| To Dreamation 2010 or Not To Dreamation 2010: That is the Question. |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|09:30 am] |
Heya, folks.
I am trying to decide whether or not to go to Dreamation this year.
Here are the factors:
1. Money: Always tight. (Though I have a line on some travel/lodging options.)
2. Time: My vacation time reloaded on the first of the year, but I need to make sure to spend it less profligately than I did in 2009.
3. Feeling a Little Burned Out: Going last year helped cheer me up quite a bit, so I don't know. It's sort of that "I hate going to the gym until I get there" feeling.
4. Origins: I'd really like to go to Origins this year, and don't know if I can swing two cons with regard to factors 1 and 2.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Also, anyone on my flist going? Would you be sad if I wasn't there? |
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| holiday cheer |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|11:40 pm] |
Some good things happened this holiday season! I am probably forgetting some, but:
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) benlehman came to visit us and we had a good time hanging out and catching up- I broke a coffee press and as a holiday gift he replaced it, which was very thoughtful and has been improving my mornings since
- shywritergrrl got us a very cool moustache Christmas tree ornament that is currently acting as a rearview mirror ornament in my car
- Also she came to visit which was delightful
- We went to NC to see the family
- We got Alinea and Momofuku and it turns out that David Chang cooks like some kind of me-Elizabeth hybrid person who also went to culinary school
- We fell in love with Chang's ginger-scallion noodles
- We made chocolate lava cookies
- I saw my sisters and they were kinda butts about several things but still
- Gwen and my dad spent like 2 hours putting together a toy space shuttle which was bizarre and hilarious and cute
- We started being weekday vegans (flexible; vegan 5 days a week) so as to get hot for the wedding and it's not that terrible
- I got off my butt about going back to school
- Also about organizing my groomsmen
- And about the cake
hi friends |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 4th, 2010|08:34 am] |
somewhere i was reading someone posting about their artistic influences and hey i have artistic influences too!! (here are some people that i steal ideas from all the time i am pretty sure they dont notice
catboots
callan
tony dot bmp
kc green
sam brown
emmy
nedroid
andrew loomis
john kricfalusi
the one person i feel like needs explanation is emmy since her stuff is all magical perfect and real different from what i try to do but whenever she does art videos i feel like i learn a lot so she is up there. everyone else is a comicky or cartoony draw dork like me.
these are all the people where i look at their stuff and try to figure out how they do it or spend boring time at work doodling their characters. this new year i want to learn how to do better drawing and feel like i need to figure out how. i was looking at imaginefx and they have workshop articles and i wish there was something like that for comics drawing so if you know anything about that let me know and also you should talk about your influences!!
and also everyone in the world should draw!! |
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| Carnacki and Me (and HPL) |
[Jan. 3rd, 2010|04:19 pm] |
It being a new year, I'm luxuriating for the nonce in the illusion of open frontiers and free time. And I'm also reading Gaslight Grimoire (one of my presents from mollpeartree), a (pretty decent) collection of supernatural-themed Sherlock Holmes pastiches. One of them, "The Adventure of the Grantchester Grimoire," by Chico Kidd and Rick Kennett, pairs Holmes with a young Thomas Carnacki, William Hope Hodgson's "Ghost-Finder". And as always, whenever I read a Carnacki story, I have an overwhelming urge to write a Carnacki RPG.
While I'm fairly confident that Atomic Overmind will publish whatever I should produce in that line, there remains the question of demand and purpose. (There also remains the question of creating or tweaking a game system such that an hours-long vigil with only one failure-point actually results in suspenseful, dramatic, or interesting roleplaying, but that's secondary.) Does the world even need another Carnacki RPG, given that it already has ffutures' excellent Edwardian Forgotten Futures IV: The Carnacki Cylinders? I snuck the Electric Pentacle (and a few Ab-humans) into GURPS All-Star Jam 2004, so GURPS is covered, too. One imagines that building them for The Kerberos Club wouldn't be much harder.
And then there's the standard Indiana Jones-James Bond problem of modeling solo heroes in group games. Maybe, since much of the fun comes not from Carnacki's fairly inert personality, but from Hodgson's wild metaphysics, a putative "Carnacki" game should be one of team ghost-breaking and psychic investigation instead: an Edwardian mod for Trail of Cthulhu complete with Ab-Human stats and a "build your own Saiitii" sub-system? (I think GUMSHOE is the right way to go for the investigative half, but then again, I would.) A Savage Worlds game, likely set in the modern British covert warfare milieu a la Warren Ellis' Gravel or Gordon Rennie's Caballistics Inc., with a special squad of the SAS based in an abandoned Underground station beneath Cheyne Walk? I'd have to come up with some sort of artificial stat to encourage investigation, maybe building a Guts pool for the vigils. Or something.
Or maybe not, or maybe I'm missing something obvious. Feel free to chime in on your ideal Carnacki game in comments; maybe I'll write it.
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Also in comments, feel free to chime in on my interview on Tor.com, conducted by the mighty mighty bruceb. It's part of the crescendo to Tor.com's Cthulhu December; in it, I discuss Lovecraftian studies, Lovecraftian gaming, and the Mythos As She Is Properly Understood. |
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| Sherlock Holmes |
[Jan. 3rd, 2010|12:35 pm] |
I'm curious if anyone here has seen the recent Sherlock Holmes movie? If not, I will direct my question under a cut since I don't want to accidentally spoil anything for those who want to see it but have yet to do so (so if you don't want any spoilers, just skip this post).
And yes, this is related to this community in a sense, and if you've seen the movie, you'll probably know what I'm asking about.
( Question here. ) |
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| Hiney Ma Tov |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|08:32 pm] |
I have always loved "Hiney Ma Tov" but lack a good recorded version of it. There are a few on iTunes; none of them quite measure up to what I want somehow.
I like this snippet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DmvdcZfS4c
Does anyone know who that artist is?
Youtube links are acceptable, I can do the rest from there.
Thanks!
EDIT: If anyone has a full recording of Matisyahu's live version, that would be great. I've seen little bits of that and he sounds great as always. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|06:32 pm] |
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so it will take me awhile to process all draw requests you guys asked for some weirdo shit |
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| A NEW ERA OF AWESOME |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|02:26 am] |
For the New Year I'm giving up on Too Fat and embracing the twin strengths of American storytelling, BONERZ & EXPLOSIONZ!
BONERZ & EXPLOSIONZ will be pornographically overheated pulse-pounding action for today's discerning internet reader. 2010 belongs to BONERZ & EXPLOSIONZ! |
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[Jan. 1st, 2010|03:40 pm] |
plus once they are old enough to watch tv they will always want to watch the MOST ODIOUS PERVERSE ANNOYING PESTILENT CRAP they possibly can all the time. i can personally guarantee they they will NOT have any interest in the more sedate, quiet kids' shows that make okay background noise. they will have to watch Caillou the Cancer Canadian or Horrible Singing Space Children (one of the hundreds of variations of this) all the time, possibly watching a single episode repeatedly as long as you allow it.
this is the worst thing ever.
do not allow your children to watch television or listen to music. |
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| I don't normally do resolutions |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|09:49 am] |
But here.
In the next year I will.
1) Graduate.
2) Get a grown-up job.
3) Practice *redacted*
All else is gravy.
Things that I did last year:
1) Major break-up
2) Finished a game.
3) Went to Taiwan
4) *redacted*. |
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