thebitterguy

So I received an email from one of the Canadian gaming cons alerting me they’re looking for GMs to run events at the show.
The email was weird. It was sent from one of the concom’s business email addresses, so the bottom was a big thing of corporate signature file (including the logo of one the nation’s banks?). Of course, the sendees were in a public “to” list instead of BCC’d, so that’s a poor choice there.
One of the receivers was the sender’s own MSN & Gmail addresses, so I know he could have just used those to send out. Of course, they could also have made a convention email address and avoided all of this.
How to submit your event is a little unclear. There’s an email included which seems to be it, but there’s also a link to a Google Form to submit them. Which I’ve used, and it also seems like using safety tools is an optional choice at the con?
Ah, well. I’m gonna see what Via’s rate is for a train up to the nation’s capital on Victoria day weekend next Tuesday (always buy Via tickets on Tuesdays) and start hunting around for

Just a note that I'm currently planning to attend TABSCon XX on September 12. There's a few fun and relatively easy games on the schedule I plan to attend. Currently on my schedule is BSG, Pulp City & Fantastic Worlds.

It very much reminds me of a split second bit from the Simpsons. Bart's been taken shopping and, upon noticing a security camera in the change room, writes a sign that reads "Get Bent" which he then shows to the camera.

Two highly armed security guards see him doing that and prepare to respond, but then they notice another girl who is not wearing the same socks she came in with. Rifles loaded, they head out.

And nothing is ever heard from them again.

Man, I love this song.

When you ask yourself "Did I ever finish that comic miniseries I was reading?" and after looking around find out it has been on hiatus for six months and you just noticed it now.

Ah, The Twelve. You were a fun read.

So this week over at MGK.com he posted his regular (hey, this is four weeks now; that's regular) "Things I Liked This Week And Things I Didn't piece.

In it, he mentions this:

- President’s Choice makes passionfruit (and diet passionfruit) pop now? I sometimes think there is a little room at President’s Choice headquarters where there’s this one guy whose sole job is coming up with new flavors of pop. (I mean, it would explain the lychee soda they introduced last year.) But the passionfruit is easily their best entry since blackcurrant a couple of years ago (and why did they discontinue blackcurrant)?

Anyway, yesterday while shopping I picked up a bottle of the diet passionfruit pop. Very tasty. I strongly suspect the Lychee pop was made for cocktails.

And, as an interjection, I love the sound of the word passionfruit as spoken by someone with an Afrikaaner accent. I have no idea why. The pronounciation of the first syllable alone just makes me giggle.

Anyway: PC pops.

The post reminded me of a dark day for the PC brand. Back then, when the president was Dave Nicholl, they introduced a black cherry flavour of pop, which is delicious and probably explains why my belt size went up over the '90s.

They then introduced a variety called Chocolate Black Cherry, which combined PC Black Cherry with the taste of chocolate. It was sampled by a Global reporter visiting the PC Test kitchen, whose response was, well, what you'd expect from the description. To summarize: He d'int like it.

Now, this was on a Global tv program. It probably could have blown over if they'd ignored it. But Dave was apparently an easy man to anger. So Dave made that clip into part of his promotional plan. The commercials included the Global reporter gagging on his beverage, and daring consumers to try it themselves.

So, yeah, I tried it. And, oh lord, was it a betrayal of the prinicples of Black Cherry pop. Feh. It in fact sat in the fridge I shared with my roommates until they made me toss it out. And I hate tossing out food. It's been ingrained in me as one of the great sins. Even really, really bad food that is mostly sugar and carbonated water.

So, yeah, MGK, there's a lab of people whose sole purpose in life is brainstorming and creating pop flavours. Sometime it works. Sometime... it does not.

If you think it's a little Doors-esque, you're pretty right. Ray Manzarek on keyboards, even. This song would go well next to Genius in France.

They're making a sequel to Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. But they're setting it in Civil War.

Feh. Thanks for fucking that up.

So today was the semi-annual Bayshore Hobbies Games Day Sale.

I got up at stupid early o'clock to head down to Hamilton to meet up with pyat and doc_mystery.

If you go to either of their blogs you can see oodles of pictures.

We grabbed breakfast at a Cora's after getting our unfortunately shaped badges and hit the sale.



We may have gotten a little silly as the day progressed.

My haul was pretty restrained. I got a dented copy of Traders & Barbarians for Settlers of Cataan, the Bullwinkle & Rocky Roleplaying Board Game, and a few books, including finally getting a copy of Buried Secrets for Wraith. Didn't have the ST screen, unfortunately, but I have the book now.

I also picked up Cops, Crews and Cabals for Champions and the Player's Guide to Fighers & Barbarians and Kithbook Eshu.

This afternoon has been yard wokr, and tonight is Dr. Horrible. I have NEWS.