And the weeks will be like months...

"Should hopefully be posting again in a week or two..."  Yeah, right.  A mixture of long work days and a bit of burnout made that hiatus not so brief.  Oh, well.

(and despite not posting for about two months, I somehow managed to pick up some new followers instead of losing them - how did that happen?)

New posts coming up this week (unless something else explodes of course).

Brief hiatus

Should hopefully be posting again in a week or two...

Once again, delays

Our main computer has picked up some sort of bug, which had made logging in here problematic.  I can post from the laptop if needed, but for the moment getting the desktop fixed is the main priority, so there may not be any blog posts in the immediate future.

Attack of the real world

Haven't posted much recently, may not do so for at least a few more days.  Real life, and all the messy details that entails.  Apologies.

Rethinking the comic book reviews

It's been painfully obvious that my posting of late has dropped off.  In large part this mainly stems from a lack of desire to continue to write up the capsule comic book reviews.  I've been somewhat dissatisfied of late with how they've turned out.  Because I've avoided giving spoilers in my reviews, and because I'm not the wordsmith that other reviewers are, many of the reviews were pretty darned scant in their content (this was especially true with the middle chapters of extended story arcs - just how many times can you say, 'yeah, this is good, looking forward to the ending', anyways?).

Because of this growing dissatisfaction with the reviews, I've delayed actually writing the damned things, to the point where the backlog forces me to be even more skimpy, just to be able to get caught up.  And because I've felt guilty about letting the comic reviews (which are more 'time-sensitive' than anything else I post) slide, I've held off on writing other posts that I was actually more interested in.  Which has made the blog even more of a wasteland of late.

But I don't want to give up entirely on writing about comics.  I care a lot about the medium, and I like to see cool and interesting things done with it.  I also like to give the occasional shout-out to a well done title that perhaps doesn't get as much attention as it deserves.

So I'm thinking of doing the occasional review here and there, when something catches my interest enough that I want to write about it.  The occasional trade paperback or OGN, perhaps a serialized story arc that has been completed, and the occasional first issue or one-shot. Meanwhile, I'm hoping to write a little more on the gaming side, and occasionally get some other stuff written up as well, such as some more Rush reviews.

For those that actually did read the weekly comics reviews, I hope that someone out there saw something in them that caught their attention, that they might not have looked at otherwise.  If they did pick up something because of one of my reviews, and liked it, I'll count that as a win.

Not admitting defeat, just switching gears...

Sandy Peterson talks Call Of Cthulhu

(yes, I've been horribly negligent on my posting - not certain when work will calm down enough that I can post in a more timely fashion, to be honest)

Just passing on a link where Sandy Peterson, the creator of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, talks about the genesis and creation of the game.  There's some interesting stuff there for both COC fans and RPG historians:

"However, the good folks at Chaosium did not respect Lovecraft. Greg’s exact words were 'HPL is a terrible writer.' That was mild, compared to some other Chaosium opinions."

"In the very first game I ever ran of Call of Cthulhu (long before the rules were finished), my players found a book which enabled them to summon up a Foul Thing From Otherwhere (a dimensional shambler) and decided to do so. At the moment they completed the spell, the players suddenly chimed in with comments like 'I’m covering my eyes.' 'Turning my back.' 'Shielding my view so I don’t see the monster.' I had never seen this kind of activity in an RPG before - trying NOT to see the monster? What a concept. You may not credit it, but I had actually not realized that the Sanity stat, as I had written it, would lead to such behavior. To me it was serendipitous; emergent play. But I loved it. The players were actually acting like Lovecraft heroes instead of the mighty-thewed barbarian lunks of D&D." 

Well worth a read.

Photodump Friday 8/5

As has been obvious, I haven't posted anything for almost a week. It's been a rather hellish work week, and here sadly just hasn't been a lot of time (or inclination, to be honest) to write up anything. Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get a little posting done.

Delays

Having problems with the home computer, may be a few days before I'm posting again.

Wow, I Suck

Almost a week without any posts.  Have no less than four posts partially written, but haven't been able to pull the trigger on any of them, so to speak.

To distract you, here are some random photos snatched from the hard drive (click to enlarge, of course):

C'mon, you gotta have standards

I know I've been relatively quiet of late.  This week has been rather busy on multiple levels, which doesn't keep me from feeling like a slacker for not posting that much.  I should get back into the groove relatively soon (currently working on how I want to handle shields and armor in Trollslayers), but until then, here's a little something to amuse and distract you...

Occasionally, real world

Will eventually get back to posting, but this week has been a busy one.  A large part of it has been dealing with my wife's car accident - she's fine, just having to deal with all the insurance bullshit.

On a brighter note, we went to see Porgy & Bess by the Atlanta Opera last night:

Which was awesome.

No, I'm not dead

However, writing up the weapon stats for Trollslayers is taking a lot longer than I anticipated, for a variety of reasons.  Sorry. 

Hopefully I'll get this hashed out sooner rather than later.