12/03 Fast & Furious Quiz

Tony from HowWellDoYouKnow.com sent us an email to let us know about the Fast & Furious they're hosting. If you want to see how much you know about Vin's latest film, check out the quiz here and brag with your result here.

Thanks, Tony!

Random Bits and Pieces

• The Chase Community wants Facebookers to vote for their favorite charity. One Race is one of their candidates, and if they rank high, they'll receive a chunk of the $5 million budget for their work. Click on the badge below to cast your vote!



• Val has officially gone Twitter! Visit him on "Val Dorado" (does the name ring a bell for you?) and read his shout out to VX. We love you, Val! Drop a comment or drool over his pics here!

Story of the Month

December 2009's Story of the Month comes to you from Furyan Goddess:

"First off, Dom and Brian are scorching hot together. One of my favorite pairings. Add in a hot little female and…" Well, you get the idea!

Read Just Between Friends by Cyren!

Weekly Q&A

The DVD of the new Star Trek movie has recently been released so who's hotter, new Kirk or new Spock? And what about Vin? What role do you think he could take in the next Star Trek movie? Tell us in this week's Q&A!

11/19 Video Games Award

Vin is nominated for the "Best Performance by a Human Male" and AoDA for the "Best Video Game Based on a Movie" category at the Video Game Awards! If you want to cast your vote, simply click on the image below or visit this thread for more info.

Thanks Silke!

Facebook

• On November 10, Vin's Facebook profile crossed the 7 million fans mark. Can you believe that? Try picturing 7 million fans, you could easily populate an entire country with them! With that, Vin passed President Obama's Facebook page and has now the most popular profile for a living celebrity ranking at #2 in the overall stats; #1 still belongs to the King of Pop.
• All you Riddick fans out there, pay close attention to his Facebook posts because he's been hinting quite a bit at a possible new Riddick sequel lately. Since some of his posts come with pics, they go "missing" in his photo album after a while, so if you need to catch up, here's the place to be.

Random Bits and Pieces

• Fast & Furious 5 news are slowly trickling out into the open, stay up to date here.
• The voting for the People's Choice Awards is still underway, don't miss to put yours in as well!

Weekly Q&A

Do you have any special Thanksgiving memories, like funny things that happened to you, cooking mishaps or special moments? Tell us in this week's Q&A!

11/05 Skater Boy

Vin is a Skater Boy! Lynn found us this photo on flickr.com, and we can only assume that he's skating in preparation for the new xXx.

Thanks Lynn and smurf!

Facebook

• The One Race Global Film Foundation goes Facebook!
• Vin has been sharing a lot of pics and inspirational messages lately. If you're in dire need to catch up, simply check out this thread.
• In statistical news, as of today, the Vinster ranks #3 on Facebook with 6,852,803 fans, right behind President Obama whose profile got superseded by the late Michael Jackson. Vin needs only 43.000 more fans to outrank the President and not even 4 Million to zip by Michael Jackson's profile. Piece of cake.

Story of the Month

November 2009's Story of the month comes to you from silver:

I picked this story because it gives us an amazingly intimate look into the minds and emotions of Riddick and Johns, as they find each other and begin an entirely new life, against all odds. Moving, thought-provoking, and breath-takingly passionate...just like our two favorite guys.

Read A Reason by FuryanGoddess and IceSamZero!

Weekly Q&A

After discussing Halloween with you for the last days, now we are curious about your secret dreams and fantasies. Do you ever fantasize about a real-life person that you really shouldn't be fantasizing about? Tell us in this week's Q&A!

10/22 People's Choice Awards

Help The Fast and the Furious become an official nominee for PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS 2010. Fans now have the power to determine the nominees for the annual awards show. Visit this site to vote now and ensure The Fast and the Furious makes the cut to be a nominee! The top five nominees in each category will be revealed at the People's Choice Awards annual press conference on November 10, 2009. Only those announced on November 10th have the chance to win a People's Choice Award on January 6th, 2010. Leave a comment here!

Thanks Johanna at TeleNextMedia!

Random Bits and Pieces

• On Friday Cinefools reported that Vin has pulled out of xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. This news has been conquering the net since then, although his publicist confirmed the rumour as being false. Read about the details here!


• Being a woman in a man's world can be punishing, as Amarette Frivotto found out when she took her job one step too far and got banished to the other side of the globe. Will she stay loyal to her family or realize that patriotism can earn her far more respect? Check out princess_silence's thrilling new Spy Chix adventure, Foreign Exchange!


• The Picture This forum has grown, with an amazing number of provocative and beautiful images. The resulting stories run the gamut from funny to dramatic to sultry. With this explosion of art and fiction, we thought we should reorganize the forum to make it easier to find exactly what you are looking for. Check out the new subforum, Slideshow, to find all the gorgeous pics. And in the main forum, we've streamlined the stories by merging all the multi-chapter series. Come take a look, read some of the stories, and let the artwork inspire you!

Weekly Q&A

What's your least favourite Vin role? Tell us in this week's Q&A!

10/15 Vin, The Tease

Our favorite man's been busy on his Facebook page again! Not only did he hint at "interesting script developments" for xXx and new locations for another installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, he also hinted at the new Riddick script and its rating. Click here to check out the full post. And not only did he talk about Riddick, Vin also gave some food for thought talking about Hannibal and publishing some yet unseen concept art. Lots of thanks to our relentless Facebook guardians who always keep an eye out for new Vin posts!

Random Bits and Pieces

• The Theater for The New City was selected to receive the John H. Finley Award. Thanks, Lynn!
• If you're going to write for Vin Diesel's production company and work with Disney, you need to be pretty open-minded. You might need to be open to the idea of toys that come to life. And of children who never grow old, and of male nannies who dabble in high-speed car chases. Tisch alumnus Danny Tolli [...] works for One Race in Los Angeles [...] and first went to LA for a writing program with the National Hispanic Media Coalition, sponsored in part by Disney. Read the full article here! Thanks, Lynn!

Weekly Q&A

If you could be invisible for a day, where would you go and what would you do? Tell us in this week's Q&A!

10/05 Tokyo Premiere

Konnichiwa, minna-san! [Hello everyone!]

The Vinster's been to Japan for the premiere of Fast & Furious; can you believe there are still countries in this world that haven't had the chance to ogle at Dom reloaded? Anyway, there are, of course, plenty of pics to share and, as always, we're most grateful that so many of you hunted them over all over the web and brought them here for us to enjoy. Click the pic below for eye candy.

Thanks to Tine, Silke, Ghislaine and Lynn!

Oh, and speaking of Japan, click here to get a glimpse of the Japanese cover for STRAYS! Thanks, Lynn!

 

One Race

On September 12th, 2009 - the ORF was proud to initiate the launch of the In-School Pilot Program at the Mauricio Baez Cultural Center which services the neighborhood of Villa Juana in the Dominican Republic. [...] Click Here for more information on the program and to see stills from the two-day workshop and here to drop a comment. Thanks, Silke!

TLPD Contest

Huge congrats to JaimeJo who won our first two prizes with her awesome submissions to our Talk Like a Pirate Day contest! Congratulate her here!

Spy Chix

A new recruit has joined the Spy Chix!
How will this young pool shark fit into the spy team? Jacey’s future with the SC is still a mystery. Take a peek at her top secret file, and then dive into her exciting new story!

Welcome to the SC, Jack!

 

Weekly Q&A

According to the Mayans the world as we know it is going to end in 2012. Assuming the Mayans are right, what will you do in your last 2 years on Earth? Continue your life as if nothing would happen or would you start doing what you always wanted to do, like travelling the planet? Tell us in this week's Q&A!

09/29 Vin Hires Ortiz

Variety.com reports the following:

Vin Diesel has hired former Universal exec David Ortiz at his One Race production shingle with the aim of developing films for a global audience. Ortiz worked with Diesel at Universal on the "Fast and Furious" franchise. He also worked on "Wanted" and "Role Models" at the studio.

For more check out this thread. Thanks Jibarita!

Pirate Festivities

• The TLPD Art contest is closed and the voting has begun! Go here to cast your vote! Remember, feedback is disabled until the voting is done to maintain anonymity.
• Our Pirate Celebration is Winding Down… Luckily, there is no time limit on our Picture This Pirate Challenge. Check out this thread to see the breathtaking pictures, then post a short story for us!
  
  And while you’re there, read A Dishonest Man by TheMorningStar. You can’t pass up Captain Jack smut!!

Weekly Q&A

If you could pick a Vin character to move in next door who would it be? Why? Thanks to Pamela for the question! Tell us in this week's Q&A!

09/24 Los Bandoleros goes iPod

Check your iTunes - the German store holds Los Bandoleros for free as a podcast. Enjoy 480 MB Fast & Furious with Dom and his friends at your iPod! Drop a comment here!

Thanks RIDDICK!!

Virtual Pleasures

VP Is Taking A Break!

The Virtual Pleasures staff is going to take a break. As you might have guessed, it is a very challenging task to write such long and detailed fantasies on a continuing basis. Our writers put an amazing amount of effort into making each and every VP story a special gift for the recipient. The stories require hours and hours of planning, writing, re-writing and beta reading. The writers give up a lot of personal time to make these stories as special as possible. [...] Maintaining excitement and enthusiasm among the staff is difficult; we continuously struggle with burn-out because each story is so very intense. We also struggle with disappointment when our hard work is not rewarded with feedback. Reader comments are what keep the VP staff going, so when the feedback is sparse, the staff begins to feel unappreciated. In the face of these frustrations, we have decided to put Virtual Pleasures on hiatus until mid-winter.

Read the full hiatus note here!

Even more Vin news are posted in the news archive!