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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | | 8:12 am |
I'll do my yearly wrap up post now, the remainder of the year will be family/holiday stuff
This year I; Saw the Mummer's Parade for the first time Did the Polar Bear Plunge for the second time Hiked a bunch Clubbed very little Went to one concert (MC Chris) Saw a couple of "i, Fanblades" shows Fronted a freaking band! (One night only) Was gifted a painting inspired by a poem I wrote Saw the Cezanne Exhibit Attended three Film Festivals (PFF, 48 hour, 18 1/2) Attended the Philadelphia Fringe Festival Attended two Plays (Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and Zombie: The Musical) Attended College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Philadelphia Attended Women of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit Coached for and attended the National Poetry Slam in West Palm Beach Was booked for/performed three features Was booked for two features next year Went to a bunch of readings/slams/features in general Started taking a loooong break from poetry readings since July Toured Eastern State Penitentiary and the Liberty Bell for novel research Visited Philadelphia Magic Gardens (the mirror mural thing on South Street) Shed a slew of possessions through the Great Mike O'Hara Giveaway Got a new computer Started a Facebook Killed my MySpace Quit World of Warcraft Went to Charlie's Pig Roast Had my friends from NOLA come and spend the week Went to a birthday party in a funeral home Said goodbye to John Johnson, my WWII vet neighbor (he and his wife moved to assisted living) Saw the ambulance show up to take out the body of the guy who moved into the Johnson's place Mourned my pal Jimi Black's death Attended the (Easter) Zombie Pub Crawl Attended the Zombie Prom Attended a Persian Wedding Officiated a Pirate Wedding Officiated a Halloween Wedding Built four Steampunk Costumes | | Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | | 12:22 pm |
I guess I have to say
(Happy All Saints Day) On November 1st I experienced a minor level of Saint-like torture with sleep deprivation/hangover from the previous night's wedding celebration. Then I helped a friend move and had a dinner date. That wasn't really torture at all. And then the Phillies lost. So there's some more torture in there. In other news I don't smell like flowers, so that's not very Saint-like of me. In other other news I was reading up on Harriet Tubman the other week and I think it would be pretty cool if she got Sainted. I'm still working on a poem for her. | | Monday, October 19th, 2009 | | 9:28 pm |
Free Game (Huge Nerd)
I used to have an idea for a non-collectible card game that could do something different from the highly commercially successful Magic: The Gathering. It would use a standard deck but have a different card effect depending on placement in delineated locations. Basically 54 cards x number of play locations = total number of different card effects possible from a standard deck including jokers. The "game" itself would just be a set of rules that translate card into effect. Nothing to buy other than a standard deck which you probably already have. I think instead I'd like to design a tactical war/board game that just uses stuff you've already got around your house for game pieces. 1. The board would be a standard chess/checkers board. I figure folks have that around their place. 2. The rules, inevitable errata and FAQs would be free and online. I won't make a dime! Wait, I missed the point somewhere in my business model. 3. I kicked around the idea of each piece having a point value and then players construct an army of a pre-determined point total. I think instead it would be simpler/better to have each piece balanced to represent an equivalent point value. 12 pieces per player in a standard game. 4. Each piece would have an Attack Strength, a Range, a Toughness, a Standard Move, a Special Move and Special Abilities. A piece is either in play or out, no accounting for wound status or life total. 5. Special Abilities might include boosting the Toughness of a friendly piece on an adjacent square, doing knockback if you don't kill a piece outright, sacrificing itself to bring back a killed piece, restricting movement of opposing pieces in a range, free counterattack if a piece tries and fails to kill this piece, etc. 6. Multiple victory conditions, aside from killing all of your opponent's pieces. Capturing one of an opposing player's home corner gives a power boost/resurrects one of your pieces/autokills one of theirs, maybe capturing both of an opposing player's home corners wins the game. 7. Game pieces might include white standard chess pieces, black standard chess pieces, white themed chess pieces, black themed chess pieces, red checkers, black checkers, plastic lighters, Zippos, small pretzels, mustard sauce packets, duck sauce packets, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, silver dimes, Canadian pennies, Gold Sakagawea coins (maybe heads or tails up placement designating two different pieces), lipstick, votive candles, paper clips, C clips, buttons, sewing kits, house keys, car keys, pepper shakers, salt shakers, band aids, Q-tips bent in half, 4/6/8/10/12/20-sided D&D dice, Pogs, Pog Slammers (oh you fucking wished you saved them now!), business cards folded into a tent, business cards folded into a square tube, cologne, perfume, contact lens cases, pen caps, glass beads, small pencil sharpeners, lego men, bottle caps, small rocks, rubber bands, cough drops, Monopoly game pieces. No buying and painting expensive miniatures. | | Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | | 7:23 am |
| | Monday, October 5th, 2009 | | 8:34 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 9:42 pm |
Six Things
1. "Sometime's you just have to piss in the sink." --Charles Bukowski. 2. Who wants to see ZombieLand this Friday? 3. Who wants to hike Saturday EARLY? I've got a rehearsal dinner on Saturday so let's wrap the hike up by 2PM. 4. I'm gonna perform with some of the guys from "i, Fanblades" and cover Big Black's "Steelworker" next weekend. It got me thinking about finding an opportunity to cover The Dead Milkmen's "Stuart". 5. I am coming to understand what my father and mother each left within me, as I grow into my thirties. I am both happy and fulfilled. 6. I had some good goddamned Persian Food last night at the Persian Grill. If you don't know then you better ask somebody. | | Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | | 9:01 pm |
A dead man's blanket (True Story)
A dead man's blanketis a deep sick maroon and laying unmoved on the counter of my basement laundromat It bears unsteady stripes on what supposes to be its inside, two or three tear holes where the agitator of the washing machine chewed it under the molars of its twisting base It kept someone warm enough, either the roaring scar tissue of a man upstairs from me whose grown children were not too stupid to be yelled at on the phone for hours a day This man made a noise that none could tell was painful stretching, or shitting, or orgasm or some unfathomable combination of at least two He would sometmes do midnight laundry in his apartment: so it couldn't be his, he wouldn't have come down here The morbid ghouls from Hospice wouldn't have come down here Then it must have been the 84 year old who carried his hands like an empty picnic basket before him Him, with the Star of David shiny gold necklace and the handwritten sign on his door asking visitors and deliverymen to knock loudly (as he was hard of hearing) His daughter one building over expected him to go, she didn't look down here in the basement laundry where teenagers from some place in the complex tried their key and it worked so they drank smuggled beers and killed the lights and got shirtless and kissed each other and practiced the economies of indulgence and restraint in the dark, so they couldn't have seen the neglect map of floor stains, starved spiders, and curled fake tile rolling up at the sides of crumbling walls Quick math tells me I've washed my clothes More than five hundred times in this underground cell But how many days since those two separate neighbors died? Oh wait, it's been weeks and it was me who pulled this from the dryer and laid it here half expecting to see a ghost grasping at it standing too close and shivering, as soon as I figured out what it really was and how long it would stay here | | Sunday, September 13th, 2009 | | 11:43 pm |
Theatre du Grand Guignol, 1897-1962
Theatre du Grand Guignol, 1897-1962 1. The Building itself, defunct drivethrough for guilty Parisian Catholics lighting foregiveness candles en route home from mistresses and why shouldn't we mock-murder someone on stage here backed by cracked plaster that once held a crucified carpenter in effigy? 2. Paula Maxa, "the most assassinated woman in the world" earned 20 years rent getting raped, belting out perfect murder screams until hyperventilating gentry blacked out, face up in their paid seats She knew best The bounce of eyeballs the butcher recommended and that stage blood Is still blood 3. Andre de Lorde, is all of us. All of us. Scribing horrible fantasies behind a bureaucrat's day facade. Quiet as a church mouse for the eminent needs of work While the threshing machine in him split the seeds from husk And he birthed a swaying crop of plays worse than any life that could imitate art He thought 4. Charles Nonon, its final director in 1962 said "We could never equal Buchenwald Before the war everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible. Now we know that these things and worse are possible in reality." 5. Horror is known to evolve | | 8:45 am |
| | Saturday, September 12th, 2009 | | 9:20 am |
Six Things
1. Saw Zombie! The Musical at the Fringe Festival. Expectations were low, expectations were exceeded. It was a fun, silly little romp with lots of stage blood. I was there with Mary Cae, whom I dig. 2. Philadelphia's Magic Gardens was pretty much amazing. I'd passed it before, thinking it was just one courtyard. I had no idea about the different rooms and sculptures. I was there with Mary Cae, whom I dig. 3. I drive more carefully now that I have an unsigned marriage certificate in my glove compartment. Preparations for the first of two October weddings are coming along nicely. 4. Friends from NOLA blew through town so we howled laughter and ate and drank for three days. I may visit NOLA in December. 5. Movie Review in 20 words or less: "9" was visually enchanting and quite entertaining for 80 minutes. And then it just sort of . . . ended. 6. Mouse Guard son, what! | | Friday, September 4th, 2009 | | 8:29 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 | | 8:28 pm |
Disney owns Marvel now: Who Would Win in a Fight (to keep their job)?
Disney owns Marvel now, and with any massive corporate merger there are efficiencies to be gained by eliminating redundant resources and positions. During these times of transition individuals who have grown comfortable in their specialized positions find themselves desperately fighting to stay in their well crafted niches. Poll #1452474 Disney owns Marvel now: Who Would Win in a Fight (to keep their job)?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9 Surf and Turf War Blink and you'll miss it We'd have to ret-con this to say the Castle family got trampled by deer Who pulls the strings? Sorceress Governess Hercules vs. Hercules You'd hug either one of them, except for the burrs and sharp edges Rumble in the Jungle Beast vs. Beast I count Batman as Marvel because he's not lame Sub-Zero Fatality Sorcery! Titans of their own Accord | | Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | | 7:35 pm |
| | Saturday, August 29th, 2009 | | 10:58 am |
| | Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | | 9:25 am |
| | Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | | 10:13 am |
TKO in the first
My imaginary wife Gina Carano lost a fight to Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos. It was a good fight though. You know what, thinking back, the first girl I kissed was from my dojo. She was pretty. And she was all about the spinning backhand. | | Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | | 7:11 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | | 12:11 pm |
Six Things
1. West Palm Beach is like Miami with less cocaine. If you can live there you can be a roofer anywhere. 2. Philadelphia made Semi-finals at the National Poetry Slam. 3. The Head to Head Haiku event was great. Jerri Hardesty won the day. 4. I'm going to take a long break from readings. 5. My computer's been taken in for repairs. Three weeks plus before I have internet access evenings/weekends. 6. Got to get back on house hunting, hiking, novel writing. | | Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | | 11:02 am |
Movie Reviews in 20 words or less
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Lots of child molestation subtexts. Ewww. Public Enemies: No chemistry or excitement anywhere, thank God we snuck in for free after Harry Potter. | | Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | | 11:33 pm |
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