From the monthly archives:

December 2009

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602 – Chorka • 11

by Kevin Pettway on December 30, 2009

The Wednesday Video I doubt that there is anyone who reads this blog who hasn’t seen Chad Vader before, but I thought that for the one or two of you who might have missed it, I’d start you off from the beginning. If you have seen them before, well, they’re still funny.

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601 – Chorka • 10

by Kevin Pettway on December 28, 2009

Dear DM, @Jamescrappedcorn: Dear DM, blah blah blah blah, everything’s about me, blah blah blah. Dear Jamescrappedcorn, My day? Glad you asked! Okay, to begin with, Lena has been nursing her hands all weekend long because she is a designer and works on the computer all day and gets the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome so she [...]

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600 – Chorka • 09

by Kevin Pettway on December 25, 2009

The True Meaning of Christmas This year a little history. For those of you who wish everyone would drop all the secular commercialism and get back to the real spirit of Christmas. Three examples of pre-Christian Christmastime. The extremely ancient Persians worshipped a god of the sun Named Mithra. (Not even his original name, the Persians [...]

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599 – Chorka • 08

by Kevin Pettway on December 23, 2009

Christmas is almost upon us, as is HOLE’s #600! In the spirit of the season and in keeping with the Wednesday Video, I now leave this kick-ass movie on your holiday plate. Bon appétit.

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598 – Chorka • 07

by Kevin Pettway on December 21, 2009

Dear DM… @Woohoo: Dear DM, I live in the UK but am going to the US over Christmas and have arranged to game with some people while over there. It’ll be the first time I’ve done tabletop with a US group. Assuming they don’t just drag me out in to the garden and pummel me to [...]

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597 – Chorka • 06

by Kevin Pettway on December 18, 2009

Yesterday (12.14.09) saw one Matthew Spaulding, a constitutional scholar with the Heritage Foundation, release a paper opining that Barack Obama may be in breach of the Constitution of the United States for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. I have read Mr. Spaulding’s paper, and I find him to be full of fail. There is a [...]

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596 – Chorka • 05

by Kevin Pettway on December 16, 2009

Time for the Wednesday video! One of my wife’s friends had a husband that I tried (unsuccessfully) to strike up a friendship of my own with. It seemed like a good idea since the women were such close buds, and I wanted to encourage Lena to get out more. But it was not to be. [...]

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595 – Chorka • 04

by Kevin Pettway on December 14, 2009

Dear DM @Alan: Dear DM, As our group is chronically short of people willing to GM/DM, I am sometimes placed in the situation where I must do it. However, while I tend to write encounters which are fairly balanced, I have a tendency to actually try and kill of the players. Is this normal? If not, what do I [...]

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594 – Chorka • 03

by Kevin Pettway on December 11, 2009

I Was Wrong. And I’m man enough to admit it. For years here I have defended the idea of gay marriage and derided it’s critics who said that it would ruin the institution of marriage for alla us straight guys. (Woof-woof-woof!) I said that line of reasoning was a stupid argument made by ignorant people [...]

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593 – Chorka • 02

by Kevin Pettway on December 9, 2009

It’s time for the Wednesday video! I have made fun of these folks before, but they have something (sort of) new out on the YouTubes, and I thought I’d share. The song is long, boring, and very poorly sung, but when you’ve had your fill, instead of just stopping it, I’d suggest advancing to the [...]

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592 – Chorka • 01

by Kevin Pettway on December 7, 2009

It’s the next installment of Dear DM! Enjoy, and don’t forget to post more questions below! Dear DM @Alan: Dear DM, While I don’t play much D&D, having a stealthy character similar to a rogue is useful in a lot of systems, however, since a large part of the character concept of this kind of [...]

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591 – Da Boss • 06

by Kevin Pettway on December 4, 2009

Yesterday (as I write this) was Black Friday, that day of Extreme Shopping where the gatherers of our tribe become hunters. Last year I made fun of people at WALMART who would trample store employees to death for a Tickle-Me-Elmo. This year, managers were more cautious about the crowds, instructing their workers to dodge when [...]

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590 – Da Boss • 05

by Kevin Pettway on December 2, 2009

It’s Wednesday again, and that means it’s video day! Today’s video came from Cleveland, Ohio, and is a cautionary tale of what to do if confronted by a bear in your back yard… and possibly how not to make a news segment of a bear in a woman’s back yard.

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