Mandelbrot's in Heaven
At least he will be when he's dead
Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale

"This research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys."

"Shyamalan has boiled every epic heroic story of the past 20 years down to its most basic, primal soup-y essence, so he can spray it all over the audience, in a kind of Hero's-Journey bukkake."

"So full of nothing that almost everything good about the source material had to be left out."

[Shyamalan] wanted to leave us shaking our heads and ( Read more... )

Hey guys, The Last Airbender: Now With 60% More White People is being released tomorrow. I'm going to acknowledge the occasion by going to see Karate Kid instead, and you should do it too, because I can't think of anything that would send a clearer message to Hollywood than having Airbender beaten at the box office by a kid-oriented martial arts ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS ONE OF THE OTHER STUDENTS IN MY SIX-PERSON, 50% FEMALE GRAD SCHOOL COHORT IS A FEMALE CONSOLE GAMER HOW AWESOME IS THAT

GRAD SCHOOL IS GOING TO FUCKING ROCK.

also: WHAT AM I DOING TRANSLATING PLATO I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER ANY GREEK HELP

SHYAMALAN!

WHAT THE HELL, MAN. I WAS WILLING TO TRUST YOU WITH THIS. "As long as they don't cast a bunch of white kids" - I remember saying that when news of the live-action movie first came out.

Geez. Asian and Indian kids deserve to see heroes that look like them once in a while. And, hell, Jesse McCartney as Zuko? That's just adding insult to

So, listen, I guarantee I am at least as excited as you are about Obama's win, and also I'm pretty drunk right now, but here's the thing most of my friendslist probably doesn't appreciate about this election.

We took Virginia. Virginia the capitol of the Confederacy, Virginia that hasn't gone blue since a Democrat signed the Civil Rights Act. My ( Read more... )

VOTE, MOTHERFUCKERS.


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( On the last debate )

I ATEN'T DEAD.