At a Science museum, I once got to hold a small ingot less than two minutes after it was poured into a mold. Maybe half the size of a credit card and no thicker than a Hershey bar, so while it didn't have all that much to lose in the way of heat, it was still startlingly coolish. Startlingly heavy, too.

I really liked the Aerie trial by combat scene. It was a good counterpoint to Arya's dancing lesson, which was a good counterpoint to Sansa being petty and emotional.

Treme: loved seeing Tom C and Ripert, though I felt like my TV worlds were colliding. Not so happy if Jeanette stays in New York working for Ripert. As was said in the show, that's a good gig.

Will be watching Treme tonight. Excited to see TC and the Ripper.

I really liked the Trial by Combat scene.

I also loved that conversation that Ned had with his daughters where he tells Sansa that he'll find her somebody gentle, thoughtful and kind (blah, blah, blah) when she's old enough and she says, "I don't want (blah, blah, blah), I want to marry Prince Joffrey." I believe that Arya and I started laughing at the same time.

He was good. "A friend of mine would really love you," was almost too much meta, but it was funny, so...

The United States of Tara has been canceled. I'm disappointed. This season has been great, especially with the addition of Eddie Izzard.

Interview with Dan Weiss and David Benioff about episode 6 of Game of Thrones.

Sad to hear about "Tara", sj. I like it. I even have the beginning of a script I wrote for it(a holiday ep, here, somewhere.) Ah, well, it's all in the game.

Am I the only one who would have liked to hear where Septa Mordane came from?

I would have, too. She's more interesting on the show than in the books, probably because we mostly see her from Sansa's POV and Sansa isn't interested in her.

He was good. "A friend of mine would really love you," was almost too much meta, but it was funny, so...

I also loved "Sazarac? Nice touch."

Yeah, that too. I'm gonna have to watch this one again. Actual Simon episodes are too full of subtexty goodness for me to be sure what's going on on just one viewing. I hate reading on other sites how much people don't like Sofia; she sort of reminds me of teenaged me. Although it's weird that fandom hate bothers me on those grounds, since I hate myself at least once a day.(although it's ironic, given the way I post now,how much I *couldn't have* just busted out with "Fuck you, you fucking fucks." I don't know if I was that shy, that invested in being the kind of Nice Young Woman parents and teachers liked, or something else, but I went to some pains not to acquire the habit at one time.) ION, Eric Ripert reminds my mother of Frank Pembleton. Cause he seems so unruffled...it's like "Night of The Dead Living" "Take that tie off, Frank. You make me sweat just looking at you." Maybe everyone who's the best looks like that.