A Movie I’ve Been Waiting For

Oh, God, I’ve waited for this one, and I hope to see it sometime this first week.

My favorite screenwriter and one of my favorite directors got together to make a film.

The writer of Heathers.

The director of Mean Girls.

They are brothers.

Working together at last.

I’m talking: Vampire Academy.

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Mini-review I just saw on Twitter: I have seen Vampire Academy!!! Credits rolling. Review to follow. Quick take: OMFG AWESOME. I’m 100% serious. #happy

(I realize I have odd taste in favorite screenwriters; Charlie Kaufman is probably my second favorite. I squeed like a little girl when I happened to have dinner recently with one of Daniel Waters’s former classmates at McGill.)

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The Most Bullshit-Sounding-But-True Facts

A few from this reddit thread:

1. Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.

2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

3. When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.

4. From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn’t made a full trip around the Sun.

5. The last living child of African American slaves died in 2010.

6. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.

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