He must be gagging about Ben De La Creme being on this season!

She does now....

The HFPA are the Jon Snow of award-voters with all their knowing of nothing. Damn it.

There you go, different tastes. Memories of Ice (the third Malazan Book of the Fallen) is one of my favourite fantasy books ever. Yeah, there are sappers and thieves and soldiers and barbarians and witches and gods and demigods - there are new characters introduced with almost every book. That can be frustrating in…

I'll second Steven Erickson's Malazan series - there are ten books and they are all wonderful. Big, meaty, high fantasy stuff with unforgettable characters and better writing than Martin (to my mind anyway - they're far less wooly).

My sister shares a birthday with you (like many others here!) but luckily in Ireland there's traditionally a big night out on December 26th (pubs and clubs are closed on Christmas day) and so she is always out with her friends in the early hours of her birthday.

Apart from the heavy-handed assonance and alliteration (take meds plx) and the general nonsensical barrage of outsize words, I'm not entirely convinced she wrote it.

Well, anyone who followed Gaga on Twitter had more than 6 months of ARTPOP this and ARTPOP that before the album came out. It was a tad overdone. There's such a thing as building hype, yes, but it it can backfire. I was sick of hearing about ARTPOP without getting to hear ARTPOP, if you know what I mean.

Not to be that person, but I think you mean Orla Brady and not Orly. Orly's an airport, isn't it?

I think Ellen did a very good job of hiding her disappointment that Yeezus did not show her a trailer for the sequel to Bound. I mean, that I would watch the heck out of, but I had to turn his video off after the first audio sample of Kim.

This is what listening to Enya at high volume will do to your testicles, unless you're JC VanDammit.

+ 1 to your list and the additional suggestion of Tatiana Maslany. Because, damn.

Yay! Congrats to the Rebecca formerly known as Burt/Boo-urt for an awesomely weekend-tastic Dirt Bag. Taking self off now to read ALL THE OTHER BURT POSTS because it is Saturday and I can!

Wait, this was trimmed...how the long was the original mail? And how can one human be so full of crap and feel so self-important that they feel the right to inflict this on another? I just...words...failing.

Congrats on the new job. Like many others, I'll be keeping an eye out for you on Newsweek, and watching out for news on the YA novel. I liked the PUA article on Dissent a heck of a lot too.

Awesome article.

Both bioplar disorder and schizophrenia are treated with anti-psychotic medications. I'd assume that post-partum psychosis would be medicated along similar lines. Not really helpful to damn someone based on their prescription. Lots of people are on anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers and do not go on rampages (well,…

Not this kind of scalp tattoo? Because this kind is good.

Let's not forget Sinéad's involvement with creepo Irish MRA John Waters, with whom she had a kid. Given the mud he dragged her through while trying to get custody of their daughter, I'm not surprised she's hypersensitive to the idea of any woman being manipulated by men. (Disclosure: I dealt with Waters a fair few…

But isn't that the tricky part? Kids today with smartphones and the internet, meaning there is no "safe space" for a child that is being bullied. They're inundated with it. I was bullied as a kid, and I remember not wanting to talk about it because I was ashamed, and felt that there was something wrong with me that…