http://www.sillof.com/C-Gaslight.htm]Custom figures of Victorian versions of DC heroes, inspired by the Gotham by Gaslight Graphic Novels.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Has anyone seen any good MSN fanfiction that's post Prince of Darkness?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

...today is not only the beginning of Imbolc, it is sacred to the Norns.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Somebody needs to reformat A special steplette in the Futur steps forum. The text block seems to have lost is word wrap.

I was reminded this morning that this Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday and I turned to Rev and said, "Min gives birth this Sunday, right around Game
Time." I'm sure Wide wouldn't mind missing the Pre-Game show, although, having never watched the Pre-Game Super Bowl show, perhaps I'm wrong,
but certainly he'd hate missing the opening kick off, which seems like a good time for the baby to be born. I'm so evil.

Rev then suggested there would be a small tv in the birthing room. Personally, I don't see that going over too well but hey, worth a shot.

Then, of course, since Min is having twins (Maureen and Michael - you really should get to Little Legends more often) Rev saw Wide holding both kiddies
watching the game. Touchdown! DON"T SPIKE THE BABIES! If I hadn't been driving I could have hurt myself.

So, Fox, anyone else, Wide's reaction to Min going into labour during the pre-game show?

-Cindy

Are there any scanner groups working on Nobuhiro Watsuki's newest manga, "Embalming"? The prototype chapter in the last volume of Busou Renkin
looked amusingly weird.

--Sam

"Is this a warm moment or should we be disturbed?"

A few weeks back I read a fic (on SpaceBattles.com, I think) that involved various modern military forces fighting demon heralds after the Heavenly Host
betrayed Earth. I've searched SpaceBattles, but can't find the fic. I believe that I first saw the fic recommendation here (but can't find it here
either).

Can anyone help me find this story?

I've known about Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" album, at least vaguely since the early 1980's, but somehow never bought a copy.

Today I came across a mention of it over at Space Battles and it brought back memories of looking for it back in the mid 80's, which led to Yahoo searching
and Youtube.

Here is a Youtube video of the live version of Thunder Child from "War of the Worlds"

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As a rule I have been dissapointed in the movie and TV versions of "War of the Worlds" and until now have been dissapointed in all version set in
relatively modern times say after about 1905.

All the directors and script writers using relatively modern times feel forced to boost the Martians technology and end up making the aliens so powerful they
become completely untouchable and lose a lot of the flavor of the Martians in the original book often destroying the telling of the story.

I personally don't think the script writers and directors fully understand what made the book a classic work of science fiction.

Another pet peeve and evidence that the movie directors or script writers don't understand is the fact that I've never seen even a variation of the
Thunder Child's battle with the Martian Walkers set in film.

Part of the power of the book was not the martians advanced technology "Walking Over" man's best efforts, it was the frustration of the nearness
of that technology to what man already had. Just a little more another decade or maybe 30 years and they could have stood off the invasion, yes at great
cost, but it wouldn't have been the walk over that was occuring.

When I found out about the stage performance of the Thunder Child Battle I waited the 55 minutes it took to download it and was pleasantly surprised to see
someone understood. In spite of being set after 1900 the script writer had used that frustration from the book of almost being enough, almost being able to
stand, almost able to make a fight of it.

For you that have fast internet connections there are other youtube files of stage performances of the Jeff Wayne's album's, sadly I don't have
the hour or so it would take me to download each video.

howard melton

God bless

I've got a few notes on the organization of the Space Patrol, but they're not enough for a full Gazetteer entry... Anyone want to help develop this?

I realize we have a glaring oversight in the Tourism listing for the moon, which I'm hoping to rectify right now:

Tranquility Base National Park. The only United States National Park that is not actually on Earth, Tranquility Base encompasses a 25-square-mile region centered on the Apollo 11 landing site. A transparent lunar-glass wall over ten meters in height fences off the actual landing site from tourists in order to preserve Armstrong and Aldrin's footprints and the equipment they left behind, but the wall is handwavium-enhanced and will provide magnified images. A nearby Visitor's Center houses a museum, a theatre in which a 20-minute film about the Apollo 11 mission runs on continuous loop, and a scale model of the site which can be explored with interactive camera drones.

Alternately, we can have all the Apollo sites and maybe some of the unmanned probe sites as distributed parts of one much larger National Park.

Staff might be a mix of Fen and Park Service employees shipped up from Earth.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.