* Ken Parille goes mining for gold in the rich vein that is Tim Hensley’s Wally Gropius. There’s so much to talk about in that damn book!
* Recently on Robot 6: How to successfully pitch a superhero comic;
* and Cameron Stewart on leaving The Return of Bruce Wayne.
* Any gamers out there know much about Monster Hunter Tri? Because Sumantra Lahiri’s review at The House Next Door makes it sound like something I’d love.
* Holy crap, this is like the nerd motherlode: The guys who are creating the Dothraki language for HBO’s A Game of Thrones adaptation respond to the Scientific American article that presented a linguist’s wishlist for potential features of the language.
* Tom Neely updated his website with hella stuff.
* Real-Life Horror: President Bush breaks his silence to let everyone know how much he loves torturing people.
* Quote of the day:
I think that there’s a whole school of story-tellers presently working who are fascinated by the aesthetics of the weird and supernatural, the fantastic and unseen, but utterly bored with whole people and tight narrative. The Sixth Sense ruined it up for everybody. We’re all sitting around waiting on some undisclosed secret. You don’t need a great protagonist. But you do need a twist.
* I’m very sad that Rue McClanahan died. She’s my favorite Golden Girl because the episodes where something sad or touching happens to her just tear my heart right out.
Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin