So, I’m engaging in this pretty pointless but kinda understandable search to see what everyone is saying about the Yumper trailer. Understandable because a lot of people (over 700,000 on YouTube alone) have seen it and a lot of them think it’s really cool. But also pointless because others are pissed because the movie doesn’t match the book and a small minority who’ve never heard of the book still think the trailer looks (I kid you not) “Gay.”

Cory Doctorow was describing this phenomenon at VP last week. He called it the “Turd in the Punch Bowl” phenomenon. No matter how delicious the punch and how small the turd, you just can’t get the turd off your mind.

I won’t point you at raves or pans but I did run across this funny one by Liz Miller at The Daily Reel. There she says:

Oh, man. So it’s just another Friday night and I’m lounging with my best BFFs at the the latest fabulous Hollywood see-and-be-seen (don’t ask me where, please — I wouldn’t want to make you feel embarrassed). And we’re enjoying some light cocktails and hard drugs when the topic of conversation turns to, as always, “Who would win in a fight — Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, or Billy Elliott?”

It’s a pretty controversial topic of conversation, as we all know. After all, Mace Windu’s got that badass purple lightsaber, and Billy Elliott has those sweet dance moves, and Anakin Skywalker’s all pouty and sad… The debate wages on as usual for an hour or so, and then my friend Jill says, “Wait. Guys. What if they had the power of teleportation? What then?”

And we are just like, “Whoa.”

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October 14th, 1947 – Flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13.7 km) in an experimental Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft, American test pilot Chuck Yeager (pictured) became the first person to break the sound barrier.