As a Brit, and in fairness, I doubt they were booing her specifically - either it was aimed at Bolton (not a popular figure amongst the protesters), or just a generic “we hate the Trump circus”.

Ivanka, personally, is in a strange neutral-zone where pity is laced with a well-deserved dose of contempt and indifference.

Don’t talk to me about hemorrhoids... actually, feel free - I’m fairly generous with the details.

I can’t say I’m surprised. Not only is everyone sodding broke, but, when my son and his friends go to a restaurant, they look for a good, mid-range, independant place via tripadvisor. Why would they go to a chain except for cheap fast-food? Places like Jamie’s used to be the safe, reliable, option, but accidentally…

Neil Young 1, Lynyrd Skynyrd 0.

Hah! I have one of the flowers from “Little Joe” - the production crew made them in some rooms they rented off the amateur theatre group I’m a member of!

“Some of them—titled While You Are Away—tried to turn British soldiers against the Americans, arguing that the US forces stationed in the United Kingdom were getting inside the knickers of the Brit’s lasses.”

Well, in fairness...

Yeah, I’m with the reader who thought Lady Stoneheart was a really, really stupid idea...

“Martin Stupid King” - Lol.

Doh! I’m an idiot. I mean, I knew that while I was reading it and bitching about the lack of Le Guin, but, at some point since, my brain went awol.

Another one for the list would be Bernard Cornwall’s Arthurian “Winter King” trilogy, which I’m fairly sure GRM has acknowledged as an influence. It’s got all the familiar tropes, but in a grounded setting, along with terrifying and lucid descriptions of fighting in a shield-wall.

And not just Earthsea - I don’t think I’ve read a single thing by her that hasn’t floored me in one way or another. And I don’t care what anyone thinks, Tenahu is wonderful.

Fair enough... but Earthsea!

There was a guy in the UK who had his arm ripped off by some farm machinery. He was kind of lucky it was ripped rather than cut, since there was surprisingly little bleeding - the veins got sort of stretched shut. Anyway, he picked it up, took it to hospital and afaik they successfully reattached it.

Ursula Le Guin seems an odd omission - and I assume deliberate. Any comment, oh article writers?

They really aren’t. And I say that with no disrespect to either.

I think that’s what he’s saying. The Helm’s Deep cine-guy was basically saying “realistically, this would be in pitch darkness without any stirring music, but fuck that shit.”

I basically follow GoT via clips on youtube rather than actually watching it (long story), and I’ve yet to find a coherent night time clip in this episode. The creators’ excuses are bullshit, and smack of “you’re holding it wrong.”

On the Iron Man (1) extras, there were some cut scenes and out-takes - extended airplane pole-dancing and a party in Dubai iirc.

Wouldn’t a nice puttanesca be more appropriate?

Yeah, the situation is getting pretty weird, and the weirdest thing is that, despite it being a terrible outcome for the consumer, it’s a completely predictable, market-driven, outcome. Capitalism at its most self-defeating.