What is it with Ricks?

Here's a link to a screenplay by Carruth called "A Topiary," which he has apparently spent the better part of the last decade trying and failing to fund.

I was lucky enough to see this a month ago at its Santa Fe premiere with Shane Carruth in attendance.  He did a Q&A afterward.  Not only is he a truly incredible filmmaker, he's a funny, personable, and all-around cool guy.

I respect what Achebe was doing with Things Fall Apart, but I've thought that he fundamentally misunderstood Heart of Darkness.  Achebe seemed to think that that book was a positive portrayal of colonialism but Conrad goes out of his way over and over again to point out the horrors being perpetrated by the colonists.

Where is the Bluth Model Home?

The cut to Will Arnett right when Jack referred to Kaylie's grandfather as "Pop-Pop" was a really great Arrested Development reference.

In the last month I have read Acts of the Apostles, Romans, and 1 Corinthians from the New Testament, Aristotle's On the Soul, The Enneads by Plotinus, The Confessions by Saint Augustine, a significant portion of Oedipus Rex in the original Greek, Kepler's Astronomia Nova, and the first fourteen propositions of…

In the last month I have read Acts of the Apostles, Romans, and 1 Corinthians from the New Testament, Aristotle's On the Soul, The Enneads by Plotinus, The Confessions by Saint Augustine, a significant portion of Oedipus Rex in the original Greek, Kepler's Astronomia Nova, and the first fourteen propositions of…