You can take your “logic” and “facts” and “well-reasoned discourse” and...come over here and sit by me. Excellent (and enraging) analysis.

Oh damn, the ghost truck. That’s the one I read with delight and dread every year. WHO/WHAT WAS IN THAT TRUCK?

Yup, Mother Earth will just shrug us off her back and spend a few hundred millenia course correcting. She’ll be fine—different, but fine. Maybe the next dominant species will do better by her.

She’s going to have to wait 7 full years for all her cells to regenerate to feel completely clean.

There’s a line from 1776 (one of my favorite musicals) that I’m reminded of a lot during this administration. It was spoken by a wealthy arch-conservative who didn’t support the revolution and thought the “common man” could be easily influenced to oppose it, as well: “Don’t forget that most men with nothing would…

Thanks for the recommendation—just downloaded the ebook to my Kindle.

Also tangentially related—there’s a story called Gray Matter in Stephen King’s short-story collection Night Shift, in which a guy drinks tainted beer and turns into a malevolent, gelatinous blob. Let’s see if the plaintiff sprouts extra legs and starts shilling for Geiko.

The leg chopping of Bronn’s horse made me yell out loud. It was an effective move, but DAYUM.

I felt really, really bad for the horses in this episode.

Ruthless corporate practices meets squishy body horror? +10 would watch.

Oh, that would be lovely. But if something happens to Brienne, I will be most put out. She’s my favorite character on the show.

I have a yen for Jaime to be the one who kills Cersei. He’s already the Kingslayer — there’s some nice symmetry if he takes down the Queen, who’s also his sister, the mother of his (late) children, and his lover.

Alternatives to “goodbye,” maybe, that presume another meeting at a later time? Like “See ya later” or “TTFN!”? If a 4-year-old said “TTFN!” to me I think my heart would assplode.

I have to disagree, at least in part. Not about The Shining—full agreement there—but about his endings. His early books nailed the dismount. Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Dead Zone, The Stand, Cujo, Misery—they were all strong from start to finish. Even Pet Sematary, Firestarter and The Tommyknockers, which were cursed…

With a predisposition towards Alzheimer’s on my mom’s side and cancer on my dad’s, I have my exit strategy planned already. If I hit 70 in relative good health, I’ll be way ahead of my expectations.

And also like Pouch.

So many members of 45's cabinet look like live-action versions of Dick Tracy villains.

All the stars for your gif.

Helen Mirren was my fantasy pick as well, but I think she’s way out of their budget. But oh my gosh, she would have been EPIC.

PREACH.