The year was 2011. A friend of mine – knowing my penchant for fantasy – had been pestering me to read a book series called A Song of Ice and Fire. “You’ll love it,” he said. “And now there’s a TV show based on it.” I finally relented and purchased all five novels – lucky […]
Continue reading →ARGLBARGL! We continue!!! Twitter Post Part Duh! Get it or get gone! (Part One)
Continue reading →Um. Hello? Anyone still alive out there? Three of you? I guess that’s enough to do a Twitter post with. (Plus I have no aversion to using the words of dead people to further my WotW ambitions.) You know the drill. @Axechucker! @WatchersOTWall! And @You! Mmmm… GO!
Continue reading →My journey through the Game of Thrones fandom is one of which I’m both proud, and at which I am surprised. I never expected to be so persuasive. While I’d always enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, I had really only fashioned myself somewhat of just a connector. But let me take a step back, here. Gladwell explained that for […]
Continue reading →My journey with Game of Thrones literally started with a journey. In 1999, I was at LAX waiting to fly back home from SIGGRAPH 99, the graphics conference that I’d attended for work. I didn’t have an unread book on me for the flight home, so I picked up a copy of A Game of […]
Continue reading →Cont’d, nerds. We ain’t got no time for flutterin’ around! No necking! No twitterpatin’ here. We busy tweeting the second half of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms! Let’s goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo….!!!
Continue reading →WE BACK. I ain’t even giving the shpiel. This is a Twitter post. I am @Axechucker. We are @WatchersOTWall. Catch up already! Let’s get it.
Continue reading →Answering the question “how’d you get into Game of Thrones?” is a two-part process for me. There’s recounting how I started reading the books and watching the show, which is quite simple: I saw a copy of A Game of Thrones in my university bookstore freshman year and thought, “Well, if this is popular I […]
Continue reading →My journey with Game of Thrones began underneath a quiet tree at night, at the edge of the campus green. It was not as a grand of a tree as the Weirwood in the Winterfell courtyard, but it was quiet and pleasant. It was an odd moniker of a tree, a symbol between the wide […]
Continue reading →WE BACK. Did’ja miss me? Don’t be clingy. Can’t I get an Orange Julius in peace without you asking where I’ve gone? It’s only been like two hours! So… here we go! PART THE SECOND. Blast off.
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