Ross Crawford gives readers “The Historical Inspiration of for the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones.” Spoilers, so be forewarned.
Somehow I missed the link to this on Medievalists.net last year. Shame on me.
The Red Wedding and Game of Thrones
Economics in Game of Thrones
Matthew McCaffrey discusses “The Economic Sense in Game of Thrones.“
Darth Pooh
http://youtu.be/eLXTDirrQ5w
Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, reads Darth Vader’s lines. The effect is indescribable.
The feature image is taken from Birna Dröfn, an Icelandic artist with a lot of great fantasy and Star Wars work.
Kid Beowulf and the Blood-Bound Oath (Scene 2)
Brantley Bryant on Game of Thrones and Medieval Lit
Rap Nerdy to Me
We’re starting a new feature here at Professor Awesome’s University, Nerdcore Fridays! To help ease you into the weekend, every Friday we’ll be posting new nerdcore audio or video.
For our maiden voyage, we have a really short (less than 5 minutes) documentary about nerdcore for those unfamiliar with it.
Also, the feature image on this post was viciously and immorally stolen from Level Up Video Games. If any minions want to produce a Nerdcore Friday cover image, that would be awesome.
Kill All Humans
On certain days, I think we can all agree with great thinkers Philip J. Frye and Bender Bending Rodriguez:
Wesley J. Smith writes about Hollywood’s general anti-human trend in “Hollywood Hates Humans.“
Paradise Lost as Fan Fiction
DeVries and Pyrdum on Game of Thrones
Kelly DeVries and Carl Pyrdum III discussing how real Game of Thrones is? Yes, please.
This isn’t the first time DeVries has written about Game of Thrones. A couple of years ago he wrote “Game of Thrones as History” for Foreign Affairs. And if you’re not following Pyrdum’s @gotmedieval Twitter feed, you’re not doing Twitter right.
Scarlett Johansson and Augmented Personhood
Wolven, whom many of you might recognize as a philosopher specializing in artificial intelligence and comic books (and yes, that’s a truly awesome career niche), points out that Scarlett Johansson seems to play a lot of characters with augmented personhood.