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I've just received the 25th anniversary re-release (with t-shirt of course) of Script of the Bridge and it has lost none of its magic. If you like modern music and you don't have a copy of this album I can safely say there is a serious gap in your collection. The work on the remastered album is flawless, the bonus disc (unreleased and live in Bremman, 1983) is likewise of excellent quality. On a related note, I have booked tickets to see the new movie fragments ("Tiny Colours") of the highly skilled musician and multimedia artist John Foxx.
Gaming-wise, the last two Sundays I've had the opportunity to convert my existing Legend of the Five Rings game to something that does a fantastic version of feudal Japan much better; Bushido. I was surprised by how smoothly the first session run, even though we were using a modified AD&D module, Blood of the Yakuza. Last Sunday I finally started what I hope to be a long term "classic RuneQuest" campaign, based on RuneQuest (3rd ed) starting with Sun County. Finally, in a typically heroic fashion, in my HeroQuest Glorantha game one of the PCs has managed to have his character coronated and married on the same day; but with a Lancelot-Guinevere subplot also occuring.
Although I am not Jewish, and indeed, I abhor the patriarchial nonsense and violence implicit in the story of Makot Mitzrayim, this year I did carry out the Ma Nishtana; which did cause me to raise an interesting question on the eating of Matzoh. The edict in Exodus (Chapter 13 v3 and v6) is that unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. However, as indicated prior (Chapter 12, v34) the bread was not made to be unleavened, but rather it was taken from the ovens before it could rise. Now surely replicating that method would be a more accurate implementation of the edict? I put the question out to the Jews on my flist answer. Apropos to this, last Sunday at the Unitarians was an excellent presentation on the relative facticity (i.e., very little) and social conditions that gave rise to the New Testament by Chris Gaffney, who apart from Biblical scholarship is more well known as an editor of the Labor College Review (which oddly does not have a website).
Gaming-wise, the last two Sundays I've had the opportunity to convert my existing Legend of the Five Rings game to something that does a fantastic version of feudal Japan much better; Bushido. I was surprised by how smoothly the first session run, even though we were using a modified AD&D module, Blood of the Yakuza. Last Sunday I finally started what I hope to be a long term "classic RuneQuest" campaign, based on RuneQuest (3rd ed) starting with Sun County. Finally, in a typically heroic fashion, in my HeroQuest Glorantha game one of the PCs has managed to have his character coronated and married on the same day; but with a Lancelot-Guinevere subplot also occuring.
Although I am not Jewish, and indeed, I abhor the patriarchial nonsense and violence implicit in the story of Makot Mitzrayim, this year I did carry out the Ma Nishtana; which did cause me to raise an interesting question on the eating of Matzoh. The edict in Exodus (Chapter 13 v3 and v6) is that unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. However, as indicated prior (Chapter 12, v34) the bread was not made to be unleavened, but rather it was taken from the ovens before it could rise. Now surely replicating that method would be a more accurate implementation of the edict? I put the question out to the Jews on my flist answer. Apropos to this, last Sunday at the Unitarians was an excellent presentation on the relative facticity (i.e., very little) and social conditions that gave rise to the New Testament by Chris Gaffney, who apart from Biblical scholarship is more well known as an editor of the Labor College Review (which oddly does not have a website).