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plato's
party, greenbelt's triathlon
Blade Runner: The Final Cut %}
The last replicant
of its kind: meaner, darker,
but still beautiful.
Tony
vs. Paul
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"We had premiered Zombie Fluxx at out store on Halloween
night (at Alterniverse in Salt Point, New York), which I'm happy
to say turned out to be a SCREAMING SUCCESS!!! We had 15 players
show up for the demonstration (12 of these players were new and
had never played any of the Fluxx games before). Your new Fluxx
game has our people hooked and craving for more. As always, Thank
you again for giving us a really cool game!"
-- Nikki O'Shea
Paul Krugman regained,
RTW plans and various links including some video silliness
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Zombies Eat Brains, etc |
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 You'd think
I wouldn't have this problem anymore, now that I'm only updating
this page every other week, but I'm finding myself with nothing
specific to write about. So it's time for a bulletized list!
- The second in our series of Zombie Fluxx postcards
(featuring a punch-out promo card) is now available in our webstore
for anyone who didn't get one free in the mail. (Meanwhile, the
third postcard is now at the printers and will be going into
the mail at the end of the month...) This second card features
a zombie-themed Goal for your original Fluxx deck called Zombies
Eat Brains, which lets the player with Death win if the Brain
is somewhere on the table. (Sign up for the Fluxx
Fan Club to get in on the next postcard mailing!)
- The Purple Bag is returning! They'll be slightly different
this time... due to new production limitations we had to redo
the logo as a simplified single-color version instead of the
2 color style of the original. But other than they'll be the
same excellent
little bag, which I still use to carry around my own collection
of our games. Order
yours now to get in on the Special!
- Meanwhile, a bunch of our other old products are going away.
We're looking to reduce the number of items we're selling by
clearing out some of the slow-sellers which we don't plan to
republish, so check
out the deals (30%-50% off!) in the clearance center!
- Also available at our webstore is the new edition of Search
Ponder and Play, published by the Mormon game company Covenant
Communications. SP&P is based on my game Aquarius
and is published with our permission (since my name appears on
the box and stuff). It's just like Aquarius but with all-different
artwork. Meanwhile, my new Hippie
Festival game for the Stonehenge
system is featured in the new Nocturne
expansion which is scheduled to arrive next week!
- For my birthday, Dad took the family out to that skewers
of meat place, as I described in a
LiveJournal posting. Thanks Dad!
- Lastly, over at the
Looney Labs office (which is located in a neighborhood friend's
attic), a squirrel got into a space inside the wall (right between
my desk and Alison's) and when we reported this to the landlord,
they quickly blocked the hole in the wall through which the squirrel
had gained access. Unfortunately, this was a mommy squirrel who'd
already had several babies, and she freaked out when she discovered
she was locked out of her cozy little apartment, and she kept
a vigil on the roof for several days until we figured it out
and cut back into the wall to rescue her babies. The good news
is that everything turned out fine: she reclaimed her 3 little
ones and took them up to a more appropriate nest in the branches
of a tree.
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I
second the motion to switch to using cold water when washing
clothes. It happens that I've been doing all the laundry for
our household of three for many years, and that I stopped using
hot water long ago. My clients and I have been quite satisfied
with the results you get from cold laundering, and apparently
90% of the energy used for washing clothes is spent on heating
up the water, so it really can make a big difference. (Of course,
the really dedicated thing to do is to line dry your clothes
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"The court, jail, police, probation and legislative
resources being used up to no good end in pursuit and punishment
of marijuana criminals are enormous. Those resources could be
and should be devoted to more significant criminals whose activities
do far more damage to society than those whose crime is smoking
(and, sometimes, baking) a weed. The toll on the lives and productivity
of people convicted of using a substance that is less damaging,
both personally and socially, than the legal-to-use alcohol (or,
for that matter, nicotine, which kills even more people than
alcohol) is beyond measure. It is the law, not the drug, that
takes the toll; and, as in the days of prohibition, the law rewards
a few, some of them very bad people, who get enormously wealthy
breaking that law, and damages the lives of many others, most
of them quite good people." -- Dick Dorworth,
"Kudos
to 'grass roots' movement," Idaho Mountain Express,
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those
who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
(seen quoted in Laurie Rich's email .sig) |
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