dance dance wherever you may be

"Dance, Bloodbender!" Ganesh or Kankiten or John Merrick cried. "Dance and live! Life is dancing! Dancing is life. Even the very atoms dance so that worlds might be. The soul must dance or the soul dies. The universe must dance or creation dies. Entropy. Heat death. The final, empty, cold blackness of nothing—that is the end of the dance. For you or for a thousand billion souls. So dance and hold back the cold and the darkness!" Do the esteemed few who are joining me at the Singing Gallery this Saturday have requests for supper or shall I just bring catch as catch can? And can rowlirowl email me details of our meeting on that day.

games people play

Gen-Con saw the publication of Hobby Games: The 100 Best, where 100 Names in the industry selected what they considered to be the best game (they didn't write) and wrote about it. Courtesy of doccross we have the I've done that game too meme! ( Read more... )

i should know who these are - do you?

One of the nice things about W. Mark Simmon's books is they are filled with fannish popular culture. For example: "Yes. You were not the first choice," it answered bluntly. "Really?" Well, snap! "There was a wizard in Chicago, a necromancer in St. Louis, a waitress in Bon Temps, and a weather warden—who hasn't spent much time in any one place, lately. We also considered a guardian in London." Now the wizard in Chicago is obviously Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher), the necromancer in St Louis is obviously Anita Blake (Anita Blake Series by Laurell Hamilton), and the waitress in Bon Temps is obviously Sookie Sackhouse (Southern Vampire Series by Chairlane Harris). Can anyone suggest an identity for the weather-warden or guardian. I initially suspected the guardian was Giles (Josh Whedon) but I'm disinclined to believe that is the case after due reflection.