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« Reply #195 on: August 09, 2011, 07:51:49 PM » |
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Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy by Dennis Detwiller.
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« Reply #196 on: August 09, 2011, 10:56:37 PM » |
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Just finished Endgame, by Frank Brady, a bio on the chess player Bobby Fischer. Well worth the read.
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« Reply #197 on: September 01, 2011, 03:36:09 PM » |
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One of my friends just gave me this as an early birthday present: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Complete-Comic-Collection/dp/B001B5KYR2/My mind is being seriously blown by all the eldritch knowledge in this tome. I'm going to read it all and become the uber geek. Then summon...the Borg? A giant crystalline entity? A pah-wraith? ...ooh, Gul Dukat? *fans self* Definitely summoning Dukat. As close as I'll get to the third oath. |
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« Reply #198 on: September 01, 2011, 03:59:13 PM » |
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I'm about 60% through "A Dance with Dragons" (book 5 of the Song of Ice and Fire) and really enjoying it. I have also noticed something really interesting: George R. R. Martin is constantly referencing Lovecraft in this book, though not so much in the others. He has actually described someone as a "whisperer in darkness" and talked about the hairy men of Ib from ages past. Oh, and apparently there is the Cult of Stary Wisdom in the country of Bravose. Shine on you plagiaristic diamond!  Bob |
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« Reply #199 on: September 01, 2011, 04:00:40 PM » |
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One of my friends just gave me this as an early birthday present: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Complete-Comic-Collection/dp/B001B5KYR2/My mind is being seriously blown by all the eldritch knowledge in this tome. I'm going to read it all and become the uber geek. Then summon...the Borg? A giant crystalline entity? A pah-wraith? ...ooh, Gul Dukat? *fans self* Definitely summoning Dukat. As close as I'll get to the third oath. Make it so, my fellow Trekker. Make it so. Just make sure you have your ablative armor for the borg, the correct harmonics for the crystalline entity and when you summon Dukat, be in the fire caves. |
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams." H.P. Lovecraft - In a letter to Maurice W. Moe, January 1929
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We are the Borgcraft. Your knowledge will be correlated. Insanity is inevitable.
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« Reply #200 on: September 01, 2011, 05:47:51 PM » |
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Death by Theory -- A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Madness
by Adrian Praetzellis
A middle-aged archaelogist is entertaining her aspiring archaeologist nephew at some conference and is accosted by a dodgy colleague offering support for her tenure the next time it comes up in exchange for .... he can't tell her in public. Aunt and nephew agree to go to his hotel, where he first pretends to be a murder victim to get their attention, and then hands the seasoned archaeologist some photos of what looks to be a typical neolithic Venus/Mother type statuette. Then he tells her it's from a Northwest Coast dig. These are the things that either make a career or get one blackballed as a kook for eternity. She and her nephew fly out to a mythical Washington state and take a mythical ferry to a mythical island called Dougal's or Douglas or something (it changes) to check it out, do the dodgy man's bidding for a few weeks and whatever. On the ferry over the nephew is mentally hijacked by a Richard Shaver type character carrying a sack of rocks which he says are ancient artifacts from a highly developed civilization with an advanced material culture. After a few beers the nephew sees it all clearly. He and his aunt launch into a discussion of quackery afterwards. That's as far as I got.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #201 on: September 01, 2011, 07:46:25 PM » |
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One of my friends just gave me this as an early birthday present: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Complete-Comic-Collection/dp/B001B5KYR2/My mind is being seriously blown by all the eldritch knowledge in this tome. I'm going to read it all and become the uber geek. Then summon...the Borg? A giant crystalline entity? A pah-wraith? ...ooh, Gul Dukat? *fans self* Definitely summoning Dukat. As close as I'll get to the third oath. Make it so, my fellow Trekker. Make it so. Just make sure you have your ablative armor for the borg, the correct harmonics for the crystalline entity and when you summon Dukat, be in the fire caves. Dukat, in the fire caves, with Kai Winn....eww...ok, that fantasy just died. Also, he wasn't nearly as hot as a Bajoran.  |
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« Reply #202 on: September 01, 2011, 11:34:57 PM » |
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I tell ya what, Ruth... I'll summon up Dukat as a Cardassian for you if you summon Deanna Troi for me. Deal?
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams." H.P. Lovecraft - In a letter to Maurice W. Moe, January 1929
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« Reply #203 on: September 02, 2011, 10:19:06 AM » |
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I tell ya what, Ruth... I'll summon up Dukat as a Cardassian for you if you summon Deanna Troi for me. Deal?
I'll start working on it! (really, Troi not Dax?) |
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« Reply #204 on: September 02, 2011, 10:22:22 AM » |
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I tell ya what, Ruth... I'll summon up Dukat as a Cardassian for you if you summon Deanna Troi for me. Deal?
I'll start working on it! (really, Troi not Dax?) Hmm... Now that you mention it... Jadzia would be a lot more fun. |
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« Reply #205 on: September 02, 2011, 11:33:21 AM » |
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Wow, trekkie nerds talk Lovecraft. THAT is an eldritch horror. Bob |
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« Reply #206 on: September 02, 2011, 12:32:00 PM » |
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Wow, trekkie nerds talk Lovecraft. THAT is an eldritch horror. Bob I guess I was a Trekkie first. I've wanted Trill spots ever since I was a teen. All the way down. |
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« Reply #207 on: September 02, 2011, 01:40:07 PM » |
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Ok, married girl, stop talking about "all the way down". You're going to get us all thinking of unspeakable, unnatural acts. Bob PS - I still can't get the wife to dress up in the Princess Lea pink bikini; I hope you have better luck getting your hubby to dress like Gul Dukat. |
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« Reply #208 on: September 02, 2011, 01:46:38 PM » |
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When the hell did Princess Leia ever wear a pink bikini?
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« Reply #209 on: September 02, 2011, 02:07:56 PM » |
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Wow, trekkie nerds talk Lovecraft. THAT is an eldritch horror. Bob We are the Borgcraft. Your knowledge will be correlated. Insanity is inevitable. |
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