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JUL 3, 2012


George R. R. Martin BOOKS
George R. R. Martin

Perhaps you are one of those horribly condescending garbage-people who assume that if something is very, very popular, it must logically be very, very terrible. God, shut up. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is popular because it is basically what would happen if Bruce Willis were a wizard and he had sex with Sarah Palin and she gave birth to a baby and then they only let it watch Breaking Bad and then Professor McGonagall transfigured that baby into a book. Shit is exciting and stressful and GOOD, and that’s why people like it. (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, www.townhallseattle.org, 7 pm, $10) by Lindy West

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raggeddog 1
"Perhaps you are one of those horribly condescending garbage-people who assume that if something is very, very popular, it must logically be very, very terrible. God, shut up."

You mean Paul Constant, right?
Posted by raggeddog on July 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM · Report
Zebes 2
Never read the books or seen the show, but I did hear him speaking with Steve Scher on KUOW today. He seemed like a rather grounded fellow.
Posted by Zebes http://www.badrap.org/rescue/index.html on July 3, 2012 at 11:48 AM · Report
sirkowski 3
200 pages deep into A Dance with Dragons. I fear the withdrawal I'll suffer when I'm done and will have to wait for the next book...
Posted by sirkowski http://www.missdynamite.com on July 3, 2012 at 12:23 PM · Report
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Careful accessing their site. They just got 'owned' by some dumbass hacker kid named 'K43C'. Dumbest hacker target ever.
Posted by Velveteen Robot on July 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM · Report
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Is Lindy going to be occasionally writing things for The Stranger again or is this something she wrote before she moved on?
Posted by JenV on July 3, 2012 at 2:37 PM · Report
McGee 6
Ah a Sara Palin reference. Smells like the "humor" of Lindy West. Why stop there? How about a Jesus smoking crack joke to add some edge?
Posted by McGee on July 3, 2012 at 3:08 PM · Report
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Well, yes, but there's a problem. The problem is that Mr. Martin isn't going to finish the series before he dies, so at best it will be wrapped up by whichever hollywood shitbird has backstabbed his or her way into the show-runner slot at the end.

That problem wouldn't be any fault of the fans, if Mr. Martin's writer's block were of the typical lonely self-doubting variety, but that's not what he's got at all.

The reason Mr. Martin isn't writing the rest of the books is that it's much more rewarding for him to jet about from one small city to the next, sending his most ardent admirers out to buy him sandwiches, and generally behaving for months on end like a rock star at an afterparty without ever having to go to the trouble of getting up on stage.

And that, I'm afraid, is very much the fault of his fans.
Posted by robotslave on July 4, 2012 at 2:46 AM · Report

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