Alex repeated "Flo-Rida" with such relish. It made me chuckle. Sad to see Gina go (even though she was a boring, top-to-bottom player); those smug eyebrows were quite entertaining.

More the former than the latter; it's the reason why reading ASOIAF has always been a bit of a slog for me. My most positive experiences related to it have actually been while reading criticism, or watching the non-book scenes in the show. It's like the books are best at arms length. I don't normally have this much of…

Wow, Green Man looks especially amazing this year. I've been meaning to try it for a while now, but the logistics (travelling from Norway) makes it a bit cost-prohibitive while I'm still in school. I'll just have to watch that line-up slip on by, and try to hold on to the fact that for the best festivals, the line-up…

I should probably make my own post about this, since we're at such different places in the run, but I just started the first season this weekend, and found it to be really intriguing and fresh. Great to hear that it doesn't drop off in quality.

The mind boggles at the mercury story. So good to hear that it didn't do permanent damage, and that you're feeling better. Funny shows that haven't been mentioned yet; Better Off Ted is great and short (sadly), and Black Books is one of my favourite British sitcoms of all time (and so much better than The IT Crowd,…

I'm still on the fence about whether or not I'll be watching the show this season, just because I found so many of the things from Feast and Dance that's coming up to be deeply unpleasant. Especially the Cersei stuff (and Brienne, towards the end). Speaking of rereads, have you heard about this combined reading order?…

Not all of us. Gyp Rosetti is a motherflipping treasure. What the f*** is life if it's not personal, indeed.

A recommendation for reading while watching: Sean T. Collins does some of his best work writing about BE. I feel like he gets at things most other critics haven't, and he does it in a very entertaining way (at least the blog entries; when he starts reviewing it for Rolling Stone in the later seasons, it's more in a…

Hmm, that's not how I remember it…

I've loved him ever since his early X-Men stuff, especially when inked by Klaus Janson or Scott Hanna.

At one point it seemed like she was going to steamroll them completely, but then Brandon stole her momentum, and she never really recovered. A chaotic, but pretty exciting game overall.

It sounded to me like she spoke with quite a heavy accent, at least.

Dammit, you're right! It certainly drew me in, like a red flag to a bleeding-heart bull. A word of such power simply cannot be allowed in the wild!

"Defensible"?

And very deservedly so.

Doing Dortmund-Juventus myself. Lovely Tevez goal, Dortmund are pretty abject so far.

"Dave's underage girlfriend on Happy Endings"

For the purposes of "humor", I was going to exchange the capital I in the lead actress' name with a lower case i. Alas, I quickly realised that said letter's place in the middle of a word would defeat the entire comedic purpose of this switcheroo. Once again, a joke is ruined by Gaelic naming conventions.

Petra's mother is probably at the top of some stairwell somewhere, waiting for her next victim.

"There should be more shows that highlight the good in humanity without sacrificing dramatic stakes."