And happy Thanksgiving to American friends & readers! May no turkey go unpunished for stealing the day!

You can follow him here: @GarretDillahunt.

Happy birthday!

Wherever you are, hope you’re celebrating in style.

The Gentlemen, not doing The Mourning Portrait either

Okay, this seems to be getting out of hand, so just a quick note to say that no, Garret will not be in this film. I ran it by him in December when this Facebook page first showed up in my Google alerts and he said he had never accepted the offer. This hasn’t changed.

Even though his name now appears on several news sites that have reported in recent months that he’d be starring in the film, along with Melissa Leo, Diane Ladd and now Wentworth Miller too apparently, Garret is still most definitely not attached.

So whoever has been trolling the Facebook page is actually correct. A screenshot, for posterity (click to enlarge):

Some actual news coming tomorrow.

In 2009, the site had 43,103 page views from 14,442 visitors from 108 countries. The greatest number of people were from the U.S. (49,35%), followed by Canada (9%), the U.K. (6,7%), Germany (3,17%), Sweden (2,7%), Australia, France and Spain. Here is how it looks across the continents:

And these are traffic stats from March 2009, when the domain went live, to the end of the year:

It’s still peanuts compared to the traffic Garret’s page on Wikipedia gets at #3 in Google, but the traffic has been growing steadily and for the most part independently of the general search trends.

If anyone is curious about the general trends (number of people looking Garret up), here are the Wikipedia traffic stats from December 2007 to December 2009 (click to enlarge):

For reference, #1 in Google gets five times as many hits as #3 on average (probably more when it comes to actors), but since IMDb isn’t releasing the traffic stats for individual pages any time soon, Wikipedia will have to do.

On December 31, 2009, the site had 182 posts and 206 pages.

Finally, here are the top 50 of the 2,817 search terms that led people to the site in 2009. Happy to say, most of them are relevant and Sharif Atkins never made the list, even though in the first half of the year there were enough people looking for him for me to consider adding an honorary page. I still might.

A big thank you for an amazing year and hope the next one brings only good things your way!

Happy birthday!

(He is one year and 13 characters older today.)

The bad guy on BBC’s Being Human, which just got picked up for a second season, was spotted getting the Johnny Cash treatment while heading out for the big showdown with the show’s good guys: a blood-sucking vampire, a werewolf who has difficulties containing himself, and a grumpy, vindictive ghost.

Excellent show.

Seven minutes in:

Slashfilm’s Peter Scirreta filmed himself while testing it on his Wall-E and apparently it works wonderfully. The video can’t be embedded so if you wanna see it, head over to Slashfilm.com.