Another Smattering
* I went into Sky High thinking it would be disposable; seeing it, I upgraded it to adequate. Fantastic Four was also better than I had thought, although it re-confirmed my general contention that superhero movies should just say no to origin stories. We never see James Bond's origin story, and likewise the two X-Men movies do a fine job (and X-2 the better of the two) without them. This is probably yet another reason that I, alone on my Crag Of Omniscience, believe Batman Returns to have surpassed Burton's first Batman.
* It probably deserves its own post, but anyway, Brill/Eerdman's Dictionary of Deities and Demons In the Bible is probably the third or fourth best single-volume reference book I own. I managed to buy a remaindered copy at Powell's a couple of years back, but I just dug into it recently for my Suppressed Transmission about Dagon and I thought I should give it some props here. For more, see this review or just search "Dagon" on Google Print, where the DDD comes up on the first page.
* I will be at GenCon, although I don't know my schedule. It will involve, at some point, color commentary on the "Gamer Olympics," so drift by and see. If not, I'll likely be drinking somewhere, or in the dealer's room -- Hero Games, Chaosium, and Steve Jackson are the Usual Suspects.
* If anyone knows a good source on the rivalry between Garrick's Drury Lane and Spranger Barry's Covent Garden theatres in the mid-18th century, I'd like to hear about it for the game I'll be starting this fall. Most histories of the theatre zoom past it in a paragraph, and I don't have even so much as a good biography of Garrick to work from yet.
* And finally, my new Out of the Box column is up, for those curious about my picks in the ENnie Awards, and my opinions of freeport_pirate's new WHFRP, Luke Crane's new Burning Wheel Revised, and whswhs' new chapter in Grey Ghost Games' new Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition.
* It probably deserves its own post, but anyway, Brill/Eerdman's Dictionary of Deities and Demons In the Bible is probably the third or fourth best single-volume reference book I own. I managed to buy a remaindered copy at Powell's a couple of years back, but I just dug into it recently for my Suppressed Transmission about Dagon and I thought I should give it some props here. For more, see this review or just search "Dagon" on Google Print, where the DDD comes up on the first page.
* I will be at GenCon, although I don't know my schedule. It will involve, at some point, color commentary on the "Gamer Olympics," so drift by and see. If not, I'll likely be drinking somewhere, or in the dealer's room -- Hero Games, Chaosium, and Steve Jackson are the Usual Suspects.
* If anyone knows a good source on the rivalry between Garrick's Drury Lane and Spranger Barry's Covent Garden theatres in the mid-18th century, I'd like to hear about it for the game I'll be starting this fall. Most histories of the theatre zoom past it in a paragraph, and I don't have even so much as a good biography of Garrick to work from yet.
* And finally, my new Out of the Box column is up, for those curious about my picks in the ENnie Awards, and my opinions of freeport_pirate's new WHFRP, Luke Crane's new Burning Wheel Revised, and whswhs' new chapter in Grey Ghost Games' new Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition.