Or Koka Kola, Card Cheat, I'm Not Down, Brand New Cadillac.

If memory serves, this was the only Clash song performed at Joe Strummer's funeral.

Agreed, though I did find the stuff in Sum of All Fears to be grounding. When I read it, it was the mid 90's, so the idea of a misplaced Soviet nuke, lost in the shuffle of the collapse was super prevalent in fiction at the time. The process it took the terrorists in that book to turn the found nuke into a usable…

Hunt for Red October is the only one where the two media are close. Though that's due to it being the first and Clancy focusing on the story, rather than his own personal politics and ego.

Trank the Trank! Trank the Trank!

He probably goes with Kane's music. (Some interesting similarities between the Clegane brothers and The Undertaker and Kane. Maybe the end game is Sandor becomes the Libertarian King of Westeros.)

"Oh My God! That's The Hound's Music!" - Jim Ross

"And did you fuck him like it was his last night on earth?"

He's Bubbles getting to eat upstairs. (Other series spoiler)

This week's one was useful, mainly to so that I could remember who Rorge was.

My Elevensies with Frodo

Ha! Then maybe I'm just desensitized to it. In my amateurish reading world history is filled with atrocities that would not seem out of place in Westeros or Essos. Any "shock" I've felt has been because Character A is experiencing this event, NOT that the event happened. When Ned was beheaded, I wasn't shocked he was…

Ah. When I said that I was thinking more about the correction of medieval fantasies in terms of characterization, say for example Ivanhoe or the Arthurian Legends.

I don't feel that the story is meant to be a discussion about the norms at all. They simply exist as stimuli and plot devices to drive character development and dramatic action of the greater story GRRM and the producers are trying to tell in the books and in the show.

While it is a correction of medieval fantasies to an extent, it still is a story set in a society where the norms are medieval, and one can expect the characters in that society to live to the norms of that society and not ours.

My only problem with this article is we are viewing these acts through a modern lens. This doesn't excuse the absolute wrongness of rape or murder, but dwelling on fictional rape and murder in a medieval world seems like a waste of time.

Sheriff Lobo

Vincent Price pays what he likes.

Am so hoping Sec Def Maddox busts out a "Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" this season.

I just wondered if Ser Davos had smuggled in some marshmallows.