Well, Faithful Readers, I found this article in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle ( Read more... )

Okay, so I just got back from a strange almost-but-not-quite interview ( Read more... )

So here is my take ( Read more... )

Now here is a case of amazing timing ( Read more... )

Thanks to Brian's mother, Marilyn, I am catching up (seven years late) with West Wing...wow ( Read more... )

LJ Interests meme results

1. ars magica:
   The near-perfect roleplaying game for Yrs Trly, I have enjoyed playing it off and on for over a decade now and have had the honour to playtest some of the material for the current edition. Take the Middle Ages, add in all the beliefs about how the world was truly organized at the time, dash in some out-of- ( Read more... )

Let's take care of the job stuff first ( Read more... )

Now this film looks like perfect New Mavarga material. Swashbuckling! Action! Viggo looking scruffy with a sword ( Read more... )

So, JJ's band, Ariel, has a MySpace account:

http://www.myspace.com/arielrockstheworld

Check 'em out and have some fun :-)

It has been noted many times that WWI was a great tragedy. Not only did untold numbers of people die in the trenches, but ultimately there was no purpose, no goal to the war. Even the sides in the war were in many ways unclear -- if the war had been held ten or even five years earlier, Britain would have sided with Germany against France. This ( Read more... )