Saturday, May 16, 2015

The "Game Of Thrones" Guys, Ranked By Thirst

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“Everybody on that show can get it.” - Donna Meagle.

Game of Thrones has something for everyone - action, adventure, mystery, romance - and enough hotness to leave us more parched than Cersei Lannister without wine every damn episode. We - two Game of Thrones fans who appreciate a fine man - decided to rank the guys of the show, according to how thirsty they make us. We each gave the characters a thirst level, and the average of our scores provided this ranking. So settle in and grab your wine - you're going to need to stay hydrated on this ride.

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Gregor Clegane

Jenna: 0/10. That is not a mountain I ever want to scale. He's a monster.
Julia: -1000/10. HE DESTROYED MY PRECIOUS PRINCE. Good arm muscles will not save you!

Total: -1000/10

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Petyr Baelish/Littlefinger

Jenna: -10/10. Nope. Nope. Can't do it. Sorry, Littlefinger fans, I know you're out there, and there are many of you, but this guy makes my skin crawl. All credit to Aidan Gillen (who is not unattractive in real life); he makes Littlefinger so slimey and disturbing. This guy is much more terrifying than almost everyone else on the show and he better leave my precious Sansa alone.
Julia: 10/10. Jen. Na. Jenna. Not only does he have the kinkiest name ever, but he's possibly the cleverest character in this show, he's got a FANTASTIC mustache and a sex appeal you don't quite understand and don't really need to. Hello, Petyr BAElish.

Total: 0/10

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Robert Baratheon

Jenna: 1/10. This jerk was enough to make you feel sorry for Cersei.
Julia: 1/10. He slaps women and I feel like his beard is filled with turkey bits. I never liked him.

Total: 1/10

HBO / Via comicvine.com

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Should You Give Someone A Book?

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Well, should you?

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Jon Adams is an illustrator, designer, and writer living in San Francisco with his wife and their shrimp. He's made things for MTV, Wired, Netflix, McSweeney's, lots of comic book publishers, and himself. Twitter him.

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Lemony Snicket Wrote A New Story For #TwitterFiction

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A Series of Unfortunate Events author Lemony Snicket, AKA Daniel Handler, participated in the second annual #TwitterFiction Festival this week.

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On Thursday, Lemony Snicket, otherwise known as author Daniel Handler, participated in Twitter's second annual #TwitterFiction Festival. He was one of over 20 authors who participated in the festival by writing stories composed of 140 character tweets for their followers. Some authors, like Snicket, also incorporated their followers' suggestions and answers into their Twitter tales.

Snicket's story takes place within the context of his series All the Wrong Questions , which is considered a prequel to his wildly popular A Series of Unfortunate Events. You can read the full story below and follow Lemony Snicket here.

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Margaret Atwood Wrote A Brand New Short Story In The Name Of #TwitterFiction

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“FILM PREVIEWS ON A PLANE: THE HELPFUL SUMMARIES.” Bless you, #TwitterFiction.

This week, Margaret Atwood participated in the #TwitterFiction festival and wrote an original short story, "FILM PREVIEWS ON A PLANE: THE HELPFUL SUMMARIES," while she was traveling on a plane.

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Friday, May 15, 2015

When I Got Pregnant At 40, Time Slowed Down

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A decade after my second son was born I found myself unexpectedly pregnant again.

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An unsettling thing about e-readers is that you can't easily sense how far along you are in a book — the feel of the object in your hands never changes; there's no tactile shift to signal that one is at the beginning, or midway, or approaching the end. And sometimes life feels like that, too.

We already did everything. That's how it seemed. I'd already grown up, gone to grad school, married, landed a job, had two kids, written some books, and now what? Do the same things again and again until I got too sick or old to do them, and then die? Nothing is new anymore, my grandmother complained at 90. I felt that way at 40.

Still, there's a luxuriousness to being at the midpoint. There's enough experience behind you so that you know who you are — you've made a life — yet there's a sense of plenty still ahead. I'm not in physical pain, I'd tell myself, rushing to the subway. I'm not hooked up to an oxygen tank. I get to do my work and raise my kids and run around this city with my friends. This is the good part.

But this sense of being in the middle, it's tentative, provisional. If I'm my grandmother, who died in her nineties, I'm in the middle of my life; if I'm my mother, who died at 54, I'm closer to the end.

How did we get here so fast, my mother asked, just before she died.

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We like to think we know where we are along the road, and it's radically disorienting to find oneself at an unanticipated and completely different place on the map. Any disruption in life chronology causes vertigo. For me, instead of the dreaded lurch forward, life looped back. A decade after my second son was born I found myself unexpectedly pregnant again.

It was summertime. I'd returned from a month working in Paris; my husband was happy to see me. Our boys were away at camp and we were alone in the lazy late July light of our blessedly empty apartment. When I think back on it now, that place in time has a kind of mystical, luminous charge; we had no idea we were summoning a new person into our lives.

I'm pregnant. The thought shook me awake in the middle of the night a few weeks later. When an EPT stick confirmed this, my husband and I laughed, shocked and weirdly happy. I began to wait for the miscarriage, which I was sure was coming.

I think you're going to carry this baby to term, the attending said, when anxiety landed me in the ER. We have a heartbeat, I told my husband on the phone from the hospital parking lot.

Should I have this baby? I should at least consider my options. But I couldn't get past the question to imagine what an answer of no would mean. With a new heartbeat inside me I was euphoric, still a part of the pulsing living world.

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Are You More Eloise Or Madeline?

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Which of these mischievous children is your kindred spirit?

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If The Curiosity Rover Was Explained In "Up Goer Five" Language

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“Space car for the red world.” Randall Munroe’s new book, Thing Explainer, will be released on November 24.

In "Up Goer Five" xkcd-author Randall Munroe explained NASA's Saturn V rocket in simple terms. In his new book, he's going to do the same for a lot more objects.

Randall Munroe

I had a good time drawing Up Goer Five, so I decided to draw more pictures like that and make a book of them. The book explains things, so it's called Thing Explainer.

You can't have Thing Explainer yet, but if you want, you can order it now, and you'll get it about a month before the end of the year.

Touch these blue words to learn how to get Thing Explainer.

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