Quick Hits on a Friday! (Is anyone even out there?) (Besides me I mean.) We’re getting a few nice finds from a WiC ghost contributor I like to call “Bad Bart,” and more than a few of these are his finds.
FaBio is on another podcast! BOOMTRON (formerly The BSC Review) discusses Game of Thrones Episode 3, “Lord Snow” in Boomtron Podcast #5. His Royal FaBulousness (simply called “Tobias” here) joins Darth Rachel and Elena Nola in discussing episode 3 as well as fake eyelashes, nerd bars, football, the Ender’s Game movie, and other weird tangents.
FaB had a blast! Obviously. But he will lose the war vs. fake eyelashes, just like he is losing the war vs. indigo. Pity him!
World of Warcraft geeks know what’s what. Here’s a You Tube presentation of A Song of Ice and Fire as told through the eyes of … Leeroy Jenkins, I guess. Leeeeeeroy JENKINS! There are ASoIaF SPOILERS throughout this bizarre skit! NOT SAFE for n00bs!
Leeeroy Jenkins! (Only WoW players will get how funny this is.)
Speaking of videos, here’s an old commercial from the ’80’s: Don’t Wake The Dragon! I … have never heard of this game.
One has to wonder if that somehow subconsciously didn’t enter the mind of GRRM. Though it’s also just good advice in general.
Finally… more podcasts! Screened.com has a Behind The Screened Door review Podcast that features Game of Thrones among many other things. The Game of Thrones stuff isn’t a lot, so if that’s all you’re looking for I’d skip it. But the guys who produce it seem like pros. They sure have a better mics than I do. Another can be found at Casually Hardcore. They have their own review of Game of Thrones amongst other things. Game of Thrones talk starts at the 1:34 hour mark, and they talk about it for all of… about a minute. Please note that these podcasts are not in any way ‘Thronescentric, so you have to get through all the other stuff first. It’s a little like talk radio. And it’s 2 hours long.
Fire And Blood: You’ve been warned. I can’t get those 2 hours back in my life. If I had my druthers I’d just keep following the far-less professional and much-more vicious A Podcast of Ice and Fire. But that’s me.
EDIT: One thing I forgot to add while I was sprinting for the door was the link to Gestalt Mash and the ultra-cool Playin’ with Ice and Fire articles they do. It’s literally as good as—if not better than—rereading A Game of Thrones yourself. Some really good discussions usually pop up from there as well. Worth a gander if you’ve never read it. You can start at the beginning for the PROLOGUE, or go to the latest one, EDDARD (Chapter 25).
Right now they’re paced ahead of the TV show, but that’s bound to catch ’em sooner or later. I read this shit religiously.
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