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The latest Game of Thrones episode just aired on HBO. You need to know what I think so you know what to think. So let’s talk about Game of Thrones S03E08 “Second Sons” starting…now. LOSER: Arya’s lust for murder HBO screenshot When last we left Arya Stark, she was being abducted from the Brotherhood Without Banners’ camp by the Hound. And we jump right into Arya seemingly having a clean shot at the Hound’s sleeping head with a big rock. But the Hound hears her and offers her one shot in about as badass of a way as you can challenge a 10-year-old girl to murder you. Arya opts not to take her shot. It seems like we’ve got another buddy comedy brewing in the same vein as Jaime and Brienne as the Hound explains that he’s not that bad of a guy and saved her sister Sansa from a rapin’ multiple times. The Hound is bringing her to The Twins, an area in the Riverlands. I smell a redemption arc! WINNER: The booming soldiers of fortune industry in Yunkai HBO screenshot A group of sellswords, the Second Sons, comes to Daenerys for face time. The Second Sons seem like a formidable duo based entirely upon how brazen they are in disrespecting the would-be Queen including requests to see Daenerys’s ladybits. But Daenerys offers them the same money Yunkai is given them to bow out of any war. The Sons deny her request, saying they have a contract and they’re men of their word. They then slap the ass of former slave girl Missandei just for good measure. This is how we know they’re bad guys. The men go back to their camp and, as the main one who said the rudest things to Daenerys gropes a whore, they decide one of them has to sneak into Dany’s camp and kill her in the middle of the night. WINNER: Literacy in the Dragonstone jail cell HBO screenshot Former Sir Davos is still in the Baratheon jail attempting to read after his last conversation with Stannis’s scale-skinned daughter. Reading is FUNdamental in Westeros, too, kids. Stannis pops in to talk with Davos and tells him that Melisandre has returned with the Baratheon bastard Gendry. Stannis seems stoked that Gendry is going to be sacrificed for Melisandre’s king’s blood witchcraft. Davos isn’t happy that Stannis sees the murder of an innocent as a necessary evil. And Stannis protests too much, saying “we must do our duty now…what’s one bastard boy against a kingdom” as if he were justifying the idea to himself. Stannis offers Davos his freedom if he swears not to raise a hand to Melisandre again. But Davos says he can’t avoid speaking ill of Melisandre. Davos is basically Stannis’s conscience. Stannis buys the Melisandre fire god hype, though, and there’s no turning back at this point, Davos’s eloquence aside. WINNER: Sansa and Tyrion’s mutual understanding HBO screenshot Sansa and Tyrion both feel unease about their new allegiance. Sansa thinks Tyrion is all about the impeding nuptials and Tyrion pretty clearly is not. But Sansa’s still relatively uneasy about their speedy wedding. Tyrion asks if Sansa drinks wine because she’s “going to need it.” Being walked down the aisle by King Joffrey — filling in for Sansa’s father since Joffrey’s the “father of the realm” — might as well put the decanter directly into her hand. LOSER: Cersei’s sense of sisterhood HBO screenshot Margaery attempts her usual political maneuvering by being extra cautious and gracious towards Cersei at the wedding of Tyrion and Sansa. But Cersei shuts it down fast, threatening Margaery’s life if she ever calls Cersei “sister” again. Apparently they don’t have copies of How Stella Got Her Groove Back lying around the King’s Landing library. WINNER: Melisandre’s fiery loins HBO screenshot Melisandre has a moment alone with Gendry who immediately seems apprehensive

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Miguel attempted to jump over a group of fans during tonight’s Billboard Music Awards. He failed miserably. In the process, he crushed some poor lady’s head. That, my friends, is the greatest unintentional blooper in the history of award shows. ABC

Even as GG introduces UE, BB is heading in the opposite direction with TV in the form of a full TV anime adaptation, to the general relief of fans – most of whom seem prepared to overlook the generally abysmal fate of fighting game to anime adaptations. Boasting staff involved in the production of such classics as To Aru Majutsu no Index and FMA, and the studio behind such classics as Seiken no Qwaser, Manyuu and Nazo no Kanojo X, the series certainly looks to enjoy a mixed pedigree and is scheduled for an autumn 2013 broadcast.

Level 5 electromaster Mikoto Misaka is once again getting a figure, this time as a large 1/7 scale with shocking effects, by Griffon Enterprises and due this June. Biribiri is available for pre-order now.

Even though he just recently finished his sophomore season at the by Text-Enhance" href="http://blog.bullz-eye.com/2013/05/09/bullz-eye-interviews-wisconsin-badger-point-guard-traevon-jackson/#">University of Wisconsin, Traevon Jackson comes across just like his game- confident, smooth and mature. For being just 20 years old, he’s so calm and composed, you can’t help but think about where you were in life at 20….and then sheepishly quit punishing yourself. Some of that confidence undoubtedly comes from his famous genetics and being the son of NBA star player Jim Jackson, but the greater part of it comes from his faith and approach to life, off the court. What was your experience like playing in the NCAA Tournament? “Obviously, it didn’t end the way we wanted it to.  Just the fact of me playing in the tournament was great because it’s the attitude of “loser goes home” and unfortunately we had to go home. But it really puts into perspective what you need to do to prepare for it going forward. And learning from that this year helps us next year.” Is there added pressure based on who your dad is to succeed? What’s the dynamic of that like? “Growing up, I felt it more than I do now, but now I don’t even think about it at all, actually. The pressure that I feel now the most is pleasing the Lord. That may sound cliché, but that’s an everyday type of task and the biggest thing for me. As long as I continue to grow in that aspect, there is no other question.” Who would win a game of one on one right now? “Oh, me of course (laughing). Easily. He can beat me in golf and all the other, cards, all that stuff, but he’s not beating me on the court.” Read the entire interview here.

Since CBZ is still whoring it up at the White House, I figured I would do civic duty and actually post something today.  Tada, a picture of a lion with some dolphins.

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