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nashville
wedding | unitinu stats o' amerema and another
joco show | a futon eradicates mites
Lawrence of Arabia :)
Filmed in amazing
Man-O-Vision, where women
have no spoken parts.
Plus: Blades
of Glory
Lydia
the Tattooed Lady
Fascinating
Worlds of Jacek Yerka
"I love Fluxx and EcoFluxx, but Zombie Fluxx is by far
my favorite. As stated above, it has the same smooth play and
fun, but adds a tremendous amount of zombie laughs. Everyone
should own a copy." -- Don Lindsey's comment
on Justin Moore's
review of Zombie Fluxx
Earthquake, lingering
illness and a few links
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- Sorry, nothing new here this time... I'm still processing
my ZombieFest footage and still writing the Zombie Fluxx FAQ
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Zombie Fest, Oscar, and Lydia |
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 Well, we're
back from ZombieFest
and I have many stories to tell.
Zombie Fest was I believe the first all-Zombie-themed convention
ever, and was held at what could be argued to be the most sacred
site in all of Zombie lore, namely Monroeville Mall, which was
the location for the filming of the uber-classic Dawn of the
Dead. The Zombie Fest activities included a Zombie
March through the Dawn of the Dead Mall, and this was the
biggest Zombie March ever anywhere, breaking their own record
with a new total of 1124 shambling Zombies! (They even had the
Guinness Book people on-site to verify their World Record!)
Anyway, we couldn't resist getting a booth at ZombieFest,
given that we just released our own Zombie-themed product, and
we had a great time introducing Zombie
Fluxx to the biggest fans of the Zombie universe. Here you
see our complete full-time
team (Kristin, Alison, myself, and Robin) posing with the
cool new Zombie Fluxx banner we got made for this event. (Thanks
for your help with that, Dave!) We also got some awesome help
from a bunch of our Pittsburgh area fans, who devoted a lot of
time to hanging around our booth teaching Zombies to play Zombie
Fluxx. Thanks for all your help to Silaria
and Swiftfox,
Don,
Dan, Laura,
and especially Eeyore!
You-all rock!
I have a bunch of video footage of the Zombie March and our
booth at ZombieFest but I haven't had time to finish editing
it yet. In the meantime, check out Joshua
Buck's Flickr album for lots of photos of the Zombies at
ZombieFest.
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 Everything
went fine at the show, but getting there was another matter.
Just before the convention we decided it was finally time to
buy ourselves a new van. We've been getting along without one
for over 3 years now, since the
crash of Bertha, and after a bunch of shopping around online,
we found something we really liked. (Thanks for the expert advice,
Clark!) It was built in 1998 and the features, mileage, condition,
and pricetag all looked really good. We got it from a dealer
who provided a limited warranty, and we got it checked out by
our own mechanic who blessed it pending the minor repairs it
needed to pass MD inspection. So we bought it, and named it Oscar
(since he's a big green monster) and before taking it on a big
trip we got those little repairs taken care of. Everything looked
great! And it was great, at first...
Unfortunately, just south of Breezewood, the van broke down.
The engine just shut down on us. Oscar grumpily refused to go
another inch. (Turns out he had a broken Throttle Position Sensor
and a clogged Catalytic Converter. He's running again now.)
The good news is, thanks to Triple-A, the internet, good cellphone
coverage, and Kristin's awesome schmoozing skills, we managed
to get Oscar hauled off (in a truck with room for all 4 of us
passengers!) to an area mechanic (who stayed past closing on
a Friday night to help us) with a rentable mini-van available,
and we were amazingly enough back on our way to Pittsburgh in
just 2 hours. Wow! We arrived with plenty of time to set up!
Anyway, despite this bumpy start, I'm really excited to have
a van again. (Thanks for letting us borrow your van all those
times, Greg and Jean!)
What with ZombieFest and all we didn't have much time to prepare
for Halloween this year, and as such we only had a very small
session of Pumpkin
Carving. Here you see the full set we did this time, the
coolest of which is the pumpkin splitting into two pumpkins which
Alison made with an hourglass-shaped hubbard squash. I'd also
like to point out that the pumpkin in the upper left hand corner
was inspired by the picture of the little girl zombie from Zombie Fluxx.
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Speaking of which, I've decided to name this character Lydia.
It's been fun knowing that our cover zombie's name is Larry
(you can tell by his "Hello my name is" tag) and since
the little dead girl has emerged as everyone's favorite of the
zombies Derek drew for us, I'm thinking it will be useful for
us to know her name too. It'll probably never be used anywhere,
but if anyone ever asks, you can say her name is Lydia, in honor
of the cute little girl in a zombie costume seen posing here
with our banner at ZombieFest. (In a related story, Robin has
had "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" stuck in her head ever
since, hence her choice for the
video this week.)
Thanks for reading, and have a great fortnight!
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For 3
years now we've been talking about moving
to another city. We've contemplated many options for where to
go, and we've changed our minds many times. We've strongly considered
Canada,
and upstate
New York, and various
places
in West Virginia... but at this point, our two strongest candidates
are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. We're still too busy running
the company to focus much on the tasks involved in relocating,
so it will be at least another year yet before we go, and that's
plenty of time for us to change our minds again... but at this
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I was fascinated to hear the results of a recent study regarding
chocolate addiction. As summarized in The Week, "When researchers
examined 11 men who craved chocolate daily and 11 men who rarely
ate chocolate, they found major differences in what kinds of
bacteria lived in their guts. Bacteria that thrive on chocolate
can be found in great abundance in chocoholics, but aren't very
common in people who are indifferent to chocolate. Researchers
aren't sure, though, whether cocoa-loving bacteria cause the
chocolate cravings, or whether they simply flourish in a high-chocolate
diet." I like to think it's the former, meaning that when
I'm feeding this addiction I'm caving in to the demands of the
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"I do, however, want to take mild issue with his suggestion
that these games are neither heavy enough nor long enough to
be suitable as 'main courses' for an evening of gaming. The implication
seems to be that no healthy gamer can subsist on a diet of nothing
but Super Fillers. Well, I am just such a gamer. I don't just
love Super Fillers-they're the only games I eat."
-- Kory Heath, "The
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