My last few trips to the movies have been plagued by the trailer for next month's Michael Jackson propaganda piece concert film This Is It.  If the trailer is any indication, it consists of 90 to 120 minutes of crowds screaming and gushing over Michael Jackson, stagehands and backup musicians gushing over Michael Jackson and Jackson himself so the audience has something to gush over.  I suppose if you're the type of fan whose face is likely to show up in "crowd scene number 7," the whole thing will be right up your alley.

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Another month, another Round Table courtesy of Corvus.  Just the thing to help me shake out of the case of Final Fantasy XII I came down with last month.  I swear, that game just doesn't stop.

This month's challenge is to choose the work of another Round Tabler from last month's group and build on it.  Since waiting for someone to pick up my own humble addition is going to leave me with a lot of free time, I decided to pick up where mighty Steve of Nerdquest left off, chronicling the saga of Frank Herbert's seminal tabletop RPG masterpiece, Dune.

The idea came out as a narrative piece, focusing on the author's favorite module for the game, so I didn't really touch on the mechanics at all.  If this missed the point of the exercise, well...I do that sometimes.  We all have our talents.
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Hmph.  Apparently I'm not as clever as I'd like to think: in trying to riff on a lifetime of the One True Joke, I might've been unwittingly shilling for a few musical groups.

Who knows, maybe some fans will wander in by mistake.  I sure could use the company.

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This just in!  Dateline Alabama: After several hours of exhaustive research, top government scientists conclude that G4's presentation sucks.  Says the project leader, "G4 is like a tasty Big Kahuna Burger wrapped in a pile of dirty sweat socks.  Yeah, G4 is kind of like that."

Okay, that might not be completely fair.  I only follow a couple of shows in their lineup, so I can't say they're that bad all round.  But it's the way they package those shows which gets under my skin, especially Ninja Warrior.
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If my travels around the Internet have taught me anything, it's that I'm much better at reading blogs than I'll ever be at actually keeping one up.  Good grief...Labor Day?

Ah well, new year, fresh start and all that.  So what better way to get going than horning in amongst some much better bloggers?  You know, the sort with readers and pretty pages and...well, actual content (which might explain the readers).

I came across Shamus Young's contribution to the January round table at Man Bytes Blog, and like a silly ape, thought, Hey, that sounds interesting.  I think I could do something with that.

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So I got a nice surprise for Labor Day: some bozo got my debit card number and went to town at Target (apparently I can't attract the better class of identity thief) over the weekend.  I got to split most of today between the sheriff's office and the credit union, which is where I got my second fiscal shocker in as many days:

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All right, a second attempt at a blog.  Let's see if this one makes it past a month...

I think what killed the last one was that after a few weeks, it just started to feel like more of an obligation than anything else.  Even if no one's actually reading the darn thing I feel like I ought to come up with something; otherwise it's just another abandoned project.  So I slog through until it's no fun anymore, and lo and behold, another abandoned project.  It doesn't help that I'm a slow writer - my internal editor is a finicky old cuss.

Guess we'll see...or I will, anyway, if my past readership is any indication.

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