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We lost Terry Pratchett, too
Terry Pratchett passed away a couple days ago. (Almost exactly a year after we lost Aaron Allston, another of my favorite writers.) He'd had health problems for a while, but it still came as a surprise, at least for me. I thought he'd be with us for a few more years, manage to write a few more books ( Read more... ) -
"The first rule of Clone Club is you do not talk about Clone Club..."
A few days ago, some friends finally got me to watch a Canadian scifi series called Orphan Black. I spent the following few days, when I wasn't working or asleep, watching ("marathoning" might be more accurate) the season and a half that is currently out ( Read more... ) -
I feel compelled to say something about this...
Writer Aaron Allston passed away last week.
Allston wasn't just probably the best writer to ever work on the Star Wars franchise, but he might be one of my favorite writers ever. Certainly, there's no author whose works I've re-read as many times as I've read Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar. I took them to ( Read more... ) -
When I was your age...
...I walked four and a half miles through the snow to work a fourteen hour shift with only four hours of sleep ( Read more... ) -
Raising Steam...
...the latest Discworld book by Terry Pratchett, isn't available in the US until March for some inexplicable reason. But a friend of mine who's in Norway right now hooked me up. (Yes, you can buy it in Norway before you can buy it in a country that speaks the same language. I swear, the Brits are trolling us ( Read more... ) -
Been gone a while....
...once you get busy and fall behind, it's hard to get caught up. Not that there seems to be many people left here.
Since I last posted in this thing, I've joined the executive board of my union, sat at the bargaining table, gamemastered two Pathfinder campaigns at once, and started plotting a scifi novel.
(Hey, I need something to do with myself ( Read more... ) -
Yet another reason I love playing RPGs...
...is moments like this one from a game we played this Sunday evening ( Read more... ) -
*spittake*
Aww, I wanted to make that remake! Sam Raimi beat me to the punch!
(How did I not hear about this sooner?)
Hope it's well-done and attracts some new viewers to the original.
(Huh... first La Femme Nikita and now this? Suddenly there's an interest in remaking shows with French titles from ten years ago about female assassins. Coincidence?) -
1/1/11
Happy New Year!
Hope everyone enjoys 2011.
(I'd rehash my running gag from last year, except it seems that nobody ever sets stories in 2011.)
(...well, almost nobody.)
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