NaNoWriMo etc, New Zealand and Philosophy, Net Censorship and Sex Party

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I'm pretty sure I'll finish NaNoWriMo. I'm up to 41,000 words with three days to go. The reality is that even when I complete that will only be 1/3 to 1/4 of the number of words I want to write for this product. On a related topic, my review of Middle Earth Role Playing has been published on RPG.net, again with good responses. Have started the articles for the second edition of RPG Review with a Middle Earth/Rolemaster theme; Steven S. Long has agreed to an interview which is appropriate as his co-authorship of the Lord of the Rings roleplaying game.

Next week I'm off to New Zealand for the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference where I'll be talking about the use of Hannah Arendt and Habermas with respect to war, lying in politics, legitimation crises and independent organisation - all in the setting of "the Internet Age". After Auckland I think I'll take the train down to Palmerston North, hang of with family entities for a few days and then make my way down to Wellington where there's a few people I can catch up with.

Getup have started a campaign against the Federal government's idiotic plan to cripple Australian Internet access and make e-commerce utterly insecure. Sign up!. Just in time, the Australian Sex Party (no, not that sort of party) has been formed with a lot of media coverage and with just the sort of policies relating to sensual activities that make sense. It is quite possible that with the right level of organisation that this could be one of most important political events in recent history; the possibility of rational human emancipation will not be possible unless people think rationally about sex and sexual politics.

Comments

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

I don't really consider my work a "finished product"; I've added at least a thousand words to it since calling it in at 51010 on Nov. 25, and while I already have ideas about which parts could use expansion, I'm waiting for a second opinion from a couple of readers to see which parts they'd be interested in having me expand so I can consider a formal plan. I just hit their arbitrary goal count is all. The people who ended it at 128000 or so scare me quite a bit; they went at things less leisurely, perhaps; if that were the expectation of me, I'd wither.

[beagl.livejournal.com]

Hi! Need a place to stay in Wellington?

[zeemverse.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you want to catch up in Wellington :) My email is popelindessaixATyahooDOTcoDOTuk or phone on 384 8807...

[taavi.livejournal.com]

I ran a Middle Earth campaign last year using WFRP. The players were all hobbits in the shire, dealing with the infiltration and coup of Sackville-Baggins/"Sharkey". It went very well. Could write up a scenario or something from that if you like. Can't bear the MERP system though so don't ask me to translate it into that!

[phoebe82.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a pretty interesting emphasis for a party...

anyway, how come every single Kiwi i know doesn't actually live in NZ? it's TRUE! i know 3 and none of the live in NZ.

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

I'm watching the development of the Aust Sex Party with interest. I suspect they'll grow to be more than just a political-party corner of The Eros Foundation, but as a single-issue party I don't see them getting very far; while I support most of their stated policies, I can't see myself turning away from my current affiliations to concentrate on this single facet of the change our country needs. So the question becomes whether they will expand beyond that initial platform, and if so, how?

tehe

[vannak.livejournal.com]

everyone has a right to fuck robots! go the sex party!