Same here! I would spend the entire summer in a hyperbaric chamber if I could.

I have a visceral reaction to that smell because of all the summers I spent coated in it as a child. It immediately makes me think of humid, oily misery. But fuck if it didn't work better than anything else I've ever used.

I was waiting for this reference.

The writing was lovely, just stunning in some passages, but about 1/3 of the way through I was so over the storytelling device. This could have made a fantastic short story, likely one of the better short stories I've read, but short stories don't sell. I'd love to see Kate Atkinson tackle a new story collection (she…

Yes, but he really buried the lede on Victarion. Like I said earlier if he had put just a smidge more of a presence in the early books for Dorne and the Iron Islands it would have set things up a little better. We're constantly being told how important these two kingdoms are, but no one in King's Landing really ever…

It's less that we're "bothered" when the focus isn't all-Tyrion/Dany/Arya-all-the-time and more that 90% of the Iron Islands chapters were so. boring. Ditto for a lot of (but not all of) Dorne. By not making either of those regions major players (or even presences) earlier in the books Martin did them both a major…

I'm just about a week out from my first tattoo and omg the itching!!! I want a another one eventually but this itching is making me reconsider. I don't know if I want to go through this level of itching again.

Omg you are so right. I'm healing from my first tattoo ever and it's been 6 days and I am DYING from the itching. It's on my bicep and except for a couple of spots where the lines were a bit thicker, it didn't hurt much at all. I'd take the feeling of being tattooed over this itching. You can only slap your arm so…

why have I never thought of pizza as sandwich bread

I was also going to guess Elon!

Wait, are we pretending that the Southern Bro is ashamed his frat is still segregated? Most likely he doesn't think about it at all.

Both are fantastic, though Rome definitely has more closure. They had time to rewrite and reshoot so the ending isn't so abrupt, but Carnivale ends abruptly because they had no notice. Still, it was wonderful television if devastatingly short.

omg I can't decide! I've read all the books, so I'm not necessarily worried about spoilers, but I don't know! I'm basically as excited about this season as anyone who hasn't read the books.

HOW

Please don't make me reed anymore of these terrible puns.

No joke, telenovelas are part of the reason I was able to become fluent in Spanish. That and music! Find some Spanish-language music in whatever genre(s) you like and listen to it regularly, plus Spanish TV. My younger sister even started picking it up before I went to college.

Why don't people call Confederate flags treasonous anymore? The Confederacy was like, actual real treason.

A few weeks ago I definitely would have picked marry for Michael B. Jordan, but then he said this shit about not respecting women who fuck on a first date so I am kind of over it.