Let the Mayday roll in
The pull of the non-traditionally good weather is strong.
Time to split, shop for groceries and head home.
Purposefully avoiding the roiling crowds downtown.
Happu Vappu to all readers.
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- Barren Earth: Our Twilight
- Brother Firetribe: Live at Apollo
- Whispered: Thousand Swords
- Ratsia: Täältä Tulee Yö
- Sonata Arctica: Collection
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- Tim Low: Feral Future
Stephen Baxter: Flood- Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Pat Harrigan: First Person
Gerard 't Hooft: Playing with PlanetsBill Willingham et. al.: Fables, vol. 1: Legends in ExileJoakim Pirinen: Sokeri-SakariBill Willingham et. al.: Fables, vol. 2: Animal Farm- Haje Jan Kamps: Macro Photography
Bill Willingham et. al.: Fables, vol. 3: Storybook LoveJosh Bazell: Beat The ReaperJane Espenson et. al.: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 8th Season, vol. 6: RetreatPertti Jarla: Fingerpori HeräämisopasConrad: Valkoinen Tiikeri, vol. 3: Viidennen Onnen Taito- Scott McCloud: Comic Book - The Invisible Art
Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams: Batman: Hush, vol. 1Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams: Batman: Hush, vol. 2Warren Ellis, John Cassaday: Planetary, vol. 1: All Over The World and Other Stories
Amusements galore
- Zynga: Mafia Wars
- Scrabble
- Flash Forward, season 1
- Failbettergames: Echo Bazaar
- BBC Earth: Planet Earth
- Burn Notice, season 1
- House, M.D., season 4
Bioware: Mass Effect- Lost, season 6
- OneBigGame: Chime
- Bioware: Mass Effect 2
- Rovio: Angry Birds
Kathryn Bigelow: Hurt Locker- Ridley Scott: Blade Runner
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Kathryn Bigelow: Hurt LockerJames Cameron: Avatar- Terry Gilliam: The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
- John Hillcoat: The Road
- Daniel Alfredson: Pilvilinna joka romahti
- Spike Jonze: Where the Wild Things Are
- Guy Ritchie: Sherlock Holmes
- Martin Campbell: Edge of Darkness
Grant Heslov: Men Who Stare At Goats- Martin Scorsese: Shutter Island
- Lee Daniels: Precious
- Peter Jackson: Lovely Bones
- Paul Greengrass: Green Zone
- Tim Burton: Alice in Wonderland
Next in line
- 1.1.2010: Pilvilinna joka romahti (Larsson's third in movie form)
- 5.1.: Bayonetta (a 10 game in Edge is worth checking out)
- 8.1.: Spike Jonze: Where the Wild Things Are (Something completely different)
- 15.1.: Richard Kelly: The Box (Kelly's 3rd, with very uneven reviews)
- 15.1.: Ruben Fleischer: Zombieland (For the cameo, if nothing else)
- 22.1.: Guy Ritchie: Sherlock Holmes (modernized, yet classic)
23-24.1.: Matka 2010 (Going to Japan on the cheap 101)2.2: Lost, last season (truth will be out)4.2.: Mass Effect 2 (Back to setting the galaxy right)- 5.2.: Martin Campbell: Edge of Darkness (the world's greatest miniseries, take 2)
- 5.2.: Grant Heslov: Men Who Stare At Goats (odd)
8.2.: Stam1na: Viimeinen Atlantis (allegedly apocalyptically themed fourth album)9.2.: Bioshock 2 (game)10.2.: HIM: Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice (back in business, once again)- 19.2.: Martin Scorsese: Shutter Island (Third Lehane movie)
- 5.3.: Peter Jackson: Lovely Bones (For the director, at least)
- 5.3.: Lee Daniels: Precious (Again, something completely different)
8.3.: Airbourne: No Guts, No Glory (AC/DC, the next generation8.3.: Gorillaz: Plastic Beach (the third album from the virtual band)- 12.3.: Tim Burton: Alice in Wonderland (Burton, Depp, Fry, in 3D)
- 12.3.: Paul Greengrass: Green Zone (The Bourne duo, re-united)
- 16.3.: Dropkick Murphys: Live on Lansdowne (long-awaited)
- 24.3.: Cathedral: The Guessing Game (Doom metal emperors return)
- 24.3.: Barren Earth: Curse Of The Red River (Finnish progressive dödsmetal)
- 25.3.: Special: Not The Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy) (Monty Python turns 40)
- Q1/2010: Doctor Who, season 5 (with a new doctor in the house)
- Q1/2010: Trine (finnish platformer on XBLA)
- 2.4.: Daniel Espinosa: Snabba Cash (Lapidus follows Larsson, fast)
- 16.4.: Matthew Vaughn: Kick-ass (comedy superheroics that Empire loved)
- 16.4.: Roman Polanski: Ghost Writer (Polanski meets Harris)
- 23.4.: Oliver Stone: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Gordon Gekko is back)
- April 2010: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, chapter 2: Paint It Black (graphic novel fragment)
- 7.5.: Jon Favreu: Iron Man 2 (token superhero movie of the list)
- 18.5.: Alan Wake (finally)
- 1.6.: Alpha Protocol (multiply delayed espionage RPG)
- spring of 2010: Alpha Protocol (X360, Chris Avellone is back)
- spring of 2010: Inazuma Eleven (More DS-goodness from Level 5)
- spring of 2010: Grand Magus: Hammer of the North (Doom metal, more of)
- spring of 2010: Turisas: Unnamed third album (and a couple of headliner gigs on top, please)
- 2-4.7.: Tuska (Mastodon, Megadeth, ...)
- 17-18.7.: Finncon 2010 (Jyväskylä here I come)
- September: Death Angel: Unnamed sixth album (no more Pepa brothers)
- July 2010: Laundry Files (Meet Bob Howard)
- fall of 2010: Toy Story 3 (Pixar movie)
- fall of 2010: Treme (David Simon, HBO, Post-Katrina New Orleans)
- fall of 2010: Epic Mickey (Unconventional Disneyana from Junction Point)
- 2010: True Blood, season 3 (got to pick up the second as well)
- 2010: Michael Winterbottom: Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson on the big screen)
- 2010: Dropkick Murphys seventh album (record)
- 2010: Ihmebantu (dvd)
- 2010: Space Invaders Extreme (Yak's second on XBLA)
- 2010: George R.R. Martin: Dance of the Dragons (hopefully)
- 2010: Scott Lynch: Republic of Thieves (rather late as well)
- 2010: Charles Stross: Revolution Business (Merchant Princes #5, in paperback)
- 2010: Charles Stross: Fuller Memorandum (Back to the Laundry)
- 2010: Charles Stross: Rule 34 (book, if reality doesn't intervene)
- 2010: Fallout: New Vegas (game)
- 2010: Linkin Park: 4th album
- 2010: Third Witcher-book by Andrzej Sapkowski (in english, that is)
- 2010: Pasila, season 3 (Pretty pretty please)
- 2010: Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Slacker movie goodness)
- 2010: Level-5: Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (probably the english release needs an adjustment to its broken name)
- 2010?: Jane McGonigal: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Happy and How They Can Change the World (book)
- April 2011: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, chapter 3: Let It Come Down (graphic novel fragment)
- July 2011: Finncon 2011 (Turku)
- 2011: Charles Stross: Trade of Queens (Merchant Princes #6, in paperback)
- 2011: Cars 2 (Pixar movie)
- 2011: The Bear and the Bow (Pixar movie)
- 2012: Newt (Pixar movie)
- 2012: Andrew Stanton: John Carter of Mars (Pixar movie)
- Soon: Warren Ellis & John Cassaday: The last issue of Planetary (years overdue)
- FNORD: Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity (redacted)
- FNORD^2: Delta Green: TBC (even more redacted)
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