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Game of Thrones Bookclub: Portents of Things to Come
This is week four of the bookclub. We just read chapters 21 – 28, Eddard IV through Eddard V. At this point in the book things are growing more and more foreboding. Eddard arrives at King’s Landing...
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On Ned Stark, Ice and Fire
Spoilers after the leap… (First half of the post may have season one show spoilers, after that there is a warning for more book-related spoilers.) I thought the last two episodes of Game of Thrones...
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Map of the Day: The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros
This is pretty awesome: See a larger version here. (Via) I know we have fallen behind in our book club. Time is tight. I’m behind on reading. I figure many of you are as well. At this point, just keep...
View ArticleMy first piece in ‘The Atlantic’
Hey everyone…big shameless self-promotion for yours truly. I’ve published my first-ever piece in The Atlantic. It’s about fantasy literature and film. I ask whether we’re in a ‘fantasy bubble’. Take a...
View ArticleElsewhere, Hither and Thither
My second piece is live at The Atlantic. This time around I offer up some reading recommendations for those of us on George R. R. Martin withdrawals. I’m sure that I will learn that some of these books...
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Game of Thrones blogging
I can’t stress enough how much I like blogging about A Song of Ice and Fire at the League. The one problem is I sometimes don’t have an idea of what I want to blog about so I’m asking you all for...
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A Song of Ice and Blackfyre
Yeah, more Game of Thrones Spoilers… In the comments to my last post, Maxwell James brought up a theory about Aegon and Varys that I had not thought of before – partly because I haven’t read all the...
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Brienne of Tarth
League commenter Marianne is interested in Brienne of Tarth: Well…. for one thing I think a woman knight idolizing Renly that way is an interesting take on the conventions of chivalry and courtly love....
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What will the myths be in A Song of Ice and Fire?
By the end of A Storm of Swords and the beginning of A Feast for Crows (which I just recently began rereading. I’m almost at A Dance!) Jaime’s transformation is roughly complete and Sansa has begun the...
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Mothers are all the same in A Song of Ice and Fire
Does anybody else find the entire Iron Islands storyline tiresome and disconnected? I do. I just can’t find myself at all interested by Euron Crow’s Eye or Victarion or Asha. I also sort of get the...
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Fools in Dorne
I can’t find it in myself to like Ser Arys Oakheart, or feel sad for him. I just finished the chapter (SPOILERS) where Arianne’s rebellion fails. I know I’m supposed to feel pity for Oakheart. He was...
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A Lannister always spays his pets
Via. Which reminds me of this: Consider this an open thread.
View ArticleI Am Ben from Parks and Recreation
Yeah, so this made my day: It’s creepy how much this is me.
View ArticleNo, Tyrion isn’t just like me
A little while ago both Erik and myself were giggling over this clip of Ben in Parks and Recreation passionately casting down the idea that HBO’s Game of Thrones would ever be canceled. Ben argues that...
View ArticleA Little Bit of Light-Hearted Nerdery, and a Question
Sorry, folks. I got a little burned out from all the talk about lady-parts that dominated this place for a couple weeks, and then I completely went off the radar over the weekend, so I missed a whole...
View ArticleWhat Is Game Of Thrones For?
Warning: This post contains spoilers through the second book of A Song of Ice and Fire and the second season of Game of Thrones. Also, if you choose to follow the links, you are agreeing to be fully...
View ArticleGame Of Thrones Appendix!
The astucious MikeSchilling has put together a spectacular essay detailing the breeding habits of the Spanish Royalty. If you’re familiar with how Game of Thrones is pretty much a retelling of the War...
View ArticleThoughts on Game of Thrones’ Season 3 Opener from Around the Web
Yesterday was epic. At least in my belly. A little known fact: when Easter Sunday and the return of Game of Thrones collide, one thing is certain—there will be pig. Bacon and sausage at brunch. Glazed...
View ArticleHighlights from Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 2
Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, “Dark Wings, Dark Words,” was the first one I watched all by my lonesome. Sipping some gin and finishing off the remnants of a week old chocolate Easter bunny,...
View ArticleDriving Blind: Afghanistan, Bombs, and Streaming Music
Adm. William McRaven, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, believes, “We are achieving in the SOF world probably the best results we’ve seen in many, many years.” That’s after, as Noah...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: “The Rains Of Castamere”
I wasn’t planning on writing about Game of Thrones today, but here we are. Saturday night I was at a Mexican restaurant with several friends when the conversation turned to Westeros. “You guys better...
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What is this thing you call “Breaking Bad”?
So apparently there was some big TV event yesterday? If my Twitter feed is any indication, there was essentially nothing worth discussing except what was going to happen on the season finale of...
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Linky Friday #57
Filling in for my man @will-truman, I’m happy to present dozens — count ’em, dozens of links of wondrous miscellany from my travels about the web! International Sport: [IS1] About thirty per athlete...
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Game of Thrones: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
(Note: There will be spoilers for Game of Thrones up through last night’s episode in what follows.) “If you want Justice, you’ve come to the wrong place,” warned lord Tyrion. But Prince Oberyn didn’t...
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So, Can We Talk About This?
This post is dark, and full of spoilers, from the Game of Thones season 5 finale. So I’ve put the whole text in rot13. Please comment in rot13 if you’re discussing any spoilers as a courtesy for those...
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