Monday morning: On a day off . . .
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2. Yesterday there was house-cleaning, and there was cooking. I made apple-raspberry calzones (for lack of a better word) and two batches of raspbery crisp. I also made eggs with sausage, onions, cheese and garlic for dinner. Saturday,
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3. I know it's a longshot, but if any of you have the Independent Film Channel on your cable system, you might want to check out Darkon” at 9 tonight.
I know some of you have heard about this. Here’s a clip from the Boston Globe:
People love to blah-blah-blah about how no one has imagination anymore, how Americans are losing the ability to fantasize due to the great brain suck of TV and the Internet. And yet we tend to raise eyebrows about those who engage in fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons -- games that are like attending an imagination aerobics class. As kids, the players are pigeonholed as "nerds" and"geeks," and when they're older, they're seen in less affectionate terms, as a kind of creepy fringe.
“Darkon," tonight at 9 onIFC, is a rewarding documentary that gives role-playing gamesters a less dismissive look-over. The movie zeroes in on a live-action game in Baltimore, in which hundreds of players battle for land in the mythic realm of Darkon. Every other weekend, they gather in parks to create this fantasy world, each having invented a heroic character who wears a medieval costume and carries foam-encrusted weaponry. Essentially, they are writing their own adventure saga, an unending fictional story built on the influence of Arthurian legend and "The Lord of the Rings."
As "Darkon" unfolds, directors Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer get at the deep importance of the game to its "warrior knights" -- as a social event, as a psychological salve, and as an empowering spiritual experience. But they also remind us, with admirable subtlety, that we are all roleplayers of sorts - at work, with our families, with our friends. There is very little condescension in this movie -- nothing that makes theseplayers seem particularly pathetic, or merely cute. Indeed, it celebrates their decision to find community and creativity in their lives, much in the way athletes find engagement in local sports competitions.
4. I am really looking forward to Bjorn’s Ceilidh, an SCA event in Albany next weekend. Baron Angus asked me if we were going to come. I said I didn’t know, and he said, “It will be fun if you come.” That -- and
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5. I have been amused reading the LJ community,
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6. I am sitting here cranking out three stories for the local weekly that I have been working for. I really enjoy writing, and the fact that it’s producing a money as well is, as my wife would say, “a birght, shiny bonus.”