I suggested it back on the GoT subreddit back in the day, and I was so incredibly surprised at how many upvotes it got. There is, apparently, a John Hawkes Tribe.

Mance is a far more interesting and subtle character in the books than as written on the show.

Still hope. I mean, I love Ciaran Hinds and he’s done a bang-up job, but the way Mance is written, Hawkes would have been SO MUCH BETTER.

Such a fabulous, underrated actor. I was SO hoping HBO would cast him as Mance Rayder on Game of Thrones.

They usually have video clips up within 24 hours. You can frequently see better from those than you did in the theater. ;)

There’s also this lovely tool of the cutting trade:

I just googled him - man, I didn’t realize what he was doing these days.

Yep. We live in the Cities so we go from time to time. It’s always fun. My late mother used to say “It’s just...gentle. It’s not in your face, it’s lots of talented people, and it’s a nice quiet kind of laugh.”

We got to see her earlier this year at a Prairie Home Companion show. She really is just so awesome.

Stephen Marche, please take note:

Except watching someone tap dance in roller skates can be delightful. There is nothing delightful about Scott Walker.

It would be totally delightful though if he crashed and burned really early during the primary season.

Here’s the clip. Near the end of the interview you can see he looks a little emotional, too.

This is one of my personal favorites. Because it pretty much nailed GOP thinking perfectly.

Nothing like the smell of fixer. My Dad was a photography nut - before computers and other modern gadgets, cameras were his gadgets of choice - and I was developing my own film by the time I was 12. To me, it is a smell of childhood. :)

Oh man - I got rid of my old Polaroid about 2 years ago, because I loved it, but finding film was prohibitively, insanely expensive. I would have sprung for film at this price - I was always pretty careful with my Polaroid because the film was so relatively expensive compared to 35 mm. (Especially because my Dad…

EwEwEwEwEwEwEw.

I work with clinical dietitians to stay on a pretty low-calorie diet. It is mostly fibrous carbs, lean proteins with some healthy fats thrown in. But now I find out I may be eating even LESS than I thought I was?

Well, to be fair for her, it’s more of an 80¢ on the dollar situation, so I guess she’s happy with that amount.

I was a late bloomer, so I really didn’t get inappropriate older-male attention until college. Or if I did, I was too clueless to notice. (Guys my age? Yeah, plenty. But as noted above, that seemed more organic and didn’t bother me as much, but there still wasn’t all that much.) Three incidents from college stand out:

On the movie not doing well at the box office: