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July 5, 2021
Turns out we didn’t have to go anywhere for fireworks.
The weather was weird this weekend, but it cleared up nicely just as dusk was descending. My youngest and I were supposed to go find fireworks (they’re loud, but he loves ’em) — but my neighbors were really enthusiastic about setting off pyrotechnics. Some really good stuff, too: the kind of stuff you have to (chortle, air quotes) “go over the border (snicker) to Pennsylvania (chuckle)” to get, because (cackle) fireworks are (laughter) are (belly laugh) are — hold on, I can do this — are illegal in Maryland. (falling down onto the floor, holding in herniated stomach)
So we just walked around the neighborhood a little. Good times! Hope you had a proper Glorious Fourth, too.
July 4, 2021
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Community Service.’
Now that I think about it, there was a Delta Green organization that worked on the same principle as the dude in ‘Community Service.’ It’s a hell of a recruitment technique, let me tell you. As long as you keep the scalpel sanitized.
…So, yeah, that’s a darker one than usual.
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, Efficiency Isn’t Everything edition.
I feel that the display would have been better if it had been spread out just a little more. But full points for enthusiasm!
BREAKING: Truck full of fireworks exploded in Ocean City, Maryland pic.twitter.com/Po8kWA0SIO
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) July 4, 2021
H/T: @ComfortablySmug.
Movie of the Quarter-Century: INDEPENDENCE DAY.
I am reminded that this is the 25th anniversary of INDEPENDENCE DAY. I don’t know why I’m putting up this link, though. All of you already own this movie.
Moe Lane
PS: This is, of course, made of crystallized awesome.
It is the Glorious Fourth of July.
Today is the official birthday of the United States of America, greatest nation in the history of the world and the unique hope of mankind. It is the land of Moon-Walkers and Monster-Killers, Beacon of Liberty and Wellspring of Ideals; a place where dreams may become real, and a refuge for dreamers. Its people are generous in peace, and stark in war — so do not be over-hasty in provoking our justified wrath. We may not be perfect, but by God we’re not half bad.
Enjoy the day!
July 3, 2021
The curiously inevitable STAR WARS: VISIONS anime special look trailer.
Really, the surprise here is that STAR WARS: VISIONS hasn’t been done yet.
“It” being “Going to a bunch of Japanese anime shops and getting them to do Star Wars stories.” I can’t imagine that they had to do much convincing, either. And I’m not gonna lie: I perked up at the thought of seeing some actual samurai-style fighting in the Star Wars universe. It feels like it would naturally flow from the original concept, you know what I mean? — Particularly since Lucas was pulling stuff from samurai flicks himself.
So I am tentatively down with this.
07/03/21 Snippet, THE DEFENSE OF WINDERMERE CASTLE.
Setting it all up.
Patreon!Carlotta heard the mild coughing wheeze of her opposite number a few moments before he reached the top. My Lord Colonel (ret.) Davies McDermott, Count Skye, 5th Alban Mounted Regiment (Queen’s Own): sixty-eight years old and the very picture of a fat, fatuous, condescending fathead, with all the strategic and tactical sensibilities of a garden slug. Fortunately, he was actually none of those things, save fat — and even that was melting away under the sudden regimen of deadly danger and discipline. Carlotta was too well-bred to say, but she strongly suspected that Lord Davies was secretly having the time of his life.
Well, whatever got results.
“Good morning, your Grace! How are our would-be party guests this fine evening? Still upset that they arrived too late for the soup course, what-what?” After three weeks, Lady Carlotta was still uncertain whether the supposedly Alban Lord Count Skye deliberately heavily laid on the Britonic affectation out of mischief or social-climbing habit, but it didn’t do to push too heavily. At least he wasn’t being useless — and Carlotta suspected that Lord Davies thought much the same of her. So, if simpering is what the fellow wanted…
Carlotta pitched her voice louder, the better to amuse the other sentries on the castle wall. “They do persist in hanging about, and far past their welcome, do they not? One would think that they were our Columbian cousins. Or Frankish ones; they certainly have gall enough. I still say a whiff of grapeshot would work its usual magic.”
@HPLHS is doing a ‘documentary.’
Which is to say, they’re gonna take a stab at THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE. That HPLHS newspaper is full of win, by the way. I dunno how much sense it makes for non-Mythos fans, but from my point of view it’s primo stuff.
Moe Lane
PS: Yeah, them putting together unofficial (?) props for the fortieth anniversary Chaosium Call of Cthulhu Kickstarter is also full of win. There’s a lot of win going on here.
