Hope Rides Alone

FRICK, I wish I had HBO! I really really REALLY want to be able to watch this show without going to youtube or other such places, as I inevitably shall if it's not out on Netflix by the time my work settles down somewhat and I have the time to be watching the show. 

It's just ... WOW. I watched the 15 minute promo and MY GOD! Really great tone and mood and setting! Broadswords! Freaky zombie-Reaver-I-don't-know-whats with amazingly blue eyes that made me want to hide under the bed! Broadswords! Two decapitations in ten minutes! With broadswords! A girl who hates sewing and kicks ass at archery! Boromir! With a broadsword! Gorgeous pseudo-Viking costumes! Accessorized with broadswords! Round shields! BROADSWORDS! BROADSWORDS! BROADSWORDS!

(Is it too obvious why I'm excited about this show? Probably. Shut up, occasionally I am easy to please.)

Also, as a female, apparently I'm not supposed to like Game of Thrones. According to Ginia Bellafante it's "boy fiction" and "too hard" to keep track of all the characters, the sex scenes were added to attract female viewers (which is a blatant lie, apparently they've toned things down from the books!) and I'd be better off watching "Sex in the City reruns."
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Why the HELL is this idiot on the New York Times' payroll? Why did they publish this laughable excuse for a "review?"
... DID SHE JUST INSULT THE HOBBIT!?!??!
LADY I AM CALLING YOU THE FUCK OUT, LET'S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE!!! ... Now, where'd I leave my wooden stakes? Drat, they're in my other satchel ... I WILL FIGHT YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS, FOR MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS! NAME YOU SECOND, MINE IS DAYNA FROM THE MADE OF FAIL PODCAST! (Not that I've asked her to be my second, but if I could choose a second for this hypothetical and incredibly silly duel I'm making up for the sole purposes of a lame internet joke, it'd be Dayna, because she is awesome and would probably be better in a fight than me.)

Thankfully, the blogosphere seems to be up in (completely justified) arms about this, as well they should be, and many people with far more time and far better eloquence than myself have written letters to the editor, so that patronizing moron with a job many of us would kill to have won't get away with this. 
(Fun fact, as I'm so out of the loop, I only found out about this today, because of today's Weregeek strip. Shows you where my priorities are: sleep, webcomic check-in, work interspersed with goofing-off, more work, sleep.)

 Check this out and please donate if you can!

You may wonder why I'm pimping out a charity auction for a complete stranger. It's because she's a friend of Dayna's, and Dayna is good people. She's wicked nice to me and she's an utterly fantastic person, so please help her friend if you can.


(In other news: stress stress I can't seem to catch a break stress stress listening to Discworld audiobooks to calm down stress stress gotta write a third draft of an essay tonight stress stress.)