About World of Higlet

WorldofHiglet is the online persona of writer Mary R. Higgins, a born-again geek reclaiming her heritage bit by bit. A youth filled with sci-fi, horror and adventure in TV, films, computer games and books was crushed by years of office grind. Buffy brought her back into the fold after years of denial. Discovering Firefly sealed the deal. Now she geeks fulltime on her blog ‘the last geek bus home’. Her first novel ‘Turning left at Albuquerque” is complete and she has just launched HigletFilms.com, a new webvideo entertainment site serving new, original videos every Monday.
Website: http://worldofhiglet.com/
World of Higlet has written 57 articles so far, you can find them below.


Review: Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: The Book

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To celebrate the upcoming three year anniversary there is a whole new chapter in the extraordinary tale of Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. In fact, several new chapters – all bound together in a must-have companion book published by Titan books.

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The Best of 2010 Clicker Awards

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By WorldofHiglet

Clicker.com debuted in September 2009 and has since been establishing itself as an important site to watch TV online. With content from broadcast TV, movies, music, web series and more, they are currently running the ‘Best of 2010 Clicker Awards’. It’s just been announced that voting has been extended to Midnight (ET) on January 3rd 2011, so there is still time to vote for your favourite shows. I caught up with Patrick Sullivan from Clicker to find out more about the Clicker and the Awards.

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Q & A with Felicia Day

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By WorldofHiglet – Ms Day took part in a Syfy conference call and answered questions about Red, her upcoming role in Syfy’s Eureka and what the future holds for The Guild and her other work. It is obvious she enjoyed the challenges of the Red. She worked out every day and made her dad very happy by spending time on the gun range with him for the first time to practice. It was physically demanding and she was covered in bruises, but is something she would love to do again.

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Interview: Alyssa Ciccarelli of “Riese: Kingdom Falling”

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by World of Higlet: Riese, a wanderer, travels across the decaying land with her wolf, Fenrir. Alyssa Ciccarelli co-wrote Chapter 2 for the fantasy/steampunk web series Riese and currently manages the Riese web community.

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The Guild Season 4 Episodes 11 and 12

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By WorldofHiglet – A double review this week after missing a week because of VCON, so buckle up for a mega-serving of Guildie Goodness.

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The Guild Season 4 Episode 9: Pirate Paddy

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By WorldofHiglet – We have a bumper crop of videos this week as the ball-juggling of Season 4 ramps up further and Codex is one hook away from walking the plank PLUS an extra special bonus video.

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The Guild Season 4 Episode 8: Busted

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By WorldofHiglet – What happens when the squabs come home to roost? Codex is about to find out…oh, and she ends up in bed with….oops! That was nearly a spoiler!

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The Guild Season 4 Episode 7: Awkward Birthday!

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By WorldofHiglet – Guess who’s come to dinner? “Awkward” barely scratches the surface of the seething mass of tension that is Zaboo’s mum’s birthday dinner in the latest episode from The Guild.

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Browncoats: Redemption Premiering at DragonCon

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By WorldofHiglet – Excitement is mounting ahead of the world premiere of Browncoats: Redemption at Dragon*Con. After all the work put in by the team they are preparing for the big day in Atlanta. The film will be screened 7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT on Saturday 4th September and DVD copies (jam-packed with extras) are on sale now on the website. All proceeds from the DVD sales will go to charity.

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The Guild Season 4 Episode 6 – Weird Respawn

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By WorldofHiglet – After the bombshell cliff-hanger of last week, the underlying tension of the whole season ramps up even more. Codex finds herself drawn into conflict in the workplace and out: the boss, the slacker, the friendzone and his mother. And Vork. Plus the ladies that lunch. Yes, it’s another action-packed episode….

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The Guild Season 4 Episode 5: Loot Envy

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By WorldofHiglet – Last week saw Codex’ relationship go from off, to Fawkes-off to faux-on all in the space of a non-date-deductable visit to Cheesybeards. Oh, and she got a job, too. So how’s that working out…?

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The Guild Season 4, Episode 4 – Moving On

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By WorldofHiglet – Last week saw Codex stunned with a terrible revelation that threatened to undermine her last remaining self-confidence. And I mused on the merits of sporran-punching. This week Codex takes the lead, and gets a lot more than she bargained for.

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Lindsay Wagner: Syfy and Warehouse 13 gain a Doctor and an Icon

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When Lisa F (Alphagirl, head honcho) sent an email around last week asking if anyone was available to take part in a conference call with Lindsay Wagner I nearly fell off my chair. LINDSAY! WAGNER! I jumped at the chance to talk to her. It’s hard to express how much she meant to me growing [...]

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The Guild Season 4, Episode 3 – Oversupportive’d

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By WorldofHiglet – Last week saw the release of “Game On’, the epic new music video from The Guild. The song and video were released yesterday (August 3rd 2010) and zoomed up the charts, going straight into the iTunes top ten in the US, Canada and UK. This week Season 4 continues with “Oversupportive’d”

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The Guild: Happy Third Birthday – Game On!

By WorldofHiglet – Season 4 takes a little break this week because Felicia Day and company have treated us to a brand-spanking new music video (which doesn’t feature spanking this time), released on the third anniversary of Episode 1 of Season 1 being uploaded to YouTube.

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Homecoming: The Guild at Comic Con 2009, Part 3

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By WorldofHiglet – In the end, it is all about the people. The people who create The Guild, and the people who support the people who create The Guild. The fans, online and in person, played their part by following and participating and including each other. The cast and crew played their part by providing the focus of the community and a reason to be together. In a year The Guild had gone from being self-funded to the first independent webseries funded and distributed via the Xbox Live/Zune network.

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Homecoming: The Guild at Comic Con 2009, Part 2

By WorldofHiglet – In Part 1 of this chapter from the yet-unpublished “From Cheetos to Stripper Bus: The Ultimate Fan Guide to how Felicia Day build The Guild Level By Level”, The Guild prepared for SDCC and so did the fans – the CCGuildies who were attending and the ‘Left Behind’ that weren’t. After a huge response to signings and hints of more excitement to come, all eyes were on Room 5AB in preparation for The Guild Panel….

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The Guild Season 4 Episode 2: Strange Allies

After last week’s techno-pyric shenanigans Codex is computer-less but not camera-less. Using ingenuity not always obvious, she cams without the web and is in manic-mode. Deluding herself about Fawkes isn’t enough so she is now convinced that the whole Guild is mad at her because Bladezz was the first to respond to her text about her borked computer. The whole being off-line business had obviously tipped her nearer to the edge than usual.

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