This just in: HOLY CRAP Elfquest movie!

If y'all haven't seen this already, check it out: an Elfquest movie is finally coming! Wendy and Richard Pini are breaking the news on Elfquest.com today.

Forums discussion can be found here.

The interesting bit for me in Wendy's post is the "combination of CGI and live action". Man, I hope they don't screw that up. If they have the budget to pull off the same clever tricks that Peter Jackson did in LOTR, they could get away with live actors playing the elves.

Which, of course, raises the fun question of who will be playing whom. The floor is now open for casting calls!

Fifth Temeraire novel is out!

And congratulations, naominovik, you've made the short list of people I'll actually buy in hardcover. Mostly because I just CANNOT wait another year to find out how Laurence gets out of the cliffhanger at the end of Book Four. ;)

So yeah, I picked up Victory of Eagles in shiny hardcover form tonight, and it will be bubbling up to the top of the stack of Things I'm Reading Next.

But it'll have to wait until I'm done with desperance's Bridge of Dreams, into which I've gotten about a couple hundred pages, and I'm too far in to bail now!

For general reference, the other three people I'll actually consider buying in hardcover are jimbutcher, Julie Czerneda, and Elizabeth Peters. Because I'm also testy about being behind a year on the Dresden Files, and Elizabeth Peters is putting out the first Vicky Bliss book in ages this summer, and I'm not really willing to wait for that, either. But at least Julie Czerneda's latest will be out in paperback this September.

Also fighting for my attention through the rest of the summer: things by rachelcaine, Charles Stross, John Scalzi, matociquala, and mevennen. I'm feeling like I ought to go through my To Read shelf and clear out all the books by people whose LJs or blogs I'm reading! And local authors as well, which'll bring Kat Richardson, Mario Acevedo, and Caitlin Kittredge high onto the queue. Also, more cmpriest.

Also: I totally need a decent Temeraire icon.

Food and exercise

Forgot to do weights tonight, grf. But at least I have done a bit more walking today than normal; I opted to take the long walk down to the Lake Forest Park Town Centre bus stop. I'll have to work in the weights tomorrow night, though. Can't do it Friday since Eddie.

Meanwhile, ( food data... )

I ate too much over the weekend, I think. And not enough fiber. Need to be more on top of that for the rest of this week.

Miles since July 4th: 11.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2933
Miles out of Minas Tirith: 96
Miles to Hobbiton: 1529