May recap for Monday

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So, the past few weeks I've been kept busy. I've been temping, applying for dozens of jobs in Cape Town (with little to zero response), watching Rock Circus's surprisingly entertaining combination of aerial acrobatics and tribute acts at the Gateway Barnyard Theatre, playing my first ever game of Pathfinder (basically Open Source D&D, as I understand it), attending Durban's latest 27dinner, and, yesterday, supporting family and friends as they ran the Comrades Marathon, the oldest, biggest ultra-marathon in the world.

May was also a busy month on this blog. In case you missed it, these are some of the highlights of the past 31 days.

Blog features:
Superhero films coming your way: The Marvel slate
Superhero films coming your way: The DC-Warner Bros slate
True Blood news and minisodes
Girlz 'N' Games webcomic #66: Clash of the... Na'vi?!
Girlz 'N' Games webcomic #67: Geek Vs. Geek
Free fantasy fiction
RIP Frank Frazetta

Movie reviews:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Date Night
Iron Man 2
Assorted mini movie reviews

Trailers profiled:
Piranha 3-D
Jonah Hex
The Human Centipede
The Last Airbender

Comments

MJenks said…
Your movie recaps were so awesome that I had to send them off to my supervisor, since he and I have lengthy discussions about what movies are coming in the sci-fi/fantasy/comic book genres at least once a week.
4:47 PM
Pfangirl said…
Glad to be of service, MJenks. I'm always happy to provide fuel for others' geeky debates:)
11:29 PM
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