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Probably the latter...
Does being able to turn the goddess of an extinct genius of sea sponge (which is the most hysterically ridiculous thing I have come up with in awhile) into a tragic figure who might be partly responsible for the death of 95% of all life a sign that I am a good storyteller? Or just that i am very, very weird? -
My Politically Incorrect Thought of the Day
If over 1/3rd of a school's classrooms are designated "Special Education" how many more do you need before you can stop declaring them to be "Special" and have to call out the not-Special classrooms as exceptions? I'm just saying...that's alot of Special Ed. classrooms. -
I have seen the future and it was awesome...
I am, of course, referring to the Star Trek movie. I really don't have a whole lot to say about it, save for the fact that it is awesome in almost every way. It was a fun story, the special effects were fantastic, and the actors did a terrific job channeling their original counterparts. This movie is, without a doubt, the resurrection of the ( Read more... ) -
Bone: A Landmark Comic Series
Sunday M & I stopped at a Half-Price Books and I found this graphic novel illustrated by Charles Vess. And, since I am a fan of that artist ever since I discovered Stardust, I picked it up. M read it first and discovered that it was, in fact, a prequel to the comic series Bone: which unfortunately we hadn't read, so the comic I now owned didn't ( Read more... ) -
Serial Experiments Lain
Almost a decade after the fact, I just finished watching the entire series of Serial Experiments Lain. In all, honestly, it felt like the kind of stuff that art school students that really don't have have any creativity come up with by trying really hard. I can overlook the so-cliche-that-its-almost-childish concept of the "Wired" as being fairly ( Read more... ) -
Traffic
It has been my experience that Speed Limits on highways and interstates are treated more like a suggestion then a hard limit. No matter where you travel or what time of day it is, nothing short of a traffic jam can bring the average speed of the cars on the road below at least 5 miles above the stated limit. And you always get a handful of ( Read more... ) -
I Love Dwarves
The maligned player race around my group has always been the gnome. Much of that antipathy is my fault: I don't feel that the gnome, as they have been depicted in Dungeons and Dragons since the get-go, has enough iconic imagery to have any real staying power in the overall idea-space of the game. Hobbits/halflings already occupy the role of " ( Read more... ) -
The Golden Age
A very common trope of fantasy fiction (and by that I mean pretty much any story set in a pseudo-medieval period or any work of the Sword & Sorcery genre) is the concept of a long-lost Golden Age. The details of this period vary, naturally, but they are always better in the present in some very dramatic way: magic was more powerful, governments ( Read more... ) -
Watchmen
I saw Watchmen last night with the crew, and I definitely have to say that I really enjoyed it. While I wouldn't say that it was the greatest comic-book movie ever made, it was definitely in the upper class (alongside such luminaries as Batman Begins, X2, and Iron Man). The director worked extraordinarily hard to bring the comic-book panel for ( Read more... ) -
The Hit Point Problem
With the revised GSL for D&D 4E just released and my latest mini-campaign almost complete, I've been pondering role playing games again. Obviously, that involves musing upon my Quixotic quest to make my Dream RPG, wondering what things I love about the games I play, what things I hate, and what things I think can be improved. And today this lead ( Read more... )