Lorelai Gilmore Forever.
We are sort of caught up with television. I know all I do is talk about media & role-playing games, but then...so what? That is what I like, & if I've had one rule on this dang diary for the...
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Kilroy Did It.
So & then last night was a Protomen concert! My ears are still ringing, which I take as a good sign. Though not, I guess, for the tiny little broken hairs. Anyhow, real quick. I went to the dentist...
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When You Wish Upon a Star.
Yesterday's session of fordmadoxfraud's Stories of Our Youth was attended by yours truly, playing Curulókë the elf thief, fatbutts playing Grizelda the half-elf druid, Raz Jericho the human bard,...
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For the World is Hollow & I Have Touched the Sky.
littlewashu's pick for Eleven-Books Club was Journey to the Center of the Earth. After fordmadoxfraud's AD&D game ran late, we had to hustle. David, fatbutts& I jumped on the train & popped...
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My Friend Gary Morbriar.
On Tor.com, I talk about the best book in the world, Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Oubliette Session Four: The Naga!
This concludes the first story arc of my Oubliette campaign! I was shooting for it to take about three episodes, but between not knowing how long a "after work" session would be & not knowing the...
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Grizelda's Catharsis.
Alright! I spent all morning writing up my game, then hanging out with Jennifer&Olivia. After that, though, it was time to saddle up & giddy up! Over to fordmadoxfraud's apartment for his...
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International Tabletop Day.
Well, International Tabletop Day, I think I did you proud. Deconstructed my last game session in the morning, then played AD&D in the afternoon...& then I came home to pick up Jennifer to go on...
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The Machine-God Chronicle. (15?)
The God-Machine Chronicle Anthology by White Wolf.I've told you before:Angels are God's robots. &God's malfunctioning.Well, Mark L. S. Stone's "Ouroboros" inspired the Naga's Curse in my last...
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Totemic Rhino.
Oh, sorry, I've been bad at talking about being alive. I've been fine at doing it, but not at like, a meta-awareness of it; that would have been asking too much. So here is what my situation is....
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Vidga's Last Stand.
We haven't had a player character death in a while in fordmadoxfraud's Stories of Our Youth game, but last night changed that! The last one was actually one of skycornerless' characters, too; Nara the...
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Up In the Sky! (16)
Superman: the Unauthorized Biography by Glen Weldon.The Silver Age asthe bottled city, Kandor.A great metaphor.I wrote a review of Superman: the Unauthorized Biography for Tor.com, so you can read it...
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The Culture Index.
In the wake of Iain Banks announcing that he has terminal cancer, I decided to exorcise my melancholy by indulging in fond nostalgia, so I wrote a Tor.com post about, well, "Eff Yeah The Culture." In...
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READ ME. (17)
Nevada by Imogen Binnie.Im can't decide if:"Eureka, motherfucker!"goes first, or after.The thing about this book is that while a lot of the main character, Maria's, life is lifted from iphisol's life...
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Oubliette: Character Generation, Part Two.
Now that we concluded the "play as kids" portion of my Oubliette campaign, Thursday was "let's make the adult versions!" Going from left to right: Nicole is playing Keku no-Kin, who grew up to become a...
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Jelly Babies!
Well, from my admittedly narrow & biased perspective, I have to say the most important thing from last session of fordmadoxfraud's Stories of Our Youth AD&D campaign was that my elf...
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The Ring Cycle.
I'm not really into my birthday this year. For one, I've just got a pretty full dance card already. Between running Oubliette every other week, Television Night every Wednesday &AD&D every...
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All These Worlds Are Yours...
...except Europa. Well, after a sort of humdrum start, I actually had a really nice birthday. I don't care all that much about it, still-- stuck between the "Jesus Birthday" of 33 & the "President...
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