Call of Cthulhu: Egypt Beckons!

May 19, 2025

Despite my pleas, we did not stop Mask of Nyarlathotep to play Horror on the Orient Express as we traveled ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS from Paris to Constantinople (not Istanbul). To Evelyn’s crushing disappointment, her (gay) fiance Freddy finally managed to get the party that they’d been hoping for sorted out, and she had to LEAVE before she could party with the Bright Young Things. Freddy, Betty, and possibly Margaret* will follow us later, when they’re recovered from their fun. (*Margaret: a sudden NPC brought on by Evelyn moaning, “I’m…

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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Sewing Machine (parts)

May 8, 2025

So as you will perhaps recall, last October I made my son a Halloween costume and put my sewing machine away. In February, when my MIL came to visit, she wanted to enact some repairs on some of our quilts, so my husband got the sewing machine out, and… …half of the base of the sewing machine had disappeared. The extension table/storage box part, you know? That fits around the needle plate/bobbin holder? It was gone. Inexplicably gone. My sewing machine is only ever in one of two places: inside…

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Theodore "Teddy" Logan, my Call of Cthulhu character, as depicted by Keanu Reeves in A Walk In The Clouds.

Call of Cthulhu: Albion Ends!

May 5, 2025

It was a dark and stormy night… We, disguised as cultists hiding in Edward Gavigan’s bedroom, simply open fire on the cultists below. Dylan (whose name, it turns out, is actually spelled Dillon) hits Gavigan with a shot from his (Dillon’s) elephant gun for 14 points of damage, which of course he just gets up from because he’s full of monster power. Dammit. Teddy opens fire with a Tommy gun, doesn’t do NEARLY as much damage as he hopes, AND jams the gun. Fortunately, Calliope turns her mechanical repair to…

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three things make a post

April 25, 2025

Thing One – my friend, comics artist Matthew Dow Smith, is taking commissions for characters, any characters, in his “kid comics” style over the weekend. I got him to do Chance earlier in the month, and I love her SO MUCH! See her? Isn’t she CUTE? He’s also taking teen kid-style commissions and I truly truly love him and this art style and it’s a super great way to support an artist for a very reasonable commission price if there’s a character you’d like to see done for you, so……

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Jon Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi discography revisitation – the 90s

April 23, 2025

So in my friend Mame’s and my ongoing quest to do a full Bon Jovi retrospective, we discussed whether we were including Jon’s solo albums, although BLAZE OF GLORY was a given, if for no other reason than it’s so strongly linked, thematically, to the early studio albums. But I did ask if we were also going to do DESTINATION ANYWHERE, and at that point, Mame, very thoughtfully, pointed out that if we were going to do both of Jon’s solo albums, then in the name of fairness, we should…

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