I don't know what's wrong with you, not only celebrating deliberate animal abuse by a celebrity, but also equating The Humane Society with dumbness. What did animals ever do to you?

I'm sorry, is there some sort of intelligent line of thought that makes abusing animals any less monstrous? Just because it's a charity doesn't mean its goals are automatically noble. Any charity that is dedicated to abusing animals isn't worthy of the name.

He pays money to charities that only exist to abuse animals? He's an even bigger monster than I thought!

Uh oh! That raccoon is crossing his arms! He might have dangerous levels of ATTITUDE!

Yeah, considering that the scene seems to be constructed around Will Smith's dramatic chops (and to be fair, Smith totally kills it here), it's amazing how much Avery makes the scene work just by standing there, looking at him and knowing he can't do anything to stop the hurt.

Is there any reason why the Disqussion keeps disquppearing from these pages? My Avast isn't blocking it anymore, but any time I click on an article, there's only about a 20% chance disqus will open below.

Conan loves him some rake gags.

Oh, so that was the quote. I was just not quite sure what you were referring to. But yeah, it is funny to see a Cliff-Notes edition in Lebeouf's own post.

I'm almost done grading a bunch of finals by students who are either too dumb to understand the basic form of Milton's language or too aloof to bother trying, and they're all English or Creative Writing majors. I'm genuinely touched that Cooper seems to really like the poem.

She's written in iambic blank verse, you Philistine.

"So then, the scholar is fucking the guy's wife, and she has a priest start tonguing her ass in the dark, and the scholar's like 'dude, that's hilarious, I want to get in on that,' but then the priest hits him in the ass with a poker and then the husband falls off the roof and - wait, this isn't literature, the…

Only begotten Son, see'st thou what rage
Transports our adversary, whom no bounds
Prescrib'd, no bars of Hell, nor all the chains
Heapt on him there, nor yet the main Abyss
Wide interrupt can hold; so bent he seems
On desperate revenge, that shall redound
Upon his own rebellious head. And now
Through all restraint broke…

No, he expresses admiration for Satan, so it's clearly from William Empson's Milton's God.

Satan gets up to some freaky shit in that poem, though it's generally incestuous rather than homoerotic- have Cooper and Proyas tried pitching the film to HBO?

I've really liked the show so far, and while this episode was slightly more contrived than most, it was alright. I agree with the general gist of what Donna said about Darrin's presence sort of forcing the cast into one-note roles, but I'm excited to have the gang together again, laughed and grimaced when the third…

Yes, I'm referring to the hypothetical scenario where Lebeouf asked for the rights rather than plagiarizing the story. Not drawing any sort of equivalence between what actually happened and Moore getting paid and credited (or deliberately uncredited) for works he later complains about.

"I have no interest in the social end of it," said a review that spent one sentence talking about the games available for the gaming console he was reviewing.

This thread has made my use of Windows 8 about 200% more efficient. Thanks, guys!

What Picasso quote? "Good artists borrow, great artists steal" is the only T.S. Eliot quote I can think of that would be relevant. And knowing Eliot, there's no guarantee that that wasn't a line from a 14th century French quest romance or something.

Once Art School Confidential is out there, I think you just amuse people by trying to be picky with adaptations of your work. Look at Alan Moore after League of Extraordinary Gentlemen- now journalists just call him up to hear him say nasty things about a movie based on his work while they giggle in the background.