Same, this is quite exciting

Very sad to hear of the death of the great Lou Zocchi, who spent much of his life advocating for higher standards in dice manufacturing. He and his infectious enthusiasm will be sadly missed.

On a more pedestrian level, I now have a hook to hang my next column for Wyrd Science on.

I think Hôtel Costes was the real inflection point

“Visits vs Attendees” is giving “epehebophilia vs pedophilia” frankly

So proud of the crews on these two jobs, we couldn’t have done it without them!

Workers on "20/20" and "A Christmas Spin" reported the jobs to their Local Union Representatives, asking for assistance in getting the shows under contract, and stuck together with strong support and solidarity throughout the organizing process. Congratulations to all!

People willing calling people by their chosen names of Clavicular or Sneako but complain about trans people pronouns. Get fucked

I always liked, “if you see a really big black bird, crow. If you suddenly see the biggest goddamn black bird you’ve ever seen in your life!… raven”

Or a alternative fantasy Earth where astrologers deduce the presence of Pluto (and Neptune, and confirmation of Uranus, for that matter) by realizing that the horoscopes are slightly off, so there has to be something else out there

A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess & Malcom McDowell interview YouTube video by Michael Stevenson

It is interesting to see this footage because it's not like there are a ton of Anthony Burgess interviews out there, and poor innocent I just shot my second film Malcolm McDowell trying to be respectful of the author and sometimes misinformed film critic. Plus: Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind stils.

*sorry not sorry

That’s an incredibly lucid* analogy! I once described Fairyland as being in perpetual twilight, as just before the sun rises or after it sets, and with the light always behind you, no matter how you turned or where you stood.

“Eos Rhododactylus, hands on your shoulder, murmuring in your ear”

Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo P1-MR. TRUE IS AT THE OFFICE OF A FACTORY MANAGER WHEN AN EMPLOYEE ENTERS EMPLOYEE: MISTER GRIGGS, THAT MACHINE IS OUT OF ORDER AND DANGEROUS TO OPERATE MANAGER MR. GRIGGS: WELL, LET THE MEN RUN IT TILL NOON AND THEN WE'LL, HAVE IT FIXED - P2- MR TRUE IS VERY UPSET BY THE MANANGERS DISREGARD FOR THE WORKERS SAFETY MR. TRUE: DO IT NOW!!!! MR. TRUE POUNDS THE MANAGER RIGHT ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD CAUSING HIM TO FOLD UP LIKE AN ACCORDION

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A traditional Thai mask showing a demon’s face. It’s white with blue embellishments around the black eyes and red mouth and horns. Huge curled tusks jut out from the grimacing mouth

Yes but also

My mother wrote a short story that was largely based on the Sirens in the Odyssey being plural, but being dual in the Aeneid, implying that there was just one left…

TTRPG about me

First game: The game my dad and his cronies were homebrewing in 1979 (1st published was AD&D, I think?)
Last game: OSE
Longest game: MEKTON
Favorite game: Whatever I’m homebrewing currently
Favorite mechanics: Castle Falkenstein
Favorite art: Non-zero chance it’s gonna be Formoria

The Keyes Constant/Crazification Factor remains undefeated

Péter Magyar is also pretty shitty in a lot of ways, but I am still pleased with these results.

Coïncidentally, the Welsh work for “carrot” is “moron”, so, “you utter carrot…”

Dyw i byth yn defnyddio "moron" oni bai fy mod i'n coginio (yn Gymraeg, wrth gwrs)

I just found out GREMLINS 3 starts principal in August and I really don’t know how to feel about that, but I am excited for SEX CRIMINALS!

My mum hated using the ADM-3A terminal that we had set to 2400 baud (with DIP switches!) because she could type faster than it could register. Why 2400 baud? Because that was the speed of the acoustic (!) modem she had on loan from her job at UCB.

My favorite bit of foreign RPG slang is that in the Netherlands a “non-natural” 20 (i.e. rolling a 16 and + 4 from abilities) is a “dry 20” because “nat” means “wet” in Dutch.

My mother was intensely, medievally Catholic, and her best stories (imo) were about a Greek sorceress traveling around the Punic era Mediterranean teaching Old Gods how to survive through syncretism. We all contain multitudes.

Romance + Space Opera = Galacstacy

Romance + Cosmic Horror = Weird Love

Romance + Steampunk = Steamypunk

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Anyway, that’s the plot of KNIGHT RIDER (1982)

Oh! And the primary criminal activity of the “estranged son” can be gun-running for the Pan African Liberation Movement, a socialist revolutionary organization in (vaguely undefined) Africa!

Got a great idea for a tv show:

“A tech billionaire saves a dying LAPD officer, gives him plastic surgery to make him look like his estranged son and an AI and sends him off to dispense vigilante justice with a secret organization called the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG).”

I hate living in a world where this sentence makes complete sense.