Nobody commented on my earlier reminder of this weekend’s playtest/filmfest, so, nervous nellie that I am, I’m posting another.
Gizza shout-out, so I know how many folks to expect….
, You’d Love This….
From
His review of the annual 4-day event.
and
A Quicktime movie of some of the combat.
Wow.
I’ve said it before, but LARPing in the UK is *way* cooler than it is here.
Brilliant Essay
Read this —
Bush’s Trojan Christ, by Tom Gilroy.
“It used to be that Christians were known to all by their good deeds, but after almost four decades of the GOP’s cleaving the populace into warring sects to be manipulated at the polls, ‘being Christian’ is no longer defined by doing good deeds, it’s defined by an arrogant mission to tell others how they must live—who they can marry, who they can adopt, what they can say in public, what they must teach in schools—all the way down to what kind of medicine they should have access to.
[….]
By appealing to an ignorant fringe of assholes who codify their hatred behind a misuse of spirituality, the GOP is an embarrassment to not only truly devout Christians, but to the rational world at large.”