Book meme

"He will not, from mere whim or carelessness, depart from the basic rules of grammar and syntax established by the practice of his predecessors over two hundred years and more."
-- F.R.D. Goodyear, The Annals of Tacitus, vol. 1 (Cambridge 1972).

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions

Seems it should have a number 5, "Or terrible harm will befall you!" -- but, fortunately, it does not.

Dorkery, part 2

As is often the way of things, while sitting in a cafe reading over a printout of my most recent dissertation scribblings and listening to what was, for a while, some decent music (Siouxsie, Bowie, some They Might Be Giants) that soon turned to less decent freeform jammin'-while-I'm-high music, I was suddenly struck with an urge to run another one-shot game this summer. The idea had been percolating for a few days, ever since Sarcy and OHBK's Mortals game and some comments by Aufheben about aspects of his home Sabbat game.

A classic one-shot live-action game set-up involves, as we all know, that idea stolen from the murder mystery: someone invites a bunch of people to a spooky location, and then they start dying. In the spirit of this old chestnut, I (might) bring you:

( Pentex Office Party! )

I'm not saying it's going to happen, as it depends entirely on my progress on the diss. -- so if I keep going on like I have been, no game for you.