This month's edition of the Accretionary Wedge is up at Magma Cum Laude, covering:
How Hollywood manages to screw up, in movie and/or TV form, the science that it took me multiple years, pints of blood and continuing therapy sessions to learn, and why I can't be held legally responsible for my reaction when the students in my intro classes spout it back at me on exams.
And once again, I am not in it. But still, you should go read! See especially the quote Zoltan pulled from a review of There Will Be Blood:
The fact is, Plainview is barely human to begin with, so watching him grow coarser and uglier and more full of himself seems a theme more suited to a geologist than a storyteller
... I think we've all just been insulted.
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