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Obsolete information, obsolete pursuits
- Every time I look at LJ I see this totally out-of-date post of mine, so: not buying a house in Madison, actually! Am planning to move to Boston next year, prolly sort of quite-late-summer 2014! The house falling through was sort of a huge downer, sort of a big financial relief.
- Speaking of old news: dear zero people who still go to my Minecraft ( Read more... )
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Certain fathoms
All right: m b v by My Bloody Valentine, a new LP released after a mere twenty-two-year hiatus. Let us do this thing, new album. Let us listen to you.
In other sequel news: three-quarters done with rereading Lev Grossman's The Magicians and The Magician King, in anticipation of the upcoming book 3. (Which will probably take another year or ( Read more... ) -
Minecraft: plz excuse copious delay!
Hey folks who were interested in a Minecraft server! Really sorry about the delay. I've finally got one rented, and it's up and running quite pleasantly.
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Moar Aralis
Yes, all I do now is post Wordles on this thing, I guess. Here's my A2 summary, rife with "Wadayuji problems" and "big huge people":
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I dare say it is time for this Wordle business,
given the degree to which those crazy kids appear to relish it. Here is my May 2012 Aralis session summary.
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I do not shrink from Game of Thrones for pagecount reasons
[g+ xpostz0rz]
I can't remember when I started on my from-the-top Aubrey-Maturin rereadthrough (in the past, I'd read about half of 'em, and I started with the third book in the series and missed some from the middle, and anyway I was very hurried about it). It was somewhere around the new year, though.
In any case, going by Amazon paperback page ( Read more... ) -
I WARNED YOU ABOUT ANIMATED GIFS BRO
So I let my brainspace-membership to Homestuck lapse, in about April 2010. I missed a couple of weeks and it seemed like a huge amount of work to get back in--it's the only webcomic I ever quit reading because it was too good.
Anyway blah blah blah I have spent much of this weekend catching up. I'm not up to speed yet (I'm on panel 4526 out of ( Read more... ) -
Aralis storytime!
Wut up. Below is a very long Aralis story, the one I told at the last session. As usual, I worked it up by talking to myself at great length; what's below is my best attempt at reconstructing something that was never written down in its first form ( Read more... ) -
Every one of us has heard the call
This morning, for some reason, it became necessary to imagine an Edward Gorey-related song by Manowar.
TWEEEED AND TENTACLES-EMBRACE ME
NAAAAMELESS DRAAAEEEYYYED-COME FACE ME
IN THE MIDDLE OF CROQUET
AT THE EEEEYEND OF THE DAY
DAAARK TALONED FRIEND-UNLACE ME -
So all the places where tomorrow lies bleeding
Hello, antediluvian journal site now eclipsed by even-more-social media! I still like you, actually. You and I have a well-established relationship in which I use you to give the (to an extent accurate) impression that all I think about is gaming. Accordingly I will now write ( a post about a game I just played in )
