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Yup, it's Superman's name that his parents from Krypton gave him. Nicolas Cage also took the "Cage" part of his stage name from the Marvel comics character Luke Cage. His birth surname was Coppola.

7:00 pm in the atrium of the JFSB (Joseph F Smith Building) on BYU campus.

At one point, a fan asked Isaac, who was also there signing books in which he had done artwork/maps, a question, which Isaac then answered and then Brandon kind of interrupted him and said, "That's actually a huge spoiler. We're going to need to have that expunged from the transcript." And he looked over at us Sharders like, You got that? This is off the record. Unfortunately, I was not paying attention and completely missed what the question was and how Isaac answered it. Little wilson asked what would happen if a pregnant woman were taken by the Shaod. The gist of Brandon's answer was that the woman would be affected like anyone else taken by the Shaod and the baby would basically go into stasis until the Elantrian magic was restored, at which point the baby would continue its growth and eventually be born but not become an Elantrian.

Ok I've got one. A girl's family lets her be kidnapped to appease the local wizard guardian who protects them from a sinister forest.

Excellent. I can catch some flies with this as bait. I'll just leave this basketball filled with helium here for the next poster...

I know that either FirstRainbowRose or Chaos or Little Wilson recorded the entire Q&A session on their phone, so there may be a transcript posted at some point.

My younger brother taught himself to play a few of the songs from Dr Horrible on the accordion. He's just awesome like that.

I feel sorry for children of celebrities who name their kids really weird stuff like that. Kanye West's kids, for example--North West and Saint West. I mean, really?? Why would you do that to your child? I mean, at least Nicolas Cage's name choice of Kal-el for his son, while eccentric, won't make the boy such an obvious target for mockery.

Re music: I recommend anything and everything by Evanescence. I was happier than a seagull with a French fry driving back and forth between Salt Lake City and Provo three days in a row earlier this year for Salt Lake Comic Con because I was jamming out to Evanescence (and singing along) at high volume for most of my driving time. Another band I loooove is Muse. Probably my favorite album by them is Black Holes and Revelations.

I know someone recorded it-- either FirstRainbowRose or Chaos or Little Wilson got it on their phone unless I'm mistaken. But I don't know if Brandon has requested that this reading be kept off the Internet, since I know he sometimes does.

I guess that's not unusual for Tolkien... XD

I'm just glad I finally knew one of the answers in this thread. XD Now I need to think of one for you all to guess... Give me a while. I need to think about this.

OH OH OH I KNOW!! The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan. The falafel-eating protagonist is Magnus Chase, who dies defending innocents from a demon from Norse mythology and thus goes to Valhalla as an einherji.

Finished Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today--unexpectedly, I might add. My Kindle's progress bar said I still had 40% of the book left, but it turned out that all that was just a huge long Afterword. *facepalm* Like this, but x20: I also started Rick Riordan's latest book, The Hidden Oracle. I find the haikus at the start of every chapter quite amusing. Kind of makes up for the lack of snarky chapter titles when Percy is telling the story.

On the subject of spelling variations in names... In most cases, I think different spellings for relatively common names can be nice, as long as they're not so "out there" that nobody can guess how to spell it within a few tries. For example--I like the name Raven for a girl, but I would never spell it Rayvyn, as I have heard of some parents doing. And then there's this...

I did something similar when I was pretty young too. My parents and I were at our church building, and I my parents were like, "Okay, time to go!" And I didn't want to leave, so I ran in the opposite direction without looking where I was going and ran smack into the edge of a door, gouging my forehead open on it badly enough that I needed stitches. Today something pretty funny happened... At lunchtime I was trying to open a tube of Gogurt, but it was being stubborn so I decided to try to rip it open with my teeth. It opened, all right--exploded and squirted yogurt up my nose. I spent like 10 minutes wiping yogurt off my face and my shirt, and here I am 4.5 hours later still finding little remnants of yogurt crusted on my shirt. XD

I'm fine with Tuesday since it sounds like the optimal day for you all. Shall I be in charge of pizza this time around?

You bet they are. I think the guy may have deleted his post so ppl would stop berating him.

Haha. Have you met the demon who runs the karaoke bar yet? Watching Angel sing is hilarious.

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Yeah, Anton Yelchin. I heard about that. Apparently it was a freak car accident, very sad. I really like his portrayal of Chekov.

Awesome, aggie! I think your spelling of Adonalsium is really clever, how it utilizes the pronunciation of the letters' names to portray the word without having to spell it out fully.

@Claincy, your story reminded me of my own ridiculous injury story... So when I moved to Utah to begin attending BYU, my parents and my younger brother came along with me to get me settled. We were looking at mattresses, and I was sitting on different ones in the store to test how they felt and whether I thought I'd be comfortable sleeping on them. Well, as I was sitting down on the last one, I felt this giant painful POP in my knee and it's a storming good thing the mattress was under me or I would've fallen on the floor because my leg gave out. Over the next few days, my knee still wouldn't quit hurting, so we went to an orthopedic specialist to get it examined, and it turned out I had dislocated my kneecap...from sitting on a mattress. I had to have surgery to fix it, and three years later I still don't dare run anywhere for fear that it will pop out of place again. Lamest injury ever.

@little wilson This week I'm busy Wednesday and Friday nights, but I could do Tuesday or Thursday.

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