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September 2009

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563 – Monster Soup • 05

by Kevin Pettway on September 30, 2009

As my Romanian friend next door likes to say, this video “has my heart.” Now I know that many of you are cute-o-phobes, and I’d suggest that you just skip this one. It is endearing and uplifting, and you likely won’t want to watch. I, on the other hand, got almost ten seconds into it [...]

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562 – Monster Soup • 04

by Kevin Pettway on September 28, 2009

Lena and I have been talking a lot about the afterlife recently. Is there one, what is it like, will you get to see your friends, do you have to see your family, does the cable ever go out, that sort of thing. If classical Christianity is to be believed then hell is forever burning [...]

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561 – Monster Soup • 03

by Kevin Pettway on September 25, 2009

I saved this for the Friday blog because it’s awesome, and I wanted you to have all weekend with it. This is an article I cadged out of my friend and fellow gamer Lloyd Brown, who among other things is responsible for much of the World of Kalamar campaign setting by Kenzer and Co. Enjoy! [...]

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560 – Monster Soup • 02

by Kevin Pettway on September 23, 2009

Every once in a while a video comes along that is just wrong enough to need to be shared with everyone in the whole world. I suggest watching it with a beer, for those of you who work at home. It starts amusingly enough, but then for me quickly became so ridiculous that I couldn’t [...]

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559 – Monster Soup • 01

by Kevin Pettway on September 21, 2009

I’ve started playing DDO recently. (D&D Online for the uninitiated.) It’s free and I figured, “What the hell? It’s got to be worth at least that much.” I love my WoW but Lena and I like to play together and she doesn’t like to play as much as I do and I get ahead and [...]

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558 – The Council of Erias • 09

by Kevin Pettway on September 18, 2009

Getcher Geek on: A Retelling of The Matrix Disclaimer: Any use of the word “Christian” below refers to all Christians other than you and people you know personally. Obviously I would never say anything bad about you guys. You guys are the best! So I was on this web site that was talking about how [...]

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557 – The Council of Erias • 08

by Kevin Pettway on September 16, 2009

Well it’s September now, and in six days (as of this posting) summer will officially be over. I’m sure we all know what that means… that it’s time now for stores to start decorating for Christmas, and for the Christians to start complaining that they aren’t allowed to celebrate it! In this spirit I am [...]

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556 – The Council of Erias • 07

by Kevin Pettway on September 14, 2009

As a younger man, I experienced several strange events that I was certain had been the result of supernatural… even ghostly… activities. Added to this was the weight of numerous tales from seemingly anyone I asked, recounting stories of their own. How, in the face of all of this anecdotal evidence, could I doubt? In [...]

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555 – The Council of Erias • 06

by Kevin Pettway on September 11, 2009

When I was… oh, in my early twenties… I had a D&D character named Santiago that I dearly loved. He was fast, light, happy, and witty, the perfect swashbuckler. He was heroic and good, the way I would like to be, if I weren’t constantly defeated by the banalities of the real world. He was [...]

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554 – The Council of Erias • 05

by Kevin Pettway on September 9, 2009

Lena and I have two cats we will not be “replacing” when they go, though we will likely always keep a dog in the house. Our dog now, Guinness, is one of the most mellow, loving animals I have ever met. He’s a good-looking guy too, and we are constantly getting greeted by folks in [...]

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553 – The Council of Erias • 04

by Kevin Pettway on September 7, 2009

Do you live in New York or LA… and just before you meet someone new and significant in your life you are treated to a aerial panorama of the skyscrapers of your city? Do you have familiar, slightly goofy music that accompanies you and highlights your misadventures? If you are a woman, do you work [...]

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552 – The Council of Erias • 03

by Kevin Pettway on September 4, 2009

Fourth edition D&D has one new thing in it that I love above all others, and that is the concept of minions. Minions bring the crazy, over-the-top bad-assery of movies and books home to your gaming table in a way no other game mechanic ever has. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a [...]

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551 – The Council of Erias • 02

by Kevin Pettway on September 2, 2009

Few people who have watched the new Battlestar Galactica series doubt the show’s brilliance or social relevance in today’s (or any other day’s) world. The issues addressed, as in any good science fiction, are universally human issues, that play across every time and strata of the human experience. But aside from all that high-falutin’ social [...]

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