What Is It, Thursday?

* Via my once and future roommate Tim: 7 unproduced screenplays by famous intellectuals.

* Meet the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch.

* But let’s be very clear: our legislative process–which allows parochial short-term interests and massive corporate lobbies to undermine the long-term common interests–has proven shockingly inadequate to the monumental task before us: the preservation of the conditions of life for much of the human species.

* Hard to believe we’re still trying to get whaling banned.

* To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! Future generations are reading your tweets.

* Words circled by David Foster Wallace in his American Heritage Dictionary.

* Joss Whedon to rewrite Captain America too? Marvel could definitely put worse people in charge of its film franchise.

* Roger Ebert declares Kick-Ass “morally reprehensible.” I’m pretty sure I have to see it now.

* Zonal Marking: a soccer blog. Highlights here.

* And In Living Color is twenty. I am become old. So old.