In addition to being a great singer, he was an incredible guitar player. Check out Jerry Reed and him ripping up Guitar Man: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

This does not bode well - the things I've read by Christopher Golden and Mignola (Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism, Baltimore) were completely godawful.

I should add that it's the funniest movie I've seen in ages.

I don't get the criticism. Dowd wants the movie Wilson to be as unbearable as he is in the comic, but Clowes and Johnson understood that would not work in a movie. The movie Wilson is not a complete asshole, though he does assholish things a lot, and has no self-awareness. He's not a narcissist, and he understands…

I saw this last night and really enjoyed it. The film doesn't attempt any of the stylistic variation of the comic, but it is made up largely of short scenes. I think casting Harrelson was a brilliant move, because if the audience doesn't actually like Wilson, and want him, on some level, to actually succeed and make…

I didn't get the impression that they were giant, just that they were large in the perspective from the top of the cliff looking down on all of the horde(s) coming into Vaes Dothrak. In any event, the statutes are there to remind us, and Dany, that what the Dothraki want to be symbolized as is two stallions fighting…

The Dothraki are nomads. They don't care about buildings or architecture. They have houses, and a city, because they get together once a year (or however often), and they want a place to store their loot, but they would prefer to live on horses and sleep in tents.

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Who is more important for Arya to take down than Dany? She can't be assigned to kill someone she knows, and Dany is the only other major player left she doesn't know.

With regard to your last question, it's pretty irrelevant whether or not Sam becomes a maester. He needs to figure out that he's got the Horn of Joramund, and what he should do with it, and there may be some other information he should pick up about killing White Walkers, but Martin has not shown us that being a…

Actually, the 1921 Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement is credited with saving the Soviet Union's economy, which was on the verge of collapse. It was one of the first steps in international legitimization for the Bolsheviks. I highly doubt they would publicly make the British villains in the 1920s.

"We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."

It wasn't that the fighting of US troops wasn't effective, it was that the policy behind our intervention was screwed from the get-go: the South Vietnamese government was corrupt and ineffectual, and the North Vietnamese were strong and well-organized. Even if the US had achieved a total military victory, how long…

You have got to be kidding. Have you ever worked in a bank? Prior to the collapse of the housing market, investment banks would receive regular reports of enormous numbers of suspected fraudulent loans, and initial 30, 60, and 90-day mortgage payment delinquencies for the underlying mortgages in their RMBS packages,…

Teatro may be my favorite Willie album, but Willie had previously
recorded almost all of the songs on the album (some going back to
the beginning of this career.)

There was a shot of mammoth footprints in the trailer for next week's episode.

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Additional predictions for episode 10: Because it's called "The Children", I think we'll also catch up with each of the Starks (Arya sailing to Braavos, Sansa working the politics, Bran meeting the 3-eyed crow and the children of the forest, Jon being elected Lord Commander, and maybe even a shot of whatever…

It seems pretty clear that the Bank is now backing Stannis as a kind of hedge against all the money they've loaned the Baratheons/Lannisters. The probably outcome is not that both sides will win, but that one side will, and they will be able to pay back the loans and interest.

This is one of the things about the show that gives me great pleasure - it is overtly about manipulation, and we, as the audience, willingly forget we are being manipulated as we watch the characters being manipulated, and, in the moment, we become just as surprised and outraged as they are, even though we have been…

The point of drama isn't to make the audience like or dislike certain characters, so that a character needs to be "salvaged" so they can be appropriately slotted into the audience's "good guy/bad guy" chart, but to understand, emotionally, why people do the fucked up things they do, and out of that to gain some kind…