Youth soccer coach here. Can confirm.

We've done our best, but the kids still pick Norman Bridwell over Kafka every gosh dern time.

Coolness is charismatic indifference. You can't be interested in being cool without, by definition, being a total dweebazoid. Your parents took the least dweebazoidal course of action. You should be proud.

But just in case they are reading, allow me to take this moment to note that celebrity worship is the lowest form of consciousness.

Since the glut of twist endings that inundated late 90's cinema, roughly 98% of all high school creative writing stories have ended with some variation of it all being a dream, two characters being the same person or the narrator being dead the whole time.

Nothin' some Horsey Sauce can't fix.

It was truly a classic of passive-aggressive corporate responses.

Alex Trebek has been buying aluminum tubes? Seems legit.

My new cell phone has the old number of a doctor. I keep getting calls from this old lady asking for pain pills and no amount of explaining can convince her that I ain't got the goods.

The Price Is Right is sort of like an insurance company. They have a set prize budget well below what they could pay if every contestant won, so they have to find ways to limit payouts to keep the overall quality of the prizes up. Even then, the system doesn't always work. If you ever watch a late week episode after a…

HBO is pleased to announce the casting of Graham Crowden as wight #73.

Well played.

Contrary to your assumptions, the Nutters of medieval Lancashire were a respected family of spontaneous ejaculators.

Mitt Romney has some pretty far out theories about Sister Wives and Ragnarok.

Oklahoma is the best place to make anything look awful.

In the original draft, Bronn gets spooked by the Dorne equivalent of Spaghett.

Regardless of how GRRM personally feels about Darkstar as a character, at this point, he has to worry about what will happen if he violates the internal canon of unstable, sledgehammer-wielding superfans who have spent the last ten years "totally shipping" Darkstar and Jon Snow.

That never occurred to me, but then, Darkstar's actual presence in the book didn't occur until I came across his name on a forum about 5 years after reading AFfC.

The new locations in Spain should improve the atmosphere. The directors could only do so much with the pool at that La Quinta.

Due to time constraints, the Arianne and Aegon storylines will be broadcast at double speed with a minor key reworking of Yakety Sax.