Sunday, after a grand day of doing nothing

[cleolinda]

Mostly linkspam, to catch up:

Via sualocin: Anne Taintor icons of awesomeness. I have one of Taintor's calendars, and September's illustration is "I love not camping." I very, very rarely use icons I didn't make for myself, but I'm going to have to make off with some of these.

ETA breaking news: Author Robert Jordan dies. His official site/blog is here, but the server's getting hammered.

The Birmingham News' Fall Arts Guide. Of particular note: the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in a couple of weeks.

O.J. Simpson Arrested in Robbery. Oh, you moron.

Robot maker builds artificial boy. But is his love real?

Woman's death raises questions about gene therapy.

Known for Famous Photos, Not All of Them His.

Writer Accused of Faking Interviews.

Hungry bears plague US west after record drought. Stephen Colbert is not going to be happy about this.

The Revenge of the Fighting Quaker.

Emergency room goes self-service. What? --How?

Venezuela seeks soup world record.

Spoken word not enough for dictionary.

I PLAYED YOUR TURN. I KILD YOU, SRY! It's the look on the cat's face that I love.

The truth behind "Hey There Delilah."

Teen death songs will never die ("Some of these are parodies ['All I Have Left is My Johnny's Hubcap'] and some should be ['The Water is Red,' about a shark attack]"). Personal favorite: The Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss."

Rachel Zoe Shocks Universe, Proclaims Self More Important Than Anna Wintour.

Kate Winslet Auctions Butt For Charity.

'Real Indiana Jones' dies at 80.

Jodie Foster is the Brave #1 for the Weekend. Whoa, seriously? Rock.

Blanchett's Dylan stirs Oscar buzz.

TIFF Watch: Cronenberg's 'Eastern Promises' is the People's Choice. (' "Well it's obvious,' he said. 'I have to play this naked.' " Viggo's Eastern Promise: More male nudity?)

(Somewhat related: What we didn't get to see in Troy.)

Jeremy Irons Joins Viggo Mortensen And Renee Zellweger in ‘Appaloosa.’

Will Aragorn Return In ‘The Hobbit’? Mortensen Leaves Open The Possibility.

Golden Compass: Animation complete and New York sneak peek.

Exclusive: Geoffrey Rush on Possible Pirates 4. Meanwhile, Eric reports, "Getting out of LAX was a breeze for once, and on our way out of the baggage claim, a man fumbling with his bag and a cigarette asked Dan and I if we had a light. It was Geoffrey Rush! After a whole film festival full of A-list stars staying on a single street in Toronto with zero on-the-fly celebrity sightings, it turns out I shared my flight back to LA with the star of the movie playing on the plane (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End). Unfortunately, as Dan quit smoking six years ago to preserve his health or something gay like that, we could not offer Geoffrey Rush a light. But he smiled at us anyway, and I've totally started smoking in case something like this happens again."

South American Bond Girl In 'Bond 22'?

Alfonso Cuarón's 7-minute book trailer.

D.J. Caruso Wants Shia LaBeouf to Be His 'Y: The Last Man.'

WB and Heyman Adaptating Paddington Bear.

Elizabeth Allen Helming Ramona.

Zwigoff Helms SF Spoof $40,000 Man.

Steven Spielberg's 'The Talisman' is Too Expensive for Primetime.

trailer_spot: Bucket List, Funny Games, Youth Without Youth, I'm Not There, Sleuth.

Comments

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

is there something wrong with me that i kind of hope sarah polley (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001631/) has a cameo in ramona (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094533/)?

[elbales]

Hungry bears link broken. Did you see Stephen Colbert's response to the MoveOn.org ad?

[elbales]

Oh, fuck. Cleo...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/16/state/n112201D05.DTL

[hyperactivegirl.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA I'm looking at the "I love not camping" September month right now!

I LOVE Anne Taintor. She makes my LIFE.

[reannaremick.livejournal.com]

http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/

Thought you might want to add it to the list. Robert Jordan died today.

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Rachel Zoe Shocks Universe, Proclaims Self More Important Than Anna Wintour

Bitch, please. Emaciation and leathery skin do not a fashion icon make.

[apocalyptically.livejournal.com]

I came online all prepared to enjoy Emmy discussion, but OMG ROBERT JORDAN. I started reading The Wheel of Time when I was 13. :(

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Holy...I was never able to really get into the Wheel of Time series, but I have several friends who are going to LOSE THEIR MINDS when they hear Jordan's gone.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I've never read any of his books, so I know him mostly from people wondering if he was ever going to finish WOT--so my first reaction was, "Oh, *facepalm*."

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

A friend just e-mailed me to let me know she'd heard the news, and she feels terrible...she made a crack about Jordan dying before finishing the last book just YESTERDAY.

Pardon me while I go drink to George R.R. Martin's health.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

I got through the first four books and part of the fifth before walking away from the series in frustration, but I know a bunch of people who are going to be quite upset that they'll never know how it ends. (Or, at least, how Jordan would have ended it. I'm cynical enough to suspect that somebody will release something "based on notes" or some-such.)

Bah. 2007's a suck year for big name deaths. *sigh*

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

I don't read his books either, but so many of my friends and relatives have been dreading his death. :(

[bookwoman84.livejournal.com]

D.J. Caruso Wants Shia LaBeouf to Be His 'Y: The Last Man.'

HEY TO THE WHAT NO.

[pakela.livejournal.com]

I remember rumors about Topher Grace, and I'm all for that. Actually, someone not Shia LeBeouf is awesome.

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! I just had the pleasure of telling my husband that he grit his teeth and stuck with the Wheel of Time for nothing. I abandoned after book 8. Although I'm sure TOR won't leave fans disappointed, they'll gather all the notes, hire a ghostwriter, get the family to write a foreword, and do the whole posthumous!book publicity hoopla.

[ezaryu.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm completely devastated by Jordan's death. I haven't read the last two books yet (was waiting for him to finish, heh) but his series and the world he created are at the very core of all major events of my life over the past 9 years.

A sad, sad day :(

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD Robert Jordan. :(

Le grief.

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

Ugggh...

I loved The Wheel of Time so.

Thank you, RJ, for so many beautiful memories & amazingly vivid stories. ♥

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

I'm a horrible person. The first thing I thought was, great, now WoT will never get wrapped up.

[stavia.livejournal.com]

I know you didn't just type "sneak peak." You just copied the headline from the site. So I know it's not you.

Peek! PEEK! P E E K !

(It's one of my pet "peaves.")

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, you know what the dumb thing about that is? I was originally sitting there going, "It's SNEAK, you dumbass, not SNEEK," and I changed that word, and completely missed "peak" right next to it. So that headline was full of *double* fail the way I found it, actually.

[stavia.livejournal.com]

To their credit (?) when I looked it was half-fixed and did say "sneak." I have decided I am not going to think about the person who wrote "sneek peak" because it will make my brain cry.