Who will join Henry Musgriver, English Architect at large, as he explores the nooks and crannies of The Edge, Al Amarja's largest city? Perhaps an escaped mental patient with a unique world view and Head-Explody? Maybe a burned out mercenary looking for work? Or perhaps a creature from one of the Higher Planes joyriding in a human body? Or maybe you'll be just like our dear Mr. Musgriver, a tourist on this beautiful island, taking in the sights.
Join Neil and I as we explore Al Amarja in our online Over the Edge game. If this sounds the least bit interesting please e-mail me at mondango@yahoo.com All inquirie welcome.
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01:56:27 AM,
Sunday 16 September 2001
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Neil and I thought an online game might be fun and doable through AIM or some similar channel. I have suggested Over the Edge, which is a conspiracy/humor/occult/horror game based on a small Mediterranean island called Al Amarja. If anyone other than Neil is interested, I would be happy to run people through generation and a scenario or two. I'm thinking fairly small scale, no more than two or three hours a week. Something light and fun.
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11:18:10 PM,
Saturday 15 September 2001
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Another blow for evil:
Steven Hawking is a professed Dr. Who fan. From the Disabilities section of his website, in reference to his speech setup:
This synthesiser is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and doesn't speak like a Dalek.
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10:44:57 PM,
Saturday 15 September 2001
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The answer, of course, is to record your stuff and play it for friends.
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08:16:51 PM,
Friday 14 September 2001
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The answer of course, is to record your stuff and play it for friends.
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08:16:36 PM,
Friday 14 September 2001
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Seen at the UGA Campus:
A sorority girl with a black t-shirt, on which was inscribed, in pink puff paint "I hate bin Laden." She wore flip-flops. Her socks, also pink, matched the puff paint. (From Liz)
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01:09:23 PM,
Friday 14 September 2001
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A good number of the sites I read all have the same things to say, "what we talk about here seems pretty trivial in the wake of all this mess."
(for those wondering, Comic Book Resources, Pitchforkmedia, and Songfight are the ones I'm specifically mentioning). I've just watched this thing for most of the day, I just wanted to bury my head, and now I feel guilty about it.
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03:06:54 AM,
Wednesday 12 September 2001
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I had to see the World Trade Center as it was, as I remembered it. It was just a set piece, a prop, something both invincible and intangible. So I watched the opening minutes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is the only movie I own set in New York. This morning was the first time I shed tears in front of the television.
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01:27:42 AM,
Wednesday 12 September 2001
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Splash! News has an interesting frontpage interview with Warren Ellis on where comics are, the importance of intelligent discourse, and what the future holds. Not quite as mean as Ellis is occasionally, but an interesting read. There Moss, I've responded to your Transmetropolitan quote.
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06:13:53 AM,
Monday 10 September 2001
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Saw Rock Star today. It pretty much felt like I watched the same 45 minute movie twice and towards the end I blurted out, "I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts!" Truly, a movie that wants you to examine its symbolism and its paralells. Avoid.
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04:42:33 AM,
Monday 10 September 2001
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From Mr. Eagle's Blog:
We need more sports at St. John's that are simplistic tests of brute strength.
Isn't that what drinking is for?
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11:04:46 PM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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Top Five Sexiest Program Authors:
1. Benedicto Spinoza
2. Baudelaire
3. Emily Dickenson
4. Homer
5. John Locke and WEB Dubois tie for last
Runners-up: Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes (all for the same reason)
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03:17:19 PM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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and she said, "that's the spirit" and punched me in the face.
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02:19:23 AM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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Moss! How dare you leave me to my misery and taunt me with a sort-of logging on! AAAAAAAARGH! (actually, it's probably best that you logged off, considering the dour mood I'm in)
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02:18:25 AM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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I hate it when I have half a song. I wish I knew ONE other person who played an instrument, any instrument! Aaaaaaaagh!
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02:12:44 AM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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Downloaded and got to work Pro Tools Free. It's very, very nice. I will have fun with my new digital 8 track computer.
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11:02:21 PM,
Saturday 8 September 2001
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May I just say how happy I am that Neil is doing a comic? An' a pretty good thing it is, too.
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01:16:28 AM,
Friday 7 September 2001
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Was there a time when kids suddenly said, "Hey, I give a crap!" And was this point shortly before I graduated from High School? Am I at the tail end of the apathy wave?
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11:05:47 AM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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Poop.
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03:43:43 PM,
Tuesday 4 September 2001
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I swear, I was on a sane sleep schedule . . .
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06:45:46 AM,
Tuesday 4 September 2001
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Writing a murder ballad is kind of fun. It'll be my Country Death song! and it's only one chord!
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10:11:21 PM,
Monday 3 September 2001
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Called a band advertising in the paper. Just called back. That was akward.
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08:03:35 PM,
Sunday 2 September 2001
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My song is up at songfight.com! Go vote for it! Or listen to the other songs, and vote for the one that is actually best! I love songfight, and for the most part the entries this week are pretty strong. See if you can guess which one is me.
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10:17:19 PM,
Friday 31 August 2001
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Lost lost lost lost lost boys. Boing boing boing . . .
There was going to be a point to this post, but it has been lost. I was going to complain about general directionlessness, but being adrift is kinda fun. I was going to complain that my song hadn't been posted at songfight but the new topic (Alright, Alright) hasn't been posted. Sometimes, I sit around the house, nude, and think about my income tax.
But not often.
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01:02:28 PM,
Friday 31 August 2001
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"I'm one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break"
Pop music has started mixing it's metaphors. (for those wondering it's a Linkin Park song)
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03:57:09 AM,
Friday 31 August 2001
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Rugby is a much more beautiful game than anyone gives it credit for. It is visceral and fast moving, relatively unregulated, and has some of the ugliest men alive playing it. I wonder why it never caught on in the US?
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09:51:56 PM,
Wednesday 29 August 2001
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Where is everyone?
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01:11:51 AM,
Tuesday 28 August 2001
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Oy! For those of you who think The College magazine is a waste, check out page six, bottom left corner. Our very own Mirabai Knight is a champion poetry slammer and didn't even tell us! Go M-bai!
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01:35:19 PM,
Monday 27 August 2001
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Just in case Preston might read this:
My Six String Samurai Story
While I attended St. John's I was an avid customer at Oceans II Records on Main Street (I ended up working there my Senior year, but that's a different story, this is before all that). I was looking through the used section and noticed the soundtrack to Six String Samurai in the bin. I had never heard of the movie, but the title amused me. I picked it up and noticed the soundtrack was produced by Joe Galdo.
Joe Galdo is a record producer from Miami. His daughter, whose name was Julia, but everyone called her Chewy, was a member of a shortlived band I was in the summer after my Sophmore year at SJC. So I had met him, and I decided to listen to the soundtrack on that basis. It blew me away. The Red Elvises, as anyone who has heard them, are an amazing Russian-music tinged surf band. And if there's one thing I love it's Surf Music with a Klezmer beat.
I became obsessed with seeing this movie. Turned out it was playing at a Johns Hopkins movie festival. After a lot of wheedling, I convinced Randy Pennell and his then girlfriend that what they really wanted to do was drive out to Baltimore in the middle of the night to see an indie movie they had never heard of.
Sitting in that theater with my friend Diana (who went to Johns Hopkins at the time) and experiencing this movie with a crowd of people who had no idea what to expect, and enjoying themselves, was definitely one of the best moviegoing experiences I've had (the other was seeing the re-released, remastered 'Touch of Evil' at a funky arthouse with a bunch of Johnnies). The less said about the shorts shown before Six String Samurai, the better.
Anyway, I have since been a huge fan of the movie and I'm glad that it's spreading its gleefully goofy roots around.
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04:36:54 AM,
Sunday 26 August 2001
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I took the plunge. I am now a member of metafilter.
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05:17:43 AM,
Saturday 25 August 2001
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This has been a good night. May you all have madness as productive as that.
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03:37:11 AM,
Thursday 23 August 2001
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It's kind of pretty.
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01:46:17 PM,
Monday 20 August 2001
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Never, ever search for your friends name in Google, you may find someone who sounds vaguely like yourself, with your name posting on the same page. You might have to check the e-mail address just to make sure you didn't write it. (I was looking for Moss's name)
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05:05:36 PM,
Sunday 19 August 2001
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Missed my dad's birthday. Feel like a heel.
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10:35:02 AM,
Sunday 19 August 2001
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If you think this is bad on the small keyboards that Apple was including with most of their computers about two years ago, the 'Delete' key has F12 directly over it. Usually this is not a problem, but in Photoshop 4 (which was the version used at SJGames) F12 is the 'revert to last save without asking' button. I know I'm not the only one who lost a lot of time due to this proximity issue. It was suggested that this could be changed, but I never figured out how.
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05:38:23 AM,
Sunday 19 August 2001
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I saw and enjoyed The Others yesterday afternoon. However, the movie illustrated the main problem with the new standard of stadium seating. Stadium seating is great if the film has constant noise or music, but The Others relys so much on dead silence to create its mood that the shifting of candy in its box, or the chewing of popcorn becomes its own soundtrack. The smallest amount of noise is amplified in the cavernous theater, and the close proximity to the people behind you doesn't muffle anything. What would not be noticed in an older theater starts to border on being rude. Of course, the paper bags that popcorn is served in in most places now triples the noise. My recommendation for The Others is to see it in a more old fashioned theater or wait until it comes out on video and find a friend who has a good surround sound system. It's an excellent piece of suspense moviemaking, and the jumps alone are worth sitting through a masticating orcehstra.
I feel old.
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05:31:45 AM,
Sunday 19 August 2001
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