“Some people are like, I want to go to Haiti, and I want to go to Thailand, and I want to get orphans, and I want to get prostitutes off the street. I realized that my heart was to help beautiful people. This is my mission.”

Nerd on, sister/brother! Horse nerds gotta ride stand tall. Or something.

Akhal Teke.

I love how Martin quashed fan theories that Coldhands was Benjen, and now the producers are basically saying “Screw you, George, some of US are fans, too!” and going ahead with this plot development.

The writer-nitpick part of me, though, has to look at the established story structure and wonder if they’re still not…

Not since the war has this been so accurate

See also: pigs.

There isn’t a team Bernie “type”. Shailene Woodley is as far away from me as possible- black, meat loving, thinks crystal magic is bullshit, openly feminist/womanist, can’t stand Shailene Woodley, etc- but I’m a Bernie Sanders supporter. It’s annoying as fuck when Hillary supporters just dismiss us, especially since I…

No. Fuck make-up, and fuck anyone who tries to say it’s some fundamental part of the female experience.

Oh man, I’m losing my mind with possibilities. Like, we will still have a drawing of the three, with the same characters? Will we still do the flashbacks of Wizard and Glass? A big concern of mine was how to work Stephen King in as a character, since in the last cycle, Roland met him at significant points in his life.…

Spoilers (yes, I know this is Morning Spoilers):

Holy shit holy shit holy shit I’ve been saying for years I want the first shot of Dark Tower to be the horn on his belt signifying that the movie is the next cycle and not a pure adaptation and HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT THE HORN GUYS! THE HORN!

I mean, come on!

I hope I’m rich enough to afford an invisible chair someday.

I’m a space nerd, but I’d hope that you don’t have to be one to tell two of the most iconic vehicles of the 20th century apart.

It’s All Easy?! Argh...I guess it’s easy when you have mad money at your disposal. I just want to smack her with that book

Yeah friends in Ellensburg/Wenatchee were scrambling last year; and seeing the fires on the Peninsula so thick from this side was completely new.

Looks like the switch has already been thrown and no rain til October... not a cloud in the sky.

The forecast this summer calls for 549,200 coho to arrive off the Washington-Oregon coast, compared to a preseason forecast of 1,015,000 last year and an actual return of 322,100.

Any opportunity to post this image (from the always-spectacular arrestedwesteros.com) is welcome:

People immediately think of the Hound? I would have thought LSH was a far more common consideration. It’s who I immediately thought of when I saw the headline that a character was coming back.