I heard of a club in northern New England where the cell phone policy was so strict...

Hey, I think you missed the last couple lines of my post:

Oh my god. If the scene had played out the way you suggest, you wouldn’t have been moved to whine inanely and simplistically about it on the Internet. If you can’t see how that would mean the scene would have had a different (i.e. lesser) effect, then you’re in spectacularly bad faith here.

Man, that’s a phenomenal observation and point. I had forgotten that Sansa did have a lot to do with getting her father killed, which started this whole thing. In a way that seems small now but definitely isn’t, in the grand scheme of things, she’s culpable in her own misery. OBVIOUSLY that doesn’t mean she deserves…

You pretty much directly contradicted yourself in your second paragraph. You say they didn’t have to show it to get “the same effect,” and then you propose a different treatment of the scene that “kinda would have helped.” Um, if doing something different “kinda would have helped,” then it’s literally impossible for…

That last scene was very upsetting - Sansa Stark’s plight has gone beyond Job-like by now - but I’m not sure I fully agree that it was gratuitous or unnecessary. As horrible as it was, I do think there was more than the shock of it at play; to wit:

As I think about it more, Carlile’s version saps the song of some of its power because heer voice modulation makes it sound more like a modern pop-country song than it should be. Really, the underlying feeling the song gives is that the speaker/singer is trying to convince him/herself to actually be positive when…

Clearly they ran the numbers and determined that enough people who have watched “Legally Blonde” more than 100 times are wealthy enough to afford this garbage. I feel myself becoming more and more socialist all the time.

I loved that. Thanks for sharing. In my opinion, that’s a tremendous example of what a cover of a song can do. The original is more ostentatious (which is great), but Chapman’s version gives it a more understated, almost plaintive quality. A wonderful interpretation.

Very enjoyable. It’s always good to see modern music acts cover songs from the past. I just wish that when they did it, they’d abandon the modern style of near-constant voice-modulation (some is okay) and inattentiveness to diction that mushes some words and phrases together. Perhaps this is Brandi Carlile’s “brand,”…

I went to a prep school (not the one that generated this guide, I hope, but I’ll bet we played against them in sports, and my guess is that the one that produced this rhymes with “daft,” “boat[e]” or “lotchkiss”) and witnessed these tactics playing out pretty much every day for four years, though I graduated back in…

This isn’t really surprising. After all, what the hell else is there to do in Kansas City than have beef?

Not to get all Rovellian, but the “brand” that Lexi Thompson has been cultivating includes being out there as a sex symbol in golf. Rory McIlroy was shirtless on last month’s cover; the reason Lexi’s semi-topless presence is noteworthy because girl-boobs are still seen as dirty and man-boobs are not.

Hoo boy, glad I don't go by my real name on here!

Recall they were without Niang in the tournament last year when they lost to UConn. With him, they could have easily won it all. I think they have the sauce this year.

"Analsea," by Cat Stevens

Always look out for the man making up for lost time. Majestic.

This is an all-time favorite, courtesy of Everything Is Terrible:

Pretty miserable Snell-o(h shit!)-vision there.

I just watched the video on mute while listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor on iTunes. I had a feeling it was going to be an appropriate soundtrack and I was NOT disappointed.