Seriously, what's up with that? Thank you notes are not done anymore? Did I miss a cultural memo?

Amen.

He made it Hurt So Good, didn't he?

Yo, Mary Jo Eustace: still dodging that bullet, gurl!

Jeezuz Murphy, was Alicia always a flake?

Good God, *this*. It applies to breast/bottle, soother/not, disposable diapers/cloth, well pretty much everything that presents a conundrum in parenting babies. I wish so hard that some wise woman had told me this when I had my first. By my second baby I had figured it out and was waaaay less stressed.

To me, Jaime is morally ambiguous and opportunistic. The rape scene was no big deal changer. Far more jarring was the mucking around with his timeline: in the book, Jaime hasn't even arrived in Kings Landing in time for the wedding or the poisoning. He arrives too late to be of any use, even, ultimately, as a comfort…

Seriously. Sounds like girlfriend is mighty peeved to no longer be part of the Oprah gravy train.

By being a class act while all about her the Royals—-beginning with her abdicating nitwit Uncle, then including her sister, her sons, her daughters-in-law—-behave scandalously. She swore her life to the service of her Country, and by Gods she's never waivered since. Plus, Liz has the best frikkin bling. She is slowing…

This poor girl. She's in denial about mental illness, her family is in denial about her mental illness...this is not going to end well if this child does not get proper medication. Bipolars and schizophrenics who are off their meds are in one fucked up scary place.

Well said, my friend. There is no clear right and wrong in this scenario because the whole thing sucks serious balls.

I said this over at Fug Yourself, but it bears repeating: Now I will go IM my engaged daughter and pester her about babies again. I die every time I see pics of Little G. I want Grandbabies!!!

My additional takeaways:

6) Oleana just keeps getting better and better! And I loved that Brianne couldn't figure out how to react. Oleana should just cut out the middlemen and claim the Iron Throne for herself.

Lupita is also extremely well spoken and graceful to watch. Huge kudos to her for landing this contract. I sincerely hope that it means a collaboration with Lancome to include makeup shades that specifically address WOC, because apparently there is a rather large lack in the marketplace.

Not going to disagree with you there. Her choices since the Oscar have been mystifying for sure. But the fact that her career took off after the split simply cannot be denied.

Aaaaaaand, there goes any secret little delight that I ever got out of eating a York Peppermint Patty.

Mostly I just think he made a dumbass move and got called out. So not the 'newsworthy' item it's being made out.

Indeed. Every time I find out that an actor whose work I really enjoy is a Scientologist a giant piece of that enjoyment is destroyed.

Sorry, buddy, but I have to respectfully disagree. After their split Nicole starred in The Others, Moulin Rouge, and The Hours for which she won her Academy Award (the award that keeps eluding Tom). If that's not taking off, then color me confused.