Bela Lugosi’s dead. There was a documentary about Bela Lugosi the other night, which reminded me of the Bauhaus song. I’d listened to the begining dozens of times, trying to catch the words. This was pre-web, of course. Now, all I need to do is remember the question, and hey presto – lyrics.
A GURPS: Space adventure, from the GURPS Transhuman space mailing list.
Doesn’t this story (about the Kashmir conflict) inspire a RPG scenario or two? It’s part of this BBC special report.
News story about a recovered confederate sub, the first submarine to sink a battleship (one with a wooden hull). The Hunley carried out its mission off the shore of Charleston, SC. (this was the setting for my impossible cross-over mission, “Strangers”: A space marine, Blackbeard the pirate, an Egyptian vampire, a Japanese Samurai and his companion, a fox spirit, together with a confederate secret agent, roaming Charleston in search of Amber-like gods…)
November 2000 disasters (yet more “jobs for Superheroes”): in the US, some fires, in Asia, typhoons and landslides. Here’s a nasty typhoon in Taiwan (Nov 2), and two Indonesian landslides, one in Java (Nov. 6), one in Sumatra (Nov. 26)(Indonesia, with ethnic strife and natural disasters, can provide full-time work for plenty of superheroes). There’s also one in the Phillipines (Nov. 10)