Ferris Ryan's Day Off

Living "out of market," I didn't get to see the Falcons preseason game last night, except for some early first quarter cut-ins via the NFL Network. I woke up this morning to glance at the box score, and apparently, The Sausage King of Chicago got some playing time at QB:

Hear Me Roar

Last week, I made another guest appearance on the Tuning In To SciFi TV Podcast Game of Thrones specials, to chat about everyone's favorite sweet and homespun family, the Lannisters. They're just like the Waltons of Westeros, right? C'mon, you know you love them all.

You can find the podcast here (to either listen to online, and/or download for future/mobile enjoyment).

It was fun chatting with Wendy and Kimberly about the Lannisters. Note: we talk about the TV show ONLY (not the books), so our comments and discussions are limited to the events of season 1 of the HBO show -- so no spoilers beyond that.

However, on a quasi-related note, I'm all caught up with all four of the previous Song of Ice and Fire novels, and started chapter one of the just-published A Dance With Dragons about 30 minutes ago.  All I will say is HOLY SHIT. (For what it's worth, A Storm of Swords was breathtaking, and easily my choice for the best book in the series thus far).