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adj. 1. of a fleshy pink color. 2: blood-red.
Something's Gotta Give :|
Keaton makes faces,
Nicholson's himself again,
and Reeves still can't act.
 
Sesame Street
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Demonology
"The hardest thing I've always found when teaching Fluxx
to anyone is the fact that most people don't believe me when
I say 'everything you need to know is on the cards.' The card
will tell you what to do and when to do it. Read all the text
of the card... all the way down to the bottom. This is why most
people don't believe me, because they usually haven't read all
the way to the bottom of the card. This is exactly why I, as
a teacher LOVE Fluxx! You know those silly tests some teachers
give which are basically a 'test to see if you've read the directions'
...it usually starts with 'read all directions before you do
anything' and ends with 'put your pencil down, don't mark anything
on this page and look up.' Usually one or two students look up
within 3 minutes, and the rest are working for 20 minutes, doing
what the test says to do before reading all the way to the bottom
first... with usually silly things like 'stand up and turn around
three times, then check this box.' Fluxx helps reinforce that
reading is a good thing and reading directions is a great thing." -- Carol
Townsend on the Fluxx mailing list
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Origins Deadlines Already?!? |
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Check out this great picture of a gathering of Mad Lab Rabbits!
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Getting everything together for the Origins
pre-reg book (which will be going in March, and which therefore
had publication deadlines that we had to meet this week) required
figuring out the details of our schedule of events. A big thanks
to Eeyore,
Carol,
Emily, Ryan,
Josh,
Chris,
Steve,
Craig,
Tucker,
Tim,
Clark,
Ross,
Adam,
Bob,
Kory,
toK,
Eric,
Dave,
Dan,
Dan,
and in particular our Rabbit Coordinator Russell,
for figuring out exactly what events we are going to run this
year. We are still working on the list of who is going to run
what - so if you still want to be part of this incredible team
of rabbits that is helping us run Big Experiment #5 at Origins
this summer - let Russell know you are interested!
Marlene
put together a beautiful full-page ad of our schedule, punctuated
with the adorable rabbit gathering you see above, which will
run in both the pre-reg and onsite program books. Be sure to
notice the new Mama
Rabbit which Alison
finished up and added into the mix this week. We also have the
outside back cover of both books this year, and in light of what
we decided last week (i.e. to
declare that we'll have Early American
Chrononauts finished and on-sale at Origins) we decided to
devote our back cover pre-reg book ad (a half-page since the
lower half is reserved for postage and addressee info) to a teaser
for EAC.
The ad features early images of 3 cards, an Artifact (Negative-Calorie
Pizza) and two Patches (1773' - the Boston Cake Riot and 1866'
- South Wins Civil War). Incidentally, we got dozens of emails
from people volunteering to playtest EAC, and I apologize for
not writing back to any of them... but I'm happy to say that
I'm making great progress on the design (I filled in the last
gap on the TimeLine that was troubling me last night! yay!) and
hopefully I'll have stuff for my eager playtesters to dig into
soon.
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Love, Peace, and Chocolate, |
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We were all deeply saddened this
week to learn that a fan named Kerry Pearson (whom we knew as
Lux Lucre) unexpectedly
passed away. He built a bunch of Fluxx
web-pages, and he was my age! Life is precious... cherish
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"The Bush White House fought mightily against creating
the Kean commission in the first place. When public pressure
forced Congress to go ahead despite their objections, the White
House did everything possible to throw nails in the road. ...they
put the commission on a starvation budget. Then they fought attempts
by the commission to see critical documents. Now they don't want
to testify in public or under oath. Do you get the impression
the administration has something to hide? Here's the most likely
reason the administration is acting guilty: It *IS* guilty. When
Chairman Kean says 9/11 could have been prevented, he's really
indicting the White House and top administration officials for
failing in the worst way possible...they didn't protect the American
homeland." -- Joe Rothstein, "Why
Is Bush And His National Security Team Acting So Guilty About
9/11?" |
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"This was the year when fakeness ruled:
fake rationales for war, a fake President dressed as a fake soldier
declaring a fake end to combat and then holding up a fake turkey.
An action movie star became governor and the government started
making its own action movies, casting real soldiers like Jessica
Lynch as fake combat heroes and dressing up embedded journalists
as fake soldiers. Saddam Hussein even got a part in the big show:
He played himself being captured by American troops. This is
the fake of the year, if you believe the Sunday Herald in Scotland,
as well as several other news agencies, which reported that he
was actually captured by a Kurdish special forces unit." -- Naomi Klein, "The
Year of the Fake" |
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