Setting a precedent for Trump Day doesn't worry you?

His ass.

I grew up near the largest Air Force base in the US, and we had a map up at school of what would happen at various radii if a nuke hit the base. We also all took comfort that we were safely in the vaporization zone. I'll bring a second bottle of scotch.

Fuck this. No real democracy should be giving holidays to living people.

",,,and I also recognize that 'I liked it before it was cool' is the most exhausting and risible of attitudes."

On the one hand, this story is entirely plausible. On the other, "According to Vox…"

If we are talking breakouts, Cindi Lauper's first album did better on the charts in 1983 and 1984. Madonna ended up having the longer, more successful career, but Lauper was bigger at the time.

Or a new beginning?

What barriers did Madonna smash down? I was alive before Madonna came along, and sexy female pop singers were already kind of a staple of entertainment. No question she did it very well, but that isn't the same as barrier smashing. She seemed to have the wind of early MTV at her back rather than having huge obstacles…

Wait. We need to come up with good jokes to post here now?

And then they made a movie about why I put on the mask, and everyone stopped caring who I was again.

I'm certain it is deliberately uncomfortable to watch.

King understands that movies need to work differently than books, but he also seems to work from the assumption that horror movies need to be B-movie shlock, so he leans too hard into that when he adapts things.

I'm not faulting the guy! Just saying he isn't some guy who just wants enough to get by.

"Sansa asks, “How did you get back to Winterfell.” “It’s a long story.” Well, okay, but what else are you doing? All of these Stark reunions feel like emotional shorthand, capturing the full feeling of the moment but without quite doing all the legwork. On the one hand, they’re all four traumatized. On the other, who…

"He’s just a soldier, a good one, one who has risen to some position thanks to his cunning and courage, but a soldier nonetheless, who aspires to nothing more than a good life for himself and no more power than he needs to make that happen. He’s a charismatic character, but more to the point he’s a man of the people."

This is going to end up like the board game scene at the end of Community, isn't it?

So the attack by the nihilists was entirely pointless?

Ideally, they just won't.

I hope that time in the bunker gave him a chance to appreciate the life of the mind.