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The NFL was certainly the No Fun League for me this week.
The Jets lost on Thursday to the despised New England Patriots. The Giants lost yesterday to the hated Dallas Cowboys. So not only did both of my teams go down, but they went down to their most bitter rivals, two teams I loathe. Gak.
The Jets played a much better game than most expected, it must be said. Rex Ryan is a terrific coach, but I fear he is going to be fired at the end of this season. He shouldn't be. The fault is not his. The GM has simply not given him enough to work with. Starting at the QB position. The Jets are not going anywhere with Geno Smith or Michael Vick behind center. Bring back Mark Sanchez. Bring back Chad Pennington. Bring back Vinnie Testaverde. Hell, bring back Joe Willie Namath. Or maybe give Matt Simms a chance…
The Giants… well, losing Victor Cruz was a crippling blow. Though I do have high hopes for our new WR, Odell Beckham.
But I don't think this is playoff year for either of my teams.
The Jets did make big news over the weekend by trading for Percy Harvin. He's an explosive player, and they only gave up a 6th round draft choice to get them, so that may help some. Will it help enough to save Rex Ryan's job? I fear not, but one can hope.
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Here are some more interviews, from my summer travels.
First, one more from San Diego Comicon, this one mainly about the Avengers and their profound i
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From the Edinburgh Book Festival:
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Here's one from London, before worldcon.
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More London, after worldcon:
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And here's a big one, my post-con event with Jane Johnson and Robin Hobb at London's Freemason Hall:
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Last, but definitely not least, is a radio interview I did with Mahvesh Murad, a charming young journalist / dj/ talk show host from Pakistan. What made this one fresh and different was that Mahvesh invited me to select ten favorite songs to play during the program. That was a lot of fun, and surprisingly hard: I could easily have come up with fifty songs. Anyway, check this one out, and you will also get to hear some great bands and singers, and some songs that, for one reason or another, have inspired and influenced me.
https://soundcloud.com/cityfm89/georgerrmartin-on-89-chapters-with-mahvesh
Happy listening.
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Had a great time last weekend at the Santa Fe Concorso, the biggest auto show in the southwest. I love old cars (our family never had enough money to own a car when I was a kid, so I walked and rode the bus and assembled plastic models of cars when other kids were building fighter planes), and there were some amazing ones on display.
The best of show can be seen on the Concorso's website, here:
http://santafeconcorso.com/about.html
Beautiful cars, no doubt, though there were so many on display that I would have been hard pressed to pick if I had been a judge.
I did take pictures of some of my own personal favorites.
Those were all cool — especially that 300SL Gullwing, a car I loved when it was only a plastic model on my desk in 1962. Got to love that Tucker too. I mean, hell, a Tucker.
The BEST part of the weekend, though, was the Concorso invited me to exhibit my own new wheels, a custom-painted Tesla Model S.
I am pleased to say that my Tesla was the hit of the electric car division (not that the Volt and the Leaf that flanked me provided much competition), and always seemed to have a curious crowd around it.
FWIW, I bought the Tesla a couple of months ago, but with my recent trips to France, Switzerland, San Diego, Scotland, England, and LA, I have hardly had time to drive her. Something I am looking forward to doing over the next few months. But, yes, she's gorgeous, she's comfortable, and she goes like a bat out of hell.
(And yes, I still have my old Mazda RX-7 too. What can I say? I hang on to things. And it won't be long until that RX-7 is old enough to count as an antique too).
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October has arrived, the leaves are turning, and I am headed east.
The U.S. hardcover of THE WORLD OF ICE & F IRE is scheduled for release on October 28, and Bantam is bringing me to New York to help launch it.
I will be making an appearance on the Seth Meyers show on Tuesday, October 28 and doing an event at the 92nd street Y with Laura Miller on Sunday,October 26.
http://www.92y.org/Event/George-R-R-Martin.aspx
Tickets for the latter are still available, but they are going fast, so if you want one, move quickly. I will be signing a thousand copies of THE WORLD OF ICE & FIRE for the Y, and the ticket price will include the autographed book.
((Sorry, no plans for other signings while in the city)).
I will also be turning up in Providence, Rhode Island on this trip. Brown University is honoring me with the Harris Literary Collection Award, and I'll be attending a dinner there on October 23 to accept. My friend Tom Doherty, esteemed publisher of Tor Books, is also being honored. It will be a real delight to share the journey, and the moment, with Tom. Brown students will have first dibs on tickets to that one, I am told… I'll add a link here as soon as I have one.
((Never been to Providence before, aside from speeding through it on the Acela. If I have time, I will try to make a pilgrimage to H.P. Lovecraft's grave, which I believe is required of anyone who has ever written horror)).
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You shoulda been there.
Once again Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer took Santa Fe by storm. Songs, stories, signed books. And Amanda's cocktail, the Deflowering, was a huge hit.
Tomorrow another special event… a special advance screening of COPENHAGEN, with director Mark Raso and star Gethin Anthony.
And we have two more big author events coming up in the weeks to come: KIM HARRISON on September 30 and LEV GROSSMAN on October 13. Getcha tickets early, or you may miss out again.
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… of New York City.
The worldbook will be here next month!
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