Houston metro is not the same as Sugarland, Katy, Pasadena, where racist assholes flatter themselves as "Constitutionalists."

Surely you mean asshole when you say heartland?
Some of my best girlfriends hail from said cities, but seriously fuck every one of the cities mentioned as "heartland."

Except Pharell has delivered like 100 more times than DM and I generally like them both well enough.

Ranger IPA
My bar didn't have the usual Stone IPA and the man vouched for Ranger's awesomeness. He was right. Also, fuck Pharell and his cheapass liqueur.

The last book is my least favorite, followed by the first one. All the fun stuff is right between those two. If wading through so many pages looks daunting, get Stephen Fry's audioboooks.

Hard to answer that without sounding like a nerd I am. HBO's Game of Thrones is not a literal adaptation of the book yet manages to stay true to it. This film casually discards some major plot elements from the book, which in itself is not a big deal if it didn't treat the remains like a dumb tween womance.…

Bloom would have earned some serious cred had he just said, "Read some Diana Wynne Jones and get back to me you drooling fucktards."

Who's we, virgin?

I am speed-reading Feast for Crows so I can jump into this next week. I pity the fools who had to wait so many years between these books.
glazomaniac, My reaction was something like, "Take that, you gold-plated bitch."

I think people put far too much stock in Weasly/Bellatrix showdown. It's quite possible that Rowling didn't want teenagers murdering anyone humanish.

Yeah but
Tasha's last two HP reviews were bizarro ones. Half-blood Prince, the worst film of the entire series got a positive review and The Deathly Hallows 1, a huge improvement over it, got a middling one. Plus the filmmakers have said that they wanted the last film to be "operatic," always a bad sign. We will enter…

Place your bets here
The New George R R Martin: Tasha Robinson or Jason heller or the dark horse, Todd Todd VanDerWerff.

She is great, but not great enough to overpower the taint of SNL.

I have an unlistened copy of Topographic Oceans somewhere in my home. I am sure it's 100,000% times better than anything by Incubus. On that note, wise elders, care to name the Yessentials?

Metal needs its own section here
In perplexed dementia, where sanity is my vanity
With honour bear the mark of satan
Triumphant beast in heaven defeat
Disguised in gloom, wear the mask of satan

Ack, my stupid fingers. Didn't mean to include you in the list of stat-rape victims.

Miller, Sansa, King Robert's many "conquests" and a couple minor characters I forget. I know it's silly to blame him for medieval customs, but they do appear with icky frequency. To say nothing of Tyrion's first "wedding."

Have you made it past book 2? Being careful with spoilerage here.

Just to be clear, I was referring to my earlier comment.
Dikachu, I also found the Dany parts boring, except **SPOILER** the ending of book 1.

Old guys getting it on with 13-year olds
Over and over. You better get used to that. Somewhere on this site there's a pretty good article on Martin by Jason Heller. He also wrote something about anglo-saxon ethnocentricity. All good points.