The Meme-Mandated, Semi-Regularly-Updated, Occasionally Coherent Thoughts of G.M. Skarka
The New Hang-Out
For anyone else who, like me, has been missing the cameraderie and sense of community that once existed on RPGnet, but has been beaten out of it by the never-ending procession of asshats, passive-aggression and generally incompetent adminstration, I am pleased to note that a new forum has been started by Theron and The Missus, called, in true “Inner Zod” fashion:
Come one, come all. Several nifty folks who are no longer on RPGnet are in residence.
Birthday Horror Extravaganza!
So, my 35th Birthday is this Sunday. Yesterday, the first gifts arrived, courtesy of my parents: a gothic cornucopia of Hammer horror films on DVD:
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
Double Feature: Countess Dracula/The Vampire Lovers
Double Feature: Frankenstein Created Woman/The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
…and a copy of Stephen King’s treatise on the horror genre:
I’m predicting that my weekend is going to kick some serious ass.
Elizabethan Weirdness
(courtesy of The Fortean Times)
On this date in 1609, William Lily, the English astrologer, was born. In his autobiography, he tells a strange anecdote of teleportation involving fellow astrologer John Evans, a Welshman residing near Aldgate in London. In 1630 or 1631, Evans was asked by Lord Bothwell and Sir Kenelm Digby ‘to shew them a Spirit… upon a sudden, after some time of Invocation, Evans was taken from out of the Room, and carried [five miles] into the Field near Battersea Causeway…’ The next morning, a labourer found him asleep there.
Time to get back to work on GLORIANA.
Taste The Blood Of Dracula