“One town’s very like another, when your head’s down over your pieces, brother.”
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Ten-and-a-half hours.
That’s how long my Monday work day wound up being. Don’t misunderstand me: I’m not complaining. Sure, it was a long day and I had a fairly boring and rote task that took up the back half (or more) of the day, but I was not a bad day by any stretch of the imagination. Just… long. And, on the “plus” side of the equation: That gives me an “extra” two-and-a-half hours to play around with on this week’s schedule, if I want.
After work, I came home for a short bit and then headed back out to take care of a couple of errands before heading over to Mary and Chris’ so that Chris and I could play dolls HeroClix. As usual, he cleaned my clock, but I had a lot of fun. The first game (400 points), I tried a team with something of a Green Lantern focus:
- Green Lantern (John Stewart)
- Sentinel (Alan Scott, the first of Earth’s Green Lanterns)
- Star Sapphire (GL Hal Jordan’s ex-flame… and later arch-enemy)
- Hawkgirl (I needed to fill in the points. Sue me.)
This was something of a war of attrition, but Chris’ tactics and skill wore me down. We decided to play one more game (200 points) before calling it a night. I decided that I wanted a “fun” team, so I went with a Justice League International theme. (I deserved to get my ass kicked just on principle for that one.) This team’s lineup included:
Chris brought out Nick Fury and agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. And Blade. Between some rather craptacular dice rolls on my part and some pretty good ones on his part, he picked my team apart. It was almost as funny to watch/play as the JLI comic series. Almost. But, again, it was fun.
We loosely talked about getting together again and playing in the not-too-distant future. I had a couple of ideas for themes, based on the point values we decide on: The Earth GLs, The New Mutants or the Captain Marvel family.
Stray Toasters
- By way of SaraRules: Adult Brains Wired to Go Ga-Ga Over Babies
- The 10 Coolest LEGO-Inspired Gadgets
pointed me in the direction of this article on BoingBoing: Interview with producer of swords and sorcery themed porn… - …which led to this article, The Magical World of Warcraft Erotica, in The Village Voice
- …which included this gallery (some of which is NSFW)
- SIW
- Alex Ross’ Age of TV Heroes cover (first look)
- Toll the bell
Pay the private eye
All’s well
20th Century dies… - Giant comic collection donated to U of Minnesota
That’s close enough for jazz for tonight.
Namaste.
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