I can't wait til they get Miley Cyrus to play Sylvia Plath in that lighthearted comedy, "The Bell Jar."

They've done studies that say MTV was a big part of people's attention spans shortening. I never had to read Moby Dick, even when I was an English major. They figured Bartleby the Scrivener was enough to explain the genius of Melville, which is that he will bore you until you would rather watch MTV.

haha playla :)

I'm not ashamed to admit that Moby Dick is one of my favorite books; it is genius. (Though I think that I did skim a few of the chapters that featured long descriptions of various tools/ships/what-have-you.) I hate these revisionist "reimaginings". Boo!

Well, I'm King A-Hab
and I'm here to say
I'm gonna pop that white whale today…
*beat boxing*

Mix Master Mike is puttin down da wax trax for this joint…

Dammit. I meant "Captain" Ahab. I got Ad-Rock on the damn brain. Wait, I take it back. "King" sounds better.

I love Moby Dick, and while they're right that it is an action/adventure/revenge story, it's just so…wrong to do this. There are some things that just shouldn't happen, and Moby Dick as a blockbuster is one of them. This is all Sarah Palin's fault.

Further proof that there are no good writers in Hollywood anymore. Nobody can come up with an orginal idea, and those that do don't succeed at the box office.

Either re-make a classic, in which case they will screw it up royally and it will BOMB, or just do an americanized version of a japanese movie.

if this is the best writers can do anymore, perhaps they should all be replaced the next time they strike because they don't seem to be worth the money

This is amazing news!!

I hope they do, "The Brothers KILL-amazov.. This time, it's personal.."

Smerydakov would be pimpin'.

MBP! I believe what you just did there is known as the "Famous Jujubees Use of a Comma!" And for that, you get a prize. I'll let you know when I figure out what it is, but it will be GREAT.

But I think, I did, that right, right?
She, disappeared, and only left, her legacy.

Overkill. You had it right the first time. The key is to play it, all cool-like. See how I did that just now? Lessons from the master pay off.

Well, little grasshoppah, don't you have to avenge your master? I mean, Juju is no longer with us…

Don't lose hope. She's everywhere. Some would say she's, the wind beneath our wings. Some have said it. Right out loud.

That's life, get ova it. Just make sure to give your kids books instead of TVs and perhaps the world won't go totally mad.

But more importantly, a funny snippet from my life:
One day my sister (who was 10) walked into the room I was in and asked me what I was reading. The book was A Christmas Carol and she responded by asking: "Who wrote that again? Charles Dickens or Moby Dick?"

So, you told her it was Moby Dick, right?

As if that's even a question, Sarah.

Scurvy: Not your grandparent's disease. Not even your great great great grandparents.

Perhaps Greenpeace can come along and save the whale this time. That would be different.

I can't wait for the big screen adaptation of Kafka's "The Trial" as a romantic comedy with Patrick Dempsey and Blake Lively.

I really, really miss juju's quick wit. If she's around, she's keeping quiet.

I miss you juju and your, commas.

Argh! The 2000 remake with Patrick Stewart was bad enough! Way to suck all the dignity out of a character like Queequeg and instead have him be a WWE reject who runs around yelling "Bleehh!" for the entire length of the movie.