Tiny Updatery

[handful_ofdust]

Oh my God, I love Lainey at Laineygossip.com. Blame my Mom, but her off-hand take-down of Twilight fans' angst over David Slade's Eclipse (as demonstrated in the trailer which got shown on Oprah) is effin' choice. Find it here (http://laineygossip.com/Eclipse_trailer_released_on_Oprah_23apr10.aspx?CatID=0&CelID=0).

Anyhow. Just ran the absolute last piece of tax shit over--now I have to pick up Cal, get him to Surrey Place, go work out, pick him up again. Tonight: Copy-editing! For money!

"The Shrines" continues to come together. It's going to be quick, echo-chambery and nasty. My favorite kind.;)

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[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

So is this the reverse of the “protagonist privilege” people (probably not the same people) were complaining about last week? “The movie adaptation gives the time of day to characters other than the romantic leads, boo hiss.” Actually, when you think about it, one of the myriad ways a movie differs from a book is that you can’t, in the theatre at least, skip over the scenes that don’t interest you – though since this fuss is over the trailer, it does indeed sound like the anger is over the implication that the director cares about subplots the fans don’t want him/her to…

[jackal-lies.livejournal.com]

TwiHards never cease to make me both want to hit things and laugh uncontrollably.

Is 'The Shrines' the same story as the not-Pandorum or something new? I can't remember having read about it before.

And (really late to the Near Dark discussion you had a while ago, but I only found this out recently) did you know Kathryn Bigelow had a prequel idea for Near Dark set during the Civil War?