A teaser trailer. This looks like a special-effects funhouse. But moreso, it doesn’t look bad. And they utilized quite well a Nine Inch Nails song. This is based on a Frank Miller graphic novel. (Saw this on Crooked Timber.)

Apex, North Carolina isn’t doing so well.
I read the headline and immediately shouted to Monica, “Hey, a toxic airborne event!” DeLillo didn’t think he was writing non-fiction.
From the sound of it, this is no joke, though.
“There are pesticides, oxides, chlorine gases, there are all grades of contaminated material in this fire and in this smoke…”

See this here interview. I really respect their show (The Venture Brothers), and, after reading this interview and listening to one of their DVD commentaries, respect them outside their show.

This gets a big roll-eyes.
But Parker had no explanation as to why a man speaking Tamil, which is spoken worldwide, would be considered suspicious. The person who contacted airport officials could give an answer to that question, he added.
Yeah, the answer is that they’re paranoid. I’m so pleased we live in a culture this fearful. [...]

Not the jungle cat, but the musician.
We saw him perform at Emo’s with Ratatat. It was good.

Finally got my diploma. A large, rectangular envelope was DO-NOT-FOLD-stuffed into my mailbox on Saturday, and when I noticed it was from the University of Washington, I beamed. I mean, I paid a lot for that, and not just cold, hard promissary notes. And so, I have been conferred the degree of Bachelor of Arts [...]