A group of gaming podcasters from the Gaming Broadcast Network (http://gbncom.com) have announced a special Podcast Crossover Event. 12 podcast crews have been randomly chosen to do a single episode of another podcast throughout the two last weeks of September. Also check out our RPG convention coverage at http://conlive.gamingpodcasters.com
Full disclosure - as regular readers know - (all 2 of you) I'm a regular on "All Games Considered", who just did our mix with "Gamer the Podcasting". It was fun - all the 'casters did a great job.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Whose Line Rap w/ Stephen Colbert
Two of my favorite sources for entertainment. I love Whose Line, and Colbert has definitely grown on me :). This is one of the better music scenes and Colin as usual is so very...well - he tries :)
Two of my favorite sources for entertainment. I love Whose Line, and Colbert has definitely grown on me :). This is one of the better music scenes and Colin as usual is so very...well - he tries :)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
If I can get serious for a moment...
This was supposed to be a game-type update but...I was perusing digg and found this story.
And it made me think - maybe this guy has a reason - a real reason other than name to be detained - but I really hope that he ends up getting treated fairly. And I feel for his family too.
It made me think about my situation as a child and grandchild of an immigrant. Don't ask how I got there - but the thought comes up a lot when I watch the news lately. Maybe it's because since my maiden name is also the name of an actual mafia family (we're not related - we're not related - we're not related - ok?) I heard endless questions about it - and since our house was singled out (on two different streets) for egging and other forms of vandalism, I'm sensitive about this shit sometimes.
My maternal grandfather was a LEGAL immigrant from Italy. (I feel like I have to add the LEGAL these days - I didn't used to feel I had to do that.) I have a lot of pride in my heritage, but I am an American first. Call me an Italian-American if you must, but I consider myself an American with a strong Italian heritage. That doesn't mean I don't know, understand, or appreciate the heritage of my country.
My father is also a LEGAL immigrant from Italy. He became a citizen when I was 10, and up until then he was a married resident. Always employed, supporting a wife and 4 kids with at least 2 (sometimes 3) jobs, he always paid his taxes, he even got a second electrical engineering degree from here because they said that his one from Italy wasn't good enough. So after graduating top of his class he started teaching and was a contributing, good, productive citizen, and still is even after retirement.
He withstood numerous insults (WOP was a popular one, especially since he came here when the first Godfather movie was out) and assholes putting him down because he has an accent. He never rose to the bait, even when I was letting it push all of my buttons when I witnessed things like that (and got my own fallout from the kids of these assholes).
He taught me the value of participating in the democratic process, and he taught me how lucky I was to live here and that I should never forget that I live in the freest nation on earth.
He also taught me that I should always ask questions, I should always look at both sides and make an informed decision. That I had a right to question my government and that questioning my government was going to keep them honest. That was the idea, anyway. He's far from perfect and of course has his flaws and I don't agree with him on all of his views. We can at least have thoughtful debates about our differences in opinion.
So anyway, imagine my surprise when I get an email passed on from a friend that originated with his Dad, who is very conservative, that basically says if your family hasn't been in this country for more than one generation - you have no right to talk.
It had several other points in it too regarding welfare and such, some of which I actually agreed were broken things in this country and needed to be fixed.
But that floored me. That really fucking hurt.
I try to be a more involved and informed citizen. I vote. I support my friends in the armed services those who have served and those still in service. I pay taxes.
I tried composing a response - as a matter of fact it isn't even on this computer it's such an old email - it's on another computer and if I can find it I will try to post it in its entirety. I don't want to give only one side of the story.
But anyway - I couldn't get past it - I don't even bring it up to him. It just occasionally hits me out of left field and this time I decided to write out how I felt.
So - hopefully I'll have more fun stuff to talk about later - thanks for putting up with the more serious stuff...
Libwench
And it made me think - maybe this guy has a reason - a real reason other than name to be detained - but I really hope that he ends up getting treated fairly. And I feel for his family too.
It made me think about my situation as a child and grandchild of an immigrant. Don't ask how I got there - but the thought comes up a lot when I watch the news lately. Maybe it's because since my maiden name is also the name of an actual mafia family (we're not related - we're not related - we're not related - ok?) I heard endless questions about it - and since our house was singled out (on two different streets) for egging and other forms of vandalism, I'm sensitive about this shit sometimes.
My maternal grandfather was a LEGAL immigrant from Italy. (I feel like I have to add the LEGAL these days - I didn't used to feel I had to do that.) I have a lot of pride in my heritage, but I am an American first. Call me an Italian-American if you must, but I consider myself an American with a strong Italian heritage. That doesn't mean I don't know, understand, or appreciate the heritage of my country.
My father is also a LEGAL immigrant from Italy. He became a citizen when I was 10, and up until then he was a married resident. Always employed, supporting a wife and 4 kids with at least 2 (sometimes 3) jobs, he always paid his taxes, he even got a second electrical engineering degree from here because they said that his one from Italy wasn't good enough. So after graduating top of his class he started teaching and was a contributing, good, productive citizen, and still is even after retirement.
He withstood numerous insults (WOP was a popular one, especially since he came here when the first Godfather movie was out) and assholes putting him down because he has an accent. He never rose to the bait, even when I was letting it push all of my buttons when I witnessed things like that (and got my own fallout from the kids of these assholes).
He taught me the value of participating in the democratic process, and he taught me how lucky I was to live here and that I should never forget that I live in the freest nation on earth.
He also taught me that I should always ask questions, I should always look at both sides and make an informed decision. That I had a right to question my government and that questioning my government was going to keep them honest. That was the idea, anyway. He's far from perfect and of course has his flaws and I don't agree with him on all of his views. We can at least have thoughtful debates about our differences in opinion.
So anyway, imagine my surprise when I get an email passed on from a friend that originated with his Dad, who is very conservative, that basically says if your family hasn't been in this country for more than one generation - you have no right to talk.
It had several other points in it too regarding welfare and such, some of which I actually agreed were broken things in this country and needed to be fixed.
But that floored me. That really fucking hurt.
I try to be a more involved and informed citizen. I vote. I support my friends in the armed services those who have served and those still in service. I pay taxes.
I tried composing a response - as a matter of fact it isn't even on this computer it's such an old email - it's on another computer and if I can find it I will try to post it in its entirety. I don't want to give only one side of the story.
But anyway - I couldn't get past it - I don't even bring it up to him. It just occasionally hits me out of left field and this time I decided to write out how I felt.
So - hopefully I'll have more fun stuff to talk about later - thanks for putting up with the more serious stuff...
Libwench
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