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I’m going to avoid the whole September 11th thing for now. I lost friends last year, and I don’t want to speculate about what’s going to happen this time out, if anything.

So, in the spirit of keeping my mind on other things….Hey, kids! Links!

New pics of Nessie! Yeah, I know…probably BS. But still, I hold a soft spot in my heart for that beastie.

Digital glitch, or new species? Gotta love Fortean Times….this time with an article about those elusive Rods.

The Power Goth Girls — Funny stuff, especially if you know any (or, god forbid, used to be or are one yourself).

Elizabethan Drama Pimp— My favorite SINFEST strip.

Major General Tremorden Rederring’s Colonial Wargames Site — my favorite wargames site, featuring wonderful alt-history battles with entertaining battle reports and great photos.

Haven’t talked with my collaborator yet about letting the design cat out of the bag, so that will have to wait a little while longer.

GMS

Just when I thought I was out…

(Read the above with the requisite Al-Pacino-doing-Michael-Corleone-in-GODFATHER-III voice).

For all of my grand pronouncements about getting out of the industry, it turns out that I might not be all that “out” after all.

I’m not just referring to the last few bits of freelance gigs trickling out, either. I’ve mentioned those before. (Not here, though–mostly in various threads on RPGnet)

No, it turns out that I might be coming out with something new, after all. I’d go into more detail, but I need to check it with my collaborator first, to see if it’s cool to start letting the cat out of the bag. You might have to wait a while for details. Short version, though: I’m working with another game designer on a project that started out as us merely BSing for fun. It’s continued to be fun, and we’re approaching this as a sort of “to hell with the industry, we’re doing this for US” kind of thing…but we’ve decided we might put it out anyway, just because we want to.

I feel like a relapsed alcoholic.

But in a good way.

No, really….stop looking at me like that.

GMS

Seems like everybody and their brother are linking to the Associated Press run-down of our curtailed rights that appeared in Newsday.

I’d like to think that this will go somewhere…that the collective outrage of the population will shake the foundations of the Bush “presidency”…but you all know as well as I that nothing will come of it, except maybe another shiny bauble thrown to distract us: another scandal, another “leak”, another season of American Idol.

Bread and Circuses, folks. Bread and Circuses.

The American people have the attention spans of goldfish, and the political awareness of a gnat. Given the fact that we rolled over and put up with an illegal coup without complaining (or have you forgotten that the Emperor Has No Votes?) we can hardly be expected to get upset when our Constitution gets just a bit more crumpled later down the same road.

You’ve got nobody to blame but yourself, America. You clearly communicated back in November of 2000 that you had no outrage left within you. You clearly communicated that you were complacent sheep…it’s a bit late to act surprised when the folks that you let walk into power are now trampling on the very document that you told them you didn’t care about in the first place.

9/11 has become our own Reichstag Fire. Go ahead and do a google search on that, America, since I’m sure most of you have no bloody idea what I’m talking about.

GMS