Even Lobsters!?!?

I was making a — ah, fuck it.

That's alarmist and premature. Sure, maybe the place will fall apart. But it's a commenting platform. If the same people are here, it will be the same kind of place. And if different people are here, well, different people are here than were here two years ago or five years ago or nine years ago when I first started…

But that seems like it's more a function of the community than the platform. Also, it happens here.

But it's Disqus that they're getting rid of!

No.

Yeah, sounds pretty lame.

Also, what is Whitley Streiber up to these days?

If you're suggesting that as a negative, you need to read the room.

I too have fallen asleep during a performance of Tristan — that last act is interminable. The ship, the ship, just fucking dock already! That said, perhaps my favorite experience at the opera was a performance of Die Meistersinger vom Nuremburg, which is almost three hours longer.

No greater fan of the McElroys than I, but watching reality tv from an ironic or deconstructionist point of view is something people have been doing for literally decades.

Oh, and Ned gave Cersei a day. I'm sayin' literally 20 seconds.

It's a fair point, although it wasn't really part of her calculation because she was shocked at its existence.

Bite your tongue!

You motherfuckers are looking up their single titles on Wikipedia. Don't even front.

Same old shit.

Same old shit. That's why they gave Jamie the line about warning the stragglers before Tarly whipped them. Dany didn't give anybody any warnings, despite having overwhelming force at her disposal and little reason to fear that giving them 20 seconds to drop their swords and run would put her at any tactical…

I started law school.

But if you'd been waiting 27 years to find out what happened to Gregor since you read a book about his adventures as a circus performer that had a cliffhanger ending?

It took me a long while to peg where I'd seen her before because she didn't look boring as piss. I'd never before noticed how attractive she is.