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Six Word Summaries.
Joan Watson is the secret weapon."Arya's Hound": the sitcom I want.Satanic Peppermint Butler & Robot Princess.
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"Grammarian" Means Witch.
In rather uplifting news, I had a great rehearsal last night for Strange Tales of Preston Stagger; I'm sort of off-book! Or at least, I can do my lines off book, more or less, if the only thing I need...
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Pañca Yuga.
May Twenty-Fifth, you know what that means! Wedding Anniversary. & a whole bunch of other geeky holidays like Star Wars' anniversary, & Towel Day, but most importantly, I got married to...
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Don't Trust the Bee!
ABC canceled Don't Trust the B-- in Apartment 23, but at least they had the good graces to dump the last few episodes online for us to watch. I don't always fault "executives" for canceling shows--...
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Gygaxian Anagrams. (21, 22, 23.)
AD&D Players Handbook, First Edition by Gary Gygax.AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide, First Edition by Gary Gygax.AD&D Monster Manual, First Edition by Gary Gygax.The demon idol:pry the rubies...
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Zatara '66.
As I mentioned, I am playing Preston Stagger in the ravenface penned play, Strange Tales of Preston Stagger. After a month of memorizing lines, the show goes up this week. It involves dueling warlocks,...
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"Strange Tales of Preston Stagger" Debuts!
(Photos by Matt, Evelyn, me & Sherene; paintings by Joan E.)
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...THE RIND! Preston Stagger!
Well, "Strange Tales of Preston Stagger" is concluded! Hooray for me, & hooray for resuming a life where I don't obsessively go over my lines in literally every moment of my free time. Seriously,...
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Sweep the Leg.
So, Jennifer has pink eye; that is a thing. Mostly it means that I wash my hands compulsively & remind myself that she's not cuddling because she's sick, not because she's emotionally distant....
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Embroideries.
The first time I played through Journey, I had no idea what to expect. I was first made aware of it by seeing cosplay of the Pilgrims; who were those guys? I looked into it & saw that it was really...
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Much Ado About Whedon.
It seems almost beside the point to talk about this movie. People fall pretty squarely into two camps, as far as I can tell: one group is predisposed to like it because...well, it is Joss Whedon doing...
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In case you didn't know what a big nerd Jennifer is, here is a compilation of her writing into F/X's show Backchat when she was 14.
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All Men Must Die.
What a nice weekend, huh? Friday I had the day off; instead of going to the gym I played Journey& then went to go see Much Ado About Nothing. Saturday...well, what happened Saturday? I went to the...
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Blinky at the Races. (24)
Art Girls Are Easy by Julie Klausner."Bride of Frankencense?""Then they went skinny dipping."Camp counselors talking.So I...don't think I liked this book, primarily because I hated the protagonist....
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Oubliette: Derived Attibutes
(Illustration by Mikael Leger.)Derived attributes have always bugged me in the World of Darkness. It gets under my skin. I mentioned this in my God-Machine Chronicle review; it is just bad design to...
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Conan in the Megadungeon! (25)
Red Nails by Robert E. Howard.Lightning wizard wand!Hideous atomic skull!Dinosaur dragon!I've started a big project at Tor.com reading Gygax's "Appendix N." That is the list of books Gary Gygax listed...
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