* Today on Robot 6: read Mark Waid’s keynote address on copyright and piracy;
* and Scott Pilgrim in space!
* Zak Smith brainstorms for his post-apocalyptic mutant-ninja-animal-hybrid RPG. Possible setting: “Labyrinth of The Black Wyrm, District of Columbia.”
* A student/teacher’s guide to the Bordwell/Thompson blog 2009-2010.
* Animal Kingdom, you say? Hm, alright.
* Peerless contemporary choral composer/heartthrob Eric Whitacre talks about assembling his own private choir and recording his upcoming collection Light and Gold. One thing I love about Whitacre besides the fact that he’s handsome for a man is that he talks about his music the same way I talk about his music–like its beauty is almost something to be endured.
* I wonder how many people will fall in the pop-cultural Venn diagram overlap of caring that guitarist Wilko Johnson from UK pub-rock progenitors Dr. Feelgood has been cast as the executioner in Game of Thrones.
Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin