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uh-huh.

From: “Adrian Kent”
To: “THOREN” Subject:

My friends and I have called TDotHT. Cthulhu based punk rock ever since the first time we heard it in our favorite RPG store in 95 while playing Magic. It’s the only thing we’ve come up with to describe it. I don’t know if you like it but it if it does use it.
Adrian

SE7EN
THIR13EN
5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT

Whose not tired of this yet?

Let me tell you the tale of Thomas. Thomas lived in New York (where he may still) – the state, at first. Mechanicville. Then he moved to Brooklyn. He came to Vancouver once, and he visited myself and Warren, and I went to New York (this was in 2000) and stayed with him while I was there. Thomas did all the electronic music on our CD Spaceship Zero (and the video game).

When I was going out with Tinessa, I made her a little song on my four-track recorder. The only copy was an audio cassette. When Tinessa and I broke up lo those many moons ago, Tinessa asked me, tears running down her face, if Thomas ever sent that tape back would I please send it to her (in Calgary – where she moved back to).

Margaret friendstered me many many months ago and was asking me about D&D nerds for some project she was working on, and I asked her if she had a copy of the video tape she took of our band playing in NY, because I had asked Thomas to a long time ago and he never had done so, and since I’m not talking to him, would she please mail me a copy if possible. She said that she didn’t think she had a copy and that I should talk to Thomas about getting one!

Jon and Chris Slater can’t make my birthday auction if I have it on the 26th. So I think I’ll have it on the 25th instead. OK?

I posted my first entry in my LiveJournal account today. Essentially it said to come here. While I was there, I noticed the “friends” feature. Seems I have a bunch of friends and I don’t know who they are. Such is the way of things in the world of internet aliases. So, bumblefreque, darkyoung, and earthbound01, when I confirmed that I was friends with a bunch of the people on the list, don’t be offended that you weren’t included. It could very well be that I do consider you a friend – I just don’t know who you are.

The construction noise was so loud, I thought the apartment building was in danger of collapsing. I don’t think it was just that I was half asleep that made me believe the building was actually trembling.

At one point, the machine noises were in synch with the techno music from downstairs.

I dreamt that I ran into Bill Cosby on the street, and I asked him if he made the pen noises on Picture Pages or if it was sound effects. He said it was sound effects. I also had a bit of a nightmare involving the thing from the movie The Thing – everyone in the world was being replaced with alien copies, and I was trying to find a secluded place to live where nobody would find me.

It’s come to my attention that you have to be a member of xanga to post comments. Therefore, I will sort out my webspace issues and move on. Don’t go to the trouble of becoming a xanga member just to comment. When I get things sorted I’ll repost all of these posts and you can comment then if you like. Zero tolerance for blog shananigans!

Well I don’t know about James, Norm & Mike but I had a lot of fun playing World Wildlife Federation of Justice. It was Metalligator, The Invisible Fink, and Bushido Dragon vs Fat Cat’s various gun-toting mooks and their first supervillain – Tarmadillo! I had to introduce Bushido Dragon into the game, and get everyone to meet at the same place at the same time (the midway) which took some doing. There was a lot of investigatory work–reminiscent of a Call of Cthulhu game, almost–but finally they got some action with some pickpockets on the boardwalk. Then they found out who was supplying the kids with stemroids followed Knuckles the ape back to the stemroid lab, where they fought the gun-wielding goons and Tarmadillo. We played to 11:30 and were still in combat when we called it. Maybe we’ll be able to finish it up next week.

This weekend I have been having dreams that directly correlate to what I’ve been up to. For example, I went to Chris’ art show and saw my old photography teacher Mr. Granzow, so I had dreams about art and being back in photography class. But this morning I had a very erotic dream involving one of the women who work as a teller at the TD bank. She’s older than me and married, and is from Russia or the Ukraine or something. I dreamt we met at a bar (of all places) and started talking and hit it off, so we went back to her place and things got a little…

hawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwt!

I wonder if I should tell her. I bet it would be interesting to see how she reacts.

The Department of Energy announced that it will cut the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons “almost in half,” and the Senate voted to permit the reclassification of some high-level nuclear waste so that the Energy Department can leave the waste in leaky shallow tanks. Doctors Without Borders suspended its activity in Afghanistan after one of its teams was massacred by the Taliban, and 100 Iraqi policemen who were sent to Najaf reportedly deserted and ran away. In Colorado, a man in an armored bulldozer went berserk and destroyed several buildings and then killed himself.

I’m going to make light of this story by saying he should have painted teeth on his makeshift tank…

Microsoft patented the “double-click,” and oil prices went up to $42 a barrel;

What is it David Cross said? “water’s $20 a gallon, but we still got our $1.50 gas”

Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C., research group, reported that Wal-Mart has received more than $1 billion in subsidies from state and local governments around the country. Arkansas released 680 prison inmates early because of overcrowding, and the Army decided to extend the service commitment of all soldiers bound for Iraq. The Pentagon denied that a new “non-lethal” ray gun that fires millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy, which penetrates the skin and instantly heats water molecules to 130 degrees, might be used as a torture device. No one has been able to stand the pain caused by the weapon, known as the “Active Denial System,” for more than 3 seconds. North Korea banned cellphones. A horticulturalist in Florida unveiled a new low-carb potato.

SAMURAI JACK creator Genndy Tartakovsky has signed a deal to write the script for and direct the ASTRO BOY feature film for Sony Pictures. The movie, which began its development back in 1997 as a CGI picture, is now imagined as a combination of live-action, animation and animatronics (presumably for the robotic Astro Boy.) Tartakovsky will discard all earlier drafts commissioned for the project and start anew.
Tartakovsky’s last project was the 20-part “micro-series” CLONE WARS for the Cartoon Network. He’s also been a director and a producer on THE POWERPUFF GIRLS.

Does anyone not know what happens at a Birthday Auction? Just in case you missed it the last several years.

I have a bunch of friends (i.e. you) over for a party. Instead of buying me presents (which is good) you bring whatever you have lying around that you want to donate to the auction block–old books, video games, toys, household items, faberge eggs, whatever. Throughout the evening I auction everything* off right back to you. You get rid of some old unwanted stuff (which is good), you get some new, wanted stuff for outrageously cheap (which is good) and I get all the cash (which is best)! Plus there will be delicious foodstuffs and beverages for all. So start making a pile today – I know I am.

*Of course I get to pick through the pile and keep anything I’d rather not have auctioned off. That’s how I got that lovely bathroom garbage can from Neal. Testify!

Here at the request of Tamara is a list of things I would not auction off it they appeared at my birthday party. (It’s essentially my amazon wish list except in a more appropriate order):

CDs:
Any CD by Wheatus
Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss
Peace Love Death Metal by Eagles of Death Metal
The Desert Sessions Volume 9 & 10
Maladroit by Weezer
Lord of the Rings soundtrack (any)

DVDs/VHS:
Complete Superman Cartoons: Diamond Anniversary Edition
Jonny Quest Season 1
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Big Kahuna
Raising Arizona

Books:
d20 – A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe
Tome of Horrors (1 not 2)
d20 Toolbox (AEG)
Any ALIAS or POWERS graphic novel.
Unearthed Arcana (Dungeons & Dragons)
Tales of Freeport
The Diamond Throne (Arcana Unearthed Sourcebook)
Hellboy: Chained Coffin & Others
Professor Wormbog and the Search for the Zipperump-a-zoo

Misc:
Practically any miniatures that look cool – especially of monsters that I don’t already have and “rare” minis like female gnome monks, that sort of thing.
Those black plastic VHS tape cases
Nyarlathotep and/or shoggoth plush doll
Sripey socks (not sports socks)