The shot of Ygritte in the finale was a homage of the Twin Peaks pilot.

The Dark Knight Rises was filmed in Pittsburgh.

The change was especially shitty for book readers who have invested a lot in Jaime's progression. Likewise, Jaime is a POV character, so it felt quite incriminating, as if the readers were implicit in the crime. It didn't help that the next episode featured the line "rape them until they're dead!" during a much more…

God is generous but it's always the same bit of land.

Like, 90% of his comments are about trivializing women.

St Vincent (or rather Annie Clark) did not grow up wealthy or anything. Her break came somewhat by chance as Sufjan Stevens heard some of her songs and recruited her to be part of the Illinoise tour. She got more exposure thanks to David Byrne. I'm fine with LDR, but St. Vincent's respect and fame comes from her…

The early Gen Y's who are all some 'J' name or Chris.

I've been picking through family history lately and I can tell you that there isn't much difference.

It's me, Zoidberg!

Nigel is such a fascinating and sad character. It seems that he would be much happier if he could just say (and know) what he wants.

To be pedantic—the USA-Ghana game will be at 6 pm Eastern. The pregame starts whenever your mood swings between fearing the worst will happen and believing that all the other injuries in the group means soccer greatness and songbirds shitting lullabies.

Who do they think they are? Critics?

Kudos, Adams, that was a fantastic "Seaward" joke.

Yes, it's privileged because it's supported by a premium cable company (so privilege twice over), even if they don't watch the show, or by people who can afford to buy box sets of the series. There are ways around all that, but which require stability of some form or other (working internet connection and time to…

That graphic is glorious.

I'm rooting for Italy, and, even more fun, it will be with Ingerlanders in attendance.

It's probably not a coincidence that the last great World Cup was also the last one to feature a Tango-type ball. 2002 and 2006 weren't bad, but 2010 just needs to die.

Very well said. If you look at Peyton's average WR VOR it's probably better than Brady's, but I think Brady can do more with an average group than Peyton, because he's already done it.

Brady is better than Manning. It's neither silly nor irrational; it's not even a homer argument. There's a slim chance that it's not correct, but even if it's incorrect it's light years away from being silly.

Because in the US you can't reject money or fame. Also check out any comments on an article about Cobain (who actually had mental health issues) and there will be so many comments that will basically claim all of his problems could have been solved through his success, and regretting success is a moral failing.