Since I am doing most of my internet posting at my Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal, JL and DW have gotten a bit neglected. Sorry all. Will try to be better about that.

Just ran a crazy four-part Legend of the Five Rings mini-campaign (framework here) which went surprisingly well and has hardened me for GenCon where I am running seven (yes, 7) sessions of the L5R RPG for AEG (the company that makes the game). Wish me luck!

My thoughts on Armistice Day, with poem.

In the end, we are each a minority of one. While I support a few of the ideas of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, I find their devotion to group-think, group identity and equality of outcomes worrying.

I am 00.0000000003% of the United States population and I am an individual.

So, we have lived in Athens, Georgia, for 13 years and last night was the first time we attended AthFest, the yearly festival of music and arts. We went down because Guadalcanal Diary had reformed for their 30th Anniversary and were playing two shows, the first at AthFest! It was a great show with many of our favorite songs being played (including Lips of Steel which was the very first song of theirs we had heard). Much fun.

Unfortunately, being a free outdoor concert, we had to contend with lots of people wandering aimlessly through the area, talking, getting in the way, smoking, drinking and so on. Still, well worth it to see Guadalcanal Diary who were rocking and having a good time, playing three (!) encores! We grabbed t-shirts and their live CD (from 1998!) which completes my collection of their easy to get hold of music.

Here is a video for their song Always Saturday which I think if the only actual, official video they have. But several other of their songs are up on YouTube as well. Give them a listen.

JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff (editors) collection of magic and lesbian love, called Hellebore and Rue is finally out. You can read more about it at JoSelle's Memory Palace.

This is also to test to see if Dreamwidth is crossposting properly to LJ.

After the short summary it gets a bit spoilery, so be careful if that is important to you. You can find it here on my RPG journal.

Are linked to at the Memory Palace. Join in on sharing them and get a chance to win a nifty Steam-Powered themed gift pack!

Just got back from voting, early voting available in Georgia until Friday, take advantage of it if you can. Pleased to see a full slate of Libertarians for all of the state-wide posts.

As usual, I encourage people to vote for the party that best represents their views, especially if it is a 3rd party!

And to anyone out there in California, Just Say Now, vote yes on Prop 19.

Just got back last week from a trip to Washington DC, which as you no doubt know, is full of museums, galleries and history. We were staying in Alexandria, Virginia, fairly close to the Old Town area which is quite nice and an easy Metro ride away from the heart of DC.

( Details of where we went and what we saw behind the cut )