Damn it! The Field Museum has sold off rare paintings to raise collections and acquisitions funds; the money went to staff. And now, under financial stress, the museum is considering selling its rare book collection. Doesn't selling off collections run counter to the point of being a museum?

Cash-strapped Field Museum Selling Artifacts

For those of my LJ followers and others who are fans of Abney Park...

Band member Jody Ellen will be releasing a studio album called Skyscrapers & Helicopters shortly. The album is being released through a fundraising program on her own website (which you can find at the link above). The deadline for the fundraiser is September 12th, 2012, so if ( Read more... )

For those who are fans of the Hellas: Worlds of Sun and Stone science fiction roleplaying game of Greek epic and tragedy, Jerry Grayson has launched a Kickstarter program to get the next supplement for the game, Princes of the Universe, published in colour. He's asking folks to pledge some money to support the publication of the game supplement in ( Read more... )

Had a pretty good day yesterday, and a nice evening.

Yesterday's gaming session with the Sunday gaming group turned out a bit better than I expected. As per this journal entry, I had mentioned that the plot of the a|state scenario was going to go in unexpected directions, and so it did, quite surprising the players and their characters. ( Read more... )

There is something pertaining to roleplaying games that I've been meaning to discuss for a bit now, but the last week's worth of hectic pacing and life and the like made me put that off.

One of my favourite horror roleplaying games of the 1980's was a game called Chill. First published by Pacesetter and then later by Mayfair Games, Chill was one ( Read more... )