I don't know why this occured to me... surely I've offended some kami somehow and it's my punishment... but it's too awful to keep to myself.
Picture Orochimaru... blind drunk... in a kareoke bar... singing "It's Raining Men."
OH GODS, MY EYES! IT BURNS, IT BURNS LIKE A TERRIBLE HOT BURNY THING!! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!!!
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

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No King! No Queen! No Lord! We won't get fooled again!

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The universe is more complicated than it looks from outside

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It should be self-explanatory, but I've added a forum for the members of The Legendary to post in -- at least the ones that frequent this board. I'll put the URL into the SG message the next time I'm on as Evangelia; maybe we'll see some new folks come in via COH.

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

This forum is for use by members of The Legendary, the City of Heroes supergroup which I inherited and which I now lead. Please limit postings here to supergroup business. If you've come to this forum solely because of your membership in The Legendary, and don't know me from Adam, please feel free to browse the rest of the board and join the fun there.

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

When I look out into your eyes out there,
When I look out into your faces,
You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Elvis
In each and every one of you out there.
Lemme tell ya...
Weeeeeeeeeellllllll...
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere, man!
He's in everything.
He's in everybody...
Elvis is in your jeans.
He's in your cheesburgers
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!
He's in everybody.
He's in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Elvis in 'em too
Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Elvis in them!
Everybody except one person that is...
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis.
The Anti-Elvis
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em,
lemme tell ya.
Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him.
And Elvis is in Joan Rivers
but he's trying to get out, man!
He's trying to get out!
Listen up Joanie Baby!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Man, there's a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck's going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is.
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,
people from outer space they come up to me.
They don't look like like Doctor Spock.
They don't look like Klingons,
all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis.
ELVIS!
Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis.
Cause Elvis is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis.
Everything everywhere will be Elvis.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway?
It's really Elvislution!
Elvislution!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
That's right ladies and gentlemen,
The time has come!
Time has come to talk
To that little bit of Elvis inside of you.
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say "Elvis, heal me!"
"Save me, Elvis!"
"Make me be born again
in the perfect Elvis light"
That's right!
You've got that Elvis inside of ya
and he's talkin to ya
He says he wants you to sing!
Everybody's got to sing like the king!
Like the king
Get that leg going now
Get your lip too.
Not no fool Billy Idol lip either
Everybody!
Yeah, we're rockin now!
Elvis is with us.
He's with us and he's speaking to us.
He says "Peoples!"
"Peoples!"
"Everybody!"
"Everybody got to sing!"
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis!

Elvis Is Everywhere, by Mojo Nixon
(It's amazing what CBC Radio plays some days... I never expected to hear this song anywhere but on Dr. Demento.)
Possible efect: Everyone in the area of effect (except for the Anti-Elvis, if he's present) becomes an Elvis impersonator complete with rinestone-encrusted white jumpsuit but without guitar. (Doug's subconscious is smart enough to not purposefully set up a situation where the song can be interfered with.) People's original clothing and equipment return at the end of the song. The only equipment that doesn't disappear is the song's playback mechanism, although Doug's usual helmet would clash horridly with his white rinestone-encrusted jumpsuit.
Warning: If this song is used while on a ship at sea, the ship will be "taken" by a giant Elvis. ("Ia! Ia! Elvis ftaghan!")
Why use the song? First, if Doug's surrounded by hostile gunmen, he'll become surrounded by hostile Elvii. (If I'm feeling particularly silly, this might happen during Blue Skies, Blue Water...) Second, it does wonders for temporarily removing opponents' powered armour.
Why not use the song? Seeing Wetter Hexe, Shadowalker, Dwimanor, Kat, Silverbolt, Skitz, Ai Zhao Min, and Proteus in matching rinestone-encrusted white jumpsuits just might reduce the Warriors' intimidation factor a bit... Also, it does wonders for temporarily removing allies' powered armour.
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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"But... who IS Mizuki?" he asked, completely cluelessly. The Hokage sweatdropped. One of the most hailed Jounin in all the land, legendary master of over one thousand Jutsus (though no one has really confirmed that), and genius tactician, and he couldn't even keep track of his own peers. The old man sighed. Somehow, he probably should have expected this. He handed over some documents to the Jounin, who accepted them. He looked through the quickly.
"Huh. Chuunin level, Ninja academy instructor, specializes in weapons," he noted. "But this isn't part of my jurisdiction. I'm a field agent. This sort of business is something that ANBU Second 'Internal Affairs' Division should handle, isn't it?" The old man nodded.
"Yes... but it seems that they all caught the flu." Kakashi sweatdropped.
"All of them?" he asked. The Sandaime shrugged.
"...So it seems." Kakashi stared at him disbelievingly.
"...How did that happen?" he asked incredulously. The old man shrugged again.
"Apparently, Sakuragi-kun was the one who originally caught it. They went out drinking last night, and this morning, all of them were too sick to get out of bed."

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Just got thinking about why, in the Potterverse, technology from electromechanics on up goes cattywumpus around magic, and I got thinking about Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Remember, Thomas Edison was called the "Wizard of Menlo Park," and Nikola Tesla was not very far behind in jaw dropping wondrous devices.
IT might just be the sheer amount of basic magical forces at work in even the simplest mass-produced trinket. Because of the magical laws of Similarity and Contagion, any common electronic device is the same as any other from the same factory... rather, every gadget from the same batch is one big gestalt item. Thus, as magic tries to interact with transistor radio A, it also interacts with the seventy thousand other similar ones elsewhere in the world, overloading the one in closest proximity to magic. Then, of course, you add in the fact that each microchip is really several hundred identical switches...
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozing out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks . . .
Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozing along on your living room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, look at me go
I am the slime from your video
Oozing along on your living room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, look at me go
-- Frank Zappa, I Am The Slime

Well, I finally tossed out the beginning of a fanfic that I am working on... Comments appreciated.
www.livejournal.com/users/balentius/
(I'm still new to this "livejournal" thing, so I don't have a link to the specific entry, but there is only 2 entries at this point so it should be easy to find.)

This is what happens when a frustrated graphic designer armed with a copy of Adobe InDesign gets bored:
fnord.sandwich.net/dw2/dw2.pdf (1.5 MB)
This is a printable version of DW2's first ten chapters, all nicely laid out and formatted for 5.5"x8.5" pages - about the same size as a trade paperback or hardcover. 352pp. I figure the final pagecount will be around 550pp once I get the last five parts formatted and placed.
So far, I think it looks pretty good. The copyright/credit pages are going to kick my ass by the time I'm done, though. Especially the song credits. Oy. %P---
Mr. Fnord, interdimensional man of mystery.
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