Camera glides to Orson Lannister, sitting by himself with a rock, crushing beetles. Unseen Lannister (voice over): "Here's my son. I talk to him. I don't even know if he can hear me, because he sits there, all day long, in his own world, staring at that toy. What's he thinking about?"

Camera glides to Orson, sitting by himself with a rock, crushing beetles. Unseen Lannister (voice over): "Here's my son. I talk to him. I don't even know if he can hear me, because he sits there, all day long, in his own world, staring at that toy. What's he thinking about?"

As with the War of the Roses, there is no ending at all, just the endless skirmishing for power after all the pretenders to the throne are dead. Speaking of which, the Hilary Mantel-based miniseries on Henry VIII should be coming up soon...

My family used something like these "ear spoons" . The dry earwax thing turns out to be a reliable genetic marker, along with non-stinky armpits (https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-deta…)

As with _Selfie_, best watched with the sound off and some nice music playing instead.

Diatonic lemur, I think. Cumin idolator, possibly, for those into, ah, spicier fare.

"Something is overpriced in the market" could have a few meanings:

..the denouement to the above...

Oh this is fantastic! Plus it gives some insight and context —

What, you've never heard of non-transitive relationships? Your best friend is A, but A's best friend is not you.The closest country by geographic distance to the Azores is Portugal, but the closest country to Portugal is Spain. So with any similarity metric: the set of regions most like California includes Basque…

Even better: two malaria mosquitoes and Plasmodium protozoans; two of all parasitic worms including hookworms, tapeworms, Guinea worms and the loa loa worm (African eye worm, go ahead, do a google image search), and two of each of their intermediate vectors like the chyropsis fly; Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) and…

Well, it's no Birdemic, but it might be Turkish Star Wars, that is, add beer for a fun drinking game, possibly involving cleavage and/or bad green screen fx.

Blue rooster on field of yellow is House Swyft, so that would be Ser Harys Swyft, former Hand, now master of the coin and in Braavos to negotiate with the Iron Bank, per the epilogue to DwD. (and someone's been busy at the wiki of ice and fire — here's the entry on the Black Pearl )

Well, nice, except that it's "Angel of the Morning" that's playing (see http://www.hbo.com/true-detective… for full listing); I figured it was just a way for T-Bone to get a few $ to Chip Taylor, the singer-songwriter (and brother of Jon Voight) who penned that tune. If anything, a simple foreshadowing of…

Wait, this sentence is wrong: "First, they have to be the kind of thing that nobody bothers buying when the prices go up." This is exactly backwards, since Giffen goods, if they exist, are exactly the kind of thing that more people buy (absolutely) more of when its own price goes up. Should be "nobody bothers buying…