Tuesday night, pleasantly tired

[cleolinda]

Well, today was a busy day. Linkspam:

War criminal Radovan Karadzic caught disguised as Dumbledore; Jasmina Tešanović: My neighbor Radovan Karadzic.

Estelle Getty of 'Golden Girls' dies at 84; Remembering Estelle Getty.

From duncanatrix: Viacom claims indie filmmaker's original animation is copyright infringement.

Real dinosaur on the loose makes learning fun. Yeah, I would pretty much run screaming. I'm not so much about the dinosaurs, really.

Confusing 'New Facebook' to Once Again Ruin Old Facebook.

Los Angeles Times Book Review Section Is Folding.

Top Ten Things Publishers Could Do to Help Readers Buy Books.

So Let's Put a Book Trailer in Theaters, And See What Happens.

Spokesdog accused of dropping an F-bomb.

Confess your scary celebrity-crush art projects!

25 stars who rocked fashion.

EW Comic-Con '08 Central is live!; MTV Hits Comic-Con With Big Exclusives From ‘Terminator Salvation,’ ‘Twilight,’ ‘Red Sonja,’ ‘Lost Boys 2,’ ‘Repo’ And More! (read: "Our e-penis is bigger than EW's!"); Universal's Con Preview Includes 'Wolfman', 'Unborn' and More; Five Ways Comic-Con Has the Power to Make or Break Reputations.

Serial Killer Joss Whedon Faces His Public ['Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'].

The Great Revelation Of 'True Blood's' Comic Origins.

Shyamalan's 'Night Chronicles' to Teach Three Young Filmmakers the Art of Critically Reviled Pretentiousness.

Cinematical Seven: Actors Who Could Play Relatives. I would just like to point out here that Christopher Walken and William Fichtner desperately need to play father and son someday.

Images: High School Musical 3; Redbelt; First 'Race to Witch Mountain' Photo; SDCC Exclusive: 'Bitch Slap' Poster and Photos.

Trailers and clips: Must Watch: One More Crazy 'Pineapple Express' Trailer; The Teaser for Jim Carrey's 'Yes Man'; Natalie Portman, Bollywood Princess.

Batman star bailed over 'assault'; Statement: Bale denies assault allegations; business as usual over on ONTD. It seems to have been "verbal assault," by the way. Meanwhile, The Dark Knight Adds $24.5M on Monday for "the fourth-highest Monday of all-time," putting it on track to beat the previous $200M record (eight days) in only five. Also: Do We Need a Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy?; What if Batman was real?; Aaron Eckhart on the movie ("When I was watching this movie I found myself as an audience member going, 'WHOA! LIKE YAY!!'").

McG Talks 'Terminator: Salvation' Story and Design; Christian Bale Eager to Bring ‘Terminator’ Back, Batman-Style. Meanwhile An Arrest Clouds The Situation.

It's Twilight Tuesday! MTV Exclusive: “Twilight” Author Stephenie Meyer Wants Questions From MTV Viewers! And they announce that she'll actually read the entry comments herself! Trolling immediately ensues:

The Plot Says: (July 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm)

Why did you forget about me? Was it because of that asshat Sappy Pointless Dialogue? He’s just using you, you know.

Come back to me, baby, please. We could have been great together.

Also: How Well Do You Know ‘Twilight’? Take Our Quiz! (I'm not even going to tell you what I scored); No Sex Please, We're Vampires.

'Iron Man' Gets a DVD Release Date; Behold! Indiana Jones Special Edition DVD (with souvenir "crystal" skull).

Moviegoers get wound up over ‘Watchmen.’

Discuss: Are Male Critics Sexist Against 'Mamma Mia!'?

David Goyer Hopes For ‘Unborn’ Sequel.

Michael Vartan and David Cross Get 'Demoted.'

Games Galore: 'Wanted,' 'Quarantine,' 'Mean Girls' and More.

Rymer To Helm 'Witchblade.'

'ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction' Heading for the Big Screen.

A Prequel to 'Wet Hot American Summer'?

Rumor: Top Gun 2? Goose Rolls Over in Grave!

Comments

[sneaky-minx.livejournal.com]

"Serial killer Joss Whedon" - It's funny because it's true. Hee.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

YES! Something I contributed made it into your linkspam! My work here...IS DONE!

*strikes a pose, then flies into the sunset*

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

If Shyamalan doesn't get started on The Last Airbender soon I may cry.

*in total withdrawal*

[azuresquirrel.livejournal.com]

Huh, I'm actually the complete opposite right now because after THE BEST FINALE OF ANYTHING EVARRRR, there's really nowhere the film adaption can go except down (for me anyway, I can see why others would look forward to it).

Man, that's a loooottttt of linkspam. I'd love to comment on it all but, damn. I will say - that comment on Twilight Tuesday = WIN, and I feel I've been missing out on the internets a lot lately because I have not been able to see The Dark Knight yet (going tomorrow!) and have been avoiding spoilers. :P

[secretnthewings.livejournal.com]

GAH! DINOSAUR!

(That right there is the stuff of my fourth-grade nightmares, let me tell you.)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Whereas I would pay the museum to let me have that job. :D

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

That comment from the Twilight blog will never stop making me laugh. I made my friend read it, and she called me back today to ask me here the plot was, as she was 300 pages in and hadn't seen it yet.

It's just. so funny.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Joss' wailing insistence that "Yes, I kill a lot of characters, but this time it's totally different, I swear!" is making me want to slap him.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's not that "you kill someone, everyone makes a fuss!" People make a fuss when you do it every #$&*ing TIME. Learn a new trick, already.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

There are large (6 ft tall) ads for Tru Blood ("imitation blood substitute beverage") on bus shelters on Michigan Avenue. Didn't know what they were for until just now, and obviously didn't care enough to actually check the website. Meh - SO over vampires by now....

[obigrrl.livejournal.com]

I have always thought that Brendan Fraser and Jason/Jeremy London could play brothers.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

AHHHHH.

...Yes they could. Creepily so.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

CELEBRITY SIBLINGS: Eddie Vedder and Bradford Tatum look alarmingly alike, as do Casper Van Dien and Al Santos. Also, if anyone ever do a biopic on John Waters, they need to get Macaulay Culkin as young John and Steve Buscemi as older John!

The dinosaur is the bestest thing ever. I want one!!

btw- my scary celebrity crush art project is my icon *g*

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Top Ten Things Publishers Could Do to Help Readers Buy Books.


How about put a summary of the book on the back instead of quotes about how people liked the other books the author had written? That's what I want most.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

for reals

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

That Twilight comment wins massive Internets.

*still hasn't watched Dr. Horrible; also still hasn't quite forgiven Joss for the deaths in Serenity*

[corkdorkdan.livejournal.com]

I was horrified by the Top Gun 2 thing, but then MSNBC reported that it was not true. At least, the Tom Cruise part is not true, they weren't clear about whether rumors of a sequel were true.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25804362/

From the dear author link on things publishers could do to sell more books

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It’s annoying to have books of different sizes and/or types on the shelf for the same series.

Strangely enough this has bothered me much less than almost EVERY GODDAMN BOOK BEING PART OF A SERIES. Sometimes I don't want to discover that the volume that horrified me is book 2 of your planned 23 book story arc on elvish werewolves who love the wrong women.

As for Make the covers more distinctive suggestion; how would we recognize paranormal romances without the headless and naked male torsos that they usually display?

Re: From the dear author link on things publishers could do to sell more books

[wednesday]

Headless, naked male ankles? You've got the combination of pseudo-Victorian "oooo, ankle revelation is daring" and "holy shit, this must be paranormal. That guy's head was on his ANKLES!"

From the twilight link - why did I click that?

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

This fandom is the most incredible one that could possible exist and it exist because of you. Love spead all around the world, getting over languages, and ages, and distances just because of the love you give us through your histories and your characters.

*curls in a fetal position and cries*

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

How Well Do You Know ‘Twilight’? Take Our Quiz!

Oh, God. I am so ashamed of my score. I must go find something good to read now.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

I recommend some Neil Gaiman. Even if it's a reread.

[nekoama.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm trying so hard not to geek out on those comments in the dinosaur thing. Dammit Jurassic Park, why did you have to be so awesome and so very, very wrong at the same time D:
Loved the bit with Eckhart on the movie.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

Raaaaage on Viacom calling a person's work "theirs." RAAAAAAAGE. Like, I'm trying to the coherent, but they just overstepped a line.

[mermaidkween.livejournal.com]

Critics are not biased against Mamma Mia! because of their gender -- they're against it because it is genuinely horrible.


Ta-daaaaa.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

But all of this innuendo merely reinforces the fact that they're actually not "doing" anything, and perhaps, makes purity more appealing to the teenage girls devouring the series.
Mulder and Scully politely defy all notions that innuendo = proof of abstinence.


It showed that guys will like you even if you don't want to have sex right away, which is so different from everything being thrown at girls right now.
I am convinced that Twilight is good for children. This seriously needs your "Bella Swan, how shall I kill you, let me count the ways?" icon.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I like watching the kids' reactions to that dinosaur best.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

You wound up correcting some of the questions on the twilight quiz, didn't you?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[lovely-luck.livejournal.com]

Hey Stephanie! I was just wondering why you use so many synonyms. I mean is thesaurus.com your homepage or something? It's not your fault, but sometimes it really makes me want to punch your editors. Also, there's no need to use the word "chagrin" that much.

That got a hearty LOL from me, that's for sure. I really hope she does read the comments...

[daemonnoire.livejournal.com]

Ugh Witchblade. They are only allowed to do this if they use the COMIC BOOK continuity. Not the TV show. Because the TV show was dead to me at the end of the first season. DEAD. BECAUSE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS WASN'T DEAD WHEN HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AND GRRARGH!

That Viacom thing is full of so much bullshit. On the plus side, the artist posted a comment saying that the tags were removed after she complained.

[chorusgirl.livejournal.com]

Med question: have you ever been on effexor?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nope, not that one.

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

I mentioned that I wanted to see Quarantine to a work colleague today and he told me to go and watch the original. I wasn't even aware that it was a remake!

But as it turns out, it's an American remake of Rec, a Spanish film that came out in 2007, or April this year in the UK. It hasn't been shown at all in the US. It's going to be released on DVD in August over here and I can't find a release date for the DVD in America?

He said that Rec was the scariest film he'd ever seen in his life - he says he had nightmares for weeks and he still gets scared thinking about it, and he's a 6 foot 3 bloke covered in tattoos and piercings - and that everybody should watch that and not Quarantine. So I thought I'd pass on the message.

And as for onscreen resemblances(sp), how about the youngest brother from Malcolm in the Middle and the blonde singer girl from School of Rock? They're the spitting image of each other, just different genders. It's too late in the evening to find pictures now, but trust me.