snorfle. I needed that laugh.

looks like USA Today has gotten their shit together. Here's a longer article and obit:

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I do feel awfully selfish, grieving for a stranger this way. But, like many here (hi Jars!) I've loved watching him since way back when and felt such gratification when he blew up all over the place.

It's really not my place to grieve, but he did his job well enough that I do.

God, yes, this. It was the first thing I saw when I logged on this morning (I open up onto the Guardian Website).

I don't want to get all Princess Diana weep weep bullshit over someone whom, okay, I never met or expected to meet - but this is a guy who's six years younger than me,for God's sakes, and I had been both genuinely impressed with his acting range and thoroughly charmed by his sheer damned lickability. Which, shallow, but, you know - I appreciated the pretty, I admired the acting skill (because, you know, pretty boys don't always have to be able to act - but he could) and like Jars I'd seen him first in Aussie teen shows and I'd been chuffed to bits (in a totally unjustified way, as he's nothing to do with me and not even from my country) when he'd had such success in Hollywood.

What a tragic thing for his family, and what a rotten waste of a genuine acting talent. Damn. Stupid universe.

The Heath Ledger news made me do a triple-take when I saw it on CNN and exclaim loudly "What the fuck?!?!?"

This is going to make THE DARK KNIGHT a seriously creepy viewing experience - like THE CROW level creepy. The fact that Heath's Joker looks more like the Crow than any live-action Joker I've seen is only going to add to the creepy factor.

here's NYT's article. Sad sad shit. Sounds like the police are going for accidental death pre-coroner's report.

no illegal drugs found in the loft. So, maybe his staff did a marvelous job cleaning up or this was accidental... [link]

Oh dear. I can't believe it took me this late to find this out. That sucks so much. RIP Heath. That is painfully sad.

In other movie-related news, is it strange that the Oscar race I find myself caring most about is Best Original Song? I just can't choose between the "Happy Working Song" and "Falling Slowly," though I'd probably vote for the latter since it actually stands alone as great music.

I'm totally bummed there isn't a song award for the Emmys.

Because we've been singing Flight of the Conchords Robot song all week.

"The humans are dead! / the humans are dead!/ We used poisonous gases / to poison their asses..."

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We no longer say "yes." Instead we say "affirmative."

Yes, affirmative.

::high fives bon and Cor::

Seriously, Emmett and JZ and I were singing it all weekend. We haven't been this earwormed as a family since the Invader Zim xmas song.