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Today’s daily cartoon by Benjamin Schwartz.
HA!
Source: newyorker.com
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With trailers for nearly all of them!
I want to see most of these!
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David Letterman gives emotional 10-minute tribute to Robin Williams
What a great tribute.
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This past May, my girlfriend Kim (@kimreadsblogs) and I attended TCAF (the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) and picked up a ridiculous number of comics. Some we had intentions of getting before we walked in the door and others we grabbed because of the sales pitch from the creator or because we...
Chris captures my thoughts about this beautiful piece exactly!
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My family has always been private about our time spent together. It was our way of keeping one thing that was ours, with a man we shared with an entire world. But now that’s gone, and I feel stripped bare. My last day with him was his birthday, and I will be forever grateful that my brothers and I got to spend that time alone with him, sharing gifts and laughter. He was always warm, even in his darkest moments. While I’ll never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay, there’s minor comfort in knowing our grief and loss, in some small way, is shared with millions. It doesn’t help the pain, but at least it’s a burden countless others now know we carry, and so many have offered to help lighten the load. Thank you for that.
To those he touched who are sending kind words, know that one of his favorite things in the world was to make you all laugh. As for those who are sending negativity, know that some small, giggling part of him is sending a flock of pigeons to your house to poop on your car. Right after you’ve had it washed. After all, he loved to laugh too…
Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world, but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence. We’ll just have to work twice as hard to fill it back up again.
My only statement. My brothers’ are also online. Thank you for all your kindness, and goodbye for awhile guys. xo (via zeldawilliams)
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Board games of the last week or so
Every week (ideally) we get together with some friends for board games. It started out innocently enough, years ago, with a game called Quelf and maybe a few other games. Now we have an entire bookshelf of board games and are well known at our local gaming store.
After seeing it played on Wil Wheaton’s TableTop show, I have been wanting to pick up Betrayal at House on the Hill. The problem was that it had been out of stock for months. Fortunately, it’s just been reprinted and we gave it our inaugural try last week.
The basic premise is you’re a group of adventurers exploring a house (which is different every game as you build it with tiles as you explore it), finding items and dealing with events. At some point in the game, a specific event called the Haunt happens and one of the players becomes a bad guy. Now you have a scenario with the bad guy and his goals he has to accomplish to win and the rest of the adventurers with their specific goals. There are something like 50 different scenarios, so we shouldn’t see the same game twice for quite a while.
We had a great time with it. Unfortunately the traitor took out my two partners quickly and I was stuck wandering around the basement looking for an exit while a quickly growing blob made its way to assimilate me.
My better half blogs abut our board game adventures this week. There was a lot of fun to be had!
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Bryan Lee O’Malley at Barnes & Noble, Upper East Side, 8/4/14
Fact.