*low whistle*

Courtesy of blackthornglade:

There are those who play D&D.
Then there are D&D hobbyists.
Then there are those who take the game too seriously to call it a "hobby."
And then? Then there's this gentleman.

That does it. I'm buying a house. And I'm doing this with it.

Weekendery

Report from my weekend, in utterly random order, much like my brain:

1) Re the A Midsummer Night's Dream reading: feste_sylvain was born to play Bottom. I can't say as I was necessarily born to play Francis Flute, but we had a good one-two act going on the Pyramus/Thisbe bit. Great fun. (He's also a trooper, carrying on even upon being dropped on his head.)

2) We had a Squeeing Chorus at the video screenings: four teen and almost-teen girls who banded together in the middle of the living room and greeting important romantic plot points with a heartfelt collective "Awwwww!" Recommended for future viewings.

3) Whoever ordered the weather for the weekend, thank you. It rocked.

4) Up until now, the tattoo I've been pondering for my 40th birthday has been this image from the title page of Masquerade. felisdemens apparently knows my obessions too well, because she suggested the illustration from the first edition cover of Watership Down.. Needless to say, she nailed it. (As she has recently acquired a tattoo of the Lorem Ipsum, i.e. the Greatest Tattoo Ever, I trust her judgment on such matters.)

5) Apparently there is some sort of federal by-law against air mattresses that don't leak. Sorry, guys.

6) Awesome things at fiddle_dragon's house:
* fiddle_dragon's kitchen
* fiddle_dragon's dog, Celefin
* fiddle_dragon

7) Statement overheard from a member of the Squeeing Chorus after the Chorus's first-ever viewing of Real Genius: "The 80's were awesome! My generation sucks!" Um. Maybe an emergency round of Winger videos and "Small Wonder" reruns are in order, to help exorcize whatever demon made her say that.

8) And speaking of Real Genius: Jordan. Still smitten, 25 years later. That is all.

9) Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland had amazing art direction, gorgeous cinematography and a typically wondrous performance from Johnny Depp. It's a shame they couldn't afford a script. (And whilst I agree with Ebert's assertion that a final action sequence wasn't called for, it was worth it just to get that Alice into that suit of armor. Just sayin'.)

10) Apparently all effort towards geekening my kids have proven successful, because when we stopped in Worcester to hang out with them, their chosen activities were lunch at a Chinese buffet, followed by a trip to the hugest comic shop I've ever seen: back-stock 'til Doomsday, board games, collectibles I would actually pay money for, used CDs, used DVDs, used vinyl, used expletive-deleted-ing Laserdiscs, for cryin' out loud. Oh, and Japanese ska playing on the stereo. I was warned by Kristi to keep my wallet chained up for the duration. Sage advice.

11) Further evidence of kid-geekening: when we launched into a discussion of Platonic solids, Abbey ran to get her D&D dice. I regret that we did not have sufficient time to play a couple of rooms, as she requested.

12) Greetings to my new-found appreciation for public transit. It was either that or parking in Davis Square, which...no. Just no.

13) We've now established that yes, I am indeed a wuss. We move on.

14) Many thanks to emilytheslayer for teaching us all that, although Hermia did not actually say, "Like, oh. My. GOD," she totally would have. Also to feste_sylvain's daughter for, "Relationship status: it's complicated."

15) Wanna move to Boston. This surprises no one. The weekend took a lot out of me in multiple deep-seated ways. Still recovering. Still want to move to Boston.

Shrinking violets and the humor-impaired need not apply. Lock-picking skills a plus.

felisdemens's fault:

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