Really — have you seen the typical suburban Starbucks customer?

Make sure you include sneakers, for that classic American tourist look.

Wear a blue mohawk, and I’ll think you don’t care what others think. And good for you. Wear pajamas and slippers in public? You’re not independently minded — you’re a slob.

Comfort requires pajamas? Sweatpants? I’d be uncomfortable showing myself in public like that. Plus, I’d then resemble Trump’s base of support.

Or you could choose not to show up in public dressed like a slobby child, or, as the French say, “an American.”

Pratfalls? Autocorrect?

If anybody could write your (i.e one’s) stuff, your stuff is utter garbage, worth of the novel writing machines of 1984.

George Harrison thought of it first.

In that case, books have become IKEA furniture. At least, the shit you read.

From the looks of them, I’d suspect that GRRM isn’t getting edited at all. I mean, can somebody explain to him that naming your characters a la George Lucas is hackery of the lowest order? Some have English sounding names, while other characters of no different class or ancestry have names which sound foreign (or…

“I’ve got a friend named Phil who wets the bed still.” 

Right. So in that case GRRM is still waiting to produce page 1.

I think he’s saying he understands what it’s like to be under pressure to produce, yo.

Game. Set. Match.

King did not stop being a hack. He just got better known by the general public. That does not equate to a gain of talent.

Like saying of a musician: “his latest was ok, but he’s no REO Speedwagon.” Indeed, a pity.

“The story of our lifetime.” God, are our times really so fucked up, that this is the best we’ve got? Art is dead.

Crowning anybody the “best hack writer of intellectual junk food” is kind of a dubious honor. It interests me that it interests you so much.

Compare GOT sales figures (before HBO) with the putative number of nerds in the population, estimated from the average geek bestseller sales annually. Conclusion: GOT was a very popular series. Unfortunately. All this shit, of course, is just “50 Shades of Grey” for dudes. It’s all garbage.

I think Martin is terrible, but he was insanely popular before HBO. Just not among the 90% of the population who doesn’t read.