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The Chameleons and John Foxx, Gaming Updates, Religious Thoughts
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).
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http://www.gnosis.org/LAWeekly.htm
Really enjoyed meeting this guy and going to some lectures he did in Seattle at the Gnostic Society there. I wouldn't call myself an anything, but I sure dug the vibe at the Theosophical Society.
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In general I could be described as an empirical atheist, a normative agnostic and an aesthetic pagan :-)
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Were that not so unweildy a descriptor I'd have to steal it for myself. ;)
Can't you come up and populate an abbreviation for that? EANAAP? PANAAE? PEANANA?
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Unitarian-Universalist? ;-)
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(I am now thinking of Speedy Gonzalez as a Mexican Jew... "Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba!"...)
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And then Speedy's jewish/mexican grandmother: "DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A WARM COAT IN CASE IT RAINS LATER ON"
There's a lot about Pesach that's exciting in its own right..to be honest it's my favourite of all our festivals - there's just so much history and oral tradition, it's pretty much the only time I can connect to my religion (in a mainly cultural way) and say "for literally thousands of years, families like mine have gathered together on this day and told exactly the same story about what happened to the people I descended from" with historical proof and the everything.
Like all festivals it's rich in symbolism, but at least this time its DELICIOUS symbolism!
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(I have my manager at work convinced that in central Java, just north of Yogyakarta, there is actually a coffee god... I was making it up as I went along for narrative purposes and he seems to have taken a liking to the story)