Lunchtime links.

• At Whatever: Gene Wolfe Chosen as SFWA Grand Master.
• At mental_floss: 12 Characters From Your Childhood Voiced by Tim Curry. (Um, yeah. If your childhood was, like, FIVE MINUTES AGO.)
• Pictures from The Hobbit's UK premiere. ULTRA-HAPPY ADORBS James Nesbitt, #11; SUPER-PENSIVE ADORBS Martin Freeman, #12.
• Hans Christian Andersen's first story found: "The story tells of a little candle, dirtied by life and misunderstood, which eventually finds happiness after a tinder box sees the good at its heart and lights it."
• From a post about E.B. White's house at Writers' Houses: "That’s when a dog that wasn’t mine barked loudly and rapidly and I became painfully aware of the fact of what I was doing and how quickly I’d been discovered: I was trespassing, and not just trespassing, but trespassing in Maine." 
• William Polking on his first stint as a Cybils Round One Panelist: "I am reading more than I ever have, but I no longer think I read a lot. My efforts thus far have been dwarfed by two of the other panelists, whom I firmly believe must be independently wealthy, Adderall-abusing insomniacs. Things were so bad last week that I considered taking a sick day from school just to lessen my to-be-read pile, whose current size blocks out the sun and affects the tides."
• Pretty Little Liars Quiz: Could YOU Be A?
• Announced: The NAACP 2013 Image Award Nominees. Among the Teen finalists? Sharon Flake's Pinned.
• At The Hub: 2012 “Best of” Lists by the Numbers.

Comments

[Brooke Shirts]

Oh, if there's any 5-minutes-ago childhood media Tim Curry should be remembered and revered for, it's for doing the audio versions of the Series of Unfortunate Events. BRILIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT.

[Leila]

DUDE. AGREED.

[Emily]

The totally forgot that he was also a character on Jimmy Neutron.