The Center for American Progress, a progressive (read here: word to replace “liberal”, since the all-too-successful rebranding of that word as somehow negative) think tank, has some new ads which use a familiar format…..
NaNo-NotSo
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetemines…”
Naturally, the month that I decide to piggy-back onto the NaNoWriMo thing turns out to be month where I also end up juggling a bunch of major-huge things for Adamant — including a licensing deal that I’m positively BUSTING to talk about (waiting until the ink is dry on the contracts for that), and a possible merger.
So, I haven’t been able to give the novel the additional attention that I had planned. Ah, well… I’m not too upset about it. For one thing, as I said, the work-related things are all positive….and for another, it’s not like I’m going to stop writing it, just because I’m not taking part in the month-long gimmick. I’m running a marathon, not sprinting. :)
Darkon
I had trouble sleeping last night, so I went downstairs and clicked on the TV. I caught the late broadcast of the LARP documentary Darkon on the Independent Film Channel.
As I watched, I realized that Darkon was probably a lot more interesting to the film-festival crowds who weren’t familiar with LARPs. For anyone who gets what’s going on there, it’s a fairly run-of-the-mill documentary about the hobby, juxtaposing the real lives of the players with their fantasy roles in the world of Darkon.
I’ve never done the fantasy-world boffer-weapon thing — or any other LARPing, really (although some would argue that the SCA counts, and I’m not sure that I’d dispute that), but the film kinda sorta made me wish that there was a group that large in this area (Darkon has something like 2000 members). Might be kinda fun.
Anyway, the film is worth catching if you have IFC, or grab the rental DVD from Netflix once it’s released.