All That is Permanent Is Here...

I'll be coming down this weekend for game, and I thought it might be fun to do something...well, fun.  Poker.  I love poker, it's social and awesome.  Brendan and I've already talked, and agreed that Sunday afternoon, say around 4 or so at my place sounds good (nice and air conditioned, abandoned save for cats, has a nice stereo if people want some music, F train right on the block...)

...so, anyone in?

^.^ 

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In conversations last night, we were both lamenting how far away four weeks seemed.

I mentioned that I thought that I could swing another return flight in about two weekends (a desirable fact considering world youth week). Then he mentioned how he'd never been to Sydney, and insisted that it was his turn to travel up to me.

He's going to check with his boss today to see if it can be done... and he reckons there's an 85% chance he can. Plus... work should be sending him up in three to four weeks anyway on a business trip.

We've looked at air fare prices and have generally figured that flying is cheap enough these days that we could basically have one of us go to the other city every two weeks or so.

Looks like we're about to become a bimunicipal couple :)

We've got a new World of Darkness preview up on Flames Rising today. We've let the Hunters out into the night looking for monsters to deal with to make room for the Mages to cast a bit of magic...

Silver Ladder Preview

This preview is from the first chapter of the book. The Silver Ladder should be available in stores and online any day now. Stay tuned for more previews and sneak peeks of upcoming books.

I can post to LJ from work again... but not read my friend's page.

Ah, teh silleh. Still no net at house, working through getting everything set up. Hope to get head above water soonish. Reach me via Txt message.

Lots of new Reviews have been added recently with plenty more on the way. We've got our first review from our trip to Wizard World Chicago up already (Death Walks the Streets) and a review of the Wanted movie.

You know you want a new Flames Rising t-Shirt just in time for GenCon.

We are putting together some articles/features for new GenCon products, so let me know if you would like your stuff included in the feature.

Have you signed up for the Flames Rising LJ Feed yet?

Do you ever get the feeling like if you disappeared, it wouldn't matter to anyone?  It wouldn't really affect anoyne's life, they'd hardly notice?  They'd think about it once if even that many times, and it wouldn't come up again? 

We've got a decent sized storm rolling through Madison currently. Thunder, lightning, wind, hail and lots of rain...

darkshiver and I are sitting in Cool Beans working on projects and watching the storm.

We start moving into our new place next week so I'm trying to get a few projects done before the switch. The next couple of months are going to be busy.

Moving, GenCon, writing projects, website stuff, more conventions...

This is what I would have LIKED to have typed into the notes of the person I just spoke to.

"Customer asked if she has to go pick up her registered post tickets from the post office herself. Asked customer what her last slave died of. Terminated call."

By the way, the Ticketing Exec role no longer exists (ie: nobody's getting it), so it looks like back to fulltime uni for me!

Well, last night I decided I just needed to get out.  I hadn't been able to sleep, so I came back on and went on the Internet.  Specifically, I hit WoW and did some stuff with some awesome people in my guild.  My guild on the Khaz Modan Server (Dread of the North Star) is pretty bad-ass, and some of the Australians I've met are fantastic.  We did a bunch of group Alterac Valley runs, which was a ton of fun.  I introduced Fminx and Nethys (those are them on the server, good people) to the wonder that is the Ice Lord.  Even did a little photo story...hee.  http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v616/arrus/Warcraft/Fury%20of%20the%20Ice%20Lord/ Crashed late...Woke up late.


I had a good night.  I don't always, I don't even usually.  I often feel miserable, alone, useless and unwanted.  But last night I had a good night, and I want to remember that.  I hope you all are well.

I love you all.  And I'm not the only one.  Everyone I know is amazing in their own way, uniquely so.  All of you are, and there are people in your lives who think so, plenty of people around you.  Sometimes we don't even think about the people whose lives we affect, but we touch on so many people.  It's nice.

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember that.  It's a nice thing to remember.

 So, Edward got angry in his own defense.

That was interesting.

I've been having fun with The Last Stand 2:

http://armorgames.com/play/1443/the-last-stand-2

I think my highest "Zombies put to rest" count so far was 1297.

I had a super fun day at the beach! Yaaaay!

Then I had some super good fish and chips! Yaaaay!

Then I watched a super good movie! Yaaaay!

Then I got this super awkward text from my ex....

Then I got home and watched a super cool series on superdeluxe.com called Cakey the Cake From Outer-Space! http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/search.do?condition=all&searchTerm=cakey Yaaaay!

Today = Hella Awesome Hooray!

My brother thankfully saved me on this account.  Mark Millar made a very dark and very adult comic about "the day that evil won" (sorry Grant Morrison; Final Crisis I expect to be a great ride but no way evil wins for good...DC won't permit itself to be written out of existence).  It was dark, deconstructive of the genre, imaginative, featured a 'protagonist' that was modelled after Eminem (to incredible effect, I might add). 
However, the Russian director (guy who did Day/Nightwatch movies) apparently looked at the pretty pretty pictures 12 months before he decided to write up the screenplay with someone who didn't speak Russian and who didn't read the source material.
Sigh...
Hulk and Iron Man rocked but they were more mainstream.  Hancock...I'm unsure of (reviews from fanboys I trust?)...Dark Knight 2 had me very very happy.  Apparently there is a Punisher 2 on the way (Punisher: War Journal)...but the truly dark, imaginative material that's out there: untouchable or rendered into crap.  Watchmen won't get made, not unless the USSR springs to life and the Cold War resumes.  Preacher...don't make me laugh; they can't fit that into a 2 hour movie unless they remove all plot.
Sigh...
Also, my brother is pure evil.  He described exactly how a studio executive with no appreciation of Watchmen could solve all of Watchmen's weirdness and wonderment and grand metaphors in terms that made me want to either worship his insight or kill him before the evil could be spread.  It made such sense that I thanked God right then that Alan Moore still have creative control.