Welcome once again to the Kwanzoo blog carnival, collecting the best blog posts on the errata of popular culture.

Romeo takes the top spot this month with a summary of the nervous breakdown and death of Dan Leno, turn of the century comedian who inspired silent comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel.

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Okay, if you’re staying in for Halloween, chances are you’re feeling pretty bad about things right now.  Maybe you’re bemoaning your lack of a social life, or that for some reason all the big events were LAST weekend because nobody saw a weekend Halloween coming.  Maybe all your old friends moved away and got married and you don’t want to be the fifth wheel.  But you know what?  For once, that’s okay, because there’s an unsettlingly large amount of stuff to do, and I’m going to walk you through it.

So assuming you haven’t already ordered a large pizza and settled in for the night with an armload of horror DVDs, I’m going to give you some things to do with a homebound Halloween that won’t get you killed by random Satanists out looking for human sacrifices tonight.

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If you’re waiting anxiously for Quantum of Solace on November 14th, you may find yourself a brief respite this Saturday on the Ion network. A BBC production made back in 2005, the three-hour-long Archangel stars Daniel Craig as historian Christopher “Fluke” Kelso, who seeks Joseph Stalin’s secret diary.

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Harmonix, better known as the developers of Rock Band, have announced an exclusive deal with The Apple Corps., better known as The Beatles and their various estates, to produce a Beatles-centric music video game. The new Rock Band spinoff-

Wait, it’s not a Rock Band game? Oh. Huh. I guess I just kind of assumed it was.

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Yes, I too am startled, for I finished part two of the two-part Pandemic series.

You know when Matt and Trey have to pull a “To be continued” you know they’re going to have a whole lot of lunacy afoot, and indeed, Pandemic did not disappoint.

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