Fri, 31 Oct 2003
First Friday 5 (Samhain 2003)
One of the social mailing lists I'm on has a tradition of posting
"Friday 5" lists, which are lists of five things that made you happy
during the week. That's an approximate way of putting it. Since I
don't believe that external things can make you happy (except perhaps
drugs, but not until they've become internal things), I'll
just say that my Friday 5s are things that "made my week", "pleased
me", or "cheered me up", without committing to what these terms mean
with respect to happiness.
Enough Neo-Stoic blathering. Since our list has just started
the Friday 5 tradition again, here's more or less what I posted.
I hope to make this a regular Annex feature.
In the order I think of them:
- I have an article in the November issue of The Games Journal,
which will be published late tonight or early tomorrow. It's Game
Systems Part 4, "Low-Tech Game Systems", on games you can play with
just pen, paper, your body, your voice, and pocket change. Even my
wife Marty likes it, and she's a tough critic. (Kudos also to Marty,
who helped a lot.)
- Last night we finally did our little family Halloween showing of
Incubus that
we've been planning for so long. It's a horror movie, the only
commercially-produced feature film in Esperanto, and stars a young
William Shatner. Pretty ambitious, yet low-tech and low-key, it was
meant to be a Bergmanesque "American-made foreign film" (hence the
Esperanto). I'm not sure whether knowing Esperanto helps or not; you
can understand the dialogue better (it's subtitled in English), but
you tend to wince at the atrocious Esperanto accents and grammar of
the actors. I know Marty likes it. I'm not sure how my sister-in-law
Meredith Hale felt, but I am glad to say her boyfriend Kisa Griffin
liked it and enjoyed its low key.
- They Might Be Giants is playing
at the Experience Music Project in Seattle on Sunday night. They're
also having a special "family show" with kid-friendly tunes from their
album NO!. I'm not sure if we'll go or even if there are tickets
available, but just knowing about this cheers me up.
- Things in the mail. I got a semi-scarce Sid Sackson game called
New
York in the mail this week, direct from a seller in Germany, and
hope to play it at game
night. Marty and I also bought a couple of gadgets.
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- I'm reading Ursula LeGuin's novel
The Other Wind. Fuck A Game of Thrones -- this is
what fantasy's meant to be about.
Truth in Blogging: The link for The Other Wind
will ensnare you in my dastardly Powell's affiliate program,
as described at Books
Ron Read. You're safe with the others, though -- or as safe
as you can be on Halloween...
Entered 13:37 [/personal/friday5]
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