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<img src="http://nfotxn.co.uk/img/albums/wpw-6c/normal_Mark%20The%20Cat%20and%20Martin%20and%20Lindset%20The%20Human%20Beings%20008.jpg"><hr width="533" align="left" noshade/> <p> Have I mentioned lately that Martin is the first friend of mine to be married soon? It's like some sort of gay tribulation, I'm told. As the story seems to be that your married friends will nest, grow child palps and have to spend all their time in private nursing them never to go outside and enjoy themselves ever again. Perhaps they are unsightly or painful? Regardless I find myself very sensitive to the matter and fear for the worst. I mean I really care about my friends and like them a lot. Lindsey and Martin and super awesome and would hate to grow exceptionally distant from them.</p> <p><div style="text-align:left; width: 135px; float: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://nfotxn.co.uk/img/displayimage.php?album=8&pos=0"><img src="http://nfotxn.co.uk/img/albums/wpw-35/thumb_Mark%20The%20Cat%20and%20Martin%20and%20Lindset%20The%20Human%20Beings%20004.jpg" width="134" border="0"></a><br/> <small>Why yes, that is a Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive being used as a powersupply for a cooler, as a matter of fact. This is why Martin's house rules.</small></div> But today all was forgotten. I got to take part in the accumulation of gift registry items. In today's post-dot-com 2004 .net world you are awarded the use of a barcode gun. Perhaps an American custom shared with us to encourage heterosexual anti-terrorist patriotism? With which you are to tag prospective desired goods for placement in your registry like retail lazertag. Gift registries are so bold a move really. Not only are you telling people to buy you shit but you're also telling them what to buy you. However M and L were basically told by people that they should start one. Who can deny free stuff? I hope my families tell me to get a gift registry when I get Gay Married one day. <p>At the suit shop Martin was almost granted enterance to the Jew-spiracy although he was quick to point out that he comes from a long line of Argentinian Aetheists. He has curly dense hair, largish nose and can be a tad neurotic when under pressure. It's not the first time he's been mistaken with myself present. Joel, our sassy, fast talking but attentive and thorough sales person remembered selling me my black three botton "Black 80" suit when I was guest student for the Hamilton Philharmonic back in 2001&sup1;. I was duely impressed and got to talk Local Music Politics with another one of other sales people (also a Jewspirator) who has season tickets for the HPO. That crazy <a href="http://borisbrott.com/">Boris Brott</a>! Legend has it he once put his batton right through he hand with one overly emphatic gesture. Even though I haven't really played in an ensemble in over a year I can still work the small talk. Awwyeah.</p> <p>Afterwards we geeked it out playing all the <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/game/">Munchkin</a> decks combined. For the uninitiated Munchkin is a simple card game that works by essentially encouraging pedantic bickering and interpersonal backstabbing by clearly writing how to do as such on each card. It's so lovely a game because it firmly admits that the darker social side of gaming is what people enjoy and embraces it. The perfect game for lapsed gamer geeks like myself who still enjoy a good game of cards and humour that pokes fun at Star Trek, Cthulhu and other cult sci-fi classics.</p><p><small>&sup1;Long time readers may remember the tragedy. 9/11, Elgar's Enigma Variations, very heart wrenching. Nimrod is permanently etch in my mind signifying that day. </small></p>

Comments

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

You play Munchkin?!? COOL! I <3 Munchkin.

Especially when I have The Kneepads Of Allure......OF DOOOOOOM!!!!

WE so have to play!

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Jenn did a Munchkin demo at Baycon yesterday. It had all the expansions, too. (:

Munchkin, Munchkin 2: Unnatural Axe, Munchkin 3: Clerical Errors
Star Munchkin, Star Munchkin 2: The Clown Wars
Munchkin Fu

Good times, good times.

[werecub.livejournal.com]

just bought the first munchkin game, have yet had a chance to play it/

[notofthisworld.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time I went to a friend's wedding. It was like gay hell.

Maybe it'll be different now that gay people can marry in Canada. I can't be sure, because I can't even put my finger on what was so insufferable about it.

I think it's just that there's such a happy, committed couple, and everyone's just showering them with gifts and affirmation, and crying for joy, and saying things like "we couldn't be happier for you." And making it very clear that you're outside that privelleged, heterosexual circle and that nobody gives a sod about you.

I know it sounds touchy and over-sensitive, and I really thought I was beyond that (being used to being an outsider and all). But hey, wait till you've gone through it and then criticise me.