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Gaming

My Dalek check(ers) bounced!

DalekSeems like it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was announcing Dalek Checkers would be played at my GlitchCon booth – oh wait, it was only a couple of weeks ago – but there’s a bit of bad news: in trying to work out the details of the actual board, I quickly came to the realization that it’d take more than half of the entire table. If this were OVGE, I’d say “hell yeah, buy an extra table just for this!“, but the tables cost four times what they did at OVGE. The idea here was to bring money in by selling books… so that’s gotta take precedence. My apologies for all three people who may be disappointed. 😆

The concept may resurface somewhere down the road, perhaps at OVGE. We’ll see.

I may bring a few display items to GlitchCon, but I’ve gotta keep the focus on the books and DVDs I’m there to sell. (And considering how past OVGE crowds have been about display items that aren’t for sale, I’m not even sure how much of that I plan on doing here.) I don’t want to have a bare table, but I also don’t want what’s on the table to completely obfuscate the fact that I’m trying to sell some books. :p… Read more

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Music

Mission (A New Beam Record)

Blaster Beam me outta hereBecause everything goes better with blaster beam. Well, maybe not everything. I’m not going to drop some beam on top of “Call Me Maybe” (though I’ve no doubt it would be an immense improvement). The song has to have a sound that lends itself to having this weird sound in the middle of it – there has to be a certain style of arrangement and, you know, it wouldn’t hurt if it fit thematically. Yesterday’s Edgar Allan Poe-flavored selection was almost tailor-made for this experiment, but I wasn’t going to give up on my favorite band just yet.

It turned out that I had been trying to tiptoe around committing sacrelige. Because, you see, I’ve gone and added blaster beam to my all-time favorite song, by anyone, ever.Read more