Awesome End of the World, F. Scott, and Breaking Down the Meaning of Jim Carrey

Check out this real cool clip of what it might look like if a comet plowed into Earth set to Pink Floyd. I'd love to see a disaster movie with a sequence as awesome and engaging as this:



In leu of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button heading to theaters (which is loosely based on a short F. Scott Fitzgerald short story), Slate.com has a really cool article up investigating why F. Scott might be spinning in his Ivy League grave for the movie's screenwriter's choice to leave out where Benjamin Button went to college. Fitzgerald was known to specifically assign his stories' characters a college history at either Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, and this cool article talks about his reasons for each (Hint: Harvard students are pussies).

Finally, the NY Times has a wonderful article up examining the career trends and choices made by Jim Carrey and the meaning of his popularity relative to the landscape of American movies and popular culture.