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HEEE-larious
I had just gotten off work and was going to a fast food joint across the street; it's in the same parking lot as a Safeway. I had just gotten out of the car and let down my hair when a van rounded the corner and started to slow. We played the are-you-stopping-or-not game for a second, then it stopped in front of me. It contained two attractive ( Read more... ) -
Why it absolutely sucks to have Thanos as a spirit guide.
First off, read this post from the other week ( Read more... ) -
King of the World
We had a family thing today and I guess I ingested something the others didn't. As my physical horrors were starting their way from the inside to the outside M's nine year old megalomaniacal little brother asked me if, supposing I was King of the Entire World and was dying, who would I name as my successor (I was wearing a gold chain like a crown ( Read more... ) -
Heroscape: X-Men
This is a second proposed Heroscape set. It would have ten figures like the existing Marvel set, but in lieu of a destructible object it would come with a Sentinel figure. However, I ran into some snags in the casting ( Read more... ) -
Heroscape: Fanastic Four
And now I behave very geeky and not nerdy in the least ( Read more... ) -
Good times and bad ideas
I've been logging lots of hours with my dentist, who is busy overhauling my head. I do very poorly under novacaine so I get to enjoy nitrous oxide instead. As such, I have endured enough drugs to earn a PhD in philosophy and I thought I would share some excerpts from my dissertation ( Read more... ) -
Geek versus Nerd
There's a fifteen minute dead zone on my commute during which I can't use my mp3 player* and instead resort to radio. Thus, I have become familiar with the Deaf Pedestrians' song "Hail to the Geek." It involves gleeful references to the MacLeods, Klingons, second edition AD&D, combined with self depreciating humor ( Read more... ) -
I have returned.
I am back from hiatus. I'll elaborate on all of these on Sunday or some time, but this is what I've been up to: I've completed a special assignment at work, started up regularly again at the Dawning, been reading my way through the Brontes and Adams' Dirk Gently serries, and discovered Heroscape. Oh, and I've had enough dental work done to ( Read more... ) -
In brief.
I went into hiding again, and am still there, sad to say. This is owing to how my virus-ridden computer exploded (and then later the router exploded, but that's really beside the problem). I further more am commuting to Leesburg again, plus the holiday mail just started up. So now I pretty much work, drive, and sleep. See you in January ( Read more... ) -
Retraction
Some time ago, I naysaid (is that a word?) Marvel's Annihilation and Planet Hulk events while expressing high expectations about Civil War. My reasons were that Marvel's focus has always successfully been with mortal characters with human failings in larger-than-life human conflict, and that all of their various space operas always seemed out of ( Read more... )