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| Which American accent do you have? Neutral You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up. 
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I had a feeling this was the case. :) |
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I read all of School for Adventurers yesterday, pretty much all in one go.
I blame you for my headache.
But, yeah, cute story. I'm interested in what happens next.
So you are forgiven. :)
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Another person on my Friend's List posted this and I just had to share...
http://s123.photobucket.com/albums/o306/fatwetdog/?action=view¤t=13.jpg
And, so I don't feel so bad about grabbing the image, here's what her post was mostly about: An RPG called "Candycreeps" that's about a world where the creepy and cute meet in strange and unexpected ways. I expect that it would appeal to a number of people on my Friend's List.
http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16729&cat=0&page=1Current Mood:  amused Current Music: Maxine - Traveling Wilburys |
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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 42.
3. Find the first full sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"What're you still doing here?"
"My job, last I checked."
"It's too late in the day to be a comedian, Ed. C'mon, I'll buy you a pint."
"I think you've done more than enough, Tom."
"I'll be over at the pub... you have something you need to say to me, you can say it to me there." |
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Take a picture of yourself right now
Don’t change your clothes, don't fix your hair
Just take the picture
Post the picture with no editing
Post these instructions with your picture
Pre-Dinner
Pre-Gym
Full-Dork |
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 Current Mood: amused Current Music: Speak To Me-Carnegie Tide-Carnegie Tide |
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So, life has been a little busy these last few weeks and I'm not ashamed to say that it's taken me a little while to adjust in terms of personal free time. I've mostly been using my time off from the job, even on the days when I've left relatively early due to not having much to do, unwinding or working out or watching movies.
I have been consuming movies and television seasons via DVD at an alarming rate.
But now the creative bug is hitting me again, and my taste for entertainment has swung firmly in the direction of crime fiction. I just finished reading Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet (a crime story set in a 1930 West-coast mining town, where an unnamed Continental Operative for the Pinkerton Agency is called in by a client who's murdered before they can meet, and stays on to finish the job anyway) along with some others, rewatched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with my folks, and am working my way through a book on private detective techniques.
I've got a vague story concept that's been floating at the back of my mind for a while now, mixing a little fantasy and a little murder mystery, and that apparently is part of what's driving the appetite for all of this.
Well, that and the job giving me a bit of experience in some of the least glamorous aspects of the whole process.
Speaking of that story idea, it's actually tied rather tightly into some setting ideas I've had for that REIGN roleplaying game I was running before summer started. I'm really going to make an effort to dig into the wiki I created for the game and update some things (I've already sketched out some notes on what happened in the unrecorded sessions), as well as add a great deal of setting information.
I hope some of the former players are interested in picking that one up again at some point.
Hope everyone else is doing well!Current Mood:  thoughtful Current Music: Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (Radio Version)-KT Tunstall-Eye to the Telescope |
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 03:57 pm
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1. Got an Internship with the Public Defender's office in Naples, FL this summer. I drive down tomorrow and start on Tuesday!
2. Veronica got a job doing just what she wanted to do, as Mediation Coordinator at a non-profit called Deep River Mediation!
3. Had a kickass time playing in a by-the-seat-of-his-pants one shot Aberrant game run by JJ last week. It was me, Annie, Veronica, and Veronica's volunteer supervisor Dishon playing, and among other things that were fun about it Annie was playing... well imagine a female Superman, with a unibrow and an IQ in the single digits.
4. Watched the midnight showing of Indiana Jones last night and I have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit. I don't want to spoil it but I do want to say that this is not exactly the same as the earlier movies. Oh the shooting and the feel and the music all are, but while the first three movies were very solidly 1930s pulp exploration adventure (with some fantastic elements) inspired, this movie is mostly 1950s science fiction adventure inspired with some pulp exploration adventure overlap.
It's moving into a new era of popular fiction in the Indy timeline, and the movie reflects that.
May. 22nd, 2008 @ 08:07 am
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