In the last few weeks of watching Lucha de Vuelta on my local Spanish-language station, I've seen a very strange turn of events, and I'm wondering if it's as culturally unique as it seems to be. For the last few years one of Mexico's leading rudos (bad guys) has been a wrestler called Charly Manson, who wears white face paint, long stringy black ( Read more... )

Back from Gencon, and immediately plunged into the heart of Moving Madness. The show was pretty dandy- always lovely to see fifty or so of my closest friends, Hero made some money (though the Fantasy Hero hardbacks didn't make it, proving once again that Print On Demand isn't quite ready for the big leagues. Print Somewhere Within A Couple Of Weeks ( Read more... )

Sorry for my silence recently. Between work deadlines, summer cons, and moving, I just haven't had any spare time. Haven't seen any new movies, haven't watched any new television to speak of (at least, not before 11 pm most nights.) Diane did find us an apartment in Queens and we put down a deposit, so now we're waiting for the background check to ( Read more... )

Kubla was it's usual lovely self. We improved on last year's results handily, I was part of four seminars that were largely interesting if sparsely attended, and got to hang out with some of my favorite people in the world and drink 32-oz. Sam Adams in the sports bar. My own game was a bit of a bummer if only because the group was definitely not up ( Read more... )

So I had the TV on in the background as I was working a bit on my chapters of Post-Apocalyptic Hero. KQED was showing Casablanca, and the familiar lines made a nice, soothing background buzz. ("I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one ( Read more... )

So I got an invite to my high school class' twentieth anniversary reunion yesterday. Yikes. The thing is, I'm actually considering going. It's way back in Maine, of course, but it's the weekend before Gencon, and it's entirely possible Diane will still be apartment-hunting in New York then anyway. So maybe I can pop out to New York for a few days, ( Read more... )

Or at least, the first five copies arrived at my office by Fedex today. The book looks lovely- major ups to Jim and Andy for creating such an eyecatching cover out of the old "Weird Tales" art we bought. Hopefully, this is but the first of many DOJ "sideline " projects to supplement the good old RPG material we're better known for.

- Nice quiet weekend after a couple of busy weeks. Spent most of it watching movies or lucha on tv- Netflix had provided me with Mirrormask (frustratingly sterile, despite some haunting images that have stuck with me for a couple of days now) and Slither (a "tribute" to Night Of The Creeps, John Carpenter and similar '80s-schlock horror that ( Read more... )

OMGomgomgomg. I just saw the spanish-language previews for the El Santo cartoon. It could not be more perfect- mad scientist? Check. Weird Igor-like sidekick? Check (with a third arm growing out of his back, no less.) Mummies, Vampires, Wolfmen and Frankenstein? Checkaroonie. An evil plot to clone an army of Santos? Well, sure. The animation is a ( Read more... )

    Anybody else think that the only way Lost can end at this point is with a Prisoner-style surrealist blowout, with Locke ripping off his face to reveal a monkey underneath, Sawyer riding a rocketship up to touch the baby face of God, and dancing dwarves reading poetry backwards while Claire bursts into a flock of butterflies? And then, of course ( Read more... )