But her husband is a delight.

Cold pour one out.

All that caffeine yet no one could be bothered to pull an all nighter and come up with a better battle plan.

That’s another good one that was on HBO all the time. That was a cool time to be a budding film buff — access to good movies through cable, but not on-demand, so you had to watch stuff you might not have chosen otherwise. Over and over and over.

The Magicians books do such a good job with post-adolescence and disillusionment in a way that’s maybe particularly relatable for a Gen Xer — the characters are self-aware to a fault and too quick to beat themselves up at the slightest lapse of inauthenticity.

My mother was basically Roger Sterling’s daughter, minus the wealthy parents. I couldn’t believe how spot-on that was.

One of my all-time favorite coming-of-age movies is by the same writer, Steve Tesich. It was one of those movies that seemed to run on continuous loop on HBO back in the day, and watching it multiple times at the age of 13 had a lasting effect on my taste in movies.

This showed up on Twitter the other day.

Yeah, in my circles this sort of conversation amounts to extremely benign small talk. I don’t have kids for reasons that are kind of painful, but I’ve never been asked about it in a way that was offensive. I also wonder if this article isn’t preaching to the choir — I don’t think a site like Lifehacker would tend to…

You forgot to make a GoT reference. Here you go.

Related yet completely irrelevant, I never understood how the two Misers were stepbrothers but still had the same mom.

I guess now we know why GRRM’s been having such a hard time wrapping it up.

But it’s called “Game of Thrones,” not “Weighty Undertaking of Thrones.” Up until now the word “Game” seemed appropriately pejorative, suggesting that those who single-mindedly concerned themselves with the throne were petty and missing the bigger existential picture.

You’d also have the question of Dany’s remaining forces in her absence. Who would they turn to?

It’s odd rewatching earlier seasons in light of what’s developing into blind ambition for her. The Dany sections always kind of dragged because they were a bit one-note, since she didn’t interact with the funnier characters or the ones with the most interesting arcs (e.g. Jaime). But I was invested in wanting her to…

I just watched the Inside the Episode clip for S3E4, and I was surprised at how, that early on, Weiss & Benioff talked about Dany’s capacity for cruelty in a way that made it seem like it would come to define her. I think she’s headed for an excess that’ll be her downfall. Here’s the clip — the Dany part starts at…

Oh my god. I’m so glad the series is ahead of the books,because only mass pop culture could produce this outpouring of amazing theories.

I haven’t really seen any genuinely horrified reactions — they’re more lighthearted, variations on “ew it’s like watching my little sister bone.” But here are a couple of possible reasons I think people are slightly skeeved.

That’s a crowded little rowboat.