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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThis week, let Seth MacFarlane show you all the ways to die in the West, geek out with Wil Wheaton, read about Karl Ove Knausgaard&amp;amp;#x2019;s struggle in, well, My Struggle, watch the French Open, root for the villainesses in Maleficent, learn to be un-Undateable from Chris D&amp;amp;#x2019;Elia, and get dark with Sharon Van Etten.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n1. Find out how many ways you can die in the West. Spoiler: there are a million of them. From the looks of the trailer for the Seth MacFarlane-directed(-written-starring) A Million Ways to Die in the West, these include being crushed by giant blocks of ice, angry drunk people, exploding old time-y cameras, running bulls, and Liam Neeson. Also from the looks of the trailer, A Million Ways to Die in the West, in theaters Friday, will be as funny as it is absurd.\n\n\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n2. Learn your geek IQ with Wil Wheaton. The man formerly known as Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher will be celebrating all things geek each Tuesday night as host of The Wil Wheaton Project on SyFy. Think of it as The Soup for nerds. Think of it, also, as funny because so is Wheaton. But how much does he know about the stuff that makes our inner nerd hearts flutter? A lot. Like, all of it. Wheaton stopped by GQHQ to take our nerd knowledge quiz. And, spoiler alert, he passed.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n3. Read this six-volume existentialist Norwegian novel! Karl Ove Knausgaard's strangely addictive My Struggle\u2014a 3,600-page autobiographical novel by a middle-aged introvert\u2014made him a literary star in Norway and here in America. With volume three, Boyhood, out this month in English, here are three reasons My Struggle is worth the, uh, struggle.\u2014ROB BRUNNER\n\n You've never read anything like it. My Struggle is unexpectedly entrancing\u2014the combination of detail and intimacy creates an illusion of being inside somebody else's brain. \"I remember describing the project to my English publisher,\" Knausgaard recalls, laughing. \"I said, 'It's boring: all about my daily life, about opening up the refrigerator.' He said, 'Okay...that sounds like a turnoff.'&amp;amp;#x2009;\"\n\nYou'll relive your childhood. Boyhood\u2014focusing on the author as an awkward elementary schooler\u2014is remarkably vivid and familiar, even for those of us who didn't grow up on a Norwegian island in the 1970s.\n\n It's fearless. The title's nod to Hitler's Mein Kampf is no accident. \"It was a provocation,\" he says. \"The title says, you know, 'Fuck you. Take it or leave it.'&amp;amp;#x2009;\" The pages are similarly blunt. \"Half my family don't want to talk to me. That's fair enough. My wife\u2014we had a deep crisis because of the second book [which details their life together]. She read it, cried, and said, 'We have to talk about our relationship.' But it's okay now.\"\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n4. Watch the French Open\u2014which started yesterday\u2014because red clay, muthafuckas!\u2014DEVIN GORDON\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n5. Celebrate the villainess with\u2014and cross your fingers for\u2014Maleficent. Sorry Sleeping Beauty: there's no way we're not pulling for the Mistress of All Evil this time. First, because, duh, Angelina Jolie. Second, because dragons, wings, and perfect cheekbones. And third, because she's like totally misunderstood, OK? Plus, her evil laugh game is really on point. Before Maleficent opens in theaters Friday, we're ranking our five favorite villainesses we're all secretly rooting for.\n\n 1. Maleficent (Maleficent, 2014): Next time, they'll remember to invite her to the party.\n\n 2. Regina George (Mean Girls, 2004): Without her, we'd have none of this.\n\n 3. Catwoman (Batman Returns, 1992): Because.\n\n 4. O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill: Vol. I, 2003): She's a bawse. A, like, really violent one, but still.\n\n 5. Kathryn Merteuil (Cruel Intentions, 1999): The O.G. Mean Girl.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n6. Don't be Undateable\u2014follow Chris D'Elia's advice. The standup comic (and former Whitney-er) returns to NBC in another comedy about dating...or, rather, trying to date. The guys on Undateable are, well, just that. As Danny Burton, the one-night-stand aficionado with a heart of gold, Chris D'Elia dispenses his how-to-charm advice to his buds. And to us, too. Here are D'Elia's tips for being un-undateable.\n\nDitch the cologne. There is no cologne only perfume. If you're wearing cologne you're a woman.Always ask a girl if she has a boyfriend within the first 10 minutes of meeting her so you never get caught in the friend zone.Talk about things like fashion and bags because that's what girls like.Talk about kind of wanting a baby one day, but act like you're not positive you want a baby, because girls like guys that want a baby but they also want to know that they can convince you of things (like how you should be sure you want a baby).Don't be a bitch and say what you want you dummy.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n7. Find out what Mister Rogers&amp;amp;#x2019; Neighborhood would look like as horror film. It&amp;amp;#x2019;d probably be a whole lot like the music video for Sharon Van Etten&amp;amp;#x2019;s newest track, &amp;amp;#x201C;Every Time the Sun Comes Up,&amp;amp;#x201D; from her new album, Are We There. Bonus: like the rest of Van Etten&amp;amp;#x2019;s fourth record, the song is lovely, almost soothing, with a touch of uncomfortable, almost dark, honesty.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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