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