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December 10th, 2009
10:28 pm storme [Link]	Spent today shopping for Christmas presents--successfully, in fact, since I'm basically all done on gifts for people (unless I impulse buy anything else. Which might happen, me being me). Did not get a new phone, because frankly the store was hugely busy and I wasn't in the mood to be pushy over pricing etc; I know I need to be, so I will go sort this out another time. Came home and wrapped everything; I had just enough wrapping paper but my jeans are covered in glitter as a result of the process. And I have used many ribbons. I like wrapping presents. Tags: shiny (Leave a comment)
08:28 am fromthemorgue [Link]	Too Many Linky Not Enuf Mics http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/003093.html Exit your show like I exit the turnpike Google Street View now extends into the ruins of Pompeii Web Site Story - some of this is so perfect it hurts. This is getting much buzz right now, a promo for... (Leave a comment)
03:18 pm elissa_carey [Link]	no more sexism? apparently not. ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:16 pm jenniferrodgers [Link]	2nd Saturday in Collingswood For those of you local to New Jersey: This weekend, I'll be participating in a 2nd Saturday event in Collingswood, NJ: http://www.secondsaturdaycollingswood.info/ Christmas in a Classic Town - A night of holiday art, hot cocoa, carolers and cheer. Our classic town sparkles this time of year and is well known for that hometown holiday feel. We pair it with arts and music to make it even more special. I'll be bringing my holiday cards and a few other wares and I'll definitely be there from 2pm to 5pm. Possibly later if that cocoa and carols business is as nice as it sounds. :) If you're in the area and this sounds like fun, please be sure to stop by and see me. I don't have location information yet, but I doubt I'll be too hard to find. (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:38 am wickedthought [Link]	Birthday post later this evening. Just something I woke up with on the edge of my mind. A dream where I was on a stage talking and said... "Religion is like that girl in high school who promised boys mind-blowing sex and got all kinds of gifts and prestige because of her promises, knowing she'd never have to deliver on anything because high school boys will do anything if they think it gets them closer to getting laid. Delivering an invisible promise. That's religion. Yes, I'm saying it. Religion is a cock tease." Tags: faithless (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:20 am robin_d_laws [Link]	The Ill-Aspected Facial Tissue Had a day of seriously awful vibes near the end of last week. A distressing dream jolted me awake. Still recovering from post-trip food poisoning, I stumbled from bed headachey and wobble-legged. Bad news, from the grave to the serious to the worrying to the weird, poured into my inbox. Were I prone to a Robinocentric view of the universe, the peculiar timing of one particular crummy news nugget would have felt like I’d put the jinx in personally. That night, as I ate a dinner of suitably bland takeaway items, I saw it staring me in the face, right on the dinner table. A Kleenex demon. Now, I’m not actually superstitious. I don’t think he caused the various sad and unpleasant events I learned about that day. Maybe he just reflected them. Still, I freakin’ hate these guys. Edit: The above funny picture of a Kleenex box was not intended to evoke real concern. Nothing to worry about, folks. Tags: omens, photos (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:39 pm sanblaster [Link]	100 Posters: Bauhaus (2) (Leave a comment)
02:17 am amberite [Link]	SUPER. AWESOME. For those of you who have spent years wanting to see these characters again (or those I just introduced recently - hey, Lyssa!) barbara_hambly has a NEW Antryg & Joanna short story up on her website, which can be had for five bucks. And a couple of Benjamin January stories (I have not read through all of those books yet, but am mentioning this for the benefit of people who have.) And she'll be addressing other characters through this medium as well. Pass the word to other fans - that is, if not everyone knows already. She put them up a couple of weeks ago, but organic chemistry et my brane and I haven't been watching the Internet. Woohoo! Now, having been up for almost twenty hours, I think I'd better go to bed. Current Mood: overjoyed (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
04:10 am memento_mori [Link]	Memory of Life Originally published at Memento Mori Theatricks. Please leave any comments there. Talos Tower is nine stories of foamcrete, quartz glass and titanium. Viewed from the side, it resembles a giant screw twisted into Venus Gardens Plaza. Viewed from above, it’s a tapered spike that splits the Gardens in two. A lift travels along rails outside the structure, moving not just up and down but also along the gentle curves that wraps around the building. The Architexters built the tower. A man called Carnivale designed it after a fever dream kept him awake, sweating and freezing in his bed. Within a month and a half, it was real. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: fiction, freemarket
09:59 pm gmworkshop [darkshadow316] [Link]	Attempted to contact the mods. I haven't heard anything back from them and the auction ends soon. If it is inappropriate please remove with my deepest apologies. I am auctioning off my gaming collection with the profits going to various different charity organizations. It's a great way to get some gifts for Christmas on the cheap and for a good cause. http://shop.ebay.com/garagefree4all/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 Thanks in advance. (Leave a comment)
12:55 pm gears_and_steam [mrsoles] [Link]	Unhallowed Metropolis at Templecon The staff of Unhallowed Metropolis, the gas mask chic roleplaying game of Neo-Victorian horror are gathering February 5th-7th in Warwick, Rhode Island for Templecon. Join creators Nicole Vega and Jason Soles, cover artist George Higham, writer Simon Berman, Unhallowed photographer Marc17, and illustrator Robert Tritthardt for panels, demos, a book signing, and the premiere of the Unhallowed Metropolis Theater Game. In addition to participating in loads of events, we will be hocking our collective wares in the dealer hall (along with Anita Arora of Morbid Anatomy). (Leave a comment)
09:24 am fromthemorgue [Link]	Writing Update: November http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/003092.html Oh, heck, still haven't done one of these. So, yes, I've hit my target of twelve complete short stories, one for each month, that are going to be submittable somewhere. Some of them are even in a submittable kinda state.... (Leave a comment)
December 9th, 2009
03:02 pm jenniferrodgers [Link]	Untold Card art Here are a few small card art pieces I did recently: Steampunk gadgetry and such. These were created for the Untold RPG card game by Wandering Men Studios. Art © Wandering Men Studios. _______________________ In other news, I am very cranky because my beautiful Wacom tablet has finally died on me. Working without it is like trying to draw with my elbow. Technology breaks my heart. See you later, LJ. (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:15 am amberite [Link]	Oh, and I keep forgetting to mention Upon waking from my two hours of sleep yesterday morning, as I was puttering around the house getting breakfast in the 7 AM pitch-dark, snowgrouse's doodle Simm!Master jumped into my head and started performing a bad karaoke version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" for the benefit of a .. possibly captive? doodle!Ten, who was mocking his intentionally bad singing. "Is this the REEEEEEAL LIIIIIFE Is this just fantasyyyyyy Caught in a landslide No escape from re-al-it-tee Open your eeeeyyyyyes Look up at the skyyyy and SEEEEEEEE I'm just a poor boooooy, I need no sympathyyy..." That bad. Hee. "Be-el-ze-bub has a devil set aside for meeeeeeeee..." It was a super vivid mental image (in between my brain running through physics equations) and I thought you all would like to know, especially snowgrouse. Tags: doctor who, wtf (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:31 am drivingblind [Link]	Chili Originally published at Deadly Fredly. You can comment here or there. This is my Gamer Chili recipe — a modified version of one that Rob Donoghue (there he is again!) threw at me earlier this decade. It got the “Gamer Chili” moniker for being very easy to throw together the morning before a game, and with a big enough crock pot (I usually do a double batch, but my slow-cooker is pretty high capacity), it can easily feed a table of 6-8 hungry gamers. I may have posted it somewhere before, but it’s always good to get out there. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: food (Leave a comment)
09:20 am robin_d_laws [Link]	Terminal Hunger Whenever you find yourself lf stuck in a place running a continual news-loop with inescapably loud audio, the Esoterrorists put it it there, as an emitter of low-grade cognitive dissonance. They particularly target airports, where their installations play to a captive audience of the already anxious. Their client entities derive particular nourishment from those involuntarily exposed to the stock market segment. The mix of fear—of lost opportunities, of nosediving portfolios—combined with greed is greasy with psychic resonance. Since the economic downturn the yields have grown even stronger. Even those most knowledgeable about the financial world, once inured to this material by familiarity, are now prone to radiate rich waves of subconscious distress. Airports in general provide a wider a playground for certain discreet entities of the Outer Dark. Old fashioned fear of flying admixes with new-century terrorism dread. Though not as strong as it was earlier in the decade, the latter still exerts a nourishing pull. Xenophobia provides its own heady psychic outflow. In airports people are forced to travel with others whose clothing, speech and appearance marks them as other. Disguised Outer Dark Entities sometimes board planes, but the limited range of action while on an airliner proves isn't always an ultrademon's cup of tea. They prefer to lurk in the terminals themselves. Some of them mill about as eternal travelers who never depart. Others assume the forms of ticket agents, baggage handlers, and duty-free clerks. Where most airport employees adopt the glassy-eyed affect of the travel-weary patrons they service, ODEs can be recognized by the hunger in their eyes. They must act with caution, as the Ordo Veritatis uses the international air system to shuttle its agents from case to case. The loosely affiliated bands of supernatural predators haunting the world's airports attend to the security flags that precede the arrival of OV agents. They spread the word, and know where to hide. Tags: cognitive dissonance, esoterrorists, gaming hut, gumshoe (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
04:42 am princeofcairo [Link]	The Symington Affair Boy, oh boy, do I not have time to run this to ground right now: As an example, [Senator Stuart] Symington once formally requested a report from military sources regarding the possible existence of subterranean superhumans, which one of his constituents had become concerned about after reading a fiction book and mistaking it for non-fiction. [Or so THEY say. -- kah] This and Symington's other senatorial correspondence and papers were donated to the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection (on the University of Missouri campus) in 2002 and are now available to the general public. But if any of you good people have access to the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, or any idea how to Google up that report, I'm pretty sure I can use it Forever. You'll be relieved to know that although often bruited as a Majestic-12 member, Symington's name is not on the orthodox list of directors. That said, Stuart Symington (then Air Force Secretary) rode with (MJ-12 member) Forrestal alone in a closed car right before ... But Forrestal, not Truman, was the doomed man. His relationship with Symington went from bad to worse. For reasons still unclear, Symington embarked, in the words of one author, "upon a kind of personal guerilla warfare" against the Secretary of Defense. ... Friends commented on [Forrestal's] growing paranoia. He was convinced that "foreign-looking men" were following him, and that Symington was spying on him. ... Forrestal finally left office in a formal ceremony on March 28th, his last public appearance. What followed after the ceremony remains mysterious. "There is something I would like to talk to you about," Symington told Forrestal, and accompanied him privately during the ride back to the Pentagon. What Symington said is not known, but Forrestal emerged from the ride deeply upset, even traumatized, upon arrival at his office. Friends of Forrestal implied that Symington said something that "shattered Forrestal’s last remaining defenses." When someone entered Forrestal’s office several hours later, the former Secretary of Defense did not notice. Instead, he sat rigidly at his desk, staring at the bare wall, incoherent, repeating the sentence, "you are a loyal fellow," for several hours. Right. I don't have time to run this to ground. Right. Oh, why am I looking up Stuart Symington in the first place? He's President of the United States on Reality Taft-1,¹ coming soon to Steve Jackson Games, and thence to you good people. In a project I'm not sure I can name, because you just saw what happens to people who cross Stuart Symington. 1. Harry Truman (D; dies in office 1947); Joseph Martin (R; Speaker of the House, succeeds to office and does not run in 1948); Robert A. Taft (R; defeats Alben Barkley in 1948, dies in office 1953); Harold Stassen (R; elected V.P. in 1948, succeeds Taft in 1953; defeats Adlai Stevenson in 1956); Stuart Symington (D; narrowly defeats Vice-President Henry Cabot Lodge in 1960). Tags: alternate history, eliptony (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:39 pm wickedthought [Link]	"Pay to Straight" That's what I'm calling them. All these "programs" that teach you, the gay man or lesbian woman, how to cure your homosexuality. You pay them and they teach you how to be straight. Rachel Maddow, a lesbian, has an interview with one such individual and demonstrates just how full of shit this conman really is. Tags: science! (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:35 pm muskrat_john [Link]	My friend Leon's Open letter to ABC. Please share. TO: ABC FROM: Leon Lynn RE: Desecration of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" 12/8/09 Dear ABC, How could you? For years and years I have awaited the network broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as the true herald of the holiday season. I brought my kids up with the same tradition -- one which has been made no less special for us by the fact that they happen to be Jewish. Tonight we sat in horror and watched what you have done to the single greatest cartoon ever made. How many minutes did you cut out of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" so you could run more commercials? Gone was Sally's materialistic letter to Santa, which finally sends Charlie screaming from the room when she says she will settle for 10s and 20s. Gone was Schroeder's miraculous multiple renditions of "Jingle Bells" from a toy piano, including the one that sounds distinctly like a church organ. Gone was Linus using his blanket as an improvised slingshot to knock a can off the fence no one else can hit, complete with ricochet sound effect. Gone were the kids catching snowflakes on their tongues and commenting on their flavor. Gone even was poor Shermy's only line. He thought he had it bad because he was always tasked to play a shepherd. He had no idea. And why were all these classic scenes cut? To plug more ads into the show, of course. To sell burgers and greeting cards -- and to relentlessly plug the insipid-looking new Disney "soon to be a classic" show immediately following. (I didn't watch the new show, by the way. I was laid far too low by what had just happened.) Cramming all of these ads into the 30-minute broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" required major edits to a cartoon that has spent 44 years now trying to remind us that Christmas is supposed to transcend crass commercialism. Do you have no sense of irony? A couple of weeks ago I noted that you can now buy a plastic replica of the pathetic little real-wood Christmas tree Charlie Brown brings home from the tree lot otherwise monopolized by shiny fake trees. I thought we had sunk as low as we could. Obviously I was wrong. Oh, and by the way: The sound was half a second behind the picture: They were not synched properly. I thought this was pretty sloppy for a major TV network, but I was willing to look past it. What I cannot look past is the chopping to bits of a genuine classic, not just to pump more ads at us, but in direct conflict with the message that has made it a classic. When I was a kid, the annual broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was a holiday unto itself. It was the only time we ever saw ads for Dolly Madison snack cakes, for one thing. But more importantly, it actually framed the coming holiday for me in a meaningful way. The shepherds in their fields had no corporate sponsors. Nobody had bought the naming rights for the manger. The infant Jesus did not have an endorsement deal lined up with a particular line of swaddling clothes. Instead he came, the story goes, to preach universal love, and the abandonment of false ideals like the acquisition of gross material wealth in favor of something far more valuable. You have not just lost sight of this, or turned your backs on it. You have stomped it into the mud. You should be ashamed of yourselves. But I bet you aren't. I bet you're way past that. Count my family out for next year. Sincerely, Leon Lynn Current Location: Muskrat Den Current Music: Vince Gueraldi Tags: abc, charlie brown, christmas, irony (59 comments \| Leave a comment)
04:39 pm princeofcairo [Link]	Soon I Shall Become the Norman Ornstein of Cthulhu Last week, I had the great fun of talking to San Antonio Express-News reporter René Guzman about Cthulhu, as an expert source for a piece he was doing on the lighter side of Cthulhu in pop culture. The result of our chat/interview is up now: "Cult of Cthulhu Crowns Its Icon." I assume the piece is in print somewhere in the greater San Antonio area, too. Should you be interested further in René Guzman, check out his newsy, chatty blog Geek Speak. Should you be interested further in the lighter side of Cthulhu in pop culture, well, you know where to go. And speaking of Cthulhu 101, billzilla wrote a fine and generous review of it for Flames Rising. I always respond with consternation when people thank me for reviewing their game, but in case Bill is more together than I (seems likely), thanks, Bill! Oh, and Cthulhu 101 made the prestigious OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide ("A Dozen Game Gifts Under $25") for 2009, which is something else nice. Tags: cthulhu 101, the writing life (Leave a comment)
07:33 am fromthemorgue [Link]	Twitter makes my world smaller http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/003091.html At a course I was on the other day, the tutor asked us to sell her on Twitter, the micro-blogging service that continues to be the flavour of the moment. What was the point of it? The other web-native in... (Leave a comment)
07:29 am mr_orgue [Link]	Google Wave invites I've got loads, if anyone wants. (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
December 8th, 2009
10:26 am wickedthought [Link]	(3 comments \| Leave a comment)
04:41 pm simonjrogers [Link]	Printing Thank you for your responses to my printing dilemma. My goodness! You do like the full colour option. I'm afraid that momentum has taken us to two colour for this particular release, but I will endeavour to plan the next major release in full colour, ideally as a hard back. I'm planning an in-world London guide with no game mechanic content at all to supplement Book Hounds of London. Either that, or the Bookhounds itself could be full colour Tags: book hounds, pelgrane, printing (Leave a comment)
11:36 am jenniferrodgers [Link]	Steampunk Game- Character Art Woops, I missed posting something yesterday, so I'll post 2 pieces that go together today. Character art created for an independent Steampunk video-game: These are part of a series of character illustrations I did to represent some of the playable cultures we had planned. They were created separately, but are meant to be grouped together in a variety of ways for poster art. They were done at the end. I have so much art from this job that I could show you, but it'll require a lot of sorting first. Note: This artwork is owned by the developers and I am posting this as an example of my work with permission. No funny business please. Thanks! _______________ Speaking of Steampunk, my Steamvites were featured in the "Steampunk Christmas" Gift Guide on the blog, Lotus's Workshop. Lots of other gift guides there too with links to unique and pretty things. I'm trying to support independent artists with my holiday shopping as much as I can manage this year and Etsy is always the first place I look. :) Sock Dreams and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab are in close second though. How about you? (7 comments \| Leave a comment)

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