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Attention: Gamers

If you attend the Origins game convention in Columbus, OH, then I’d like to call your attention to something:

The governor of Ohio is about to sign a same-sex marriage ban into law.

If you’ve been to Origins, you’ve been there during the Pride marches, and you know that Columbus is an open, welcoming city. With this legislation, that looks like it’s about to change for the worse.

Please call Governor Bob Taft at 614.466.3555 (or Fax at 614.752.4858), and let him know that you come to Ohio every summer and spend money at its hotels, bars and restaurants. You, and thousands of folks just like you, come and contribute to the Ohio economy. Let him know that those contributions may not continue if this legislation is signed into law.

If you’re a member of GAMA (the owners and operators of the Origins convention), contact the Board of Directors (contact info can be found on the website), and let them know your position, and request that they contact Governor Taft as well.

It’s 2004, folks. The only way to prevent the conservatives from steamrolling their bullshit into all of our lives is to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

(Thanks to Jason L Blair for getting the ball rolling.)

GMS

Bush 9/11

Given the current efforts of the Bush administration to hamstring the investigation into the events of 9/11, I think that folks should read this account of Bush’s actions during 9/11, taken from examining the publicly-available reports and videos (all linked from the article), and asking some VERY fucking disturbing questions about the timeline of that day.

Wake up, folks.

GMS

Half a Month!

So I haven’t posted here in quite some time. Only once this year, so far. Sorry to those of you who have checked back regularly. I’ll try to be more interesting from now on.

I’ve been busting hump over the past couple of weeks, working 10 to 14 hour days in an effort to try and make good on those assignments whose deadlines I flubbed on at the end of last year. I will *NOT* allow myself to get into this position ever again.

I still have a bunch left to do, but I can at least see the other side of it now.

In the meantime, I leave you with yet another trailer for a film that I’m going to be geeking HARD over in the coming year:

Van Helsing.

HELL. YES. It looks like a big-budget version of Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, which is one of my favorite Hammer films.

Back to work. I’ll post again soon. Promise.

GMS