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Yesterday was my birthday, and I had realized a couple of days earlier that I didn't have any of the usual mix of anxiety and giddy anticipation. It was going to be ... another day! Not any worse, not any better necessarily -- simply a day. Huh. Why did that happen ( Read more... )

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I confess that I spent a couple of hours this week (well, OK, five or six hours) creating a character to run in a message board RPG on the Ravenloft website, The Fraternity of Shadows. After reviewing the Complete Arcane supplement for D&D, I was interested in creating a warlock: a character who has arcane abilities granted by a pact with dark (or ( Read more... )

A quick recap on goodies from Santa and the Chanukkah Armadillo:

• The Criterion Collection DVD of The Third Man, the classic post-WWII noir film starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. It's been a long time since I saw this twisty-turny masterpiece. The zither score by Anton Karas is amazing.
  
• The DVD boxed set of -- yes!! -- Season 1 of Melrose ( Read more... )