Even Pynchon litters his giant books with jokes and moments of levity, regardless of how much of a bummer parts of them become. And at this point with GoT, the problem is that the subversion isn’t even surprising anymore. It’s just super annoying and repetitive.

“Oh wow, this is great! It feels like I’m really vomiting.

Except for Ramsey.

The face trees are actually separate from the 7. They’re the “old gods” of the North that they were allowed to still worship instead of turning to the 7 like the other kingdoms. The old gods seem to be all about fighting the White Walkers from what we’ve seen at least.

This is basically gonna be LOST where it’s just two supernatural dicks using everyone else as pawns, isn’t it?

Are you kidding? I can’t wait to see how it’s left unfinished and unfulfilling! It’ll be just like everything else in my life.

I think Kinja is freaking out on me, so I’m not even sure if I’m replying to the right thing. But the sentence I said I was unsure of understanding was the one you cited:

It really does effect perception of sex in my totally anecdotal based opinion. Growing up, my parents were super strict on this stuff and had a filter installed on the computer to keep me from looking at porn. Being a hormone riddled young, male teen, though, I ended up just swiping erotic poetry and literature…

I’m not even sure I really understand that sentence. Is it saying that the mere idea of thinking porn is tied to exploitative labor practices makes it so? That documentaries exploring that idea are to blame for making the link explicit? Because that seems more than a bit dubious to me. Feels like it slips too much…

AV Undercover is great: both when the covers are fantastic and when they’re terrible.

Thank you. I want more people to be in architecture, but it always kills me a little bit when I read stuff like “architect on the side.” Architecture isn’t something you just sorta dabble in here or there.

Now I just want to read the opening to Underworld again. Not the whole book. But goddamn is “The Triumph of Death”/Pafko at the Wall one of the best things I’ve ever read.

I do enjoy some theoretical justification or framework for work, but I often feel like it’s best when that informs the work without overtaking it or being the sole reason for it. Ideally, the work should stand on its own with the theory there for me to dig in if I want to, but I find the opposite is often the case…

I reread some of it after posting that link, and I was losing my shit all over it again. The seriousness with which he approaches the absurdity is so great.

You’ve read Jon Bois’s stuff, right? Anyone who hasn’t and (rightly) thinks this article is fantastic should also check out Breaking Madden and NBA Y2k. I love stuff like this very, very much.

NBA 2k’s Presidential powers are terrifying.

Who’s the Three Musketeers of Freedom looking guy? Is that another Captain America? I haven’t been keeping up with the comics, but he really stands out to me.

I haven’t watched this video and have no opinion on it, but I like to call that particular writing style and the art frequently associated with it “11x17 art.” The kind of art you occasionally find somewhere like the Whitney or the New Museum that you look at and think, “huh...” Then you stroll over to the 11x17 title…

I quite like modern art, but do have a rougher time with contemporary art. I did really dig the recent show on Gober, though, which was something I thought I’d roll my eyes at until I actually went.

Oh, man. I cannot wait to see what you do with 50 Shades in a few years!