I only pronounce champaign as "sham-paggin."

It's the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I didn't prefer Year Zero, but I do think it's a really underrated album. The biggest problem it has is that the song structures are all generally similar (which is part of the point, since they're all chapters of the story) and there's some banging tracks on there.

Possibly worse.

Yeezus.

Shit, 33 year old me needs to hear the full thing now.

Reznor is a truly excellent pop musician, and I mean that in the very best way possible. I wish he were a bit better as a lyricist, but the man knows how to build a soundscape and write a goddamned killer hook.

Yeah, as the article points out it's not that TDS went on to inspire a great deal of music in the same genre, but that it had a huge influence on modern pop music and you can hear that influence if you're listening for it.

I played it right away, and ended up staying up all weekend with the rental because I needed to hear the whole song.

You goddamn sexist.

The RZA, Ghostdini, or Raekwon are the only acceptable answers.

I'm a consumer whore.

A man's gotta have a code.

"Damnit, Loras. This is the second different husband of mine you've fucked!"

I know. Martin even read that chapter last year at Worldcon!

the CEO of Tits' sensitivity training has taught him that a diversity of baps from young and firm to old and wrinkled are an important part of prestige dramas. Any old Showtime show can give you fresh tatas, but only HBO can give you granny bosoms.

No, but they do represent the vast majority of the wealth.

You're right, Christopher Hitchens has made the world a worse place than Fred Phelps.

And not only them, but also the people they're trying to help.

Of course there's also the idea that Judas was punished not for the betrayal of Christ, but because he committed suicide- that he would have been forgiven.