For those of you who have known me for a long time, you will remember that I have been questing for a certain set of songs for about sixteen years now. I have acquired a large number of the songs on CD thanks to ambug666's Holiday CDs and a few other sources. But many of the songs in the Quest are just too obscure.

This holiday season, I decided to put out ( Read more... )

From my Monday night In Nomine game:
On learning that there was a bar frequented by demons in south-east DC, quoth one dramatic player:

[Boromir]"One does not simply walk into Anacostia."[/Boromir]

Local residents in Windsor, ON have been complaining about a mysterious
vibration that wakes them up in the middle of the night. We'll report
on this phenomenon, but we won't report what those residents grumble
when they are awakened. We reserve the right to have our quake and edit
too.

Step 1: Get our house officially declared Canadian soil.

Step 3: Profit!!

I can't see any problems implementing this plan at all.

My wife and I are in possession of a limited amount of shelf space for board games at the moment.  In order to avoid those games flowing out of the library and onto the living room floor like some kind of ludavalanche, we'd like to see if there are any we can safely sell or donate.  I went through our gaming shelf and picked out twenty which need ( Read more... )

I watched a movie last night which was a successful romantic chick-flick in its time.  It has aged poorly and now displays some Values Dissonance.  Below are some examples of why the main romance might not seem so romantic nowadays.

Our main character - let's call her Protagonist - works in a traditionally male-dominated job.  Her company has at ( Read more... )

Several days ago, I interpreted for a Deaf client from Mongolia for the first time.  I learned the sign for "Mongolia" (it's just like the old sign for "China" only at the eyebrow instead of the eye), and I got to stumble through interpreting what I now understand was an "urban" legend from Mongolia.  Here it is, to the best of my recollection and ( Read more... )

I've done sneaky behind-the-scenes GM stuff in my games before, but this raises it to a new level:
http://speakwithmonsters.badgods.com/comics/mm-leprechaun-2

petitemephisto  and I just finished watching the first disc of Glee, season 1 on DVD.  It was just four episodes out of a 22-episode season, but those four episodes were shockingly good, especially for a show on Fox which has a reputation for canceling high quality shows before they've had a chance to prove themselves.

While not all of the music on the show was ( Read more... )

I haven't been on LJ for a long time, but I wanted to let people know that I did "win" 2010's National Novel Writing Month with a 50,843 word novel-portion within the 30-day time-frame.  I say "novel-portion" because the story that I set out to write was not completed despite having written more than the target word-count.  I am attempting to ( Read more... )