The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.

I'm not going to say that on the Gapfest edition.

This is also the daily podcast from Slate.com for Wednesday, April 21st, 2010.

Today we're going to talk about the new movie Kickass, Literature and Cognitive Neuroscience,

and your tweets, now preserved forever, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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

Hello, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

And, of course, our film critic, Dana Stevens, Dana.

Hey, Stephen.

Julia, before we start, why don't you fill us in on the Live Gap Fest?

Yes, the moment has arrived.

The first ever Slate Culture Fest, Live Gap Fest, will be happening on May 17th in New York City at Housing Works bookstore at 7 p.m.

And this week, tickets are going on sale on the Housing Works website.

We're going to post a link to the exact site where you can purchase those tickets on both our

Facebook page and our show page later this week. But we're really excited about the show. We hope

you guys will come along and check it out. Wonderful. Yeah. We're looking forward to it.

Dana, let's plunge right in.

Kickass is a new movie, as I understand it, independently produced.

It has one major star, Nicholas Cage, in a supporting role.

It's a comic book movie.

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