You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Paper dolls, Radio, Dream

Just so the people in my Buffy game know -- I boughts the Flash Gordon soundtrack. Bwhah hah hah - this is a session that practically writes itself!

Speaking of roleplaying, it would be tempting to use the boy and girl doll-maker from Candybar to create characters, at least to the art-challenged among us (e.g. me). This was the approach that I took to the superhero game "Working South of the Border" - the players came up with an image they liked with HeroMachine, and I worked with them to come up with a background and statistics in the system we were using. Hey. HeroMachine 2.0 is now (mostly) available on the web! Neat!

Like anything, I think using these would tilt the flavour of the game you used it in. Luckily, HeroMachine tilted the flavour to Awesome -- which was the way it was headed with the players I had, anyways. ;)

On a slight tangent - I wonder whether Ellen still has the paper dolls of the Queen of Denmark as a little girl that I found her...

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You know what I haven't had within recent memory? Gems. Not the silicon-based variety, but the baked goods. My grandmother used to make them fairly regularly, and I remember having them with jam, and possibly cream; but I haven't had them in the longest time.

Maybe I'll have to ask whether I can borrow her gem irons or something.

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My sister in Hawaii may end up with a regular spot on her university's student radio. Filing this under the "awesome but kinda weird" heading.

And on the radio-station front: most of you will know about astroturfing (the creation of fakes "grassroots" movements), and I knew that record companies sometimes bribed DJs or stations to play their stuff more. But I didn't know that record companies would hire people to call up request shows, with the collaboration of the station. It's a level of subterfuge I'd not ever really thought about.

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Had a dream last night that I'd booked a flight for a holiday to Spain that I'd kind of forgotten about. I was with my family in an earlier version of the holiday house at Hatepe, and not too concerned that the flight was tomorrow, though I was thinking about whether I'd get packed in time, and that I had no place to stay, and no idea of what I was doing once I got there. I was all, "Yeah, I better pick up a guidebook or something at the airport, and throw some t-shirts and underpants in a bag..." I think I was more worried about getting to the toilet, because I couldn't go to the one inside for some reason, and ended up trying to get to the one outside, which meant crawling under some decking through a whole lot of leaf detrius... and then there were big spiderwebs in my way, which freaked me out, because what if they were crawling into my clothes right now?

It did make me realise that (providing that you've got sufficient funds) you can travel around with relatively little planning -- especially if you have no particular goal in mind. :)

Even so, I don't think I'll be going overseas anytime in the near future, no matter what my dreams may be pushing me towards. :)

Posted by svend at August 10, 2005 4:23 PM