Game of Thrones…, by Whitney Farmer – Un Pop Culture | @MDWorld

May 16, 2012 Whitney Farmer 10 Comments

Whitney runs a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, and lost interest in G.O.T. when Sean Bean got killed off.

 

It is a realm where the long winter could be brought on by unwise stewardship by the Hand of the King…and the King doesn’t exist. It is yet to be seen whether the game-changing dragons – rejecting Austerity, taxing the wealthy, and championing Keynesian economics – will heat things up or merely burn things to the ground. It is a land where one of the most inflammatory titles leveled at a new leader isn’t a ‘wilding’, but a ‘wild strawberry’ (fraise des bôis).

Newly-sworn-in French President Francois Hollande flew to Germany for a political blind date facilitated by French voters. In what might be quadruple harbingers of things to come, he was soaked to the skin from a thunderstorm and caught in a traffic jam during his convertible victory lap, his plane was struck by lightning which forced a return for a smaller one, and he arrived late for the state dinner where baby cow was served.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel is known to have been happily matched with the ousted French President Sarkozy so closely that they had a Hollywood-styled smashup name “Merkozy”. Now, she will be joined to a candidate who pledged to dismantle what arguably might be her crown-ing accomplishment: the EU treaty to curb government ‘overspending’ in favor of austerity.

 

President Hollande might have an unexpected Tyrion Lannister-asset in the form of his newly appointed Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. A native-speaking former German educator, he already is personally interesting because he and one of our most trusted security guards at the Club share the same name – though our’s goes by Big John (Mark) rather than Jean Marc – plus Ayrault writes a blog. Trés intéressant.

 

If the Socialist party can retain a majority in the upcoming National Assembly election, the new kingdom building strategies of the newly crowned House can be established and tested for effectiveness. If they cannot win a majority but have a controlling number of seats ceded to fiscal conservatives, they will be embroiled in a bloody political war where both sides will spend their time fighting instead of building, and ruin the realm in the process.

 

The truly vanquished one in all of this might be Carla Bruni. Supermodel, chanteuse, and new mom who once broke up Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall – she is waking up each day next to an old short guy with a bad temper, not Monsieur le Président de France. I honestly hope it doesn’t matter to her.

 

C’est la vie.

 

Quote of the Blog, from Tyrion Lannister: “I must do my part for the honor of my House, wouldn’t you agree. But how? Well, my brother has his sword and I have my mind. And a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone…”

 

Photo courtesy of CBC.