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Commented Mar 14, 2012 on Things every person should have at WWdN: In Exile
Things every person should have
Things every person should have: A nemesis. An evil twin. A secret headquarters. An escape hatch. A partner in crime. A secret identity. What else?
See? Now I find all this facinating. I went to a backwoods, home-grown religious school in the 80's in the middle of the Southern Bible Belt (Mississippi, ya'll). Oh, and by 'backwoods', I mean the building was put in a corner of the local farmer's soybean field. Really. We'd watch him drive by the window on his John Deere in Bible/History class (the Bible *was* our history book).
You can't make up stuff like that.
So I'd think we'd have been the first-in-line, git'em-hot-off-the-presses demographic for this sort of thing.
But I've never *heard* of these tracts. Amazing. Now, I do remember a fire-and-brimstone pastor coming to an Assembly and lecturing us on the 'Evils of Rock-n-Roll Music'. My favorite quote was the one about how "...the anapestic beat [two short beats, a long beat, then a pause] used by many rock musicians actually is the exact opposite of our heart and arterial rhythms [thereby causing an immediate loss of body strength]."
But the 'Evils of D&D'? We never got that one. Huh.
In fact, my D&D experience much more resembles this article from Fresh Yarn than anything else. http://www.freshyarn.com/1/essays/davis_ninth.htm
Commented Nov 2, 2011 on Just in time for Halloween: the animated Dark Dungeons at WWdN: In Exile
Just in time for Halloween: the animated Dark Dungeons
If you're of a certain age, you may remember the infamous Jack Chick tract Dark Dungeons. For those of you who don't, here's the tl;dr from the Escapist: Dark Dungeons is possibly the most widely distributed piece of anti-game propaganda in the history of gaming. It was first produced by Chick ...
Huh? Geesh, I know it's been a while, but whatup with how my comment just posted?
Commented Jul 22, 2010 on A Little Summer Reading at WWdN: In Exile
A Little Summer Reading
Yesterday on Twitter, I joked: "Trying to read a book about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but whenever I look for it, it moves."The book I was talking about it called Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science It's wonderful, and I highly recommend...
Fragile Things is fantastic, but have you *heard* any of his works?
The audiobooks I have are all "read by the author". As brilliant an author as he is,
he's equally amazing as a voice actor. I don't know if I can just read his books anymore after hearing his delivery.
Heck! You should know this! Didn't you have the link to the audio of "A Study in Emerald" up a while back? I think it's still a free download to members at Audible.com.
http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0886735025.1279811424@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladekmjefhhfcefecekjdffidfjf.0&productID=BK_HARP_001528
Try it! You'll like it!
Commented Jul 22, 2010 on A Little Summer Reading at WWdN: In Exile
A Little Summer Reading
Yesterday on Twitter, I joked: "Trying to read a book about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but whenever I look for it, it moves."The book I was talking about it called Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science It's wonderful, and I highly recommend...
Dude! You *must* update your tagline! Obviously, it should read:
"Wil Wheaton says "Don't be a Dick!", but that doesn't mean Wil Wheaton doesn't love you."
Whadda ya think? Yes?
Commented Sep 12, 2009 on wil wheaton gets lucky ... sometimes at WWdN: In Exile
wil wheaton gets lucky ... sometimes
This was the ultimate highlight of my #PAX 2009, and watching it again just now brought tears to my eyes again. I'm not worthy of something this awesome. Thank you Jonathan, and Paul, and Storm, and Molly for making me feel cool. I <3 you guys.
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