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Dawn's funeral last week was - and this does sound strange - was the best I have been to. The modest chapel was overflowing with people, the speeches were sincere, heartfeld, and moving. Unlike some other funerals I have been too, nobody tried to impose a sectarian religious doctrine on the affair either. A wake was held at the Essendon Gem Club, where David and Dawn were members. On other existential matters, attended the Unitarian service on Sunday where Helena Wagowska, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps, gave an excellent "testimony" which included a surprising amount of humour. Which is fortunate because immediately afterwards I was leading the Philosophy Forum to discuss the important subject of Wine and Philosophy. Next Sunday, I am giving an address at said locale on "The Book of Amos and the Arab Spring".
This week also witnessed the (late again) release of RPG Review. The sixteenth issue, includes an interview with Marc W. Miller, reviews of Dark Heresy, A|State, conversion notes for Savage Worlds with Skyrealms of Jorune, expanding Ringworld's root/branck skills, Mass Effecting the Thousand Suns, a movie review of Prometheus, and much more. It also includes the review I did on RPG.net for Space Opera and Eclipse Phase. On Thursday we finished our Space 1889 game, which is a great setting, but a messy system, and on Sunday played Dark Heresy. Currently making preparations for Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express at the asylum - a matter of which I had much opportunity to discuss with some at the most excellent 29th+ birthday party at the home of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sebastianne on Saturday.
A personal treat in the last week was purchasing an 1897 Longines watch, originally from the Brussels World's Fair. Surprisingly, it still keeps reasonably good time. Whilst it is an object of great beauty, but has reminded me what a peculiar mental admixture I can be, which is hardly unique - someone who has been heavily influenced by the cyberpunk subculture (what the cool kids call transhumanism these days), along with the sublime Gothic romanticism and the French enlightenment, along with the whole range of the world's mythologies. I both embrace the most serious of "big science" technologies in my work, and stubbornly resist consumer gadgets at home - case in point, it is only today that I switched on and started using an e-Reader (an original Kobo). What am I reading on it? War and Peace of course...
This week also witnessed the (late again) release of RPG Review. The sixteenth issue, includes an interview with Marc W. Miller, reviews of Dark Heresy, A|State, conversion notes for Savage Worlds with Skyrealms of Jorune, expanding Ringworld's root/branck skills, Mass Effecting the Thousand Suns, a movie review of Prometheus, and much more. It also includes the review I did on RPG.net for Space Opera and Eclipse Phase. On Thursday we finished our Space 1889 game, which is a great setting, but a messy system, and on Sunday played Dark Heresy. Currently making preparations for Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express at the asylum - a matter of which I had much opportunity to discuss with some at the most excellent 29th+ birthday party at the home of
sebastianne on Saturday.A personal treat in the last week was purchasing an 1897 Longines watch, originally from the Brussels World's Fair. Surprisingly, it still keeps reasonably good time. Whilst it is an object of great beauty, but has reminded me what a peculiar mental admixture I can be, which is hardly unique - someone who has been heavily influenced by the cyberpunk subculture (what the cool kids call transhumanism these days), along with the sublime Gothic romanticism and the French enlightenment, along with the whole range of the world's mythologies. I both embrace the most serious of "big science" technologies in my work, and stubbornly resist consumer gadgets at home - case in point, it is only today that I switched on and started using an e-Reader (an original Kobo). What am I reading on it? War and Peace of course...
