The defense could give Jell-O pudding pops to all the jurors.

Yeah, when you lend something, you enter into a one-sided covenant, wherein you agree to be 'cool' never seeing the item again.
Someone from high school still has my copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow.' I was planning to try and read that and give up!

Won't be surprised if he dies before the trial starts.

You're pretty sure you won't reread them, but you never know. That's the thing. I thought I'd never want to read 'Blood Meridian' again, but now I do, and can I find my copy? Nope.
It's hard when you grew up during a time when people collected things. People use to talk about their CD collection, like it somehow…

Every year or so I start to entertain the idea of selling off all my CDs. They're all digitized in pretty decent quality (320 kbps; I'm not a FLAC person) on my hard drive, so the actual CDs and cases are just taking up most of a Billy bookcase. They look awesome, but the collection has rapidly become something of a…

Just a disembodied brain that Meera carries around in a moist sack.

I kind of wish they'd do a real reboot of the franchise, dump Singer, and see what could happen if they started things up fresh with a whole different cast. If Lawrence, Fassbender, McAvoy don't come back after this one, and Jackman's done after the next Wolverine, there's really no reason why they shouldn't just…

Any and all of the male ones that look like they stepped directly from a high school for the fancy arts.

I mean, is there anything that says that Azor Ahai isn't the Lord of Light's version of The Night's King? Yeah, it's a little too tidy, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Now that we know how the Night's King was created, it stands to reason that Azor Ahai could/will be made in a similar fashion. The one thing that…

It does seem awfully coincidental that dragons and the Others would return to the world at the same time and not have it be somehow connected. But yeah, there's nothing that jumps out as being the connective tissue between the events. The Others were apparently up to their usual business north of the Wall for a long…

Fair enough. But I feel like there's something going on in a similar vein. It's not called A Song of Ice and Fire for nothing. There's the dragons, there's R'hllor… I feel like there's a natural fiery counterpoint to the Others. That doesn't really speak to where the Others have been for so long. It's possible that…

Here goes:

I mean, it's been established that it's been a particularly long time between winters. Maybe it's taken this long for the White Walkers to amass a large enough army to really make a mighty push South of the Wall? They don't seem like the type to kill time.

By the end of this Bran's just going to be a torso, Boxing Helena style.

I mean, anything's possible. In the 80s, anybody "might" have had sex with Madonna.

Well, that's a fair point. It's the kind of thing Bowie might have done. While it was Bowie-esque, I don't think it worked as a tribute to his life and music. It seemed too concerned with getting through as many of Bowie's different songs/personas as possible, which worked to show off the technology, but didn't give…

Yeah, refusing the help of the Knights of the Vale based on principle seems like a bad move, considering how little solid help they have. But the MO of the story overall has been "fallible people making mistakes that ignore the greater good in favor of personal satisfaction."

Unless something happens that wakes King's Landing up to the fact that there are more important things at stake in the world than who sits on the Iron Throne, it seems more and more likely that the whole point of all the political machinations is to show their ultimate insignificance.

I doubt it. The negotiations would have been too intense. And I don't think their particular fetishes match.

I mean, I said my thing. If nothing else, the thought has been expressed. Whether or not people read it/respond to it/upvote it doesn't really matter.