Yeah, sounds way more like a tom.

It's been a while since I read the books, but there were some details they changed, mainly to prevent audience confusion.  However, I think the biggest problem with the gambit was that the lies were mutually exclusive.  For it to work, there could only be one leaker; if two of them leaked before Cersei had a chance to…

"This is a move from a lesser Sandra Bullock romantic comedy, not a sitcom with some basis in real life’s daily trials."

Not having time for anyone's crusade but your own is still not racism,though - that's narcissism, at worst.  If you want to put a big political point on it, race and women's rights were both going on, and and each side was pretty much concerned with their own fight.  For the most part, white women weren't too worried…

Although Ned or Lisa seems like the obvious choice, could it really be anyone other than Ol' Gil?  That fucker's died for our sins nonstop.

Well, I'd be willing to bet $200 on the release date of the book just for fun (I'm not sure how that is done online - I'm sure there's some website for it) - but it's not like I really have any clue myself.  But just based on my own non-literary, long-term projects, I know that I usually get much better momentum when…

Summer 2014 is 26 months away.

I'm a long time Martin apologist,  but even among apologists, I think I'm one of the only ones that think that the long gap we saw between the last few books was a temporary thing.  People treat his output as if it's some sort of 2nd degree polynomial.  They're the middle section, and the middle section is hard to get…

So, "Cheers" & "Seinfeld" had similarly low aim?  Neither of those shows developed their characters after the first season or so of settling into their patterns, yet they're among the greatest sitcoms ever.

That can't possibly be true, unless they were excluding the Asian continent.

Well, "sucked" sounds more opiniony.  Saying "There’s not an ounce of feeling anywhere" is an opinion masquerading as a statement of fact - a false fact.  I wouldn't have a problem with someone saying, "I couldn't find an ounce of feeling anywhere."  It's still a fact, but now it's true.

What aggrevates me about the way most critics write is how they state what is clearly a subjective opinion as if it was some kind of universal truth.  I realize that you can't begin every sentence with "I think" or "It's my opinion that," but there has to be some kind of middle ground.

When you say "not good at the music bit," do you mean they're not good musicians in a technical sense, or that they're not good composers from a "writing a catchy song sense?"  Because I'd have to disagree with you on both fronts.  Watch some of their live videos online for, say, "Uncontrollable Urge" or…

The only long tracking shot I remember noticing also is the only one that I remember being annoyed by its flashiness: the beach scene in "Atonement".  I found it just obnoxious and pointless.  I can't give a good reason why - it's similar to the tracking shot in Goodfellas in that follows the protagonist through a…

One thing to keep in mind about PM:  There was very much a "I'm not just the president, I'm also a customer" mindset to the corporate culture there.  If you wanted to reach the upper echelons of management, being a smoker was a big plus.  At the time I was there, Geoff Bible had just taken over as CEO; the guy he had…

Wouldn't you include the Flintstones cereals as TV cereal? They were prime time.

Some people don't metabolize certain food coloring.  For me, if I consume enough fake purple-colored stuff (I used to drink 2 quarts of Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid at a time back in college), it would leave my body colored as green as humanly possible.

I vaguely remember those, mainly because Saturday Night Live had done a fake commercial back in the 70s with Belushi for basically the same thing, although their "cereal" was just donut gems stuffed in a Wheaties box.  It made me wonder how long the makers of Donutz had been sitting on the idea, waiting for public…

I was working at Philip Morris back in the 90s when their Post division rolled out Post Waffle Crisp.  For those of you who haven't tried it - it probably ranks as one of the sweetest breakfast cereals you'll ever try.  It tastes uncannily like waffles drenched in maple syrup and butter, to the point where it starts…

Did this play have anything to do with the online PulpBard project ( http://pulpbard.wikispaces…. )?  I really got a kick out of some of the stuff on PulpBard, but it's wildly uneven, as you'd expect from a crowdsourced script.