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Linkspam:

Remembering Natasha Richardson, 1963-2009; Natasha Richardson, 45, Stage and Film Star, Dies (New York Times); Natasha Richardson: A critical appreciation; Richardson Died of ‘Blunt Impact,’ Medical Examiner Says; U.S. Release Plans Uncertain for Natasha Richardson Film, 'Wild Child'; Natasha Richardson: 17 key roles; Lindsay Lohan and Alan Cumming Comment on Natasha Richardson's Death; Rivers recalls Richardson as 'amazing and darling'; Natasha Richardson: Stars and friends remember her. Among the many:

Ralph Fiennes (Richardson's costar in Maid in Manhattan and The White Countess)
"For everyone who knew and loved her, Natasha's death is a terrible, devastating loss. She was a star. A great actress, a beautiful woman, a fiercely loyal friend, a brilliant and generous companion. She was an adoring and loving wife and mother. She was unique. My thoughts and prayers go out to Liam and her beautiful sons, Micheál and Danny and to all her family. I cannot imagine a world without her wit, her love, her mischief, her great, great talent and her gift for living. I loved her very much. She was a supreme friend. I shall miss her deeply."

Helen Mirren (Richardson's costar in The Comfort of Strangers)
"Natasha was a great actress, a fantastic mother, a loving wife and a whirlwind of energy, with an infectious love of life expressed firstly by her wonderful deep laugh. Anyone who knew her will be in mourning today. I hope that Liam and her sons are helped in their pain by the great love and sympathy that is coming to them from people all over the world."

Meryl Streep (Richardson's costar in Evening)
"Tash was the warm sun in the center of a large constellation of family, friends, all of those lucky enough to know her. She is irreplaceable in our lives; she gave us so much, so generously. Her legacy is the love that connects us all."

( I think we all need a laughing puppy now )

Trufax: I was talking to my sister's boyfriend--we really need to come up with a code name for him, Sister Girl and I decided, but we don't know what yet--on Sunday and he mentioned the Twilight Tonner dolls. Apparently when I was all like YOU GUYS GO TO THE TONNER NYCC BOOTH AND JUST, LIKE... LOOK AT THEM OR SOMETHING FOR ME earlier this month, he did, and he was like, "Who's in charge here? Can we buy 400 of those for our stores?" And the Tonner people were like, "Uh... YES." Apparently it had never occurred to anyone to sell actual dolls at bookstores, even though their rival Borders has been selling the action figures and all the Hot Topic crap. So, uh... if you happen to be at a Books-a-Million and you see the Tonners there as an in-store exclusive, that's... kind of because one of their buyers has a not-quite sister-in-law who's a Crazy Doll Lady. *cough* I mean, I asked Sister Girl, and she said, "No, it totally would have been because of you, that's how he would have heard about the dolls in the first place," although of course he was the one smart enough to actually come up with the idea and get them for the stores.

And the other thing is... I don't have anything solid enough to repeat on this, but they might give Books-a-Million some kind of holiday exclusive, I don't know. It might simply be that Tonner's going to put out more stuff for the holidays, as they do, and Books-a-Million will be the only bookstore selling it, who knows.

Meanwhile, I am TIRED of this head cold. It's just bad enough to make me feel groggy and snerfy, but not bad enough to GET ON WITH IT.

Also: Remind me to tell you about the Bowl of Galadriel. Again. Uh... tomorrow. Like I said: I'm a bit behind.

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Please think findy thoughts for a plot-important scarf I KNOW I have but I can't find anywhere. Trust me. You want me to find this scarf.

Sister Girl has acquired herself an LJ to post Comic-Con adventures on when she gets back, so that should be forthcoming.

Meanwhile, my sister's boyfriend is stuck in Atlanta on a three-hour layover. You can drive to Birmingham faster than that.

Meanwhile-meanwhile, I am scared, but I am determined to figure out how to put the book and Not Eowyn on eBay today, because Sunday's a good day for that and it needs to go already.

GO CORALINE GO! (Coraline 2009's first Oscar contender?)

Yes, I did hear about Summit optioning Breaking Dawn. I'll believe it when I see it. Go here if you don't remember why it's so controversial--make sure you read the end of the second installment, if nothing else.

Today's Snack Deathmatch: Sour cream and onion potato chips vs. soft pretzels.

And finally (last is good in terms of people seeing it), from alexthedevil: "I know a lot of people are going through hard times, but is there any chance you'd be able to pimp the Red Cross bushfire appeal? I'm not sure how widespread the coverage is internationally, but at last count there's 66 dead and 700+ homes destroyed from the fires yesterday."

1) Well then. Yesterday's entry certainly set my inbox on fire.

2) Speaking of inboxes, if you've direct-messaged me here on LJ recently and I didn't reply, you will probably want to check and make sure that you don't have the privacy option enabled, which means that I can't send you a message back.

3) If you were interested in Melissa's Harry, A History signing at NYCC, I double-checked, and you will be able buy the book while you're there.

4) I was reading "The Great God Pan" last night, and then I reread Stephen King's story "N.," and he mentions in the afterword/notes that most horror writers (of which I consider myself one, to some extent) end up taking on the theme of the world being "thin" in places, places thin enough to glimpse unspeakable horrors. After a little thought, I realized that this idea doesn't actually appeal to me all that much, and that I tend to think of reality as a very thick place, actually--so thick and gnarled and crannied, like an old house or a hollow tree, that you never quite know what might be lurking in the corners. But I still think of it all as being on the same plane, just full of... nooks.

5) I had a really weird dream this morning that involved people having a party invading spilling into my backyard, and then a frontal assault from a bunch of schoolchildren in the front yard who all had to go to the bathroom and their teacher-nuns (long grey dresses. I don't know) let them into my house (which was suddenly a mansion) without asking me, and I was really, REALLY concerned that they were going to steal all my jewelry. Apparently I have boundary issues at this time.

6) Today's Snack Deathmatch: honey roasted peanuts vs. salted cashews. I'm more of an almond/hazelnut girl myself, but my stepfather is definitely a cashew man.

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There is so much awesome in this linkspam that it can barely be contained.

( Nora Roberts, undead fetish nurses, flow charts, RUGGED INTENSITY, F. Streetname Whitebread )

ETA: WATCHMEN SETTLEMENT

Fairly productive day--a long slow slog, but I kept on keepin' on. I mean, my eyelid's started twitching again, but what're you gonna do.

Today's journal flashback: Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes, because that's pretty much what started everything. And, you know, Halloween and stuff. Speaking of which, I have something fun planned for tomorrow, if I can get it all to work.

Meanwhile, the dogs went crazy yesterday evening while everyone thought someone else was watching them and they tore a large strip of wallpaper off near the kitchen window. Which means that if we can't match the wallpaper (we probably can't), we'll have to re-paper the entire kitchen. You know, because we have the money or the fortitude to deal with that right now. Also, they ATE THE WALLPAPER, WHAT THE HELL. So now we're going to have to get a second crate (they're too big to both fit in the old one) and crate them during the day because I can't watch them and get work done, which hurts my heart but guess what? It's not like we can let them run around and destroy the house, either--they've already acquired a taste for magazines as it is. Fnarr.

Total change of subject: can anyone recommend a good, free music player/program for my computer that is NOT iTunes? Yahoo Jukebox has decided to suck hosewater since they killed Y! Unlimited and tried to send everyone over to Rhapsody, WHICH IS NOT FREE, leaving the player a shell of what it once was. ( I downloaded Media Monkey and it seems okay... )

Linkspam! ( Blogger bloodbath! )

So on to the linkspam!

Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89; Remembering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Putin honors late Solzhenitsyn.

Pauline Baynes, Narnia Illustrator, Passes Away at 85.

Morgan Freeman Involved in Car Crash - Serious But Stable; Morgan Freeman suffers fractures in wreck; Morgan Freeman is gonna be okay!

( MOAR )

Okay, here's the rest of the linkspam. Whew.

( HBP, Comic-Con wrap-up, Bond theme song, sexy never left )

Let's start off with the Twilight insanity follow-up, to keep it continuous with the last entry. By the way, there really were 6500 people at the panel, no exaggeration. So: ( I fight like a little bitch )

Also-also, more Great Moments in Inappropriate Fan Behavior: James Marsters regulates; the Tale of the Sewn-Back Jacket; the strip club theory of fangirl groupthink, which rings very true to me.

( MOAR LINKSPAM, MOSTLY FROM COMIC-CON )

Actually got a good bit of work done this morning, believe it or not. Also, there was some weirdness right as I was adding the daily click graphics to the end of the entry and a few links went missing, so I think I put all of them back but I'm not sure. ( Carnage and crazies at Comic-Con! )