I think that part of the problem was that the first three books were nothing but visits to the fireworks factory, so it's hard to change pace (for the reader and writer) when it gets to the second act and you have to start pushing pieces around. I think part of the pile up was to intentionally cause confusion because…

My cynical guess is that even if Martin has every word typed and ready to go the publisher will still hold back until season 6 is done, so they can rake it in from both the book crowd and people from the show crowd who want to get ahead without reading anything else.

Her dad was Vietnam vet so he probably has opinions about that.

Considering there's only one non-PNW date I'd guess there are more dates to come.

Are there any plans to make movies about those two experiments have been debunked and are less relevant to the human experience than an episode of Gilligan's Island?

Scumilingus

It has probably my favorite sentence, probably ever. It's in the concluding paragraph of one of the first person chapters when DFW is in college, but even that is probably too long to type out here. I'm still having trouble pinpointing where it even begins.

A skeptic fantasy. If you want A/L/G be the focus that shouldn't be an issue, since in most stories Merlin has already exited and so have the grail knights.

Pitch it as a second act between Rushmore and Life Aquatic.

Ang Lee.

Dublin was also directly south of Belfast so German bombers would head for Ireland and then use the lights of Dublin to plot their course.

I think there are/have been good conservatives in the world of art. Conservatives especially shine they focus more on conservation (of style, memory, environment), as opposed to something more expressly polemical. You wouldn't want to talk to Dostoevsky about socialism or TS Eliot about race relations, but when…

Please let it be Dougie.

This is Olly's specialty, like some constipated vulture circling comedies, waiting for them to die and decompose, and rip into them. Such a pleasant person.

Uhh, thanks?

We'll see if the 'build a better mousetrap' theory works for FXX. FXX aside, comedies tend to get slower buildups here, especially since network execs have been ruthless this year about axing comedies.

For a TNG newbie which episodes from season are unskippable?

My host mom in Russia made the sign of the cross when she saw that I got a jar of peanut butter in a care package.

Definite sweet tooth there.

Something I'm struck by in the comments (a few here and a lot elsewhere) is the insistence on motivation. If you watch the old noirs, movies widely considered to be masterpieces, there's no such insistence. Why do you want the Maltese Falcon? Because greed. Because lust. Because vanity. Audiences in the thirties and…