Nah, she has plenty of songs that aren't about her exes. I mean, just taking Red as an example, it has sixteen songs: two have little or nothing to do with love or romance ("22" and "The Lucky One"), one is about love/romance but is about somebody else's relationship, not hers ("Starlight"), three are about love or…

The experts at Stanford and Purdue weren't asked to comment on whether or not the science behind the cell phone tower pings was sound. They were asked to comment on whether or not the original trial's "cell phone expert" accurately explained the science to the jury. That's a completely different question from whether…

There is a not-insignificant percentage of Serial listeners who think that Jay is, like, covering for the Mafia or something, so I don't think we can put a ton of stock in what they believe. I'm just going to bat for Sarah Koenig, who I don't think was endorsing the serial-killer theory by including it in the podcast.

I think the point behind it is that the Innocence Project doesn't actually believe that a random-ass serial (ha!) killer did it, but if they pretend that it's an angle worth exploring, they can get the DNA on the body tested, and that may result in some evidence that points more concretely towards more believable…

The cell records are now widely considered to be junk science, Adnan's lawyer completely ignored a witness that would have provided an alibi for Adnan at the time the crime was supposedly committed, and Jay has admitted to fabricating parts of his story under oath. At the very least, Adnan deserves an appeal.

They might be published two months after the editing/rewriting process is completed, but unless his company is willing to publish the rough draft essentially as-is, it can't be done. Re-writes alone generally take two months, and for somebody who works at Martin's pace, it could easily be longer.

The editing/publication process isn't instantaneous, especially for a book that requires as many copies printed as this one does. I'm sure Martin is at the top of their list and they'll rush to get it through once they get it, but even if Martin was finishing up the book right now, there's still no way they'd be able…

Yes—especially since he said they could easily end up being 1500 pages each. If that's what he's estimating, that probably means they'd end up being about 2000-2500 when all is said and done, and there's no way a publisher wouldn't break that up into, like, three different books each.

I don't think it was so much that he'd purposely written a bunch of book 6 ahead of time; it was that they decided to end book 5 earlier than he'd originally planned. They ended up taking 200 pages-ish from that book and made it the beginning of the sixth.

Yeah, from personal experience—the beginning and the end are the easiest parts to write, usually because they're interesting, and you're excited to write them. The middle is the tough part, because it usually involves a lot of moving the chess pieces around in order to set up the end, and that can be boring to pull…

I think it’s less about writer’s block—since the pace he’s writing at seems about on par with the pace the other books were written, and he's continuing to write novellas—and more just that he’s a chronic procrastinator. He’s obviously not treating writing the books as a full time job—he’s writing other stuff, he’s…

But this is a false dichotomy. It’s not like the only options are “XXXX DIES ON GAME OF THRONES” or not reporting at all. There are plenty of evocative headlines that would get those in the know to click while not ruining it for everyone else.

I feel like I've been saying this for years and nobody ever listens to me! Yeah, that entire shift from straight pop-punk into that weird phase where everybody sang only about vampires and how they want to die was totally because everybody was ripping off Alkaline Trio. And they never get credit for launching that…

Yeah, it's like when Hayley Williams accused One Direction's “Steal My Girl” of ripping off New Found Glory's “It's Not Your Fault,” and then people rightfully pointed out that both of them were actually just ripping off Journey's “Faithfully.”

People who are poor or immobile enough that they can't evacuate from a city during a national emergency generally lack the means to up and move to a new city.

It's not about pride, it's about futility. If someone's making it clear that they're not going to do anything for you and never will, that's not an avenue that you're going to continue to pursue.

My point is that, had Johnson actually treated King the way the movie depicted, King would have realized it was futile to be looking for allies in the government. You can still maintain an alliance with somebody who's a dick to you and getting stuff done, or who's charming as hell but keeps putting you off, but if…

I think it deserved a Best Picture nomination (which it got). I think David Oyelowo deserved a Best Actor nomination (which he didn't). I'm not totally sold on the idea that she deserved a Best Director nomination—I think Inarritu, Anderson, and Linklater are clearly working on a different level than her (but that's…

I think they nailed the aggressive/balls-out/Texan part of his personality without paying much heed to the fact that the aggressive part worked because it was balanced by the fact that he could be one of the most charming motherfuckers that ever lived. Given that he was one of the story's antagonists, it isn't…

Yeah, and I say this as someone who loves Tom Petty more than I love almost any other artist—but the hugest part of Petty's appeal is that he riffs on extremely familiar, simple melodies and chord progressions. One of the draws of a Petty song is that it feels like an Everysong, and that its melody has been used…