Just could not sleep well while traveling this week. Just as well; I suspect that the roads are going to be extra-dangerous this year. There were umpteen accidents on the various roads we took today.
Month: December 2015
“Mo-layn, what is good in life?”
“To drop off your children with your family, go for a nice walk, and then see Star Wars again with your wife.”
My traditional cheerfully mercenary post-Christmas reminder.
Did you get Amazon
…What? Did the title not say ‘cheerfully mercenary?’ Besides, it’s not like I don’t have Amazon Prime (including video). The two-day free shipping alone pays for itself.
Books of the Week: Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series.
Seriously: I’ve been binging this series
And so, adieu to Every Inch a King.
Continue reading Books of the Week: Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series.
My piece on family in RPGs at PJ Media is up.
Found here. Short version… I really want everybody to go watch the new Star Wars so that we can all talk about it, but I suspect that it’ll require a couple more weeks before we can. There’s some stuff to talk about, too.
:poking head up: Everybody’s good? That’s great!
I’m going to go back to catching up on my reading and maybe getting more than five hours of sleep a night, OK? OK, cool, see you folks in a bit.
:poking head down:
ZOMG Genevieve Cogman is guest-blogging for Charlie Stross!
AND she’s going to have books out in the USA in April! Excuse me: I need to go order The Invisible Library and The Masked City
:type type type:
Annnnnd… done! Should get copies in my hands by the middle of next month – what’s that? They said ‘April?’ Yes, well, that’s for people who don’t know their way around Amazon.
Moe Lane
PS: For those wondering why I’m so excited, let me put it this way: back in the late Nineties I did a lot of fan stuff for a roleplaying game called In Nomine. It still remains my favorite RPG setting (angels and demons on modern earth), in fact. I am not going to be modest, here: I was very good.
Genevieve was better.
That moment at the time-share…
…when you realize that it has a better kitchen than you do.
Still, it’s very nice. I’d wish that I had access to this sort of thing when I was younger and my crowd needed good places for our communal drunken weekends, except that I’d probably have broken my neck on the iron spiral staircase. Ah, ‘maturity.’ What fun…
Tweet of the Day, No. No, Salon Is Not Better Than This edition.
I know that I should be outrageously outraged at this…
…but, honestly? I just want to call Salon’s mother and father and tell them to stop fighting long enough to let Salon have a merry Christmas for once. Because there’s so much pain there, and this is the one day of the year where I’d feel bad about drinking it.
I have wanted this t-shirt for pretty much forever.
Finally got it.
No, I’ve never subscribed to the In case of a zombie apocalypse, I’m tripping you school of thought. That’s just dumb, short-term thinking. And the people who publicly subscribe to it are most likely going to end up joining the ranks of the Undead much, much sooner than the people who form voluntary associations with each other at the first sign of a shambling revenant…