Sagging Rights
Okay, the big fella is really getting full of himself, isn’t he? I saw a few of your comments about the library construction, but I didn’t remember to stop over at the NAB until today. And wow…I’d say that George has some real balls on him to put up that brag library, except that I would then get in a rut of trying to think of funny food-related balls to compare them to. (Gumballs? Cheez Balls? Those coconut-covered Snowballs? Probably the pink ones?)
This is the first picture that Google gives me
for "bragging library." Yep.
I mean, there’s nothing wrong with being proud of your work. But honestly, there’s a difference between being proud of what you’ve accomplished, and shoving it into the face of every visitor who enters your home. SEE THAT?? I DID THAT. TELL ME HOW GREAT I AM. That’s what a brag library says to me. It’s like trying to impress people with how many chicks you’ve banged by putting photos of them all around your house, while simultaneously running continuous-loop spycam porn of your endeavors on wall-mounted closed circuit televisions.
(Actually, that probably exists somewhere already, doesn’t it? God, people are gross.)
To me, any self-respecting writer with an ounce of humility would keep his brag library on the second floor, and then if anybody wanted to see them, hey, go on up and take a look. But to make an illuminated display of glass and wizards dedicated to praising everything that is you…well, that’s just plain tacky.
My only solace in this whole affair is that most of George’s “brag library” is, well, crap. Seriously, it’s got to be like William Johnstone’s brag library in that place. (“See that? That’s a shitty book I wrote called Bloodland. And look! Here’s that shitty book again - in Russian!”)
My name is William Johnstone.
I suck monkey ass.
Speaking of crappy books, I was talking to Pesci the other day about the supposed timeline for the ASOIAF HBO series, and does anyone think that, mathematically speaking, this will actually work out as planned? Because from what I recall, every season will be a single book, correct? So if they start showing AGOT in 2010, and even if he manages to release ADWD by the end of this year, there’s no way his books will be done in time for the end of the series. By the time we hit season four of the series, he’ll maybe be a third of the way done with the sixth book. And wasn’t he planning on doing seven?
The way I figure it, this whole thing will be in the hands of the writing staff by the end of 2011. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; I’m not a huge David Benioff fan, but D.B. Weiss’s Lucky Wander Boy is fantastic nerd-boy fun, and both of them can at least meet deadlines.
I am way better than Wild Cards.
What do you think? Do you think we’ll be able to see a proper wrap-up of the ASOIAF series, or will the writers have to start winging it once they realize George has spent the last few years wallowing waist-deep in chicken wings at the Daytona Hooters?