actor dead, 9 movies from Sundance that you gotta see, NBC pulls the plug on donkey seamen, cast is confirmed for AD, Fitness Geek, and dumb Facebook people.

An old lady voice, Scott is Mr Mom again, Ibbott and his time in Austin, getting over bad car accidents, dragging a kid behind a car is not cool, eye's taste like oysters, testicular zapping, lego man in space, Paula Deen chowing down again, Epstein died, Python returning in Scifi film, Fear Factor is gross, Andre The Giant sings, worst song ever, Major Spoilers, Drunk Swanson, MailBagMondays, and MORE!

MS going away from points, ME3 has a new trailer for multiplayer, some good points about bandwidth in a digital world, blizzcon not happening, and a look back at Paper Mario!

There IS no Blizzcon in 2012, the myans were right, the Battlenet 2012 World Championship, turning off your enchants, your Soul is about to get nerfed, why cross faction stuff will never happen, dude cant sleep without the instance, how to say "Geoffrey", and MORE!

It's open phone night! Condemmed does the deed, game awards go to ToR this year, competing with yourself, TOR and redoing your content again, what if it was not star wars, friends list needs a fix, vent and ToR, the numbers game, and MORE!

Chillaxing needs to go, Golden Girl clarification again, Forrest Forrest, taco comments, Netflix says no to video games, artificial testicles, 10 worst movies of the year, Demi Moore huffed her way to the ER, the Winklevoss dude is busted, Therapy Thursday, and Justin Philbert Young is here! (With a surprise visit from Brian Brushwood!)

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Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?

Guests: Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young

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Running time: 1:02:43

Featuring music you didn’t hear in the following Coverville episodes, and set aside for your Coverville Citizen listening pleasure:

• Coverville 712: The Devo Cover Story
• Coverville 716: The Nick Cave Cover Story

This episode of Coverville Bonus Tracks features:

	Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist	More
1	Jerkin’ Back ‘n Forth	Dev2.0	Dev2.0	Devo
2	Whip It	Powerman 5000	Copies, Clones & Replicants	Devo
3	Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini	Devo	Pioneers Who Got Scalped	Brian Hyland
4	That’s Good	Red Faced	We Are Not Devo	Devo
5	Beautiful World (electric)	James Eric	CoverMeSongs.Blogspot.Com	Devo
6	The Ship Song Project	Various Artists	Ministry Of Sound Uncovered 3	Nick Cave
7	Mack The Knife from The Threepenny Opera	Nick Cave	September Songs	Kurt Weill
8	Straight To You	Emm Gryner	Girl Versions	Nick Cave
9	What A Wonderful World	Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan	What A Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong
10	Red Right Hand	Vixy & Tony	Thirteen	Nick Cave
11	She’s Not There	Nick Cave & Neko Case	True Blood: Music From The HBO® Original Series Volume 3	Zombies
12	Where The Wild Roses Grow	Chiasm	Eye for An Eye: a Tribute to Nick Cave	Nick Cave
13	Death Is Not The End	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Murder Ballads	Bob Dylan

49 minutes | This episode is part of the Coverville: Bonus Tracks feed, a series produced as a thank you for Coverville Citizens. To subscribe to the Coverville: Bonus Tracks feed, visit The Coverville Citizen Page

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Ibbott is sick, Laim does Sean, Golden Girl correction, Fletcher tribute, Chris Dodd is a fraud, nail to the brain, OSCAR time is upon us, and we weigh in with our picks and guesses, another bad taco story, Recommentals, Current Geek, and lady in a tub! All that and more awaits!

Our poor Niners, Two more Towers, Schilling interview, Paterno dead, Dodd is bribing, you can't be the cougars, junk food at school is not making kids fat, dude marries dead girlfriend, OJ is Khloe's dad, Underworld is OVER doing it, Tracy Morgan rushed to hospital in SLC, Major Spoilers, David Bowie doing normal stuff, and Mailbag Mondays!

This episode: The attack begins, and the alliance is surprised by a sudden surprise twist!

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This week we welcome Eileen Rivera from such shows as Appslappy, All About Android and Bite Club!  She gives us all the insight of the Android and iOS gaming marketplace!

We discover lots of new apps and then Steph and Kim talk Star Wars: The Old Republic!

Check out these great videos!

Sh*t Gamers Say: I’ve said nearly all of these …

Star Wars hates women?

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Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.

Guests: Kyle Fergusson and Garrett Weinzierl

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Running time: 58:25

The Muppets (movie)
Fables (comic)

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A post-birthday tribute to an amazing singer & songwriter who expertly melded that line between rock and country. If this show doesn’t get your toe tapping, you’d better check your pulse. (54 minutes)

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Featuring:

	Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist	More
1	Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold	Steve Earle	Townes	Townes Van Zant
2	Devil’s Right Hand	Johnny Cash	Unearthed	Steve Earle
3	Hardin Wouldn’t Run	Steve Earle	Cash Covered	Johnny Cash
4	If You Fall in Love	Eddie Spaghetti	Sundowner	Steve Earle
5	Breed	Steve Earle	Sidetracks	Nirvana
6	Copperhead Road	Midnight Howlers	Cocktails ‘n’ Cowboy Hats	Steve Earle
7	Time Has Come Today	Steve Earle & Sheryl Crow	Steal This Movie	Chambers Brothers
8	Fearless Heart	Gregg Cagno	Present Moment Days	Steve Earle
9	State Trooper (Live)	Steve Earle	Guitar Town	Bruce Springsteen
10	Reconsider Me	Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly	Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs Of Warren Zevon	Warren Zevon
11	Goodbye	The Pretenders	G. I. Jane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Steve Earle
12	You’re Still Standing There	Lucy Kaplansky	Every Single Day	Steve Earle
13	Guitar Town	Roger Creager	Texas Outlaws	Steve Earle

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Of course Tom Merritt and Justin Robert Young will host with special appearances from FSL game of the week announcers Brian Brushwood and Andrew Mayne as well as your calls, LIVE via Dragon SportsTalk Radio.

It’s the only way to break down all the action of the night, celebrate the victory mourn the defeat, and geta sneak peak at who will get promoted into the FSL next year.

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We talk about Reckoning a bit, with a big interview with Curt Schilling on the backend of the show, a bunch of games we're playing, we take your calls, talk about patching in the current gen, ESA backing out of SOPA, Resident Evil 6 news, Battletoads, and MORE!

Dragon Soul getting the nerf stick pretty quickly, cross-realm raids happening with 4.3.2, say goodbye to Windows 2000, Scroll of Res still down, character model talk, death of world PVP, more annual pass opportunities in future, the WoW movie, making students listen to the show, and WoW on the cheap for good!

Valor exploit, and what they did about it, Bioware is well into 2013 with new content, EA has shareholders in a fit, zone progression, free months are about up, training costs are expensive, security npcs, dark and light, what galaxies did right, Bioware's coming soon video, and MORE! With guest, Steve Hamaker!

The iTouch and why it needs to go away, 6 tacos in a parking lot, warehouse listeners, RIAA VP is a serious jerk, TSA searched two really old ladies, Locklear is busted, doctors that listen, Starwars show is further along than you think, Lucas to retire, Wahlberg said a bad thing, Therapy Thursday, JRY and MORE!

Palm Pilots, SOPA day, PIPA day, Kingdoms is pretty awesome, Dunaway is a freak, losing 40lbs, lady wanted crack, 13 times is a lot, sex or nuggets, laughing in baggage claim, Paula Deen gets a double whammy, Vinny has a self help book, Gervais says he is so done with the Globes, Modern Family is in trouble, Tom Merritt with Current Geek, Recommentals, how many Danzigs, and MORE!

Pooping man at Walmart, making radar work with TMS, headphone wearing dead people on the rise, Burger King tries to deliver, the world's tiniest ear, the Peralta Reality Show, Contraband at the movies, Game of Thones has a hot date, Rosie O is a murder of endangered fish, Batman villains you will never see in the movies, Swedish idol, Fitness Geek, and Dumb Running Sonic! All that and more!

This week, the ladies talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic, Skyrim, and tons of other cool games! This week’s special guest star is Renee Valentine from the @Valentine podcast and blog!

Bargin Buys and iPhone apps!

Machinarium is $1.99 but only for the iPad2

The Price is Right: Decades - .99 for iphone, 1.99 ipad

theSheeps HD – free

Monsters ate my condo - free

MMO Talk

Rift: The AIE guild in Rift is moving servers on Sunday 1/7/12 due to low population. We were making up nearly 80% of all max level toons during raid times! We’re moving to Deepwood, a more populated server.

SWTOR: There are AIE guilds on both the Empire and Republic sides! Lots more people playing the Empire side though.

Internet Buzz/News

The Sherlock Holmes TV Show for the Video Game Era

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Talk about:

North Korrea and the Kims
Egypt and Mubarak
Iran oil threats
US primaries

And more.

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

V: 2005 Toasted Head Cabernet Sauvignon 

T: 2009 Les Portes de Bordeaux

QUICK BURNS

Distrust That Particular Flavor: William Gibson's long-overdue essay collection

Photos from the first science fiction convention, 1937 

Science Fiction’s predictions for the year 2012 

Beyond the Wall exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

CALENDAR 

BARE YOUR SWORD

Sexist Fantasy Book Covers 

Who would you pick to make first contact? 

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

WB Sets Up ‘Ready Player One’ Rewrite From Eric Eason - Thanks Kev!

Masterpiece Mystery! - new Sherlock Holmes 

BOOK CHECK-IN

First Impressions of Rule 34

Scottish accent 

EMAIL

I may be old fashioned, but I have a pretty hard distinction between reading and listening.  I have listened to quite a few books but I always stumble over saying that I ""read"" the book.  I always say I ""listened to"".  
Yet, when I listen to S&L, it seems like you interchange these terms.  Tom has mentioned that he is ""x"" hours in to a book, does that mean that he is not reading it but listening to it?  Is there / should there be a distinction between these two mediums?  If I listen to a podcast, can I say I read it?  What if it had a transcript but I listened to the podcast?  Would it count then?

I recently finished reading The Hunger Games, which I did on the Kindle Fire.  I don't have an issue with digital books; actually I found out that I prefer it.  I recently heard 2 Jim Butcher books, which I also enjoyed.  However I would not say that I read the Butcher books or state that I listened to The Hunger Games.  
Am I goofy on this or do others have the same reaction?

Thank you,
Steven K

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Hey guys, 
Just started listening to you guys recently and I like what I hear. I am impressed by how many books you guys can read so quickly. 

I do have a question for you. Most of my ""reading"" is done through audible.com and just made a startling discovery!!! My audible library is made up of ALL male authors. Each one is great and I am not lacking in Genre diversity, only in gender diversity. Being Female myself, it would be nice if my library would reflect that. So, with the exception of Anne McCaffrey ( i have plenty of her paperbacks), what female authors would you recommend? Spy thrillers is my favorite genre, but, I will take anything in the science fiction or fantasy novels. Classics are welcome too!! Please help before someone accuses me of being a sexist!! 

MR

Veronica's Answer: Laurie R. King, Gail Carriger, Robin Hobb, Jacqueline Carey, Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin

Tom Adds: Andre Norton, Ursula K. LeGuin

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Hey Tomronica and Veronitom! Just thought I'd ramble at you for a bit. Where to start? I've been listening to your podcast for a couple of weeks now and I love it! I remember someone making the comment about the magic systems of Brandon Sanderson being similar in his books. There's a good reason for it. All his books are in the same universe and each is a ""shard"" as he puts it.

I have a couple of book suggestions. On Basilisk Station by David Weber. It's the first book in the Honor Harrington series. Also Live Free or Die by John Ringo. It's the first book in the Troy Rising trilogy and they are all hilarious! You can get this book and all the others from the publisher Baen for free. I have no idea how that is pronounced.

I have a leftover gift membership to Audible and I have no one to give it to. I thought you guys could use it for a contest. The offer expires February 28th. All I need is the email address of the winner. Have doing everything you are doing!

Michael

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This episode: The players react to the news about an upcoming new version of Dungeons and Dragons. Plus, the Celestial Crusade nears the end.

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64 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		The Reflex	Kylie Minogue and Ben Lee	UnDone – The Songs Of Duran Duran	Duran Duran
2		Ordinary World	Saybia	The Magic of the Moment	Duran Duran
3		Boys Keep Swinging	Duran Duran	We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie	David Bowie
4		Save a Prayer	Craig Wedren/BABY	BABY Demos	Duran Duran
5		Hungry Like The Wolf	Jordan Galland	Cover Me: Cover Commissions	Duran Duran
6		Girls On Film	Billy Preston	When Pigs Fly – Songs You Never Thought You’d Hear	Duran Duran
7		Instant Karma	Duran Duran	Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur	John Lennon
8		Come Undone	Go	Coalition Entertainment Mixtape – Volume 1	Duran Duran
9		The Chauffeur feat. Rodney Hunter	Urbs	Toujours le même film	Duran Duran
10		Planet Earth	Home Grown	The Duran Duran Tribute Album	Duran Duran
11		Secret Oktober	Statik Hum	Glue: A Tribute To The Music Of Duran Duran	Duran Duran
12		Crystal Ship	Duran Duran	Thank You	Doors
13		Rio	Tufts University Beelzebubs	Foster Street	Duran Duran

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Hunan Express, having 6 kids, Lord of the Watching, Rick Perry continues to say dumb stuff, Huntsman is OUT, SOPA on the shelf, Facebook after you die, the Globes, Major Spoilers, dead horse naked lady, a different take on the Christian Tebow thing, and a visit from Andrew Maine! And MORE!

We are back, and we have some new ways of doing stuff, so get on in here. Talk of Valve never having a bad year, Kuma/War dude is busted, new consoles coming in June, all the games we are playing right now, and an oldschool look at Super Star Wars Return of the Jedi for the SNES. Join us!

Cleaning windows to TMS, our final report from CES, ripping off artists is not cool on facebook, the dark side of the other C word, Trek Nerd, Fox commenters are the worst about Twinkies, people who cheat cheat more, Katy Perry and Tim Tebow, Rosie O kills things, Therapy Thursday, JRY, and MORE!

Which would you rather do questions, IS IS, Trek Nerd, SLC is sooooo gay, Halo appears in Colorado, no lung problems for pot lovers, Fox getting all animated this year, Betty White get's Punk'd, new Police Academy coming, live action Pinocchio, Paul's new album name is crazy dumb, Nicole's Recomentals, REAL fast food, and MORE!

QUICK BURNS

2012 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award Nominating Ballot

CALENDAR

BOOK KICK-OFF

Rule 34 by Charles Stross

Charles Stross

We'll wrap it up on Feb. 13th.

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This episode: The ship is built, battle plans are prepared, and the assault is about to begin.

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54 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		Spirit in the Sky	Bauhaus	Sanity Assassin (single)	Norman Greenbaum
2		Bela Lugosi’s Dead	Nouvelle Vague	Bande A’ Part	Bauhaus
3		Go!	Project Jenny, Project Jan	Music For Picture Presents Revisionist History Vol I: 1984	Tones On Tail
4		All Night Long	Night & Day	Night & Day	Peter Murphy
5		Me And My Shadow	Daniel Ash	Coming Down	Dave Dreyer/Al Jolson/Billy Rose
6		Fever	Daniel Ash	Nip Tuck Soundtrack	Little Willie John/Peggy Lee
7		Spooky	Daniel Ash	Daniel Ash	Classics IV
8		Time	David J’s Cabaret Oscuro	.2 Contamination: A Tribute To David Bowie	David Bowie
9		Being Boring	David J	very introspective, actually	Pet Shop Boys
10		So Alive	Duncan Sheik	Covers 80′s	Love and Rockets
11		No New Tale To Tell	Astra Heights	New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets	Love & Rockets

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47 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)	Anders Holst	SoHo Suite	Michael McDonald
2		Gimme All Your Lovin’	Culture Serial Killers	Submission	ZZ Top
3		I’m Into Something Good	The Heartbeats	Stand Up and Face It…	Ethel McCrea/Herman’s Hermits
4		Sugar Bee	Baby Bee	Sugar Bee	Cleveland Crochet
5		So Far Away	The Last Names	52 Covers	Dire Straits
6		I’m Going To Go Back There Someday	songsfrompaul	Submission	Muppets
7		My Body Is A Cage	Anna Rose	Submission	Arcade Fire
8		Universal Solider	Golden State	End This War	Donovan
9		Man In The Mirror	Guthrie Govan	Guthrie	Michael Jackson
10		Voices Carry	Anne-Marie Sanderson	Demos	Til Tuesday

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What people do while listening to this show, trek nerd, Blitzer is a little creepy, penis tattoo has unforeseen side effects, Warren Jeffs is messing around on the phones, eating healthy helps kids (duh), 20 worst songs of the 90's, the name of the Star Wars TV show, proper Bruce Almighty sequel in the works, the real deal on Micro Penises, Fitness Geek, and Twilight girl goes WAY too far! And MORE!

The baby happened, head to the door, CES week, Colorado steamy photos, Papa John is a racist, Perry wants troops back in Iraq, Xbox and PS4 rumors, cross-dressing actors, Webster loses his house, dying at 111 years old, Chaz saving up for a sweet penis, album covers minus the dead guys, Major Spoilers, Mailbag Mondays, and MORE!

File tech incoming, happy 15 Diablo, Raid Finder loot rules explained, is hacking on the rise, authenticator followup, what happened to the Wolf Men, Trek goes free, aging player base, nothing wrong with Blood Elves, Massively awards and MORE!

Ban hammers on Ilum, dance in battle, get booted, TOR coming to the mac possibly, faster travel, hanger hangovers, naming your ship, LFG getting locked down by other devs, why Twi'leks have those head things, and some love to Powertechs, all that and more!

2 weeks in hell, bread and circuses, Bachmann is OUT, mom shoots intruder after 911 gives the ok, AOL is still charging people for email, cancer takes a dip, we have our Star Trek villain, Sinead gets it back together again, Jersey is back, Therapy Thursday, JYI, and MORE!

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"The gays" set the record straight, where bees go, the things Mtn Dew can dissolve, shopper tries to use a million dollar bill, 12 things that will cost more in 2012, expensive fake swords, Camping is an idiot, the Simpsons were right, Arnold is wearing his ring again, who will play Elton John, Arnold is a angle, Recomentals, and TOM MERRITT are all here!

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.

Guests: Iyaz Akhtar and Adi Khajuria

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Running time: 49:49

This episode: The answer to Randus' double shadow is finally revealed, and it isn't a good thing.

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51 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		This Will Be Our Year	Pablo	Half The Time	Zombies
2		Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree	Eric D. Johnson	Our Idiot Brother (Soundtrack)	Tony Orlando & Dawn
3		Blue-Eyed Matador	Voltaire	Ooky Spooky	Voltaire
4		You’re the One That I Want	The Lennings	CD Sampler	Grease
5		Where Is My Mind (Instrumental Remix)	Various Artists	Where Is My Mind (Instrumental Remix)	Pixies
6		Is Your Love Strong Enough?	How To Destroy Angels	The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo	Bryan Ferry
7		You Can Call Me Al	Anna-Maria Blixt	Venus Jupiter and the Moon	Paul Simon
8		Le Grand Pantalon (Baggy Trousers)	Madness	Le Grand Pantalon (Baggy Trousers)	Madness

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LoTR's holds up yo, a face for radio, trek nerd is back, pulling kids from the river, happy b-day Commodore, trees prevent robberies, Murdoch joins twitter, vader died, Snoop wins The Price is Right, 52 movies we all wanna see in 2012, Perlman owns hollywood, Fast Five was Fast pirated, Fitness Geek, and MORE!

QUICK BURNS

George R. R. Martin posts excerpt from Winds of Winter

The Wertzone Awards 2011

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Comics Of 2011

THE WHEEL OF TIME is completed

Empire State: a phildickian noir detective/superhero/pocket universe novel

CALENDAR

The Ultimate Guide to January’s Science Fiction and Fantasy!

BARE YOUR SWORD

Hobbit eggs

What Else Are You Reading - January 2012

Sword & Laser Anthology

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

The Making of “The Hobbit” — Part Five

BOOK WRAP-UP

Elantris

Check in on 1Q84

EMAIL

Hey,

Can't sleep so listening to S&L and you guys are talking about the interminable 1Q84 and I just had to ask if you're listening at 1X or 2X? I've got a post coming up about how 2x saved my sanity and makes me impatient with normal speaking humans so would love to hear how you listen to audiobooks and podcasts.

Have a Merry!

Jason D.

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Hello Tom and Veronica.
I wanted to let you guys know that the whole series of the chronicles of narnia is available for free in audio for at this link.

The best thing is that it has the authorization from CS Lewis State, so download for the win!

Love the podcast. Keep up the good work.

Yannis from Chicago

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Veronica and Tom,

I read an interesting post:

Lovecraft’s racism & The World Fantasy Award statuette, with comments from China Miéville

It's an interesting account of accepting an award when the name on the award is that of a blatant racist.,p> What are your thoughts on this? How could anyone take any pride in accepting an award with Lovecraft's (or, for that matter, Hitler's or Stalin's) name on it. I know that I'd find it hard to have my name associated with anything ""Lovecraft"".

Excellent shows. I'm definitely a "laser" guy and I eagerly await each laser-centric read.

Mike from Fremont

NEW MEMBER HELLOS
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New years and how that all went down, kimchee, blue shells, TSA can't dress up, a SOPA pull out, new years REVOLUTIONS, you brain still works after you get it cut off, twins in two years, O'Connor blames marriage on crack, Perry and Brand divorce, 11 great movies you missed, Major Spoilers, and MORE! Welcome to 2012, suckers!

Last show of the year! We take a look back at the years biggest stories in WoW, what 2012 might bring, how much money Blizzard makes on security keys, Streets post mortem on 4.3, and your very own WoW wig! All that and Turpster's weird accent, so come on in!

Garrett from Starcast joins us again! We talk PVP, new stuff in January, Scott's support experience with Bioware phone support, slicing getting the nerf bat, reviews of ToR 2 weeks in, Bioware single player messing up my MMO, what we want in our first big patch, companion gifts, and MORE!

Mario Kart Heaven, Oprah has a new show, getting fat bad for health, risk of falling, satellite nearly kills a dude, SOPA people download torrents, Katy Perry and Russell on the splits, Cheetah the chimp may not be dead, Forrest Gump is IN, Therapy Thursday, JRY, and MORE!

Get the episode at this link.

Taking comics personally, 2011 political fumbles, creating deadly viruses, condoms on the set, man misses death by satellite, SNL writer dies, Heavy D flew too much, Sandusky wants to do Oprah, Fresh Prince in trouble with mom, Recommentals, Current Geek, and MORE!

This episode: We know you love Critical HIt, and during this holiday season, we just couldn't leave you hanging with a dead week. Here then are our suggestions on creating a holiday themed encounter.

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A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

Counting down the top 40 covers as nominated and voted on by Coverville listeners! In this episode, we continue to work our way up, going from #30 up to #21! Plus, find out how you can win some goodies, courtesy of TuneUp!

52 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
30		America (Bonus Track)	Yes	Close to the Edge	Simon & Garfunkel
29		Valerie Ft. Amy Winehouse	Mark Ronson	Version	Zutons
28		This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)	Shawn Colvin	Cover Girl	Talking Heads
27		Muppet Show Theme Song	OK Go	Muppets: The Green Album	Muppets
26		Land of Confusion	Disturbed	Ten Thousand Fists	Genesis
25		Band On The Run	Foo Fighters	Radio 1: Established 1967	Paul McCartney & Wings
24		Wild Horses	The Sundays	Blind	Rolling Stones	ITUNES
23		This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)	Miles Fisher	Miles Fisher	Talking Heads
22		Mahna Mahna	Cake	For the Kids	Piero Umiliani/Muppets
21		September	Pomplamoose	The Album You Bought At Our Show	Earth Wind & Fire

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Counting down the top 40 covers as nominated and voted on by Coverville listeners! In this episode, we continue to work our way up, going from #20 up to #11! Plus, find out how you can win some goodies, courtesy of TuneUp!

51 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
20		Fields Of Gold	Eva Cassidy	Songbird	Sting
19		Let My Love Open The Door	M. Ward	Sweetheart: Love Songs 2005	Pete Townshend
18		Bohemian Rhapsody (w/John Wetton)	William Shatner	Seeking Major Tom	Queen
17		Bad Romance	On The Rocks	A Fifth	Lady Gaga
16		99 Problems	Hugo	Olde Tyme Religion	Jay Z
15		The Book Of Love	Peter Gabriel	Scratch My Back	Magnetic Fields
14		Oops! I Did It Again	Richard Thompson	1000 Years of Popular Music	Britney Spears
13		The Mercy Seat	Johnny Cash	Unearthed	Nick Cave
12		Major Tom (Coming Home)	Shiny Toy Guns	Season Of Poison	Peter Schilling
11		Hackensack	Taylor Johnson	Soon to be released	Fountains of Wayne

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It's our TOP 15 apps of the year, plus a bunch of runners up! Tuck in!

A windex on your skin update, how bad is the Star Wars holiday special, He-Man says hey, North Korea already doing better, swine flu is back, 29th is dump GoDaddy day, shoplifting is still a thing, Van Halen is back at it, O'Connor ends marriage already, vegan black metal, The FItness Geek, and MORE!

Siri Stories, Ghost Proto, Christmas and how it went, Stump a STAR WARS geek, man as doctor, Palin says it's not too late, Trump says bye-bye, comet through the sun, Blair Which Pot Project, Bill shreds Ghost Busters script, De Niro a father again, Wolverine gets you in jail, defending Comic Sans, and MORE!

Bioware says they will live or die based on future content, 1.5m pre-orders, 4 million at launch, servers hit pop limits, Flashpoints getting old for some, others love them more, map issues, people ripping through the content fast, the high cost of doing business in ToR, getting rid of the Jaggies, and more!

Get the episode at this link.

This week we welcome Veronica Belmont to the guest seat and talk…you guessed it…Skyrim!

We heard all about Veronica’s new show – Game On! that will preview on the TWiT Network January 15, 2011!  Want to know more about Veronica? Everything you ever wanted to know is here!

2011 in Review -

Some of the big name games released in 2011:

• DC Universe Online, Bulletstorm, Alice: Madness Returns, Resistance 3, Deus Ex, Dead Space 2, Battlefield 3, Killzone 3, Little Big Planet 2, Dragon Age II, Batman: Arkham City, LA Noire, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Portal 2, Uncharted 3

Listen for our picks of favorite game, biggest disappointment, biggest surprise and more!

Also…our most anticipated games of 2012…well at least we hope they come out in 2012!

Follow Ladies of Leet on twitter! Nicole at nicolespag, Kim at JustKimolly & Stephanie at xiaxian1.  And you can find Veronica at @Veronica

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Veronica: 2008 Legón Ribera del Duero Roble
Tom: 2009 Les Portes de Bordeaux

QUICK BURNS

Fired Up: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy

SFSite reports The Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF), in association with the University of Kansas, will launch James Gunn’s Ad Astra, an online resource for authors, scholars and all those who are interested in speculative fiction in the summer of 2012.

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

What Else Are You Reading - December 2011 Edition

What do You Use as a Bookmark?

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

Worst movies you've paid to watch on the bigscreen

BOOK CHECK-IN

Elantris

1Q84

EMAIL

Hi Tom and Veronica,

On the last S&L I listened to you were talking about Roy Dotrice recording A Feast for Crows to complete his narration of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Veronica mentioned that she had been lucky enough to have the same narrator in all of the multi-book series she has read via Audible. That is great as I can attest from much experience to how disconcerting that can be. I am legally blind, and as such can download digital or borrow cassette audio books from the Library of Congress' National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. (http://www.loc.gov/nls/) This is an awesome service that I have been using for over 30 years. Yes I used to borrow records. While they also try and use the same narrators within series, the problem is I am not a patient man. Since they do their own recordings new titles often take a good while to show up on the service. When you guys recommend a series that has been around for a while I will often start reading if via the NLS, but then I just can't wait when the newest edition comes out. Then I find myself turning to Audible for my fix. This happened recently with A Dance with Dragons, and I am now looking at my credits trying to decide if I should get the latest in the Kingkiller Chronicles series. The problem is it takes me probably 25 of the book to get over the difference in narrator's interpretation of the characters.

Sorry this is longer than I had anticipated, but I just wanted to weigh in on the issue and let you know about the NLS in case you weren't already aware of it and have other handicapped listeners who might be able to take advantage of it.

-Steve

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After listening to the two of you on some of your more recent podcasts and discovering that you also like games, I thought you might be interested in a five minute documentary that my daughter did as a grade 12 media project. It's based on the community of gamers at my store ""The Sentry Box"". We have about 7000 SF&F titles as well as the games which is why I thought of you. Since you are in the warm south, I figured you might be interested in what we do in the cold Canadian north in Calgary for fun.

I actually had nothing to do with anything in the video which is probably why it turned out so well. She just posted it and has had 500 views in four days so I'm pretty impressed and in awe of her skills.

Keep up the great work.

Gordon Johansen

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Hey Tom and Veronica,

I know you were both on the mailing lists for the GoT press kits when the series debuted, but I haven't heard you mention anything about the DVDs. My husband is a film & TV critic and he brought home a big box o' swag today, so with his permission, I thought I'd share some unboxing pics.

Here's a link to the whole set on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alterjess/sets/72157628490860895/

In the box:

House Baratheon seal & sealing wax
DRAGON EGG
House Baratheon notecards
press photos
DVD of first ep

I don't know if everyone got House Baratheon, or if HBO made up kits for other houses as well - I have to admit, I was a little disappointed to see a stag instead of a direwolf or dragon on the outside of that box.

(DVDs are on sale March 6, by the way, though it doesn't say so anywhere in the press materials!)

Love the show (awww, now I feel like I'm emailing you back at BOL),

Jessica of House HOLY CRAP I HAVE A DRAGON EGG ON MY DESK

NEW MEMBER HELLOS

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ADDENDUMS

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Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.

Guests: Sarah Lane and Linelle Lane

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Running time: 1:01:32

This episode: It's time for everyone to give it their all, if only Randus' wasn't having issues with time...

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37 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		Cantina Band	The Alexandria Kleztet	Peace, Love and Coffee	Star Wars/John Williams
2		Vader	The Taj Motel Trio	Feels the Force	Star Wars/John Williams	ITUNES
3		Star Wars	The Ventures	Space 2001	Star Wars/John Williams
4		Imperial March (Leviathan Mix)	Peter McConnell	Force Commander (Promo)	Star Wars/John Williams
5		Han Solo and the Princess	Ukulele Force	Ukulele Force Star Wars Best Covers	Star Wars/John Williams
6		Binary Sunset	Evil Genius Orchestra	Cocktails In The Cantina	Star Wars/John Williams
7		Han Solo And The Princess (Love Theme)	Boris Midney	The Empire Strikes Back	Star Wars/John Williams

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Counting down the top 40 covers as nominated and voted on by Coverville listeners! In this episode, we start at the bottom and work our way up, going from #40 up to #31! Plus, find out how you can win some goodies, courtesy of TuneUp!

51 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
40		Such Great Heights	Iron & Wine	Garden State	Postal Service
39		Pumped Up Kicks	Owl Eyes	Like A Version: Volume 7	Foster The People
38		Feel Good, Inc. – loopstation cover	Josie Charlwood	Bandcamp	Gorillaz
37		Baba O’Riley (Live Album Version)	Blue Man Group	How To Be A Megastar Live	Who
36		Smooth Criminal	2cellos (Sulic & Hauser)	2cellos	Michael Jackson
35		Doctor Worm	Relient K	Is For Karaoke EP	They Might Be Giants
34		Still Alive	The Chiptots	MySpace	Jonathan Coulton
33		Careless Whisper (strings version)	Seether	Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (Bonus Track Version)	Wham!
32		Shook Me Like A Prayer	Rock Sugar	Reimaginator	AC/DC/Madonna
31		Can’t Take My Eyes Off You	Muse	Dead Star / In Your World	Frankie Valli

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PEZ is the gift that keeps on giving, christmas plans, Kim Jong The Second, noisy toys are bad, Great Successor, Americans get arrested, Punk'd coming back, Pitts house, Lohan breaking records, and Creepy Santa photos! All that and our fitness geek for our last pre-christmas episode!

Kids and Beavis, big bag of jerky, Perry the Beard Tugger, the Dear Leader is no more, xmas trees can make you sick, loud xmas toys are bad for your kids, dude assaults people with light saber, bad boxoffice again, Brad Pitts house is SOLD, Bieber and Claus, Major Spoilers and MORE!

We have the game, and we dive in heavy and hard. Our classes, our experience, waiting in line, guild issues, quest structure, and more. Mobile security authenticator is OUT for iOS, some hard questions about the game thus far, your emails, and a great way to get your ToR music on.

Losing your character name, what is a BattleTag, Blizzard at the VGA's, account wide mounts coming, BattleNet Balance, and a great Christmas song! All that and more!

Driving with frosted windows, Cheech and Busey up to no good, more on Tim Tebow, teen drinking and smoking at a 30 year low, zombie dog, masks are stupid on kids, Matt on why he's not in the next Bourne movie, Paramount changes its logo again, Therapy Thursday, RJY and MORE!

ToR Time, no more TV late at night, Bronco power, Chick-fil-A employees are jerks, driver got way too many texts, the year in banning, weird fatwas, Tony Bennett likes nude Gaga, TV commercial volume changes, Current Geek with Tom, Recomentals, and MORE!

Yelling penis in Walmart, RaG is dead, Mitt Romney pooped in a bucket, stealing christmas, dumb study of the week, God is saving the Broncos, Perry and his gay thing, MiB3 gets a trailer, Snoop lights it up, Duty makes Money, the Fitness Geek and MORE!

QUICK BURNS

Roy Dotrice records new edition of FEAST FOR CROWS audiobook

Rudy Rucker's autobiography: Nested Scrolls

Fahrenheit 451 becomes e-book despite author's feelings

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

Elantris - Anyone else feel guilty?

Elantris - Favorite POV

Units of Measure in Fantasy

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

Westeros: Total War needs some help

GAME OF THRONES Season 2 trailer

Lost Doctor Who Episodes Surface With Chumblies, Fish People

BOOK CHECK-IN

Elantris

1Q84

EMAIL

Hello Veronica and Tom,

I have been a long time listener to FrameRate on the TwiT network and have only recently been listening to The Sword and Laser, episode number 82 to be precise. Both this and the later episode have been enjoyable to listen to whilst on long plane journeys and idle time whilst building booths and trade shows. I must admit I finished the Elantris book in a few days and agree with Veronica when she stated this has a first book feel to it. Towards the end I found Sarene to be slightly grating and almost put the book down, but I am glad I pushed through the last twenty or so pages.

I was wondering if you had a few seconds to answer a question so I may learn from people possessing greater knowledge than I? I find myself with a two week break over Christmas and I was wondering if you could suggest any major series I could start getting into? (I have never read the Mistborn, the Way of Kings or Games of Thrones series, but really enjoyed the Dark Tower books.)

I hope you manage to find sometime during your busy schedules to answer my question and I look forward to the next episode.

Kind Regards,

Wilton

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Did you guys see this? A grad student of mine sent me the links and I though Tom in particular might enjoy it:

Part 1

Part 2

-- Dr. Timothy R

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Veronica and Tom, I wanted to reach out to you guys and let you know about our e-zine Flagship. Every other month (soon to be every month) for the last fifteen months we've put out an anthology of positive science fiction and fantasy short stories in both electronic text and audio formats. We were recently featured in Wired magazine's Geekdad blog and are looking for more places to get the word out about what we're doing.

-- Scott Roche

CALLS

NEW MEMBER HELLOS

Chris (Cogitator X), Harm, Kieran, Tim, Urg, Dave, Emma, Brandon, Armando, Kristin, William, Darren, Michael, Marissa, Joe, Jon, Quinn, Chris, Dana, Stephen, Diego, Brandon, Jonathan, Chrys, Alex, Ruth, Shaun, Rob, Melissa, Patrik, Dirk, Link, Leslie, Tom, Peter, Amanda, Mel, Trey, Harry, Bob, Mecque (muh-kay), Kelly, Jack, Charles, Gary, Glenn, Codered, Bryan, Jonathan.

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Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.

Guests: Allyn Malventano and Justin Jackson

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Running time: 57:03

This episode: The team splits to plan and scheme for the big, big battle! (Did we mention there's a big battle coming up?)

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56 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Israel Kamakawiwo’ole	Alone in IZ World	Judy Garland/Wizard of Oz
2		Gin and Juice	The Gourds	Shinedown	Snoop Dogg
3		Lithium	The Polyphonic Spree	Wait (EP)	Nirvana
4		Baby Got Back	Jonathan Coulton	Thing a Week One	Sir Mix-A-Lot
5		In Between Days	Ben Folds	Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP	Cure
6		Comfortably Numb	Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters	Pink Floyd
7		Don’t Stop Believin’	Petra Haden	Guilt By Association	Journey
8		Billie Jean	Chris Cornell	Carry On	Michael Jackson
9		Redemption Song	Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer	Unearthed (Box Set)	Bob Marley
10		Wonderwall	Ryan Adams	Love Is Hell	Oasis

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Charity, Muppets, all nighters, VGA's happened, Cookie Dough can kill you, should nuns be on the pill, Lohan got her purse back, Fear Factor is gross again, box office suckin it, faces of Star Trek, awkward stock photos, and Major Spoilers to boot!

Pre-order blowup on the official forums, the client is out NOW, 1 million people are getting physical boxes for this game, Consular vs Agents, ToRHead is a thing, get your prepaid 60 day cards now, some great hard questions, two contests, and a movie trailer awaits!

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.

Guests: Eric Van Skyhawk and Chatroom

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Running time: 1:00:28

56 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Israel Kamakawiwo’ole	Alone in IZ World	Judy Garland/Wizard of Oz
2		Gin and Juice	The Gourds	Shinedown	Snoop Dogg
3		Lithium	The Polyphonic Spree	Wait (EP)	Nirvana
4		Baby Got Back	Jonathan Coulton	Thing a Week One	Sir Mix-A-Lot
5		In Between Days	Ben Folds	Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP	Cure
6		Comfortably Numb	Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters	Pink Floyd
7		Don’t Stop Believin’	Petra Haden	Guilt By Association	Journey
8		Billie Jean	Chris Cornell	Carry On	Michael Jackson
9		Redemption Song	Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer	Unearthed (Box Set)	Bob Marley
10		Wonderwall	Ryan Adams	Love Is Hell	Oasis

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Bargain Buys/Iphone game

Temple Run – Free

Hidden Object Crossword – click on crossword clue and find the object it’s describing in the picture. Free to try, $1.99 to buy

The Sims: Medieval – still free. Quest with your Sim in medieval times on your iPhone. Graphics are designed for iPhone, not iPad.

Infinity Blade II has just been released ($6.99) but there are multiple complaints about it crashing on original iPad.

Assassin’s Creed: Recollection — a real time strategy card game. $2.99 – Gorgeous card designs and more story development/background.

Spoiler alert: you get a free copy of Assassin’s Creed Embers video which tells the conclusion of Enzio’s story.

MMO Talk

Rift – sure enough, the night we recorded the last episode, we one-shotted Lord Greenscale! We were stunned and so elated! Go Ingrates!
Yule celebration is going on right now in game – get a Corgie pet with a red nose and antlers.

WOW Released Patch 4.3

Internet Buzz/News

Study Shows Girl Gamers have More Sex than Non-gamers
http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/study-shows-girl-gamers-have-more-sex-than-non-gaming-girls/

Follow Ladies of Leet on twitter! Nicole at nicolespag, Kim at JustKimolly & Stephanie at xiaxian1.  And you can find Jocelyn at GISgamer

 http://ia700808.us.archive.org/26/items/Lol-Ep42-VideoGamesMakesBabies/Lol-Ep42-VideoGamesMakesBabies.mp3

This episode: Rodrigo explains how time works, then the heroes make a grand return to the city... as only they can.

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A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

41 minutes |

Featuring:

		Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
1		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Joy Division	The Best of Joy Division	Joy Division
2		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Nouvelle Vague	Nouvelle Vague	Joy Division
3		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Wonderlick	Wonderlick	Joy Division
4		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Nerina Pallot	Learning to Breathe	Joy Division
5		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Philistine	Blood & Chocolate Soundtrack	Joy Division
6		Love Will Tear Us Apart	The Cure	Unreleased	Joy Division
7		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Paul Young	No Parlez	Joy Division
8		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Broken Social Scene	The Time Traveler’s Wife: Music From The Motion Picture	Joy Division
9		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha	Re-Covers	Joy Division

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Get the episode at this link.

QUICK BURNS

Anne McCaffrey, 1926-2011
Science fiction author Anne McCaffrey dies at 85
First woman to win a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as a Grand Master of science fiction.

Tailchaser’s Song Animated Feature

Norwegian bookseller begins selling e-books on memory cards, for some reason

Martin Fan Letter in Fantastic Four Comic

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

Why do people write fantasy?

Biting off more then you can read

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

Skyrim, the black hole of time

Neil Gaiman On The Simpsons

GAME OF THRONES Season 2 behind-the-scenes vid
A first look at GAME OF THRONES Season 2

BOOK CHECK-IN

The Elantris Portal on Brandon Sanderson's website

Sanderson's Female Protagonists

Early thoughts on 1Q84

EMAIL

Hello! My name is Sean Hollenhors and I work at a bookstore in Salem, OR (The Book Bin). I'm a regular Sword & Laser listener and heard you mention collecting first edition hardcovers. We recently revamped our rare book room and put out a plethora of new signed, first edition and rare hard covers. I'm attaching some photos to show off the space as well as some of the titles we have. Give me holler if there are titles you're having trouble finding...we might be able to help! We have an ever expanding selection of Sci-Fi and Fantasy books.

Cheers!
--Sean
The Book Bin

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Hey fellas, love the show, I adore you guys.

So I totally missed the release of Christopher Paulini’s final book of the Inheritance series 10 days ago. It was totally off my radar. I couldn’t believe you guys hadn’t mentioned it because it’s, like, the 2nd biggest fantasy release this year (by biggest, I mean commercial sales). So I went back and listened to the last 3 podcasts and realized it was never mentioned in any of the upcoming release calendar announcements. Apparently it was off your radar too.

Now, I’m pretty certain you guys aren’t some kind of fantasy snob elitist hipsters that dismissively blow off commercial juggernauts for more underground indie stuff. Perhaps you just didn't care much for the other books in the series. To me they’re a bit meh, but still quite enjoyable. Maybe the Eragon movie abomination left you emotionally so scarred that discussion of the upcoming book in the series would dredge up too many horrible memories. Whatever the case, I would’ve thought that you’d at least mention the thing. After all, talking about fantasy books is like, your job ;o) ß this is a very tongue in cheek winky smiley, FYI.

david C

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Featuring:

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1		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Joy Division	The Best of Joy Division	Joy Division
2		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Nouvelle Vague	Nouvelle Vague	Joy Division
3		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Wonderlick	Wonderlick	Joy Division
4		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Nerina Pallot	Learning to Breathe	Joy Division
5		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Philistine	Blood & Chocolate Soundtrack	Joy Division
6		Love Will Tear Us Apart	The Cure	Unreleased	Joy Division
7		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Paul Young	No Parlez	Joy Division
8		Love Will Tear Us Apart	Broken Social Scene	The Time Traveler’s Wife: Music From The Motion Picture	Joy Division
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