http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/

I expect Michael Bay to be remaking gone with the wind any day now.

Is tonight...

8:00pst, www.awesomeville.us DOWN WITH PANTS!

Haven't reminded this corner of the interblogs for a while, so consider yourself reminded!

So, this thing Nadja and I did, nicked from Benchilada because HA!









I need to get off my ass and learn "real" video editing software, but imovie is so damned easy!
Also the camcorder I got for less than $100 5 years ago? Maybe not quite state of the art... ah well, I am kind of a fan of lo-fi.

Thanks everyone for your birthday wishes and messages and cards and whatnots. And thanks to everyone who made it out to Forbidden Island and insured that my eyes are still having difficulty focusing. A good time was had.

So tomorrow I am 38

The number of slots on an American Roulette wheel, the number of known surviving plays written by Shakespeare, and the sum of the squares of the first three primes.

in Norse mythology the number 38 was The number was said to represent unnatural bravery. Most sagas were divided into 38 chapters with and the number recurring often throughout. The Heroes often fought giants or other beasts in groups of 38.

38 is also significant as the characteristic number of Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death. Egyptian pharaohs were often buried with 38 statues of cat guardians, and their sarcophagi were adorned with 38 ankhs.

So I have that going for me.

Na Na Na Naaaaaa
You say it's your birthday
Na Na Na Naaaaaa
Well it's my birthday tooo yeah... exept it's not, that's not till tomorrow... damn this song just doesn't quite work does it... blast!

So, since I work on Thursday my plan is to bicycle over to Forbidden Island after work, which will probably put me there at about 7:00pm. I will then proceed to hang out and do whatever for a whole bunch of hours.

http://www.forbiddenislandalameda.com/fi/

End of line

So my completely original and off the wall plan that will take everyone by surprise is to head out to Forbidden Island ( http://www.forbiddenislandalameda.com/fi/ ) after work on my birthday (next Thursday, the second) and hang out for the remainder of the evening.

As always, come and hang out if you want, if you can't or don't want to then do whatever you like. What I'm talking here is slack, you all have it and are fully authorized to use it.

So... fun... the weekend got better, went to the picnic put on by Damion and had a good time (even if I got more barbecued than my food, god I hate you sun, I hate you so much!). We went out after and saw Moon which I enjoyed a great deal, then yesterday I hung out with my dad which is always enjoyable.

Yay!

So the future... It appears that I have one of those birthday thingies coming up... in 9 days 12 hrs 7 mins 3 secs... approximately... but who's counting?

I'll be 38, which is a subject for another day.

My plan is to stick with the sort of non-plan that has worked so well for me for several years now, IE to go somewhere that I want to be, and to tell people I will be there. No pressure, no stress.

I am leaning towards Forbidden Island as it is close, I like being there, and other people like being there as well. It worked well last year and it makes Damon all smug that he did it first. All good things!

Also the horde of early July peeps will likely be congealing somewhere a couple days later on the 4th, I am unclear as to what that plan is yet.

Actual announcy thingy to follow really really soon.

I am borrowing my stepmoms car for the weekend in order to go visit my dad on fathers day.

So sometime last night one of my neighbors dings her bumper leaving a nice big scrape, and a corresponding scrape on his van. He then proceeds to let all the air out of the tires and a note on the window which is just an apartment number scrawled on a gas station reciept.

My stepmom being a lawyer, he is in for an interesting ride.

Nadja and I will not be attending Burning Man this year.

Instead I will be be taking the same amount of time as vacation and spending a great deal of it working on and hopefully completing some of the great many projects that have been building up.

I am sad I don't get to frolic in a bizarre and amusing magical city built in the middle of hell... but on the other hand I am very exited to get some of these things done.

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I have been vying for God Of Hermits for a while and as it turns out it's not as fun as it's made out to be...

So Hi! S'up? I'm alive and that's not half bad!

This killed me, far more than it should have.

I love you!

He was arguably more important than Gygax to the creation of the hobby of RPGs. I never met him but he added to my life.

So it goes.

I'm almost at my 9 pages to be on schedule, I suspect I will easily get a day or two ahead tonight.

As always I have tackled a fairly ambitious story, and writing it with the intent of filming it (which I may or may not try to do) is an interesting challenge. I keep having to stop and think "Could I pull this off with no budget and limited time?" My answer is often "shut the hell up and worry about that later."

In other news... hmm, still a hermit, watchmen was good, nothing has killed or eaten me.

Yes, I'm completely mad!

Next month is scriptfrenzy month, 100 pages of script in 30 days... you know I'm in, you know you want to join me!

http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/

Add me as a writing buddy! http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/user/129891

it's only like 3 and change pages a day!In a generous font with lots of white space!

I figure at the worst I will have a new measurement of appreciating bad movies... "Well it wasn't as bad as my script" though I doubt I will ever be able to say that about Ultraviolet.

Doooooo Eeeeeeeeet!

I have hit one of those places where I don't feel like I have a lot of irons in a lot of fires, I feel like I have a lot of irons kind of near a fire or two and there is someone on the way who is in need of a great number of hot irons and is going to be sorely disappointed with merely warmed ones. Part of this is going on day 13 of a nasty nasty flu right when traditionally I would be all fired up and inspired from a recent convention (it's just been coughing for days now, horrible lingering, unsatisfying coughing).

I think I will eat a corndog, perhaps it will be a magical corndog which will kickstart all the right mental processes and banish coughing forever and ever.