There Are Worse Places to Be ...

[dawn_felagund]

... than Ocean City, Maryland, on a sunny day, in the low 80s F, with a brisk breeze blowing off the sea

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[huinare]

Sounds relaxing. Well, except the bar fight part.

It felt like being at work!

Ha!

I was surprised to learn this, as was the horseshoe crab that got hooked on the pier last night.

HA. Interesting how those most ignorant are often most eager to share their "knowledge" with the rest of us.

[dawn_felagund]

Yes! It's very hard not to correct these people. But I don't want to start my own bar fight out on the fishing pier, of all dumb places. ;)

[huinare]

Hah, more than understandable.

[tarion_anarore]

f some overweight character "puffs" one more time, I might chuck the book into the sea

Hehe, that's how I feel about Tyrion's limp. And I'm only part-way through A Storm of Swords (because whenever the language gets particularly appalling, I get distracted from reading).

[dawn_felagund]

YES! Tyrion's "waddling" in the earlier books was replaced by the "puffing" in this book for me, only because Tyrion's PoV is not represented in Crows. (GRRM apparently had to divide the book in half and chose to do so by PoV, according to the note at the end of the book.) And Samwell Tarly is in this book a lot. 'Nuff said. :)

[heartofoshun]

I am laughing at the bar fight. I can't think one I ever saw (a my ripe old age and with my checked past). The closest I ever came was wakes in my childhood at one of my great aunts' houses. I've seen plenty of street fights.

The ocean sounds fabulous. It was crappy weather here today; briefly reached 94 mid-afternoon.

Great description of GRRM. At least he has the courage of his convictions. I would be too afraid of my fandom critics to try to come close to pulling some of the descriptive stunts he allows himself.

[dawn_felagund]

This was my second bar fight! And I don't generally hang out in bars. Actually, I wasn't in the bar for either one. The other was when driving home one night and going past what I can only describe as a redneck bar, and two guys who'd been thrown out were duking it out in front of the door.

I heard the weather was horrible in Baltimore too and saw your LJ post yesterday. Blech.

At least he has the courage of his convictions.

Lol! That's one way to put it! I tend to get an aura of self-importance from him. "I am GRRM! How dare you suggest I need editing!"

Yet I keep reading the books, so the laugh's on me, I guess!

[brookeoflorien]

I am jealous of where you are. :P We've had downpours and flooding (and a river in the horse pen. I should point out that the horse pen is on high ground and nowhere near a water source).

I've yet to read any of GRRM's books - or Jordan's, though one of my professors told me to read his (my professors are insistent on getting me to read and watch more fiction and tv).

[indy1776]

Wow! It didn't rain a drop in Louisville yesterday.

I hesitate to recommend Jordan; one of the later books in the series-- the one that made me give up on him-- I call the "characters sat around and blinked" book because he spent three chapters on each POV and no one did anything.

[brookeoflorien]

Is it raining there today? If it's just out here, I will sob in frustration. The pond is now reaching up into the yard.

Hmmm...perhaps I'll put it on my "Pick up if find copy of a book for 25 cents at Goodwill" list.

[indy1776]

It poured last night. It was just a weird weather pattern that meant it rained where you were and not here a couple days ago.

[pandemonium_213]

OMG! Invasion of the Venomous Horseshoe Crabs!

The pizza at Piezano's sounds sort of like Chicago-style deep dish. For those pies, the sauce is on top of the cheese.

GRRM: *dies laughing* Spoiler alert - "...could give a groat." Yes, it is coming.

Sounds like a very nice beach vacation.