I just looked up Per's height and he's even taller than I thought. He's 6'6", which is about the average height for shooting guards and he'd be taller than many PGs. The more you know~

I'M NOT SHOUTING!
(All right, I am.)

Mimic HAS a third installment! And you people call yourself nerds…

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Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Peoples

The Washington City Paper's longstanding feud with Snyder always has me rolling. I also believe that they were one of the first local papers to stop printing the name (the Post finally stopped earlier this year).

I'm going to start watching this show because of Rila Fukushima. She was the best part of The Wolverine.

I wonder if people who are always mocking TBBT actually know any scientists. I went to grad school for molecular biology, everyone in my family who went to college does science/engineering. Most people I know work or study in STEM fields, and some of them loathe BBT while others like it. As far as I can tell,…

The Murrays are my one of my favorite fictional families. I mean, you have Mom cooking dinners over a Bunsen burner in her lab! Charles Wallace and Meg are so close that they can actually psychically communicate with each other! It was really crushing to find out that Madeline L'Engle's own home life was less than…

I was looking for this answer! Ponyboy has true brothers both from his actual family (Sodapop is nurturing and fun but flaky, Darry is uptight but responsible) and chosen family (the other members of the gang). One nitpicky thing though —Ponboy's oldest brother is Darry, not Curtis (which is their family name). I like…

Crazy Utahraptor!

Marciuliano is so underrated! His writing of Sally Forth made me a big fan.

Sally Forth was one of those dinosaur strips that was a chore to read but to my horror, I found myself laughing at it one day. And the next. And the next. Ever since Francesco Marciuliano took over the strip, it's been one of my favorites. The writing is clever and full of smirky pop culture references. I'm not sure…

If we're doing a 'Greatest Hits of Comics Curmudgeon" bits, you absolutely cannot neglect Mary Worth's stalker…Possibly the greatest storyline to ever appear in the funny pages:

Man, I loathe D&D but I'll be the first to send them flowers if they axe the Lady Stoneheart storyline altogether. For an author who's infamous for killing off his characters, they sure seem to never actually stay dead.

Weeping at this beautiful and completely unrealistic lineup. The only thing I would change is for Sansa to become the Lady of Winterfell/Queen of the North and for Bran to freeze to death or something (yes, I have an irrational and inexplicable hatred for a 9-year-old boy). Otherwise, this is gold.

Nah, stags and wolves belong with each other. IT IS KNOWN. Every Stark should have a Baratheon (or Baratheon bastard) sidekick or girlfriend/boyfriend: Arya and Gendry, Sansa and Mya, Ned and Robert (Lyanna was totally a stand-in for the Stark that Robert actually wanted, AMIRITE), Jon and Stannis. And I like…

Sorry, I accidentally clicked "post" too early! ! I edited it and it's a lot longer now.

"The weird thing is that the books made it seem like Renly could've been a decent (read: likeable, willing to delegate to smarter people) king, while the show made him seem more like he didn't take things seriously and was just doing what his boyfriend wanted."

I think the show actually gave Renly a more sympathetic treatment! In the books, you had characters ranging from Ned Stark to Olenna Tyrell to Donal Noye give largely unflattering assessments of Renly as a charming and good-looking young man without much substance. The only characters who really think positively of…

I'm pretty sure GRRM wrote that episode, so it's not like the showrunners had much to do that with that. D&D have directly said in interviews that they believe that Stannis would be an awful king (which may be true, but then they go on to say they think RENLY would make a good king…the same Renly who cut off the Rose…