2.27.2006

It's actually from this TV show I watched...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/arts/27drag.html?_r=1&8hpib&oref=slogin

Check it out, Vin Diesel is a gamer. If you can't get into NY Times, well, sorry.

I wonder if he played a dwarf thief named Carlos.

What secret does she know?

I'm excited today because I just read that Brittany Spears is bored with current pop music and is going to revitalize it. I don't know how, but I'm sure she has a plan. Maybe her plan is kind of like Brogg's... BURN IT ALL DOWN.

Scraps Ahoy!

Yeah, what's up with the Neo-Nazi imagery in Scraps Ahoy? Those people are sick.

Keep us posted, Paul.

I think that we should work on some kind of cool synchronized mega attack for swarms of Zombies, Kobolds, etc... Something like Brogg casting Resist Fire, then charging our foes with a barrel of oil. You guys can send in a rain of flaming incendiaries.

We could call it "Phoenix Rising" or something cool.

Marivhon the Monk.

Yvette has to go to Drowning Rat near the end of May, kind of a mock of Burning man. I will be coming to Michigan around the first week of June. I'll keep you updated as I know more.

2.26.2006

Foul

Well, don't forget the module is D1: The Rod of Orcus. Foul is sort of the thing, here.

Scraps ahoy. As Ed pointed out, though, the individual blogs are fucking priceless. I'd just like to take a few pixels here and say thanks to all the scrapsahoy ladies. Sincerity. Blogs are a kind of abstract sentimental porn; it's just all out there, exposed to the world.

Marivhon

I was thinking of flying in on around the 18th of may and leaving the 25th. I need to do some research as to when school gets out for the majority of the kids. I want to go to cedar point before the rush starts. I am going to try to talk to Judy to see if we could stay in robs old room or something like that. Try to dig up some stuff on the old boy. We might get a hotel I don't know. We are definately renting a car. Which means I need to get my drivers license again. BLAHJ ABLAH BLAH>

2.25.2006

Oh no, Teddy...

Teddy Ruxpin Teabag.

There, that should draw some hits.

Paul, is it true that you might make the Motor City this spring? Give us some time to prepare if that's the case. Perhaps Rob et al. could synchronize. Oui?

This is a lot of Zombies... I don't think that Cinder read my post.

Marivhon

So someone Is looking for Cinder eh? Well they are getting close to finding you my friend, you teabagging master chief. My only question is, why the dead?

It seems you should lay low a while and maybe not post for a bit.

2.24.2006

Is nothing sacred anymore?

Hey, anyone have an original version of The Chameleons' "Swamp Thing"? mp3 I mean. I would like it.

2.23.2006

prophecy, profits, and petoskey rocks

Yeah no shit, I thought everyone knew that 17 DX was +2 init/missile weapons, -3 AC. I mean, that's like not knowing about Petoskey rocks or something. God.

'undead prophecies' is another search phrase, as is 'cinder invisibility'. So someone's looking out for you there Cinder.

Marathon fiction reading continues on the home front, just finished 'Ada' by Nabokov, 'Dance Dance Dance' by Murakami, and I'm almost done with Umberto Eco's latest book, which is probably the most accessible thing he's written, i.e. it doesn't begin with 100 pages of pederasty, I mean, pedantry. 100 pages of pederasty would be Nabokov.

Now we're going to get 'Teddy Ruxpin pederast' as the hot google search that reels 'em in. I wonder what all these Teddy Ruxpin fetishists think of our website. Hey, as long as they click on our 'blog links' or whatever. Almost $20 in profit!

2.22.2006

More search terms.

It's good to know that people can find us based on relevant content. Two of today's search terms:

this lovely night teddy ruxpin

master chief teabagging dead corpse

Yeah, that's right.

buy a players.

cinder your ac is now one better at a +3 , or -3 that is, to your ac.

2.21.2006

I LOOOVVE PHOTO BLOGS!!!!

I love to look at ordinary objects in new and interesting ways.

I saw one today where this guy took a picture of a ladder reaally close. It was reeallly moving. I was sooo moved.

I also love when people take a fuzzy closeup of their face where you can't really tell if they are good looking or not. That mooooves me.

WOW PHOTO BLOGS ARE THE BEST!

BTW, Ed, I'll get that Dex stuff up. I just haven't gotten around to it.

Ass. It smells like ASS.

I just read that one out of every five American teens have their own blog. That's 4 million crappy blogs about what's goin' on at school and what Paris Hilton's new perfume smells like. And I love each and every one of them equally.

2.15.2006

Back

Hi all, okay, I'm back. At least for the next two and a half weeks, before I go out again and give not two talks, but four talks in twelve days. My trip was good, but for various reasons, I'll withhold details here and save it for private channels, i.e. our email group.

Let's get this thing back on-line. And yeah, stress levels still running high here until mid-late March, so DM: TESTY.

2.09.2006

Renwick's Links

Hey Chris, when you have a chance, send me some of your favorite links to be added to the DiD Links Page.

I don't want to leave Renwick out.

2.04.2006

Station break

No problem. Maybe I over-reacted? But it's not a big deal. Got other things on my mind.

So, I'll not be posting until Feb 15. Maybe a couple days earlier, but maybe not, and certainly not until the 11th. Off to the east coast to do battle...

2.03.2006

Marivhon

alright I'll drop the gaming pc vs dm dynamic for a sec. rob your rhymes have been good. You got mad at Yvette for making it personal which I don't think she did. but you attacked Chris for his spelling disadvantage, so let's admit it's all fair game. So with that in mind. I think that we as players have risen to the occasion, and you as a dm have presented a formidable challenge. In short, much love Rob.

Nope

Sorry, but you got the wrong guy. Dave wrote Mike the zombie's stuff.

Ed, do me a favor, and don't make me figure out the morse code. What's it say? Brilliant, by the way.

Yvette

Rob. I stand corrected.

My booty, it was a-quaken;
my mind, was busy elevatin';
And your hand,
I be a-shaken'.

Who knew a neurologist could turn a zombie into a rapper? That sounds like voodoo to me. Been hanging with any Santos as of late?

Peace to you Rob. Didn't mean to offend. But hell, if you wrote that rap after my posting, I have to say that I'm glad I did.

Re: to the Re:

I heart Mike the zombie's rap.

What I'm saying, though, is that it's one thing, e.g., for John Romeo to call you a sucka MC.

It's another thing for my real-life girlfriend to log on and say she thinks your writing sucks. I just thought it was Paul again until Dave posted and Paul clarified.

Anyway, you guys got two days left to compose any retorts before final judging. Do it up!

The wrong medium.

Institutional commentary in the wrong medium. I like that, I am going to use that one.

However, one might say the same thing about music as social commentary.

I might be tempted.

Nah, I won't. ...But I would be really tempted.

2.02.2006

Marivhon

It was Yvette.

"I'll have you know that my rhymes are mostly flawless in terms of execution. If I say so myself"

Rob it is you who says so, you yourself. It is only you who says so. Your defense of your raps is like all the defenses of any artform that have come before them, indicitive of an unfulfilled vision. So while we have all made mistakes in our posts, you are the only one claiming perfection. That in itself illustrates one of the greatest flaws present in art of any kind. That flaw being the creation of art which is not, in a sense, socially aceptable or in line with the established cannon.

Art created with no respect for the audience is perhaps one of the greatest examples of narcissism. So I will say that I have shown the raps to many people. Perhaps it is the ignorance of the masses that compels them to like our raps on the whole more than yours. If that is true then the raps we have made will shake more booties than yours because we will sell more records. If you are trying to have books written about how your raps were misunderstood, brillant, and tragically irrelevant because you were before your time then you are doing well.

Art is any medium through which meaning is conveyed. The extent to which art is successfull is the degree to which the need for a commentator or an educator is removed. This is why modern art will mostly be forgotten. It is institutional commentary in the wrong medium.

that is all for now.

A rebuttal to Rob's analysis

Okay, Rob. Spot on with the freshness of your flow. Sure. And it doesn't translate as well as written word as when there's, say, a high priest of Odin in full plate delivering some hella-sweet beat-boxin behind you. Gotcha.

But. The best rhyme so far, I think, was Cinder's "8pm Crys G - 9pm Bingo" line. I had to get up and leave the computer lab because there were too many mad skilz comin through the intertron.

Whatever, yo

Yeah, but regardless of whether it was really Paul or Yvette logging on, come on now. Dissing my meter? I'll have you know that my rhymes are mostly flawless in terms of execution. If I say so myself. The rhythm, meter, flow, and language is good-to-hella-sweet on average, and perfect in many cases. John Romeo ain't as good as Crystal G, but what do you want? Romeo's like a 8th level assassin, while the Crystal G is a Rhyme Elemental (large).

I guess the lyrical flow just doesn't translate well onto the written page.

Oh shit yo
I'm metal on target
Rhymes DARPA designed (beat)

I got
the technology
while you just got fined.

See how that runs on smooth? Well do you? Note the oh-shit-yo beginning-and-end rhyme of the first line. Note the repetitive 't' sound in the second line. 'Metal on target' is a main military catch phrase, which sounds kick ass and sets up the final phrase of the first line: 'rhymes DARPA designed'... note again the beginning-end rhyming, plus the 'darpa designed' alliteration that works so well. Each of these phrases has multiple lyrical components!

'I got/ the technology' ... again, the repeat of 't' sounds, with 'technology' riffing off the DARPA thing in the first line, but then there's a wordplay on 'got' in the last phrase, which sets up the return to the streets (parking illegally in someone else's space) in the third phrase (not shown here). The phoneme repeats of 't', 't', 't' is poetically in line with the concept of 'metal on target'.

Do you want more? Shall I analyze the rest of my rhymes? Look, this shit ain't just generated by a ten line BASIC program. If you can't sing along in your head and make the flow work... well dear readers, maybe we should set a grade-level bar for reading DiD. Trust me. The flow works. Mostly. (And not for the crystal diva, because she's singing a song, not spittin raps.)

I leave you just by mentioning the WORLD'S BEST RHYME:

Crystal rhymes resonate with a fresh freak-rency
You want more? Then call me: D-I-A-M-O-N-D.

It has everything you want. I'm going to put that couplet on my fucking TOMBSTONE. I'll leave the analysis as an exercise for the reader.

2.01.2006

Props to my homegirl

I just want to give Yvette a shout-out here as guest poster. "First time poster, long time reader, setting the DM down when he's frontin' about nothin'".

Mad props, yo.

yup

Wow is this stuff good. But just wait for what happens next...

Just so you all know, I'm out after Saturday, so I'm planning to wrap up this 'adventure' by Saturday night. If you got stuff to say, prepare to post...