CNN had an article today on the Commodore 64 that really got the nostalgia juices flowing. My first computer was a VIC20 soon replaced by the SX64; the C64’s ‘portable’ brother. I did all sorts of things on that machine, school work, record keeping for RPG campaigns, some programming, cruised the BBS scene and of course played games. I remember playing Bard’s Tale on my old machine and thinking it was the coolest game ever made by humans.

That computer traveled with me as well and saw several interesting parts of the country in the back of one car or another. Finally I moved on to my first 8088 and life changed. The machine sat in closets in various apartments and then I sold my SX to a collector 11 years ago. I’ve always regretted selling it.

So here’s to you lil’ buddy, where ever you are.

What I am currently rocking out to.

Collide frakking rules.

Titles for novels that I will never write.

-Hold on for the redirect

-Monsoon Mandala

-Punk Rock 1984, a critical analysis.

-An Expatriot in Belize

-The Big Time Poverty Cookbook!

[  Mood: Neutral ]
Ever have one of those days when you wake up ready to rock and/or roll? I left designated girlfriend in bed and started the dishes, started the laundry, made a batch of my asswhippin’ honey hot sauce and jarred it, took out the trash and vacuumed the living room. All before 10am. I forsee myself at 5pm sprawled out unable to move. Anyway, that made me think of this.

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The current list of things I need to do.

Finish the website for my home bar. (www.the20sbar.com) I am setting up dotnetnuke for it.

Watch Inland Empire. It has NEVER taken me this long to get around to watching a movie I own, I don’t know if I am intimidated by it or what.

Read High Seas Cthulhu. It has been sitting by my bed for too long.

Make another batch of pickled cukes/onions/carrots/jalapenos.

Re-arrange my media file drives, they have been sprawling out of control.

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There is more, but to continue the list would only serve to make me depressed.

Ok, yes the Mike Huckabee ad is pretty halarious. That doesn’t mean I’m climbing on board the Republican,conservitive Baptist train any time in my future.

Plus, I liked Young Chuck Norris better.

I was talking with my friend and Team Cthulhu member Craig about the Night Watch series of books by Sergei Lukyanenko. I know people have some mixed feelings about the books, but I love, love, love them. Some of it I am sure comes from 4 years of Russian in high school and a year in college but I just dig the russian outlook in literature. Sure it is a bit more grim than american fiction, and a bit more visceral.

Accept it for what it is. It isn’t Buffy, although some of the tropes are the same, it has it’s own spirit and I love it for it. The books have a spirit uniquely their own and it is all Moscovian and on a larger scale Russian. It is a very cool voice in fiction. I’d really like to see more genre russian works, we need to mix it up a bit more.

[  Mood: Happy ]
Hey, I just wanted to wish a happy and safe turkey day weekend to the ‘merican RevSFers out there (and you just have a good weekend in general Ubal and Dave).

I, for one, plan on eating so much dead bird that I might be declared a threat to domesticated poultry world wide. This will be followed by burping and sprawling and maybe, finally, watching the most recent David Lynch movie.

[  Mood: In Love ]
Dating a geek girl is sort of exhausting. We love almost the same things. but enough difference makes it hard. She loves zombies, that one we rock on, but she also loves Harry Potter (that I find puke tastic). So there is some nerd war. Still I love her and we have enough in common that the warfare bits are small, but combat worthy.

And no war is worse then nerd war. Still, I should always win, my nerd mojo is ascendant. Except when her’s is. Probably because I made the mistake of dating a girl smarter than me. Still, nerd war…I will win this one.

[  Mood: Amused ]
I got a write up in the Delta Green Wiki. I found it amusing. I am 38 now, not 36 otherwise it is still more or less accurate. You can find Shane Ivey here. Still no Joe Crowe though, that fink.

[  Mood: Neutral ]
Over at Team Cthulhu.org some members of the team have done a bit of a dissection of my last Call of Cthulhu one shot set in the Dystopian Cthulhu world. They noted something that I was afraid of doing, as this is a common criticism of Call…it was a bit railroad-y. I didn’t mean for it to be, it just sort of played out that way.

It was an event/timeline sort of game and the players essentially reacted to the world going on around them. They looked into clues, got a sense of the world and had a final, big battle with an almost ascended avatar of Y’golnac.

The end game also included riot police sealing the project, gangers fighting back and an exploding pirate radio station. Good times…good times…