• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Books are my comfort food!

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Open Threads / Sunday Evening Open Thread: Rage of Thrones

Sunday Evening Open Thread: Rage of Thrones

by Anne Laurie|  April 20, 20149:03 pm| 27 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Popular Culture

FacebookTweetEmail


(NSFW)
.

H/t commentor Sharl.

What are y’all watching / reading tonight?

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Long Read Watch: A Scholarly Discussion of Our New Aristocracy
Next Post: I Now Have No Pets »

Reader Interactions

27Comments

  1. 1.

    condorcet runner up

    April 20, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    Food coma from attending two Greek Easter lamb roasts … So probably GoT and then thinking of starting Ripper Street on Netflix. Any thoughts on the latter?

  2. 2.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    April 20, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    Hadda skip Bar Rescue tonight to work on a proposal due tomorrow. Not skipping GoT (11:00 rerun) though, nope, not me.

  3. 3.

    Suzanne

    April 20, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    Going to watch GoT after the kids are in bed.

    I tried out that weird Baby Foot stuff today. I hope to see all sorts of nastiness flaking off my feet here in the next few days. I am sure you all will want constant updates.

  4. 4.

    MazeDancer

    April 20, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    “6 long years for Dance with Dragons” was hysterically funny.

    Especially for anyone who might have checked online – where’s the book? – and gotten the 6 long years of Mr. Martin’s web site not exactly updating. Or offering the same “sample”.

  5. 5.

    Richard Fox

    April 20, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    I am happily contemplating my new art website, which took four hellish months to get the damn thing up and running. This is going to make my life as an artist a breeze, More exposure and good vibes, I just feel it. (!) I hope the great Balloon Juice community will take a peek. I’m a long time lurker, and hardly comment. But you all need a nice break after the talk on David ‘screw that Moran’ Brooks and his ilk.. So please be my guest. The link is http://www.paintaglobe.com –cheers.

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    April 20, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    Amazing Race, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, & Turn

  7. 7.

    SarahT

    April 20, 2014 at 9:47 pm

    Nurse Jackie and Arroz con Pollo here

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    April 20, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    Season one of “The Americans,” GoT, and “Cosmos.” But I have to finish cooking our pork loin chops, scalloped potatoes, and asparagus first.

  9. 9.

    gnomedad

    April 20, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    Dr. Tyson is kicking denialist butt without mentioning climate change. Wingnut fur’s gonna fly.

  10. 10.

    YellowJournalism

    April 20, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    Extremely pissed that CTV Canada is a week behind for Orphan Black, unless I subscribe to Space.

    I hope Mad Men picks up tonight, although now that I’m more familiar with the events of Season 6, tonight might be better. I hate this year or two between seasons shit. For an anthology it’s not a big deal, but an ongoing series should not take that long between seasons.

  11. 11.

    SarahT

    April 20, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    @gnomedad: Good. Can’t wait to catch it tomorrow on NatGeo

  12. 12.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    April 20, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    Re-re-re-etc. reading Susan Wise Bauer’s The History of the Medieval World. It’s a standout work and I’ve read any number of Medievalists.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    April 20, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    Getting ready to launch The Mentalist from the TV’s paused buffer. The start time this season has been extremely unreliable because of various sporting events, so I’ve given up trying to DVR it; I watch it on Sunday night or wait a few days and catch it “on demand.”

    I have gotten ambivalent about the show. Last season’s “payoff” on the whole Red John story arc was a fiasco, and this season the show has been drifting and/or phoning it in. But last week was a little better—the good guys did a sort of Leverage-style sting on some art thieves—so hope springs eternal, etc.

    At midnight there is a new episode of (the Swedish) Wallander on weirdo Eurotrash micro-network MHz. That show has really picked it up in this latest season. Kurt Wallander has been erratic and seems to be dealing with what might be the early stages of Alzheimer’s. The actor who plays Wallander (Krister Henriksson) is doing a great job, and the show is handling the situation with subtlety. It’s a slow-building arc underneath the structure of the individual episodes.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    April 20, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    @Steeplejack: I am really liking the mentalist this season! I had the same ‘leverage’ thought about last week’s episode. Very fun. I am really hoping the show is renewed, I think they are getting their new feet under them.

    Screw it if there are typos, I’m on my iPad on the train.

  15. 15.

    PsiFighter37

    April 20, 2014 at 11:16 pm

    HBO’s Sunday lineup is fantastic. Watched GoT, then stayed for Silicon Valley and Veep, the latter which is still really funny (although not quite at peak performance), and the former, which is a hilarious, hyperbolic (but grounded in reality) look at the tech startup craze on the Left Coast. Pretty much have my Sunday nights booked up until mid-June with that lineup.

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary

    April 20, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    Well, that’s quite a bump in Jamie’s redemption arc.

  17. 17.

    Bob In Portland

    April 20, 2014 at 11:47 pm

    Here’s an interesting article about how an Indian sees Ukraine.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    April 21, 2014 at 12:03 am

    Now getting ready to watch Fritz Lang’s silent film Spione (“Spies”; 1928) on TCM. It’s just starting.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 21, 2014 at 12:27 am

    @Steeplejack: I binge watched True Detective with my dad this weekend. I don’t have HBO so he saves stuff for my visits. He is good people.

  20. 20.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 21, 2014 at 12:37 am

    Reading “Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow” by Neil McMillen. But, then, I’m a self-hating white communist-nazi-socialist guy consumed with white guilt, so…

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    April 21, 2014 at 12:42 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Your dad’s a good guy.

    I’d like to hear your opinion of True Detective after you’ve had a day or two (or longer) to let it settle. (Plus I’m leaving the computer shortly, although I almost always come back to check the threads the next day.) I binge-watched (I think) the first four episodes, then watched the last two as they came out. I thought it was really good but sagged a bit at the ending. YMMV.

    I don’t know how much HBO bonding you and your dad can take, but I saw on my cable system last week that HBO on Demand has every episode of Game of Thrones available. I was thinking about (very belatedly) starting in on it. I was originally DVR’ing them as they came out but never watched them, so at some point I erased them to free up a huge chunk of space.

    ETA: Didn’t mean you can’t give your opinion now, if you’re ready. I just might not see it until the morning.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 21, 2014 at 12:51 am

    @Steeplejack: We”ll do a bunch of GoT on Mothers’ Day weekend. As far as the late episodes of TD go, I see it as the fact that something had been left incomplete gnawed at the Rust and Marty. the weren’t able to move forward until they completed the job. They are similar to Dashiell Hammett characters; the working class sensibility of making sure they complete the job they were hired to do – doing more than they were hired to do doesn’t matter. Doing less eats at them.

    ETA: Of course, for me, the music in TD was as important as anything else. Oddly, dad pointed out that I had given him a Lucinda Williams CD as a present back in 95 that had one of the songs used on the show.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    April 21, 2014 at 1:07 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Fair enough. My problems were almost solely with (some aspects of) the writing. Great cinematography, good music, amazing acting. I may watch it again if I hit a lull in the next few weeks and see how it hits me on second viewing.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 21, 2014 at 1:12 am

    @Steeplejack: Matt and Woody (and Michelle) were really fucking good. Matt and Wood coasted for a long time. After things like this and Dallas Buyers’ Club, they won’t be able to do that anymore. Although, I would say that fact that they produced this was a bit of a declaration that they are done with easy charm and likeability as career crutches.

  25. 25.

    Frivolous

    April 21, 2014 at 1:43 am

    I love Axis of Awesome. They are so great. And I loved that video, heehee.

  26. 26.

    sharl

    April 21, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Hah, thanks for the h/t, Anne Laurie!

  27. 27.

    Paul in KY

    April 21, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    @Richard Fox: I find it hard to read the titles that are at lower edge of bright blue box that is on upper half of initial page. You might want to change the font color.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Anyway on Late Night Weekend Wrap-Up Open Thread: Journamalism, Not A Dependable Profit Center (Apr 15, 2024 @ 10:51am)
  • arrieve on Monday Morning Open Thread: The Tariff We Pay for Civilization (Apr 15, 2024 @ 10:49am)
  • RaflW on Campaigns, cash and poorly attached voters (Apr 15, 2024 @ 10:48am)
  • tokyocali (formerly tokyo ex-pat) on Monday Morning Open Thread: The Tariff We Pay for Civilization (Apr 15, 2024 @ 10:48am)
  • schrodingers_cat on Campaigns, cash and poorly attached voters (Apr 15, 2024 @ 10:46am)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!