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Gina Harlow for President of the United States?  Well it’s not that far out when you consider the current basket-case full of myopic, technically incompetent, PAC-rat besotted ass-kissing idiots who are vying for America's top job.

More than 30 sword swallowers will be “dropping swords” at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditoriums worldwide at 2:25 p.m. on February 25, in celebration of the 6th annual World Sword Swallower’s Day. In excess of 125 feet of solid steel is set to go down the hatch – hopefully without a scratch!

The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. For several years Chandra has detected X-ray flares about once a day from the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*, or "Sgr A*" for short. The flares last a few hours with brightness ranging from a few times to nearly one hundred times that of the black hole's regular output. The flares also have been seen in infrared data from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

The Fans have spoken. Comic legend Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment’s highly anticipated large coffee graphic novel book ROMEO AND JULIET: THE WAR’s nationwide debut last week hit No. 7 on the New York Times Best Sellers list on both hardcover and paperback graphic books best-seller lists. And now it's available digitally on iBooks for $9.99. It's the brainchild of Lee, Paris Kasidokostas Latsis and Terry Dougas,  who are all founders of 1821 Comics.

A new film version of "Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island," will be showing on the Syfy channel on Feb. 11, 2012 at 9 p.m. EST in the United States. Filmed on location in Louisiana, this cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island" ("L'Île mystérieuse"), adapted for the screen by Cameron Larson ("Xtinction: Predator X"), is the directorial debut of Syfy on-screen favorite Mark Sheppard ("Battlestar Galactica," "Supernatural," "Firefly," "Warehouse 13").

Chicago-based urban fantasy author Nina Post will be bringing a touch of the brilliantly surreal to Curiosity Quills Press this Spring with her new novel, The Last Condo Board of the Apocalypse. In Pothole City, the supernatural lurks behind the most mundane of fronts, as jaded monster hunter Kelly Discoll discovers when she gets a job to find a fallen angel, and is faced with an apocalyptic high-rise apartment populated with dimension-hopping monsters.

Lloyd Lee Barnett's debut independent film, "I Love You To Death" (formerly Death Do Us Part), will have a limited theatrical release early this spring.  Produced, written, and directed by Lloyd Barnett (known for his visual effects on Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, Rocky Balboa, Apocalypto, Superman II, and Speed Racer), the film has already received rave reviews from horror magazines and a large group of fans on the web.

“Dead Inside” – a new film written and produced by Jennifer Zhang that signals director Pearry Teo’s return to independent horror – will be debuting at Sunset Gower Studios on February 24, 2012 as part of a special screening presented by NewFilmmakers Los Angeles. Beyond the film’s stylistic direction which blends American slasher elements with Asian ghost horror, “Dead Inside” is notable for a cast and creative team that includes Asian Americans striving to make their way in entertainment, and for the unique condition of being financed by a group of eight young Google engineers who share a love of film.

Mystery Writers of America has announced on the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2011. The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners at the 66th Gala Banquet, April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.