Society for Aesthetic Deletions

Someone with a smart eye has already taken Jayne, but be sure to read about the rest, and maybe make a note to not take any Premarin, if prescribed for menopause.

Courtesy of tafkar's LJ.

GrimJack - returning to Cynosure in 2005

I can't wait!

So, you're running a GURPS Firefly game at GenCon SoCal, and who should show up at your game table but Nathan Fillion, Captain Malcolm Reynolds himself, to take a seat and a look at your game.

Talk about freaky-cool!

Courtesy of an LJ post.

According to ComingSoon.net, there will be a theatrical movie set in the Babylon 5 universe. And it looks like techno-mage Galen (from Crusade) will be a major character.

Courtesy of Slashdot.

I think, after reading this excerpt, I might want to read this book.

Courtesy of Quinnclub's LJ.

I want to see the table that creates this sandwich.

Just in case you wanted a nice slipcover to keep all the Extended Editions of the Lord of the Rings Movies together, you can now order one for only $3!

Of course, this requires having a DVD rack/case that enables you to display all your DVDs in one place, instead of shoved in where ever you can find space, because you have too many damned DVDs for the frelling thing, and need to buy something else, but just haven't managed to do so yet, nevermind where you would put it in your overcrowded apartment.

I'm sorry, did I overshare?

Courtesy of Peg Kerr's LJ.

Way back in my early days on what would become the Internet, back before going to meet strangers you only knew online wasn't quite as strange and dangerous as it is today, I drove from my home in Rhode Island to the New Jersey home of a man I met online, who went by the handle of Magic Man. There was a purpose for this gathering: someone else I knew online was going to be in town for a wedding, and a bunch of us decided to head down and meet up.

We had so much fun we decided to do it the next weekend as well, this time at one of the other people's houses, a woman who went by the handle of Silverwolf.

Of course, two weekends in a row was killer on my sleep habits, so we decided we'd start doing it once a month. And the minicons of Compuserve were born!

At both of these first gatherings, there was a man there nicknamed PT, a nickname derived from his last name. When we were at Silvy's (the shortened form of Silverwolf's nickname) house, we listed to a mix CD that PT had made for her, called Radio Free Mordor. It had some good music that I knew, some strange music that I didn't, and some really strange stuff that I wasn't sure I'd want within ten feet of me. But when PT offered to make me a mix tape, I said sure.

The resultant tape was called "Razzle Dazzle," a play on my online handle at the time (which most of you should remember/know by now - Dazzler). I've listened to this tape over and over, many times when we'd go on long trips. The songs are an eclectic mix, and there was no track listing, so I had no idea who sang what, or what even the names of some of the songs were! Over time, I have figured most of them out, and some times even sought out more songs by the artist based on the songs on the mix.

Well, this tape was made for me back in 1989. It's stood the test of time VERY well, but it's a 90 minute tape, very full of songs, and I worried each time I put it into my tape player. I wanted to make electronic copies of the songs therein, so I could listen to them on my iPod without fear of breaking the tape and losing them forever.

Thanks to a co-worker, I now have in my possession two very large .wav files, consisting of each side of the tape. I'm using the trial version of Peak to cut up the file into individual tracks, choosing not to import the songs I already have electronically from my own CDs (besides, that skip in his album always messes me up when I try to sing "Black Coffee In Bed" along with the tape).

I took the CDs home yesterday, forgetting that I'd only copied one of them to my hard drive for editing. Tomorrow or Thursday or Friday, I'll be cutting and saving more tracks. For now, I have the tracks of the "B" side of the tape for your viewing pleasure.

Many thanks to the internet for having many lyric repositories and fan websites that enabled me to figure out just who was singing what!

Okay, I've finished chopping up the first side of PT's tape, and without further ado, I present, beneath the cut, the tracks of that tape. There is at least one I'm not quite 100% on (that would be the singer of "La Vie En Rose"), but c'est la vie. *heh*

I'll have to take Lou to these meetings too, I think.

'Law and Order' Actor Jerry Orbach Dead at 69

No more Lennie Briscoe. Anne, what's that link to the site with the Briscoe sayings?

Google now has a page for information and donation links for the Tsunami Relief.