Various links and info...that intrigued me from flist

[shadowkat]

1. The George RR Martin Game of Thrones Panel at comic con - via George RR Martin's blog:

3:00pm - 4:00 pm The GAME OF THRONES panel, an hour long discussion of the HB0 series with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and actors Lena Headey (Cersei), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys), Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo), Kit Harrington (Jon Snow), Nicolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime). I'll be moderating.

4:30pm - 5:45pm The GAME OF THRONES cast and I will be signing posters in the autograph area, AA1.

Now I want to go to Comic Con - but I can't afford to go to Comic Con which is in San Diego. I want to see that panel - specifically Headley, Harrington, Dinklage and Costa Walda - who blew me away in Thrones with their renditions of those characters - it was as if they jumped off the page.

Oh casting spoilers - Stephen Dilliane and Oliver Ford Davies have joined the cast as Stannis and Master Cressan (who I can't remember at all). They've also cast Melisandra.

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/07/stannis-and-melisandre-cast/


2. A thought-provoking and well written book review by Doris Egan at http://tightropegirl.livejournal.com/21151.html.

It is regarding a non-fiction book about a Dressmaker in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban.
She compares the book to a James Tipetree story, making me want to order some James Tipetree via kindle assuming Amazon sells them.

Sigh: Going through The Wire withdrawl. I'm fascinated with urban planning, social criticism, what people do for a living, and sociological organizational issues - the Wire is like crack to me. I can't get enough of this particular narrative trope. It and Game of Thrones - I fell in love with.

Off to make dinner and lunch for tomorrow. Toodles.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

San Diego's Comic Con is full of sweet panels:
Jo Chen will be there talking about drawing,
Terry Moore will be there talking about writing & drawing....
so many amazing panels with great creators.

I wish I could be there!

BTW note that it is impossible to both attend the panel and get in line for the autographs (I'm sure, like me, you would skip the autograph, but it is always set up like this: no one gets to do it all).

It is too bad that Comic con sells out more than 6 months ahead of time, and getting a hotel room is virtually impossible. It ends up being the most expensive convention anywhere in the world, and the most crowded. But I would go every year if I could! LOL

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It is too bad that Comic con sells out more than 6 months ahead of time, and getting a hotel room is virtually impossible. It ends up being the most expensive convention anywhere in the world, and the most crowded. But I would go every year if I could!

One of the gals on my flist does - reports on it every year as well.

While I'd love listening to the panels - often just do that on my lap-top. The rest of it? :shudder: I'd make a bee-line to the exits in a hurry. Really not a my cup of coco.

But I understand why it sells out - it's become the hot marketing property for Hollywood of late. Everyone goes to promote their movies and tv shows. I think Whedon's going to promote the Avengers, SMG is going to promote Ringer, the cast of the new Superman movie is there, the entire casts of every fantasy and science fiction tv series tends to go...it's a huge marketing extravaganza. And not just for comic books any more. For movies and tv shows too. They all go to network, promote, and market themselves.

Like I said? Really not my cup of tea.

Of the conventions? The only ones I've sort of flirted with is Wiscon - the scholarly sci-fantasy convention that all the sci-fantasy writers flock to and do panels on various topics.
Except even that would most likely drive me nuts. Doesn't matter - no time to do it any how. Almost got the chance to go to the Frankfurt Publishing Convention - a big deal in the book industry - but alas evil company was just playing with me at the time.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I would go to a lot more conventions if I could afford it, the crowds get to me, but I always find ways to protect myself (and have a single room in which I can decompress)....

And of course I shouldn't complain about not getting to Comic Con since I had an awesome time seeing Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett last week:
http://embers-log.livejournal.com/273523.html
and next week I'm going to get to meet Jim Butcher at one of his rare bookstore signings!

Wow, evil company really sounds mean spirited to jerk you around like that (of course we're not surprised).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

And of course I shouldn't complain about not getting to Comic Con since I had an awesome time seeing Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Hee. There's a picture of you, at least it looks a lot like you in Gaiman's blog - he posted a pic of himself and Prachett walking down the aisle of the
convention center, it showed the audience.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

You made me check out Gaiman's blog! But that's not me... I was sitting near whoever took that photo (ie looking at Sir Terry & Neil from the same perspective as that photo), and I was wearing a very silly hat... seen here:
http://embers-log.livejournal.com/273523.html#cutid3

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh, you weren't the woman in blue then? I admittedly am quite bad at facial recognition. ;-)

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Me too (also bad at facial recognition)... it causes me trouble in some movies or TV shows where they cast people who look too much alike to me.