Blog For A Beer: Best Books of 2008
darkfantasy.org 12/12/2008 — Fantasy wants to know which are the best books you read this year -- novels, anthologies, collections, anything. Your informed opinion could win you $10 (buy some beer!), and anyway, don't you just love giving your opinion?

Blog For A Beer: Best/Worst Of The Year - Movies
darkfantasy.org 12/5/2008 — Over the next three weeks we’re going to compile some Best Of/Worst Of lists, and you’re going to help. Why, you ask? Because we might give you $10 if you do! What are the 5 best genre movies you saw this year? How about the 5 worst? Whatever movies you choose, you have to back it up.

Drinking in Europe: Beer, Wine, The Pub, Beer Bath, and the Beer Messiah
jeffvandermeer.com 9/7/2008 — (Unexpected drinking at 11am, when given Captain Morgan’s by someone called “The Shaman”; photo by Richard Klíèník ) Note: Some photos in this post may disturb those who prefer less transparency from their authors. However, ...

A Christmas Carol Redux
darkfantasy.org 12/17/2008 — Despite it being a ghost story, adaptations of A Christmas Carol are not common in actual genre fare. Christmas genre episodes tend to be about other things, usually the birth of Christ or a general meditation on the season’s message of peace and goodwill. But adaptations abound on regular TV shows

TV Episodes and Movies That Use The "A Christmas Carol" Plot
darkfantasy.org 12/18/2008 — We found clips, full episodes, and trailers of TV shows and movies that either adapt "A Christmas Carol" or use the basic plot with familiar characters. This plot has generated some really great episodes but also a fair number of clunkers.