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Comic Con pics and stuff on Trashwire.com

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I have so much Comic Con stuff on Trashwire it’ll explode your brain just to think about it!

I’ve got Mike Judge and Johnny Knoxville talking about the new Beavis & Butt-Head, Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) signing autographs and answering Q&A at his movie screening, Elijah Wood talking about playing a suicidal guy who talks to a dog and, of course, a little Gerard Way action.

Here are a few of my faves:

You guys know I lose all traces of professionalism when it comes to My Chemical Romance, so I’d be lying if said this wasn’t my favorite picture of them all:

Go check out everything on the Trashwire blog from this most majestic of geek events.

I’m so excited for Comic Con!

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By this time next week, I’ll be in San Diego in the midst of having an amazing time at one of the funnest events in the U.S. and I can’t wait!

After years of wanting to go, I finally got the opportunity to attend my first Comic Con last year. I covered the event for Trashwire, taking pictures and videos, writing wrap-ups for each day and tweeting like a crazy person. It was the best long weekend ever and, since it happens to fall on my birthday, one of the best birthdays ever.

Last year’s highlight was definitely Gerard Way. As everyone knows, I really like My Chemical Romance, so seeing Gerard–and Ray and Mikey, who were also there–was the ultimate for me. I got to attend two of Gerard’s panels, one featuring several Dark Horse authors and one that was all about him, and it was very cool to see him outside of the band context. He seemed really kicked back, like he was just enjoying his weekend too.

This year, I have a lot of things on my wish list, so much so that I can’t even narrow it down to one or two that are my favorites. There’s a Napoleon Dynamite panel that sounds fun and a panel with William Shatner discussing his new documentary about all the Star Trek captains. The gang from The Simpsons will be there as will Colin Farrell, Nic Cage, Elijah Wood, a bunch of people from True Blood and a loads of surprise celebs.

I guess if I had to pick one I was most excited about, I’d say the Beavis and Butt-Head panel with Mike Judge. I grew up on that show and being able to see Mike in person talking about the revival of the show would be outrageously rad. I don’t want to jinx it, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be able to make it in to this one.

Anyway, just like last year, I’ll be posting on Trashwire and on the @Trashwire twitter account live from San Diego. I got a new camera a couple weeks ago, so I should have some great pics and I’ve been more on the grind with scheduling, so I should have better press perks. Of course, if it’s too awesome to be contained on Trashwire alone, I’ll post links here and on my Twitter account too.

The great eBook debate

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I’ve been in the market for an eReader ever since I got into the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. I saw the full box set of the books available at bookstores, but it cost about $80 and that was just more than I was willing to spend. On top of that, I really wanted to read a few other books that were only available in $30 hardcover form. After thinking about the price of buying books and the space they’d take up in my tiny condo, I decided it might be time to invest in an eBook reader.

Naturally, I turned to my twitter friends for advice. When you’ve got 1,500 potential votes, it’s easy to pick a clear winner. Almost everyone advised me to get a Kindle. I got tweets from very satisfied Kindle users and even a brief endorsement from my Dad. Still, I had heard good thinks about the Barnes & Noble Nook and wanted to check it out.

I’d read about the eBook reader, which features a small iPhone-like touch screen, on Gizmodo, where they’d given it a very positive review. Having done my research on several other sites, I decided to go down to Barnes & Noble to see for myself. One of the biggest benefits of the Nook is that you can actually go to the store and try it out or get tech support. I went up to the counter where they had a Nook on display and began navigating the menus on the touch screen and clicking through pages on some of the sample books. I was impressed. I was really impressed. The navigation was great, perfect for someone whose iPhone was almost glued to her hand. I loved being able to view the covers of books before I bought them and being able to read sample chapters before you decided to purchase a book. I had heard that eInk screens had slow response time that made reading an annoying activity, but I was pleasantly surprised at how fast the “pages” could turn and how quickly the screen was able to change from the text of a book to the main navigation screen. The Nook also offered GoogleBooks, which meant several titles available for free, and you could customize it with your own screensavers and home page images as well as load it with your music. The books were affordable and the Nook featured 3G and wi-fi and didn’t start at $500 like some other handheld devices (*cough* iPad *cough*).

The coolest feature, though, was all the Barnes & Noble perks. You could get special deals or even free eBooks when you used your Nook in any Barnes & Noble store. You could read any eBook free for up to an hour in the store too. I must say, I was also really impressed with the idea of in-person support in case something ever went wrong.

I went home and looked up the Kindle a bit more, having narrowed it down to those two candidates. The Kindle seemed nice, maybe even great, but I just couldn’t get over the fact that it had a real keyboard as opposed to a touch screen. A physical keyboard can’t change, a touch screen can gain added features with every software update.

I bought the Nook and started reading. I’m happy to say, I absolutely love it! I’ve probably been reading more in the last few weeks than I ever did in school. After burning through the first five books in my beloved Southern Vampire Series, I’m excited to keep using my Nook and get more cheap eBooks to read in the future.