The Holidays Malaise
Yeah, I know the title is grammatically incorrect, but it flows better, so I'm sticking with it. But actually, there's very little malaise in these parts, as it's been a rather festive holiday season for Pesci and myself (read: prostitutes and cocaine mountains). Of course, with the many distractions of the holiday season, time to sit down and ramble has been scarce, which is why I'm writing this at 6am on a Friday. But more accurately, my absence can be ascribed to four causations:
- Skyrim
- Pathfinder
- Stupid kids wanting me to give them grades on stuff
- Family always wanting to spend time with me
I mean, I know I'm an engaging guy and all, but really, don't people understand that I have a very demanding and current blog with which I need to keep up?
Anyway, I was waiting for a bit of George news to spur me to a long post, and we have it now with several items. Let's start with George being named Author of the Year by USA Today, a paper whose claim to fame is a weather map in thirty-two eye-catching colors. Actually, now that I look at it, I think that joke just writes itself. USA Today naming somebody author of the year is like Highlights naming somebody Best New Chef.
Speaking of USA Today and useless things, we also have the recently-released trailer for the GOT Xbox game, also posted by USA Today. The only thing striking about this mediocre-looking game trailer is right around 1:53, when there's a dissolving montage of faces and OH MY GOD THEY MADE GEORGE A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER. I don't know what they're planning on doing with him as a character, but rumor has it that the character travels all over Westeros consuming free meals and selling calendars. More updates on that when they happen.
And then we have George's release of the sample chapter of Winds of Winter. (Side question: Why is everything on George's website written on boldface font? On what planet does he not have enough money to hire a community college student to design him a better website?) Anyway, I found the chapter rather enjoyable, even though I have fuck-all memory for half of the characters they're talking about and remembering who's on who's side at this point. But any chapter that returns the narrative back to the Starks and the core characters and conflicts that we started with almost TWENTY YEARS AGO is fine by me.
CORRECTION: It turns out my final note on this post was incorrect. There is a second chapter for WOW due in July with the 2012 release of the ADWD paperback. Either I skimmed a bit quickly on his blog or the news article I got in my reader was erroneous. (I swear it's the second one, but hey, we're not immune to errors around here.) But thanks to you loyal readers who caught the faux pas.
- Skyrim
- Pathfinder
- Stupid kids wanting me to give them grades on stuff
- Family always wanting to spend time with me
I mean, I know I'm an engaging guy and all, but really, don't people understand that I have a very demanding and current blog with which I need to keep up?
Anyway, I was waiting for a bit of George news to spur me to a long post, and we have it now with several items. Let's start with George being named Author of the Year by USA Today, a paper whose claim to fame is a weather map in thirty-two eye-catching colors. Actually, now that I look at it, I think that joke just writes itself. USA Today naming somebody author of the year is like Highlights naming somebody Best New Chef.
Speaking of USA Today and useless things, we also have the recently-released trailer for the GOT Xbox game, also posted by USA Today. The only thing striking about this mediocre-looking game trailer is right around 1:53, when there's a dissolving montage of faces and OH MY GOD THEY MADE GEORGE A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER. I don't know what they're planning on doing with him as a character, but rumor has it that the character travels all over Westeros consuming free meals and selling calendars. More updates on that when they happen.
And then we have George's release of the sample chapter of Winds of Winter. (Side question: Why is everything on George's website written on boldface font? On what planet does he not have enough money to hire a community college student to design him a better website?) Anyway, I found the chapter rather enjoyable, even though I have fuck-all memory for half of the characters they're talking about and remembering who's on who's side at this point. But any chapter that returns the narrative back to the Starks and the core characters and conflicts that we started with almost TWENTY YEARS AGO is fine by me.
CORRECTION: It turns out my final note on this post was incorrect. There is a second chapter for WOW due in July with the 2012 release of the ADWD paperback. Either I skimmed a bit quickly on his blog or the news article I got in my reader was erroneous. (I swear it's the second one, but hey, we're not immune to errors around here.) But thanks to you loyal readers who caught the faux pas.