I was just watching a youtube video of Froggy and Pasta Fazooli. I just finished The Armageddon Rag and just had to see him plunk his magic twanger.

Nancy Cartwright? ...The Homeridae? ...Someone in the bear pits where Brienne fought?

Ian Bartholomew? Been in Camelot and a bunch of other British shows if that's where this is heading Ser? :D

Edited at 2013-01-25 12:00 am (UTC)

Bart?

j/k

Assuming this is a hint about an actor doing something on Fevre Dream or the Wild Cards project or an audio book or something like that, I'll take a stab at Ed Harris, who played Virgil (a "son of Homer") in _The Abyss_ (I guess it's a sort of pit).

Ed Harris is pretty awesome.

Ed Harris attached as Jonathan Harmon in "The Skin Trade"? I can see it.

(That said, probably well wrong.)

Edited at 2013-01-24 11:56 pm (UTC)

Randyll Tarly? May be a bit early for him though... maybe Mace? Not to the character's look but it'd be worth the change.

Now, you go too classical, Bal...Son Of Homer is Bart....but what does Bart Simpson have to do with it?

says google

All I can think of is Bart

Is this about Little Bart the bear?

Bart?

Nancy Cartwright??

I'm going to start with Batrachomyomachia. It's comic parody of the iliad, written by Homer, that features frogs. The story is translated into "The Battle of Frogs and Mice".

From wiki: "A mouse drinking water from a lake meets the Frog King, who invites him to his house. As the Frog King swims across the lake, the Mouse seated on his back, they are confronted by a frightening water-snake. The Frog dives, forgetting about the Mouse, who drowns. Another Mouse witnesses the scene from the bank of the lake, and runs to tell everyone about it. The Mice arm themselves for battle to avenge the Frog King's treachery, and send a herald to the Frogs with a declaration of war. The Frogs blame their King, who altogether denies the incident. In the meantime, Zeus, seeing the brewing war, proposes that the gods take sides, and specifically that Athena help the Mice. Athena refuses, saying that mice have done her a lot of mischief. Eventually the gods decide to watch rather than get involved. A battle ensues and the Mice prevail. Zeus summons a force of crabs to prevent complete destruction of the Frogs. Powerless against the armored crabs, the Mice retreat, and the one-day war ends at sundown."

The word also means, "much ado about nothing", "A storm in a puddle", or "a silly altercation".

There's a book on Amazon called 'The battle of the frogs and the mice' authored by a George Martin. A coincidence, or you've been googling yourself, George.

The frog in the picture is Froggy The Gremlin. He was a character on the Smilin' Ed's Gang radio and TV show and later Andy's Gang TV show in the 1940s and 1950s. D'oh! He was also an alter ego in 'The Armageddon Rag', a 1983 GRRM book. That's what I get for being an exclusive ASOIAF reader.

I may have taken the frog as too much of a clue.

BUT WAIT, TV Tropes has a more thorough explanation of the story.
"The frog king Puff-jaw offers to receive Crumb-snatcher as a guest before he takes him across the lake and accidentally drowns him"

Maybe someone is going to offer to take Tyrion or Daenerys across the "lake" and they drown. I'm jumping to all kinds of conclusions. I'd rather guess at an actor or actress, but I kind find a good trail to begin.

Unless you got Brad Pitt, who was in Troy. But that's a little ridiculous. OR IS IT? Yeah, it is.









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son of homer......little Bart the bear

Bart? Maybe Bart Ruspoli has been cast? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1057010/

Could it be? It's consistent with the Homer and pit reference.

If we're going "Homer" as in "Simpson"...then it could be Bart the Bear.

but I am surprised if it is right that George wouldn't have confirmed it and accused us of being to smart. I use "us" very loosely since I had not guessed or contributed until now.

If it is not right though, we might be barking up the wrong tree with that particular son of Homer.

Since no one knows if Homer was a real person, or when he lived exactly (it was all Oral tradition, so really hard to pin point facts) maybe we have to think outside the box. A son is in a way, a successor. Who was Homer's successor? Spiritually, I would say Virgil who wrote the Aeneid as a propaganda piece to glorify Roman history and connect it to the end of the Trojan war, making the Romans descendants of the survivors of the fall of Illium.

so an actor named Virgil? I really couldn't find one.

How can this not be about the bear? It has to be, right?

Probably a Bart playing someone from the fighting pits...hopefully Belwas?

ahh...George and your cryptic updates to decode! Shortly when I began following your blog in '11, it took me a while to figure out that 'Kong' referred to "A Dance With Dragons".

The mischievous emoticon makes me wonder if it is actually him:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212069/?ref_=sr_2

:)

all covered in hair.

While we're on the subject of casting and GoT. Do you have any comments on what James Purefoy and Kevin McKidd had to say about GoT?

As someone who was a fan of Rome and also worked in tv and had the experience of their show being taken away, you must have thoughts on it.

Also I would love GoT to add more actors to their cast from Rome. Ray Stevenson wearing a kraken helm would be awesome.

John Noble, perhaps? (not related to the clue). He did finish Fringe this past summer...I just adore him. Not sure who he might play (though Doran or a lord not foo fat to sit a horse at all really). Just putting this out into the universe in as many places as I can in hopes that GoT scoops him up!

Also, it's got to be a bear--Bart II :). Fits in nicely with NCW's comment that he was shooting in the US because an actor couldn't leave the states. Though I did spend several minutes looking into some ancient Greek performing group before I thought to google actors named Bart.

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Not to bring down the mood, but sadly, George Baker left us in 2011. I, Claudius was a long time ago :(

There's a lot of his Tiberius in my Stannis, fwiw.

Speaking of Stannis, I always pictured Ben Cross when reading. I figure some lazy recollection of Malagant from First Knight (an awful, awful film) is to blame, but the guy does have a hard ass look to him. And he's a pretty decent character actor.

Pic:
http://91.207.61.14/m/uploads/v_p_images/1995/01/338_0_screenshot.png

Edited at 2013-01-25 02:42 am (UTC)

Oh wow, I knew it! Specifcally I remember this part of Clash of Kings:

"Did he take my hand and say,
Well done, brother, whatever should I do without you?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sxI2OymYRok

(at 1:35)

I had seen I,Claudius so many times that as I read Stannis' brooding in Clash of Kings above I immediately recalled that scene.

Oh how much I would love to see Ray Stevenson as Victarion!

You said it's not up to you who to cast, which I understand, but do you get to say "I like these 5 the most" etc, assuming you get to see the audition tapes?

George, i tweeted James Purefoy about this thing he said and he answered me this:

@lucaslannister_ (https://twitter.com/lucaslannister_) One should never need to apologise for what was light-hearted banter..

— James Purefoy (@JamesPurefoy) 24 de enero de 2013 (https://twitter.com/JamesPurefoy/status/294234981348294656)

Bart Johnson as Harghaz. He deserves to get his arse roasted black and crispy for High School Musical.

I don't know how it would relate to son of Homer, but our lovely Prince Frog (Quentyn Martell) had quite the experience in the dragon pits . . .

Surely the flashback to the tourney at Harenhal must be upcoming? A hint to the casting of Howland perhaps? I always associate frogs with the Reeds.... And I am sure Howland has an important role to play later in the book series too! Not sure about The Bart part.... Roger Bart maybe, right age, right build. Thoughts anyone??

You guys are smarter than the average bear, plainly.

Yes, it's BART THE BEAR.

Or rather, Bart the Second. The original Bart, that nine foot tall star of stage and screen, has departed for the great forest in the sky. So Jaime and Brienne get to play with his heir and namesake.