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The 10 Best Moby-Dick Homages, Adaptations, and Celebrations

On By DFLovettIn Bale, Books, Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Literature, Moby-Dick, Star Trek, Wes Anderson6 Comments

Happy Birthday, Moby-Dick! Not the whale, but the book. 165 years ago today, Herman Melville's epic novel was published in America for the first time. (A different version of it had come out in England one month earlier, but today is accepted as the anniversary of the version the world knows). In honor of this …

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Does Every Episode of The Simpsons Take Place in a Different Universe?

On By DFLovettIn Fan Theories, Fan Theory, Star Trek, Television1 Comment

It's Halloween season, which means all the usual trappings that come with this time of year: pumpkins, corn mazes, shockingly-early Christmas advertisements, and the annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode of The Simpsons. "Treehouse of Horror" is a pillar of The Simpsons, referred to by The AV Club as "a reliably inventive exercise in non-canonical Simpsons …

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