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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. I'm doing the World of Favor edition.

It's Wednesday, June 15th, 2011. On today's program, the new JJ Abrams, kind of, sort of, is it really a blockbuster, Super 8, and the new and very viral kids book Lampoon by Adam Monsbach,

Go the Fuck to Sleep, and Urban Cycling, Sustainable Paradise, or Pest Problem.

Joining me today, our Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner, hello, Julia.

Hello, Steve.

Julia, I am not going to pass over this opportunity to comment on your outfit, which is so kind of integrated.

Catherine Hepburn goes yachting?

It's very integrated.

It makes a very definite statement.

It's Catherine Hepburn goes yachting.

It's amazing.

Hello, Steve.

What's the one line that you can say like Catherine Hepburn?

The lilies. Something about the lilies? Hello,am. Hello, Dan. Hello, Kate. The car of lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower. Oh, my God. I'm ready to sign off. That's a show. That's a show. And, of course, our film critic, Dana Stevens. Hello, Stephen.

Hey, Dana. So, Dana, let me start with you. We all obviously saw the JJ Abrams movie Super 8.

It stopped me if you think anything I say is da Tendentious or Unfair. You're wrinkling your brow all that. I can't even.

I just can tell I'm going to be painted into some kind of

Metcalf Corner where I don't get to answer the question that I want to answer. But go on.

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