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Sheldon

For the blues song, we should use a Bo Didley beat.
(Just so I don’t forget in my half-awake haze.)

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Green Ronin

As you can find out at their website, Green Ronin has been the victim of another “take the money and run” distributor/fulfilment house. This is not uncommon in the game industry. In fact, it’s far too common.

Because the people over at Green Ronin are exceptional human beings, they’ve devoted their sales to paying off their freelancers. They’re running a “Freelancer Fundraiser” to help pay off the money they owe to the people who are the true work horses of our hobby.

Now, as faithful readers of mine know, I am no fan of d20. On the other hand, there are two companies who produce such exceptional product, I have no choice but to put up with their selection of task resolution systems. One of those companies is Green Ronin.

If you are a fan of the work we do at The Brewery, you should go see what the Green Ronin people are doing with their products. Frankly, they’re polishing the biggest, stinkiest turd in town (the d20 engine) into a big brilliant diamond. I hate them for that, but I love ’em for it, too. It’s a love-hate thing, really.

Go help out Green Ronin. They deserve your help. Get Blue Rose and True 20 and Mutants and Masterminds. These are not good games, they are great games. And great work deserves your support.

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Fair and Balanced

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness?

Summary

Ralph Reed, former national executive director of the Christian Coalition, is making several false and misleading claims about Casey Cagle, his opponent in the race for the Republican nomination to be lieutenant governor of Georgia. Cagle is attacking Reed as well, with tough accusations about Reed’s ties to convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Those we find accurate, save for one made-up newspaper quote.

Reed falsely accuses Cagle of “failure to pay his taxes,” which isn’t so. Reed also accuses him of “unethical banking conflicts” for being both a banker and a state senator working on banking legislation, but that’s common in many state legislatures. Reed also falsely attributes to Cagle a quote – “everybody does it” – which actually came from a newspaper editorial and not Cagle. And Reed’s ads refer snidely to “millionaire Cagle,” even though Reed himself is a multi-millionaire worth more than twice as much as his opponent.

Cagle’s ad accuses Reed of taking millions from Abramoff to help casinos and working with Abramoff to deny legal protections to women and children in garment factories in the Mariana Islands where forced abortions and forced prostitution have been reported, all charges that are well documented. We found only one misstatement in Cagle’s ad, which uses a phony newspaper quote to imply that Reed confirmed acceptance of money from Indian casinos. In fact, Reed still denies that he knew the money he got from Abramoff came from gambling, despite ample evidence to the contrary contained in a recent Senate report.

(emphasis mine; from FactCheck.org)

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More Band Names

Okay, we need more band names. The band, as a whole, is not entirely pleased with what we came up with before. Therefore, I have taken it up on myself to come up with more. Here’s what I got. (Those with wisdom will recognize a theme.)

Gamma Ray Overdose
Chrome Revenge and the Toaster Sin
Vendetta Vex
Mars Means War
Jack Savage and the Curse of Mu
Sorcerer Supreme
They Came from Another World!*
Alchemists Anonymous*
This Vicious Cabaret
The Scarlet Woman and Her Atlantis Playboys

and, of course, SAVAGE ANIMAL!

*from Jared

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Oh, and did I mention, my novel is available at the Brewery?

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Pro-Tools

Our band is looking to record our own demos. We need Pro-Tools.

I know nothing about this particular subject. Can people please enlighten me?

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Oh, and did I mention, my novel is available at the Brewery?

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No Loyal Knight — Now Available

A dead man sits on the other side
of my desk and tells me he needs my help.

“You owe me, Jeff,” he says.

Problem is, he’s right.

A curse that turns men into walking corpses…
A succubus with a heart of gold…
A ghost with an old debt to pay…

…and a private eye caught between them all.

This is life in the big city, but no city like you’ve ever seen before. Here, it isn’t liquor that gets you twenty years behind bars, it’s magic, and private investigator Jefferson Carter has a license to practice.

But between the demonic femme fatales, the ghoulish gentlemen’s clubs and the dead pale mob family with red eyes and sharp teeth, Carter is going to need every bit of magic he’s got to keep himself alive.


No Loyal Knight is now available for purchase. Just click on the image below.