It’s been a long time since I kept the tradition of running a Call of Cthulhu game on Halloween. I decided to re-up the tradition, but in spades. A four part story, each chapter in a different Era, all linked by a single element, starting on the first Friday in October, ending on Halloween night.…
(delivered via savageplanet ) > I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor> of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.> To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide> U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting> every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might…
I’m one of the Guests of Honor at RinCon, an Arizona game convention that takes place over Halloween weekend. I’ll be there with Houses of the Blooded as well as some special surprises. (Wait till you see the booth. I’ve got two words for you. Ven. Library.) I’ll also be running games and possibly testing…
Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you…
(yes, really written by Aaron Sorkin) OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry? BARTLET Well … let me think. …We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught…
I didn’t watch much of The West Wing after Sorkin and Schlamme left, but I am a great admirer of Alan Alda, as a writer and as an actor and as a compassionate human being. When he appeared as a candidate for President on the show, I began getting interested again. I own the collected…
When the Coen Brothers’ Fargo won multiple Oscars (missing out for Best Film to–wait for it–Braveheart of all things), they quickly followed it up with one of their "goof off" films, The Big Lebowski. Known for messing with both their audiences and their critics, you could almost hear the Brothers’ cackling as American audiences tried…
… happy birthday to the man who inspired me in so many ways. Writer, drummer, thinker, traveler, poet… and occasional goofball. Thank you, Neil.
December 10, 2008 marks an auspicious date. It’s my birthday. December 11 – 14 will be WickedCon: a weekend of gaming, partying and magic. And you’re all invited. More very soon.
An accoustic version of an old favorite.Ah, Discordia! I love this song.