Yeah, this list is dumb. It's all the consumer-level uses of water. You know what uses a lot of water? Almonds. Up to a gallon per nut. How about oil drilling or mechanical cooling? There are hundreds of industries using too much water, yet this stuff all focuses on penny-ante bullshit like not getting a glass…

The fact that the dumb white guy's last name was "Ferguson" pretty much proves that the universe has an inherent drive towards irony.

I've read up to book 4, and this is exactly what it feels like. There's no real flow anymore. It feels like GRRM had an outline of things he wanted to happen, and is sticking to that outline regardless of flow or applicability. I mean, I guess I can see how maybe Minor Character X's run in with Minor Character Y in…

I can't help but feel that after producing the first three novels in a whirlwind of activity, GRRM wrote himself into a ditch and started spinning his wheels, with the new books nothing but endless subplots and "developments" with no real narrative cohesion.

Excuse me, but I was born on March 30, 1958, and Alec was born on April 3, 1958. I got here four days before he did, therefore Baldwin is imitating me. And, by the way, when I do Alec Baldwin, I freaking well DO Alec Baldwin (See "Team America: World Police"), Massapequa accent and all. What I do in commercial reads…

"is Phrasing a thing here"? Not the actual quote but close enough.