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Game 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...
Driving 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.”
Highlights 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...
Game 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 of...
What 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...
A 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...
No, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Elsewhere, 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...
My 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 gander, if you’re...
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...
