Moe Lane

La Grange, ZZ Top

I got the first verse out right away, and then the inspiration just sort of stopped. Maybe it was the choice of song for filking.  Still, dammit, “Ziggy Stardust” just worked.  Anyway:

Prince, he played guitar
Jamming tight, yet willy-nilly
In the clubs and the bars;
He played to command
Knew he was the star
Became the Symbol Man
And we were Prince’s fans…

This year.  This goram year.

This looks very cool.  Both the show, and the ‘motion poster.’ The future has its points.

Orphan. Warrior. Hero. #NYCC #IronFist @JoeQuesada pic.twitter.com/9I25FRVoHO

— Iron Fist (@MarvelIronFist) October 6, 2016

THIS IS NO DRILL.  I REPEAT: THIS IS NO DRILL.

All Waffle House restaurants on 1-95 between Titusville, FL and Fort Pierce, FL are closed. Stay safe Waffle Nation! #HurricaneMatthew

— Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) October 6, 2016

H/T: @multiplexer

I have no taste to see someone get hit by debris on national television.  It’s a minor miracle that it doesn’t happen more often, really.

Ah, it's "Let's Kill Our Reporters By Making Them Stand Out In Life-Threatening Hurricanes" season.

— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) October 7, 2016

I know enough music to laugh like a loon over this – and, really: the thread will educate you up to laugh-like-a-loon levels as it goes. This is educational, in other words. And, again, laugh-like-a-loon funny.

Via @fabricdragon

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(This is a noncommercial, fan-generated writeup for The Day After Ragnarok RPG.)

Kiwanis Independent (Day After Ragnarok)

Type of Organization: extra-national mutual aid society
Current Goal: Stopping the downward spiral of the Serpentfall
Membership: 15,000-25,000 (estimated, and scattered all over North America)
Headquarters: Indianapolis (since 1947)
Strongholds: Canada, Mayoralities, Texas, USA
Where they’re fighting: Iowa Soviet, Konfederacy, Poisoned Lands

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Shenandoah, Arlo Guthrie

Avert thine eyes from my public shame.

Angles matter… pic.twitter.com/KleZpal3mS

— Dennis Detwiller (@drgonzo123) October 6, 2016

Pelgrane Press accidentally overcharged me ten bucks for a copy of The Esoterrorists‘ Worldbreaker, so they gave me fifteen bucks in store credit to make up for it. Well, they also offered to just refund my money, but they know their customer base: I cheerfully said Feel free to make that mistake again, friends to the computer screen and then promptly ordered that copy of The Gaean Reach that I had been eyeing.  And that’s because six bucks net is a lot easier for me to scrounge up than twenty-odd for what is basically an impulse buy of a game I probably won’t get around to playing.

All in all, that is how you handle a customer problem: own up to it, show remorse, offer meaningful restitution – and you can end up keeping your customers happy and even make another sale.

This promises to be fun. Rome is a pretty classy* place to have an extended firefight in: and maybe there’ll be a subplot involving a corrupt cardinal! Those are always good for a few scenes involving slow motion and an opera aria.

Via GeekTyrant.

The social event of the year. #JohnWick2 teaser trailer. This Saturday. #NYCC #JohnWick2NYCC pic.twitter.com/9HUc8ZL1bF

— John Wick: Chapter 2 (@JohnWickMovie) October 6, 2016

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