August 14, 2017 at 6:29 pm (Eavesdropping, Lists, Recommended, television)
Tags: adaptations, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Gendry, humor, indulgences, Mondays, websites
Ha, ha! Good one Vulture writer Nina Shen Rastogi!
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August 14, 2017 at 3:13 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Relatives, Sundays, Surprises, television)
Tags: adaptations, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Gendry, interviews, Mondays
The Baratheon line is strong in this one.
Last night, self powered up her MacBook and saw messages: He’s in King’s Landing! (Thank you dear cousin from Bacolod who couldn’t wait to tell her that)
Self wanted to say: Shut up! She so much wished she had been able to watch Eastwatch (Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5) before seeing that.
But when the opening credits were rolling, and she saw the name JOE DEMPSIE, she was like KILL ME NOW.
Shortly after the episode ended, she went on Google and saw about half a dozen new interviews with Dempsie (2017 as opposed to, oh, 2013). Dempsie must be a very busy guy!
Here’s a quote from his interview with Huffington Post:
There’s a scene in Season 7 where Arya doesn’t like Ned’s statue in the Winterfell crypts and says it should’ve been done by someone who knows his face. Gendry knows Ned Stark’s face and is a craftsman. What do you think about him making Arya a Ned Stark statue one day?
Dempsie: I think that’d be great. Hopefully he’d make it out to Winterfell and not have sort of a Lionel Richie “Hello” type of thing, he drags it up as a present for Arya. But, yeah, I mean, that’s an interesting theory. I think you might be on to something there. I personally would like to hope that Gendry has a bigger role to play in the end game than carving a statue of Ned Stark . . .
lol
Stay tuned.
July 31, 2017 at 6:04 pm (Surprises, television)
Tags: adaptations, disappointment, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Mondays, previews
SPOILER ALERT, NOTHING TOO MAJOR
Unless you’re a Gendry fan.
In which case, self will say this: Go sell your stock on the Gendry train. It’s just not happening. Even a wee preview, with a two-second shot of a dark-haired someone being thrown to the floor, turns out to be of Podrick.
PODRICK?
Yes, innocent-faced Podrick, the delight of whores.
A Podrick sighting means a Brienne sighting will not be far behind!
What else?
Cersei and Jamie are in bed together. Naked. Someone knocks on the door and Jamie says Don’t but — really? Jamie? Isn’t it time to get past your reticence? After all, everyone knows (self read this part in a spoiler, so she knew Cersei wouldn’t bother hiding Jamie or anything). Repeat after self: EVERYONE KNOWS.
The one surprise (i.e., not mentioned on reddit) was that the knock on the door was delivered by a maiden. A pretty young maiden. Who has exactly the same kind of haircut as Cersei. lol
There was Melisandre standing on a very picturesque cliff, being her cryptic self. Talking to Varys. Which was quite a good scene. More of these two? Alas, Mel is leaving for Volaris. So, no more of these two.
Very brief glimpse of Greyworm’s face, in a helmet.
Much chewing of scenery by Cersei and Euron, followed by much blank, disconcerted staring by Jamie.
Ellaria Sand, oh Ellaria Sand. Self believes the episode belongs to her. Trying so hard to get to her cub Tyene. It’s a wonder she didn’t end up wrenching her arms out of their sockets.
Things could be worse. Tyene could have been handed over to The Mountain.
Thank the gods for small mercies.
There is a wee, infinitesimally wee preview of Episode 4. Dark-haired man being slammed to the ground threw Twitter into a frenzy last night. But, really, why did showrunners bother casting two men who look so much alike? Why not just combine their storylines, have Gendry and Podrick be twins or something.
Every time viewers see Podrick, they are reminded of his iconic scene with the whores. Even though, every season since then, he is never shown being with a woman. It is all just a big tease.
Mebbe Podrick should hook up with Brienne? With Sansa? With Arya? With Melisandre? With — Heaven forbid — Cersei? Or Dany?
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 31, 2017 at 3:22 pm (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Chinese food, coffee, London, memories, Mondays, museum, restaurants, San Francisco
Self scoured her archives to find illustrations for this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: SATISFACTION.
She’s feeling nostalgic.
Capuccino Break, British Imperial War Museum, May 2017
Chinatown Love, October 2016
Eating with Emily at Fabulous Chéz Nous, 22 Hanway Place, London. We waited for this meal: it was a promise we made to each other when self left London last July. Emily’s daughter directed the Wonder Woman movie.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 18, 2017 at 6:06 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Dearest Mum, Family, Food and Drink, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Pianos, Places, postaday, Relatives, Surprises)
Tags: birthday, California, Los Angeles, memories, Mondays, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, summer, Wordpress
Everything Summer 2017:
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July 17, 2017 at 6:31 pm (Conversations, Lists, Surprises, television)
Tags: adaptations, Brienne, complaints, fantasy, fashion, Game of Thrones, Gendry, humor, Mondays, praise, review
Wins:
Fails:
Meh:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 10, 2017 at 4:39 pm (Conversations, Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: historical fiction, Mondays, novel, The Philippines, writing process
The priest, Matias, is being sent to the Philippines to fight demons. Before he leaves Spain, he has a conversation with the Archbishop in Madrid:
“You are no dissembler, Matias. I know. It is all there in your eyes. You have suffered, but — the past is past. I have got you now!”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 4, 2017 at 5:03 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Surprises, television)
Tags: California, Game of Thrones, humor, indulgences, Mondays, reading lists, Santa Cruz, summer
Self loves that she is in California, that it is summer, that GoT Season 7 is about to begin (with Gendry, no less, lol — it’s been sooooo long!), and that she’s reading a book about a surfing life, William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days.
Aside from giving her lots and lots of beach feelz, the book has some pretty choice things to say about UC Santa Cruz:
UC Santa Cruz was an exciting place, but it was easy to leave. It was a new campus, a hotbed of academic experimentation. There were no grades, no organized sports. Professors weren’t authority figures but coconspirators. Maximum self-direction was encouraged. All of this suited me, but the place had no institutional gravity.
Funny to hear about a university’s lack of “institutional gravity” from a surfer boy, but anyhoo. It’s an interesting description.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 3, 2017 at 4:23 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, Recommended)
Tags: California, deadlines, Events, festivals, Mondays, San Francisco
AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design present the 14th Annual Architecture and the City Festival, featuring community workshops, design challenges, educational lectures, tours, films, special events, and an exhibition. The month-long celebration provides opportunities for participants to engage with the local architecture community and experience design in a myriad of ways throughout the city.
Entering the City on 101 North
Programs must address some of our most pressing urban issues, demonstrate innovation in working toward a more sustainable future, and explore how progressive design and creative problem solving improve our quality of life in the Bay Area.
FESTIVAL THEME: SECRET CITY
Questions? Contact Jaime Wong, Program Manager, at jwong@aiasf.org or 415.874.2632.
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