My girlfriend, Malice, has opened an art studio in the original Rainier building in Georgetown. Here's a photo gallery from her first Art Attack (what they call the art walk in Georgetown).

proletariArt photos

The Art Attack is the second Saturday of every month, so the next one is November 14. We'd love to see some of you there.

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Not to get embroiled in the nature/nurture business again, but here's a Slog article about female hormones and differential preference for males (link). Basically, when women are ovulating and fertile, they shift measurably toward preferring more masculine lovers (to snag good genes) while when women are not ovulating or fertile they prefer less ( Read more... )

This essay was on a flier I found on the playa at Burning Man, apparently written by a burner trying to get more women to attend. Our beloved, crazy arts festival in the desert is predominantly male. Like hunting and camping, it probably always will be. But I like what the guy is saying, so here it is. I don't buy into the whole "energy" worldview ( Read more... )

Oh wait. They were just hookers. Never mind. No one cares.

Wisconsin authorities may well have arrested the North Side Strangler, murderer of prostitutes (link).

See original waitress rant here.

Jesus taught that one should have trust in the LORD as a loving father. He advocated a level of childlike trust with no fretting for the morrow. By Jesus’ day, centuries of Jewish tradition had established that Jews were to trust in the LORD even when he seemed to have turned his back on his chosen people. In either case, this “trust” is generally ( Read more... )

Still plugging away on my Jesus project: historical Jesus and Jesus in western culture.

As a little change of pace, I've uploaded an array of articles all on holy men and how they do or don't compare or relate to Jesus. Maybe you're curious about one or more of these men (they're all men). Enjoy, and comment if you got comments.

Buddha

Elijah

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Last weekend at Dragonflight, Skaff Elias, Peter Adkison, Tim Beach, and I spoke on a panel whose topic was a retrospective on D&D, especially concerning Gary and Dave, who passed away over the last year. I also ran D&D "0e meets 4e," to substantial success.

You can find an audio of the panel at Seattle Geekly.

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Sunday at Dragonflight in Bellevue I'm going to run a 6-player RPG session. It will be the initial playtest of the OD&D system that I am developing for a short-term, newbie-friendly campaign I'll be starting this fall. It uses streamlined rules like those in OD&D, but overhauled. The idea is not to have the OD&D feel but instead to have the ( Read more... )

Next Saturday, the 8th, Peter Adkison, Skaff Elias, Tim Beach, and I will be leading a retrospective of Gygax's and Arneson's contributions to gaming, at Dragonflight in Bellevue, at 7:00 ( Read more... )

I personally recommend podcasts and audiobooks as a way to increase the amount of information coming into one's brain, and lots of you would probably like Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias's podcast about games, brought to us by Tyler Bielman.

Here is the Three Donkeys blog, including podcasts.

Three Donkeys

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