Sad that it took a backroom deal, but happy that the rest of the state legislators stopped fighting Indianapolis on being able to do at least one dang thing in the city:
Statehouse compromise saves Blue Line via Axios
🖖 me as the Dominion stuff is heating up on DS9:
you’re a cylon!
🤭
🎶 What are some popular bands that somehow had roots in hardcore, before the stuff they are famous for:
- Fall Out Boy
- Rage Against the Machine
- Skrillex
Got more?
📰 Found a good local coffee shop that carries the Sunday NYT. This seems a much better way to occcasionally read it than the attention-deficit online versions.
(I still otherwise prefer Economist with its slightly slower pace and the Guardian to balance it out, combined with local sources.)
📚🎲 Reading Whitehack again, so that I can hopefully explain:
- why it’s the most interesting d20 system
- why it hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves
⚽️ Let’s go #USWNT
(For posterity: 4-0 vs. Argentina to advance out of the group stage in the expanded Gold Cup.)
📚 I’ve been “stinge” reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, because it’s so excellent, with each entry being a different angle, a different poetry, a different voice, a different caution.
🎶 Sometimes I think about how Quake II soundtrack is still one of the best (industrial) rock albums of all time and what that means for the stuff other bands are slinging at us.
📚 Seems like linga plus standard ebooks could be a good way to practice language?
🕊️🎶🏆 Seriously considering creating an alternative to the Dove Awards called the “Bloody Lamb” awards, specifically for hard music. Non-commercial, grassroots, etc.
Send thoughts to:
🎲 I have two very nice RPG books I want to send to a good home, instead of HPB.
Dictionary of Mu by @Judd@mastodon.social . Very cool book but I have no interest in Sorceror.
Whitehack 2nd ed. notebook version by Christian Mehrstam. My fave d20 game, but I’m on to 4th ed. & had multiple copies.
Did some nice döstädning today, starting with a Half Price Books drop off, a rearrangement of some of our bookshelves (mainly our “collections” shelves) and clearing out of some other areas.
Feels better in the library now and we’re going to do puzzles now (traditional for spouse and Lego for me).
🎶 Remembering that time in college that I DJed on hard mode by playing Tool’s Ænima, forgetting how many bleeps I’d have to do.
I only missed a couple!
Worship leaders: “please stand in body or spirit”
Me: “imma stand in spirit”
📺 finally saw the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso. So charming!
🎶 as someone with a million Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium, Conjure One, Noise Unit, Synæsthesia, etc. albums, I don’t say this lightly:
Rhys Fulber’s self-titled techno releases might be his best work.
🎶 How did I not know that there’s basically a new Cornerstone Festival? (Audiofeed)
That said, likely to be way more bands I want to see at Furnace Fest, which I intend to go to again this year.