Need a Gunstar pilot? Why not Zoidberg?

I think I've eaten a Death Blossom at a Chili's once....

" a down-on-his-luck kid becomes a video-game champ, only to find himself recruited to fight in an interplanetary war." This was also the pitch Billy Mitchell made for his autobiographical film.

That's not really the issue with the Grand Canyon. It's not just "a walk". Getting to the bottom of the canyon is a strenuous hike in often dangerous weather conditions (i.e. heat), and it takes hours. Get to the bottom, and there is only one hotel there with limited space. (Of course, you could camp.) Returning…

Authors, even bestselling authors with TV deals, don't make near as much money as you imagine they do. Martin has grossed about $15 million off ALL his books combined. That may sound like a lot of money, but if you think it's enough to hire a good PR firm on retainer year over year, well, it's just not. PR consultants…

Those people chose to give him money for a product he created. He doesn't owe them anything. His life isn't a Kickstarter, they paid for a product already delivered. He can complain about them being assholes if they are assholes, that is a choice that he as an artist gets to make with an understanding that it may…

Nah, given how many years of it there's been—we're talking 'effin web sites dedicated to bitching about his health—I don't think he's being thin-skinned. People have been amazingly obnoxious to him.

Yeah, right, because no one ever reads Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" or listens to Puccini's "Turandot".

You have it all wrong. Implicit in buying a book from an unfinished series is that the series may never get finished.

Well, now we know why he's so good at writing from the POV of Cersei Lannister. Like her, he is a thin skinned asshole.

You sort of seem to be making a weird argument here. On one hand you're saying that he should ignore the small minority of assholes who are criticizing them, and on another you're saying he shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him. While the two arguments aren't mutually exclusive, they're sort of odd in conjunction…

You're right, there's no such law.

Actually it is a small minority of fans that lack any social grace and confront him about his health and the series being unfinished or posting nasty rantings online about the same thing. His book sales and HBO ratings would be fine without them. This is yet another example of super fans acting far more important…

Oh I didn't realize you'd pre-paid for the next book. Of course in that case you're allowed to hurl all the vicious invective you want at the man of whose work you are apparently fond.

The truth is never rude, it is merely the truth.

Have you paid any attention to Wizarding names? Is Albus Severus Potter somehow worse than Sirius Black, Bellatrix Lestrange, Draco Malfoy, Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge, Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, and on and on? And these are all considered perfectly respectable names (even if some of the persons bestowed the name…

I love the epilogue.

Was the epilogue that bad? All I remember is that the characters had kids, which is a perfectly reasonable thing for married adults to do. Refresh my memory. What was bad about the epilogue?

In the summer of '96 when I was 12 my grandparents who lived in Southern Illinois (we lived in Texas) both got very sick. My family drove up to take care of them for what was supposed to be a week but what turned into a two month long stay with just me and my mom (dad had to leave for work) because of bad health…