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A digression into politics

Posted in California, News, Politics, tagged , , , , on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Normally I don’t put politics on this blog, but there are reasons to make the occasional exception; this is one of them. My State Assemblywoman, Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass (D), voiced some opinions regarding the rights of free speech that I found, well, objectionable. The following is the letter I sent her:
Dear Speaker [...]

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Films that should not be…

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , , , on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

…But may:
Britney Spears to star in Holocaust time-travel movie?
What’s next? Pee-Wee Herman as Abraham Lincoln?

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Very happy

Posted in RPGs, tagged , , , on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My copy of Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying arrived today, and it even managed to survive unscathed being shoved into a way too small mailbox by a criminally careless postman.
Time to get to reading.

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Wait… This is real?

Posted in Weirdness, tagged , , on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No, it can’t be:

But they even have a web site. Imagine: someone had to come up with the idea and then experiment with prototypes.
Or maybe I don’t want to imagine it….
Thanks (I think) to Exurban League.

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The final stretch

Posted in Books, History, tagged , , , , , , on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just a quick update on my “no buying books until I’ve read ten I already have” Long March, last updated here. Since then I’ve finished White Guilt, Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews, and, just today, Ferling’s Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. All of them I highly recommend, especially Ferling’s book, [...]

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How’d I miss this?

Posted in RPGs, tagged , , , on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system, the engine behind Call of Cthulhu and other games they once produced, has been out in its own book since 2008. Finally! Only 20-25 years after it should have been out, when it would have stood a chance to be a major alternative to other multi-genre systems, such as Hero or [...]

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Words fail me

Posted in Weirdness, tagged , , on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Except, perhaps, for “OW!!”
Erotic ‘daggering’ dance craze causing bodily harm
AN erotic dance craze is thought to be the cause of a recent spate of broken penises in Jamaica, and now faces a government crackdown.
“Daggering”, a lewd dance style where couples simulate dry sex in various positions to the beat of the music, is characterised by [...]

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