Misc

I’m not there, but Time’s got you covered. (Maybe that should be our new slogan. Did we have an old slogan?) Rebecca Winters Keegan, our one-person Los Angeles bureau, is covering it.

For a more granular breakdown of the Indy 4 presentation, swerve over to Ain’t It Cool. Wow, Karen Allen looks good.

Three people are dead and three more injured in an explosion that occurred at a spaceport in the Mojave Desert. These were people from Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan’s outfit, the folks who won the X-Prize with Spaceship One, who in latter days have morphed into Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s as-yet-notional space tourism outfit. …

This time to USA Today. I wish they’d gotten her to talk more about Deathly Hallows. This is probably the most interesting quote:

“I’m sort of writing two things at the moment,” she says. “One is for children and the other is not for children. The weird thing is that this is exactly the way I started writing Harry. I was writing two

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While I wasn’t looking Comic-Con kinda sorta became the biggest event on the nerd-media calendar. You know, where everything happens and everything exciting gets previewed. I’m not there. Instead I’m stuck picking up dribs and drabs on the Internet like everybody else.

Said drabs include the trailer for Beowulf, which looks quite …

It still feels weird to post about anything besides Harry. Maybe that’s why nothing else really seems worth posting about today anyway. A video of some astronauts throwing away an ammonia tank, in slow motion, in space? Some computer program is pretty good at poker? They’re making a movie of the good-but-IMHO-overrated comic Y the Last …

To Meredith Vieira. Rowling is on the Today show tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday, and on Dateline on Sunday. NBC has released a partial transcript (transcribed with touching fidelity, I might add), which I’m slapping in below. No bombshells, but it’s always great to hear the source speak. (Thanks to Jim Poniewozik for the hook-up.)

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I’ve been wallowing in yesterday’s massive comment trail, thought I’d pick out a few (of the many) good points that got made. Keep in mind that Rowling will give a couple of exit interviews this week — I know she’s giving one to USA Today — so maybe she’ll clear up a few of these? At any rate, if I were interviewing her, these are a …

[Seriously. This is the bit where we talk explicitly about the ending. I’m going to talk about it right now. Stop reading if you haven’t already finished Deathly Hallows.]

I had a really great, trenchant, coherent post about the end of Deathly Hallows, which I then left in my apartment, along with my copy of Deathly Hallows itself. So …

My review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is here. (For the record I did turn it in at 5:30 today, but didn’t get around to the blog till now.) It’s about as spoiler-negative as a coherent review can be, but if you haven’t read the book, and want to go in pristine, I’d steer clear. Otherwise, steer on in. I will be posting — and …