I have a confession to make. I’m a wimp. Not in everything. I’m a competent person; some who know me say I’m a very strong person. I can put up with a lot, I’ve been able to handle a fair share of disappointment and heartache, and I’ve raised two children […]
Tuesday on Twitter, HBO released the promo posters for season four of its hit series, “Game of Thrones.” Check out a few of our favorites below and don’t miss the amazing trailer for the upcoming season linked here. You can find all of the promo posters here. “Game of Thrones” […]
From The Huffington Post: “Game of Thrones” fans, take a good hard look at The Mountain. The most pirated show of 2013 won’t be back on the air until spring, but its newest cast member, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, took to Instagram to reveal a character photo. Björnsson will play Gregor […]
Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin describes the realities of human nature that underpin the success of the book series that spawned a hit television series. Transcript You can also watch the full version of this interview. CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: The land of Westeros is the mythical setting for the […]
A recently-announced porn spoof of George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” may have seemed blasphemous to fans, but the author took a surprising stance on“Game of Bones: Winter is Cumming”: He says it’s not dirty enough. When asked about the adaptation at the Santa Fe Film Festival, Martin said, “In the porn […]
Once upon a time (September 20, 1948, in fact) a baby boy was born to a longshoreman and his wife from the realm of Bayonne, in the land of New Jersey. They named their son George, and the boy was full of stories and songs (well, stories anyway). As a […]
From our friends at i09: It was announced he was going to be in the show, and he said that he’d finished his filming in a few days in Belfast, but we didn’t know who he was cast as until now. Winteriscoming.net broke the news today that Mark will be […]
Over at Den of Geek, there are several guesses, based on internet rumors and quotes from insiders on some of the new faces we could see in season four of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’ Here’s a brief run down of those cast selections. For the full post, check out DoG’s […]
From Flavorwire: A year after The Simpsons poked good-natured fun at Game of Thrones, a Simpsons superfan has reunited the two beloved TV shows. A Belgian illustrator who goes by the handle ADN uses his Draw The Simpsons Tumblr to re-imagine various pop-culture types, from Veronica Mars to The Weeknd, […]
There’s a meme online I saw once. It’s a picture of best selling books, mostly SciFi/Fantasy, in a Barnes and Noble with a caption below it: “HBO Programming for the Next Ten Years.” I’ve long been of the opinion, by proof of the massive amounts of reality TV and the […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.