Category: Not-politics

Alternatively, it could be your next campaign.

You could actually run a pretty good Conspiracy X one off of this basic concept. Or maybe even Unknown Armies. Admittedly, you’d have to run either one more lighthearted than the average GM would, but that’s not so bad.  If nothing else, it’d be novel.

Via @allahpundit.

Benign conspiracy theory watch: Martian monoliths.

At least, I can’t think off the top of my head why there should be anything particularly worrisome about people believing that there’s a large monolith on Mars.  Oh, sure, you could link it up to something vile – but by itself it’s pretty harmless.  There’s a monolith-shaped object on Mars.

Right there.

Standing tall, and… monolith-y.

Not falling over, or anything like that.

See what I mean?  If you want it to be about the Templars or the Jews, you sort of have to port it in.

(Via @allahpundit)

Moe Lane

PS: The Martian Enigmas: A Closer Look: The Face, Pyramids, and Other Unusual Objects on Mars Second Edition.  Only because there’s a Second Edition.

A self-indulgent personal blog post. Oreos are involved.

So my wife tells me as she’s leaving that she has pulled a William Carlos Williams and had the last of the Oreos*.  Which is fine; she’s getting to the end of her second trimester.  Pregnant women get first dibs on the Oreos**.

So I’m in the kitchen getting myself a cup of coffee, and I pick up the container of Oreos and shake it, knowing full well that there aren’t any cookies in there, but you have to check – and damned if a cookie didn’t slide down the internal sleeve to serve as my demented American version of biscotti.

No further message; if I try to make this into something more profound people will throw rocks at my door, I’m sure of it.

Moe Lane

*Disturbingly, Amazon had a link for “Used and new” Oreos.

**It’s in the Constitution, actually.