Heath Ledger: the internet responds
I am, of course, saddened by the loss of Mr. Ledger, whose work I have enjoyed many times, most recently in I’m Not There. I feel unqualified to honor the man’s memory or reminisce about his affect on culture, so I offer these links instead.
Harry Knowles has a mature, sober appraisal…
Variety takes a more hard-headed, businesslike approach…
While I Can Has Cheezburger offers a touching tribute of their own.
In my fifteen years using the internet, I have seen a great many annoying things whose popularity I just can’t get my head around.
Those cat pictures are in the upper percentile of that list.
it comes from a site on which you’re just as likely to see pics of decapitated soldiers or hardcore porn. lolcats is a great irony.
This is the first celebrity death that really upset me, Ledger was less than half a decade older than me. I can realistically see turning 28. That is too young to die.
You tricked me. You tricked me into reading an AICN post.
Here’s an interview I conducted with him circa Brokeback:
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid51785.asp
Or the comments Warren Ellis makes in his Bad Signal newsletter
http://box-in-the-box.livejournal.com/54354.html
Or the Westboro Baptist Church
http://box-in-the-box.livejournal.com/54757.html
Gosh, well my interest in Mr. Ellis’s work just dropped precipitously.
Yeah. I used to respect the man.
Dear oh dear…to be famous, righteous and callous all in the one hit…
Tis sad to lose a fellow Sandgroper…