If money, time, and space were not obstacles (how redundant: time & space are one thing, and time=money), what would be your current dream roleplaying game ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everybody!

Do you have any plans or resolutions for the new year?

As the computer said to the hacker, "Do you want to play a game ( Read more... )

Did y'all see Hellboy 2: The Golden Army? What did you think of it? I didn't think it was very good.

I am at the beginning of book 4, Wizard and Glass, of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, and I'm enjoying its mix of science fiction, fantasy, horror, chivalric romance, and western genres. (I'm listening to it on tape at work and on my commute.) But it did make me wonder, do generically pure westerns still get written ( Read more... )

What would it take to convince you that Bush has been a good president for the country? Now, I'm being serious, so I don't want to hear novel redefinitions of "good" (no, this isn't "opposite day") or "the country." For me, this question causes the same sort of mental cramps that I get when considering the existence of God: what would it take? I ( Read more... )

I wanted a book like this, so I took it to write in. It is full of secrets. I have a great many other books of secrets I have written, hidden in a safe place, and I am going to write here many of the old secrets and some new ones; but there are some I shall not put down at all.
-Arthur Machen, "The White People" (1899)
Is there a Cylon God? Are ( Read more... )

when the rubble clears from the great friendster crash of '04, i will have nothing. ben will have nothing. none of us will have anything. no more friends. no more testimonials. no more instant self-assurance nor affirmation of life's few treasures. nothing. zero. abcess. lack. waste. enemies.
Danny Gibson wrote that testimonial for me in 2003, and ( Read more... )

Attention Jews, Communists, and Homosexuals ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a bit of a mess in terms of scheduling, so I was already harried and in a mood to be annoyed when I got a letter from the English dept telling me that I had been selected to TA for "Classic SF and Fantasy" next year, taught by a nice Medievalist who used to teach this course regularly. You would think this would be a good thing -- ( Read more... )