ACA-PROPRIATE: The cast of Pitch Perfect (sans Anna Kendrick, interestingly) will reunite at the MTV Movie Awards for a live performance of a "never before heard mash-up."  Rebel Wilson hosts, and other musical guests include Selena Gomez and Macklemore/Ryan Lewis, attempting to grab that 16th minute of fame.

WELL, SINEAD O'REBELLION, SHOCK ME SHOCK ME SHOCK ME WITH THAT DEVIANT BEHAVIOR: Make your plans for Rex Manning Day (next Monday!) now. 

SQUAB, CORNUCOPIA, PANTIES, NAVEL, BRAINCHILD, CRUD, SLACKS, CREVICE, AND FUDGE: Slate digs even deeper into the concept of word aversion, and notes with regards to a certain word evocative of dampness:

It’s squishy-seeming, and, to some, specifically evocative of genital regions and undergarments. These qualities are not unusual when it comes to word aversion. Many hated words refer to “slimy things, or gross things, or names for garments worn in potentially sexual areas, or anything to do with food, or suckling, or sexual overtones,” says Riggle. But other averted words are more confounding, notes Liberman. “There is a list of words that seem to have sexual connotations that are among the words that elicit this kind of reaction—moist being an obvious one,” he says. “But there are other words like luggage, and pugilist, and hardscrabble, and goose pimple, and squab, and so on, which I guess you could imagine phonic associations between those words and something sexual, but it certainly doesn’t seem obvious.”

According to Language Log's Mark Liberman: “There could very well be a viral aspect to this, where either through the media or just through real-world personal connections, the reaction to some particular word—for example, [that one regarding dampness]—spreads. But that’s the sheerest speculation.”

AND SO WE BEAT ON: I'm not going to get in the habit of reviewing credit sequences, but Game of Thrones has one that keeps you watching, if only to see the new locations pop up. And while Astopol was a nice add and the Winterfell renovations a necessary mod, the most awe-inspiring changes to the sequence were the momentary flashes that suggested the beating of wings passing under our field of vision, and the brief spark of flame. So our views of the clockwork terrain came, all along, from the back of a dragon. Really well done.

IT WILL SHOCK YOU HOW MUCH IT NEVER HAPPENED:  Extremely crowded night of television last night, what with the dragons catching, cooking, and eating their own meals, plus the zombies, plus the return of my favorite male supporting character to The Good Wife, but I need to get up a brief recap of last night's magnificent return to Sterling Cooper Draper—and the implications of where we've been placed on the calendar and the firm's new major client—below the fold:

PREVIOUSLY, ON GAME OF THRONES:  Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, Bastard Jon, and Maybe Rickon found six direwolf cubs and said “can we keep them?” Ned said “what harm could six giant wolves do?” and Caitlin said Jon’s cub could sleep with him in the cupboard under the stairs.

THE TIMELY RESURRECTION OF THE ALOTT5MA GRAMMAR AND STYLE DESK:  Is tomorrow April Fool's Day, April Fools' Day, or April Fools Day?