'Our college system is sick, in the sort of slowly dying way that reminds me of Ernest Hemingway's "Snows of Kilimanjaro," and it's because "academics" are much too out of touch with their "students."' -
tanaearanduril,
http://community.livejournal.com/academics_anon/1688888.html (It's the bunny ears what done it.)
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Bonus feature: Apparently, Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is now out on DVD. That's not funny. What is funny (apart from the whole concept of Westerners "really being into" anime*) is that Topless Robot refers to the original as GitS:
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/11/dvd_day_november_24th_2009.php *Hard not to picture some little bar in Osaka hosting the fifteenth annual meeting of the Japanese John Wayne Appreciation Society. Loving the alien, right? Do me a favour. They're laughing at you...you sad dweebs. Wannabe-Gaijan Westerners with a thing for anime. Good grief. It's not your culture, and it never will be. You're actually marginally more embarrassing than white people with dreadlocks. Get over it, and for God's sake stop ordering those used schoolgirl knickers online, you sickos.