My picks and such

There is a wonderful comic that spoofs the tabletop and LARP communities.  IIRC, it is Knights of the Dinner Table.  Kovalic (SP) just could not go around calling it WarHammer, as that would infringe on something legal, nor could he call one of the Vampire clans Brujah (but Bruhaha worked nicely).  I think I gave most of my copies away, but I will take a look in the dungeon and see what I find.  Seamstress will be overjoyed if I find them and bring them to you.

If not I have a large Knights of Dinner Table collection that I can lend out next time I'm home.  One of my favorite comics.  The larp ones are absolutly hilarious (it involves the characters being tricked into thniking there is a larp going on at a very dangerous biker bar).  Another larp one has the male characters get tricked by a hot gothic female vampire larper who uses her male "vampire" clan members to do chores and errands for her.


Look it up online as well, they put a lot of free strips on their website.  Hoody fricking hoo!

Its election season in the USA, so what better selection than Hunter S. Thompson's  "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72?"

A tour de force through the muck of America's favorite blood sport, Thompson, writing for Rolling Stone's National Affairs Desk had the only one on one interview that Richard Nixon granted the entire campagin - with the provisio that only football would be discussed!  Thompson's pithy summation  "Say what you will about the man (sic - Nixon), and there are times I doubt his v ery humanity, he does know his football."

FTW

Wonderful Matt.
You do win!  Even if the reference is from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, one of my "read every five years" books.  Copy is going down to Jamaica next trip.

Tonight while doing a little editiing, I saw that PBS was showing the 1967 film, "In the Heat of the Night" with two tour de force performances turned in by Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.  If you have never seen this one, I urge you in the strongest terms possible to do so.  From the first scene with Poitier, who plays a Philadelphia Homicide Detective (according to his chief, the best) being told upon being sighted by a deputy sheriff in Sparta MS, "On your feet boy" the range of emotions portrayed is extraordinary.  The looks on Steiger's (The police Chief) face when in response to his question "What do you do for that kind of money ($162.39/week, much more than he makes) in Philadelphia, boy?" Poitier responds "I'm a police officer."  is in and of itself worthy of the price of the rental.

I cannot give the entire scene where Poitier utters the film's most famous line, but the controlled fury in his voice and posture says much more that his words.  Whatever the rating in stars, this is a must watch for any serious film buff.