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Mood: Happy ]
Agenda for a summer day:
1.Have your girl and best friend over and whomp up some serious cheeseburgers.
2. Eat, drink beer, have a popsicle.
3. Play D&D that afternoon/evening giving a good departing friend a bottle of some pretty serious irish whiskey.
4. Come home, curl up next to warm adorable girlfriend, go to sleep.
I find the implications of this story to be unnerving. I think you would agree Superdave that here is how dystopias start.
In some ways, right now is a great time to be a genre fan. Doctor Who and its’ spinoffs, a tidal swell of genre movies at the theaters, a lot of new releases on the comic and novel fronts. There is a great deal of wonderful new content out there for the scifi/horror/fantasy/comic fan.
On the flip side the writer’s strike crippled genre TV. Additionally some of the films coming out failed to deliver (I’m looking at you new Hulk movie). Also some writers aren’t coughing up the books we are looking for (get it in gear George R.R. Martin, I love you but my annoyance cauldron boils higher every day). Plus this has been a shake up year in the role play world and a mass die off of many genre producers.
So midpoint 2008 I would say it was a mixed bag for genre fans. Several highs, but some pretty painful lows as well. (Clarke, Gygax and Aspirin espescially)
Here’s hoping the rest of the year will be filled with more genre love and less genre loss.
No details needed, but how did guys get through a hot muggy summer without Cruex or Lortrimin in the ancient and primitive past?
Go about your business now.
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Mood: Distorted ]
I’m not trying to make any sort of politcal statement or anything, I’m just expressing this as a matter of my personal experience.
Listing to Fox News for any length of time gives me a gawdawful headache.
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Mood: Amused ]
I go by many names in many lands…
If I was a greek clown:
Slappy Popadopolus
If I was a plucky young sidekick:
Sparks Johnson
If I was a blues musician:
Ol’ Dirty Foot
If I was a hard as nails cop:
Frank "Mac" McNeely
If I was an Alien Overlord:
Xarik the Warlord of Cygnus 5
If I was a Robot:
Worker Drone 511J434
If I was a 30s Pulp Era Crimefighter:
The Shroud
If I was a Warmhearted Bartender:
‘Doc’ Reeser
If I was a Crusty Gold Miner:
"Weezy" Joe Floyd
I haven’t hidden my love of the Rifftrax guys. Some of the best stuff they are doing lately though has nothing to do with feature films. They have a whole series of them riffing on old educational films and they are all completely halarious. Plus at 99 cents a download they are a steal. I highly reccomend checking them out.
I don’t have the game night update on this one (we played D&D).
But I’ve been cruising around funnyordie dot com and was surprised (pleasantly) to find that Aimee Mann has a great sense of humour. I admit the old softie in me likes her stuff, but her dry jokiness is also pretty great.
I’ll forgive her 80’s haircut if she will forgive mine.
We had a Team Cthulhu game night tonight of…a different sort. Report incoming.
I know that I have officially thrown down the gauntlet and challenged Warren Ellis to a fight but he is still a great comic writer. He’s got a newish web comic called Freakangels that updates every Friday. Do yourself a favor and go read it from the start.