I signed up for the free preview to watch the Strange Angel pilot. They somehow managed to make the story of the horny, amphetamine addicted scientist/warlock who loosely inspired Tony Stark, and had close ties to Kenneth Anger and L. Ron Hubbard boring.

Well, Barr is 68 years old and was damaged good before being appointed by Trump because of his involvement with Iran-Contra. It’s not like he has some bright future ahead of him.

Yeah, The Color Purple, Shindler’s List, and Amistad were some real whimsical thrill rides.

Yes, because - as we all know - one tweet or meme mocking a cartoon hedgehog’s crappy design means it’s the center of your life.

I meant the courtyards. It got criss-crossed with gardens in my head.

It crossed the line into transphobia when Rousey brought up a trans person’s genitals.

I remember reading an interview with Adele Dazeem when she was doing Wicked on Broadway and it opened with a bit about how she’s sitting at the mirror applying the green face paint to herself with a big brush.

I don’t know Broadway Musicals that well but I seem to recall Wicked was pretty extravagant and over the top…

Had she already seen the movie? Because I don’t think predictions count as a spoiler.

Successor as Captain of the King’s Guard. Jaime’s not getting out of this alive.

Also, Trump blew off handing out National Teacher of the Year Award yesterday. The President handing out that award is a tradition dating back to Truman.

I’ll give you Joffrey and Tommen, but at this point I don’t think anyone seriously believe they’re Robert’s sons (even the commoners were taunting Cersei for her relationship with Jaime). However, when Cersei takes the throne, it’s definitely usurper territory. In the line of succession, it would go to some distant blo…

The real deal with Lindsey Graham is he’s a South Carolina Senator. He’s in his early 60's, unmarried, and currently resides in Seneca, South Carolina. Thanks for writing. We’ll be right back.

Might makes right, history is written by the victors, and all of that. That’s why I specifically used Henry VII as my example because he’s technically a usurper. He had very little claim to the throne, other than being a distant relative who married Edward IV’s daughter. The people accepted him though because he depose…

You don’t get the uncanny effect because they go the extra mile when they have to use CGI wolves. We the viewer know what it looks like when a wolf is running, we don’t know what it looks like when a dragon is flying, so they have more freedom. They don’t have to match the dragons up with an image we already have in…

I think the original Helter Skelter miniseries is probably the definitive Manson movie. It’s a pretty straightforward telling and, at least by today’s standards, doesn’t really rely on sex and violence to sensationalize the story. Admittedly, when it premiered on network television in the 70's, that might have been…

Nah. More interested in Schiaparelli. It’s surprising any of Mussonlini’s mistresses wore Schiaparelli. When she visited Rome, she was personally invited to meet with Mussolini but turned him down, which must of really pissed him off. After that the Italian editions of fashion magazines would either not credit…

Bastard’s can’t inherit the throne and the only one who can legitimize them is a king. Putting aside the fact that the Lannisters usurping the throne probably ended Robert’s line of succession, if they just put Gendry on the throne without legitimizing him then there would be a crisis.

Robert was a known womanizer and …

Schiaparelli was based in Paris and, despite being Italian by birth, was regarded as a Parisian designer. Mussolini discouraged wealthy Italians from buying from French fashion houses.

Sarfatti owned some Schiaparelli pieces, but it was apparently all bought off the rack, so it’s not the same as if she made an…

I like Shciaparelli better. Maybe she didn’t have as much to overcome, she was merely divorced at a time when it was taboo compared to Chanel growing up in an orphanage, but she closed her label down so the wives of Nazi Officers couldn’t wear her clothes.

Plus it’s not like that went into it all “I’m gonna fuck my nephew!” and “I’m gonna fuck my aunt!” They didn’t know, it’s like one of those couples you see on daytime talk shows, they meet in college, bond over both being adopted, fall in love, then take a blood test before the wedding and find out they’re…