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Gutless Curs

Just look at this pants-shitting reaction to Boston:

 

Dear TD Five Boro Bike Tour Rider:
 
As the 36th TD Five Boro Bike Tour approaches, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Boston as they recover from the terrible events of April 15, 2013.
 
The number one priority of the TD Five Boro Bike Tour has always been and will always be the safety and security of our riders, volunteers and spectators.  We have been working closely with City, State and Federal agencies to ensure that all necessary security measures are in place for the 36th Annual Tour on Sunday, May 5. 
 
As part of this security plan, you are not permitted to bring the following:
  • Backpacks
  • Saddlebags/panniers (front and rear)
  • Hydration packs    
You are permitted to bring the following:
  • Water bottles
  • Fanny packs (small waist packs)
  • Small bike frame bags (under seat and handlebar bags) 
There will be checkpoints along the route to ensure compliance with these new regulations and confiscated items will not be returned. 
Please be advised that this year’s Finish Festival at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island will be strictly limited to registered Tour riders and will not be open to family and friends of participants or the general public. 
For more information about the security of the 36th TD Five Boro Bike Tour on May 5, please visit www.bikenewyork.org/security.
On behalf of everyone at Bike New York and our government agency partners, we wish you and all 32,000 riders a safe and fun-filled bike tour. We appreciate your cooperation. 
Sincerely,

Ken Podziba
President/CEO
 
 
Right.  Great, great job, guys.  Really.  I feel safer already.  Fucking security theater…

Gygax!

gygax

 

Oh, shit yes!  I had a subscription to Dragon Magazine back in the day, from sixth grade on through until I think my senior year of high school. Seven years?  That sounds about right…seven years of dungeon mastering tips and ideas, story seeds, plot devices, sweet pictures, monster ecology articles (loved them!), cartoons, short stories, and reviews.  The reviews were another favroite of mine.  It took a lot to push me out of my comfort zone into trying something new, but they had excellent reviewers who managed to prod my curiosity.  They recommended–or just referenced, which could be good enough for me!– lots of stuff that I’d only really discover years later.   I loved that magazine, and I’m really excited to see this coming back.

 

Saturday 1/26 1:30 PM

The Brooklyn Strategist

333 Court Street, Brooklyn NY (F, G to Carroll St)

A FULL DAY OF GAMING: DnD, Savage Worlds, Marvel RPG, more!

Fuck.

FREEDOM.

Added: 18 kids are dead. 18. Eighteen. Kindergartners. “Currently, at least one entire classroom of children and teachers is “missing.””

 

But, y'know, guns had nooooothing to do with this. Nothing at all! Don't you dare mention it and politicize this tragedy that our lobbyists are working hard to help us forget by next week! Don't you love your country? Why don't you jump on the team and come in for the Big Win?

USA! USA! USA!

I started off the World Cup rooting for Germany.  (Everybody else in north Jersey seems to root for Italy, so I root for the land of my other grandfather’s ancestors.)  Casual soccer fans in the US, in my experience, tend to root for whatever country they identify as their ancestry.  I watched the first few games, vaguely interested in learning more about soccer, and wound up utterly consumed.  I am fully on the bandwagon, baby!  And I am pleased and delighted by every aspect of this picture.  USA!

Image via Luke Winn’s Twitter