"Mathematical!"

So Norm, I started watching "Adventure Time" on Netflix. I remember you showing me that one episode with the dimensional bubble blower, and when I found the show deep in the innards of Netflix, I was like, Sweet! Even with only the first 26 episodes of the first season there, I figured I could get a good grasp of the pacing and the beats and the sens of humor, beyond my memories of that first episode you showed me.

So far I've watched maybe the first five or so episodes, and I like it. Jake and Finn crack me up, and their dynamic is fun. Finn reminds me another character I have discovered on another show that I've started watching, their connection being wearing an eared cap of sorts:

This is Louise Belcher, the youngest of the Belcher kids on Fox's animated series Bob's Burgers. I wanted to write a long post about the show, about how out of all of the animated shows on television now, Bob's Burgers is the only fitting heir apparent to the mantle that was created by the Simpsons in their first four seasons. This show is more realistic and honest than most live-action shows, just like the early Simpsons, and does things that the Simpsons of today can't do or achieve (and I still watch the Simpsons).

But Louise is nine years old, right between Bart and Lisa in age, and is the best thing about the show. She's a mix of Lisa and Eric Cartman, and is one of the main antagonists of the show. I recommend it, if you feel like another show to invest time into.

ALSO

I read that Bleeding Edge seems like it could be Pynchon's 9/11 book, as well as his Internet book. I read some commentary a while back that mentioned, accurately, that in all reality Gravity's Rainbow is his 9/11 book, and The Crying of Lot 49 is his Internet book, even if a facsimile of Arpanet made an appearance in Inherent Vice.

GR deals with the ramifications of a society that is in love with death; and Lot 49 deals with an underground non-postal service mail delivery system. Pynchon is just ahead of the curve.