Bran's remaining four chapters are going to be painfully stretched out over seasons 4 and 5 (season 6 will be Book Six).  They need at least something to cap off season 4, and I expect that will be meeting Bloodraven.  It'll be a small role for this year.

I look forward to seeing Oberyn monologue about the tragic history of his sister Elia whilst he and Ellaria do it doggy-style.

I'm guessing he's Bloodraven.  He wasn't filming for very long, so it's unlikely to be somebody like Mace Tyrell, whose scenes would be more spaced out.

Damages in a case like this would be calculated based on "loss of opportunity", I believe — i.e., they would be alleging that discrimination cost them the opportunity to be famous.  How they would calculate that in monetary terms would be really complicated.

I thought the early introduction to Ygritte last season did a good job of setting up their relationship, but then they really fumbled it in the first four episodes of season three, where Ygritte was barely there.  Then suddenly they were getting it on.

That will be an hour of people speculating whether Ken dancing was part of Don's hallucination or not.

I read a bunch of Davies' novels a few years ago.  The Deptford trilogy that starts with Fifth Business is very good, but the Cornish trilogy is my favourite of his writings.

Singer, Mahfouz, and Pamuk were three I didn't really have any expectations for, but who really impressed me.  Also, Jaroslav Seifert and Czeslaw Milosz.  The only one of the 62 that I ended up with no desire to read anything more by is Herta Muller (I read The Passport), though Johannes V. Jensen I didn't find…

You could have given me 100 guesses at what the next Coogler/Jordan collaboration would be and I would never have guessed this.

Rocky IV is a glorious piece of Reagan-era pop culture that really needs to be seen to get a sense of America's state of mind at the time.

A few of the authors it's unlikely I'd have ever read if I had started the project would be the aforementioned Singer, Naguib Mahfouz, and Orhan Pamuk.  Singer's The Slave is the highlight of his writing so far, while Pamuk's My Name Is Red is one of my favourite novels I've read in the last five years (though his…

AFFC has a lot of my favourite parts of the series:  Cersei's hilarious black comedy chapters, the wonderfully ambiguous "Alayne" segments, Brienne and Jaime's continued character development.  The Ironborn portions could have been reined in, though.

I actually enjoyed We Bought A Zoo for what it was, but Crowe still feels like somebody who had said everything he had to say as an artist by the time he finished Almost Famous.

I don't have a list of individual books, but I've been working for a few years to read something by every Nobel Laureate in Literature.  If I like the first thing I try by them, I revisit them (as with Isaac Bashevis Singer; I've read three of his novels and like six short story collections of his by now).

Heh, I had the opposite issue with King Lear.  Until people's eyes start getting gouged out, the daughters seem completely in the right to me.  They complain that Lear's retinue is causing all kinds of trouble and that Lear himself does nothing but complain, and Lear never rebuts any of this.  When asked why he needs…

Kavalier and Clay is one of my favourite novels of all time, but nothing else Chabon's done has come close to it, for me me.  Yiddish Policemen's Union is pretty good, though.

I read two of Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story collections, A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories and A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, as part of my gradual reading of the three-volume Library of America collection.  Have to space those out — Singer's one of my favourite Nobel Laureates, but after a while you…

Expected "blackjack/hookers" reference.

The studios only see like half the overseas revenue, as I understand.

Friends don't let friends star in M. Night Shyamalan movies.