For me, "silly" is when the fantasy starts violating the rules of the universe that it set up. If the Faceless Dudes have an apparently unlimited ability to impersonate anyone they want to, why not Arya, a girl who has had Faceless Dude training?

Didn't Benjen say that his being Walkerized makes it impossible for him to get through the wall? And doesn't the direction that the plot is currently taking imply that the White Walkers plan to treat the wall the way walls throughout history (from the Great Wall of China to the Maginot Line) have been treated, that…

A wizard did it.

Maybe the islands are largely treeless because the inhabitants cut down all of the trees in order to build ships. (See: whatever happened to the native ecology of Easter Island)

Damn you, Pop Rivets, for stealing my joke.

If he had disappeared during a World Cup final, that would have been ironic.

Somebody please explain to me why White Men Can't Jump, which is a story about how a compulsive gambler's addiction ruins his life, was marketed as a comedy? Was it because they thought that no one would go to see Woody Harrelson in a serious role, or was there something funny about the movie that I missed?

Twitter feed and tax evasion - all he needs is a few Russian friends and he's in like Flynn.

I was thinking more along the lines of a bowl of Skittles, three of which are poisoned.

We're being attacked by right-wing zombies, and all you can think of is root beer?

For an article written by someone who claims to be Scandinavian, the absence of any mention of the roughly four bazillion varieties of herring one can obtain in Scandinavia, many of which are available in the U.S., and which range from the quite delicious Dill Herring to the inexplicable Lemon Herring (imagine lemon…

In the context of yesterday's passing of George Romero, let me just say that the thought that Ann Coulter might die and not know it is an incredibly frightening one.

Or an actress pretending to be a woman who actually was a doctor and at some point forgetting the "pretending" part?

It's spelled "Jodie Whittaker," but it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove."

I wish that Sarah Bernhardt had lived to see this.

I really loved the first book (possibly because I could identify with Meg as the smart-one-who-doesn't-fit-in) as a kid, but the sequels were really not at the same level. A few years ago, I happened to wander into a bookstore and they were selling some then-recent edition. I flipped through it and noticed that they…

My guess is that Jon & Daenerys become the ruling king and queen, at least until a blind prophet shows up and starts dropping hints that someone around here is making sweet love with an aunt who for some reason feeds to the local dragons anyone who accuses her of not being a natural blonde.

Okay, up in the North, there's a guy who looks exactly like Bronn and sounds exactly like Bronn, but who apparently is not Bronn. Who is he? Bronn's Evil Twin?

At least she got that wish fulfilled in which she got to be Hitler for a few minutes.

Or The Lathe of Heaven.