Everybody’s Talkin’ 4 – 6 (Ebert Chatter from Other Bloggers)

Yesterday morning was deeply bittersweet for me. As my memorial for Roger Ebert was posted, I quietly held my breath. When news of Ebert’s death broke, I knew I was going to need a few hours to try to string together two coherent sentences. Even when those hours came and went, I sat down and felt like I wasn’t making any sense.

Gotta love trying to honour a writer with bad writing, right?

Then yesterday morning rolled around, the post went live, and I started getting such wonderful feedback. People told me that I summed up what they were feeling, and that Ebert would have been proud of what I wrote. Guess I made some sense after all.

Of course, as wonderful as it was to hear people respond in that way, it actually kept kicking me back into that sad headspace I found myself in when I first got the news. What I’m trying to say is that it’s been a strange two days…two days when I didn’t feel like writing all that much, knew that I should, but also fight to get anything right.

Guess that the sort of mixed-up feeling that comes with death.

I’m just about ready to move forward and get back to normal, but before I do, here are a few more words about Roger Ebert from some blogs and podcasts I admire.

 

On the subject of Roger…

 

Matthew Brown and Matthew Pice at Mamo

Sam Fragoso at Movie Mezzanine

Jake Cole at Not Just Movies

Marc Ciafardini at Go See Talk

Lindsey at The Motion Pictures

Steven Flores at The Void

Rich Watson at Wide Screen World

Nick Prigge at anomalous Materials

 

Finally, for a Tweet of The Week, I turn to A.O. Scott who sums the man and his influence up thusly…

[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/aoscott/status/319906643229949953″]

 

Cheers!