Michelle Fairley does reappear in the books, and I believe (haven't read this but read about it I think) that Sean Bean does as well.

Don't worry, because this quote actually has nothing to do with GRRM planning a book. It's just his editor talking out of her ass. Seven books for seven kingdoms was admittedly her little marketing tag that he was talked into. Her noticing that there's TECHNICALLY an eighth kingdom does not mean he's planning and…

I SWORE that Roy was pronouncing some names completely differently. There's one audiobook I have where Brienne is "Bry-eeeeen" and Petyr is "Pit-tire." It's unlistenable.

What really happened here is that GRRM's publisher noticed some bit of trivia that would tie in nicely if GRRM did decide to write an eighth book, but there's no reason to think he might. The 7 books for 7 kingdoms thing was, cleeearly, not his original conceit.

Don't forget about convincing millions of impoverished people in very high-risk nations that condom use will totally increase their likelihood of contracting HIV. :)

He was angry because of the spilled drink; he killed them because that's how we solve problems in this country.

Idiocy! This show could be fascinatingly horrid if they were explicit about the theme, and thus found a crop of batshit insane golddigging royalists! Insane royalists are way overdue for their own reality show.

Thom Browne does such a gimmicky schtik that it's amazing to me that people are still buying into it. I was going to hypothesize that it's because he does it really well, speaking of quality, but that isn't coming across here. Fuck those too-small suits.

I saw some fucking hipster girl in Montreal yesterday with pictures of Obama and Mao screenprinted on her stupid fucking canvas satchel. "Obamao" it said. GET IT! Because Obama is vaguely socialist in that he doesn't believe in sentencing people to death for treatable illnesses in the richest country in the world!

Not that he was on par with that racist fuckhead, but McQueen was actually sort of a miserable bastard in real life. He seriously fucked over Isabella Blow, the woman who basically handed him a successful career (that kind of success takes a lot more than talent) and every quote I've ever read is basically just…

It's super fucking ethnocentric to even try to weigh who "has it worse." Do most POC have in worse in America than most jews? Probably. In 2014. In one nation.

Black people are privileged because whenever anyone talks about the KKK it's always about the decades of lynching black people. It's never about how they also hate Jews.

There's something to that. And it aint nothing, because our lives differ more from generations immediately before than any other humans for hundreds or thousands of years. It seems to me that this data/computation/internet revolution will be remembered as among the biggest mass changes in society since we became…

What's always tripped me up is that .. wasn't that sort of the plan? Isn't Jesus Dying For Your Sins sort of the climax of the Jesus fable? Do they wish Jesus had just lived and died as an idealistic carpenter and leave them high and dry with no validating institution to funnel their insecurity and hate through? Fuck,…

As they should be. I can't help but have some distaste that many are really getting offended about issues that affect them specifically or the people closest to them. In a recent religion article on Gawker, there were SOOOO many comments from people who were either LGBT or women saying "I just could no longer…

The idea that the single unmoving document is the only way to permanently enshrine basic civil rights (and maybe we'll just have to deal with a few blips like unclear statements about how many assault rifles Americans need to bear) has been wholly disproven.. now it's just ridiculous. Or it would be ridiculous, if it…

That's always struck me as funny. I belonged to a catholic church growing up, and also a religious youth group, and maybe it's because I lived in a not-very-religious part of Canada.. or just had a really unique experience, but it was always my impression that most Christians don't really buy into it. They like the…

That's no quibble, though. Practicing and belonging to a religion are not identical ideas, even though it may seem practically the same. The Catholic church counts every person who was ever baptized as "belonging" to the church, and only excommunication can alter that, and those must be formally issued in writing, and…

That's yet another way that the comparison of Britain to American is so strangely not-as-would-seem. America is a country that is, practically, an orthodox nation. "In God We Trust" is only 50 years old, and religious influence has risen every decade since. I also think it's absolutely bonkers for Americans to look at…

Good on ya. Even though it's such a massive crime, it seems pretty easily forgotten to most people or just plain overlooked. Maybe because the link is not so direct as ingrained doctrine or proven coverup of child rape, people can just pretend that the Catholic church plays no causal role in the ongoing AIDS crisis.…