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Lazy halfling wizard with an earth elemental familiar in the shape of an easy chair so it can carry him around. Why do I get an image of Rygel from Farscape? 
Henry had a show on IFC a couple years ago. I never was on the same schedule as him (and didnt have a DVR) so I only caught a few episodes. Amazing interview skills. I saw him a couple months ago on a 'spoken word' tour and he came out at 8oclock and talked amileaminute for TWO HOURS AND FORTY FIVE MINUTES with no water sips, no breaks, just talk! CAPTIVATING. It had no structure--with stories of Black Flag, his travels, politics, just whatever crosses his mind--but I didnt even notice how much time had passed until it was over. There he talked about a show that was in production where he was a host on National Geographic channel. He goes to places and looks into the impact humans have on animals and vice versa. He follows some ratcatchers in their daily life, and some of the seriously fundamentalist snakehandlers. 
I didn't know until I read it on this messageboard. :( MCA was my favorite Beastie Boy. Maybe that was mostly because he had a lower voice than Ad Rock and Mike D, so he sounded more the way I thought a rapper should. And I liked the Beastie Boys back when I HATED rap. How could I not take exception to the Boys? So many of their raps, somehow, just put a smile on my face. Even today, I still sometimes listen to "Licensed to Ill", "To the 5 Boroughs", and about half the tracks in "The Sounds of Science". My favorite BB song is "The Negotiation Limerick File". 
Which is why I both love and hate this bloody mongrel of a language.As far as I know, technically, "spelled" and "spelt" are still both correct. “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.” ― James Nicoll
As far as I know, technically, "spelled" and "spelt" are still both correct. Which is why I both love and hate this bloody mongrel of a language. 
I understand this, the thing I'm picking up on is...different somehow. It's in the tone not the actions, it's darker than your typical misunderstandings I just can't find the words to express why. I'm finding it extremely difficult to articulate the nebulous context of what I am seeing but never the less I'm seeing it and knowing it for the bad thing it is. I'll posit that there are those that do so with ill intent. I'm not blind to it. But if there is a complete lack of objectification, then I'm willing to stipulate that you'll see a decrease in the propagation of the species. I'm simply stating that objectification isn't specific / exclusive to homo sapiens sapiens. But if a woman is dressing hot to kill and she wants me to know it and return my affections for it, then I'm not going to feel shamed for it. Exactly in the same fashion that no-one should be shamed into expressing how they feel for those of the same gender or however they wish to pursue such activities as long as the feeling is mutual / consensual. I'm like Freehold; I'm very supportive. But it has to work both ways. :) 
I'll pitch in as well. First of all, this is best thread we've had so far on the subject. Most of the other ones have been crapposted to oblivion, either intentionally by trolls and attention mongers or accidentally by confused triply priviledged individuals with entitlement problems. I'm just sick of the old "this doesn't cornern me/I have spotted something that is hard to fit into my world view, so please stop talking about it" followed by something along the lines of "can't take a joke, huh" or "ok ok, but think of the children!". Sexuality is such a natural thing. We encounter it everywhere in our lives be it when meeting acquintances or upon reading an rpg rulebook. Somehow we still can make a huge deal about it, particularly when the norms suddenly don't fit into our expectations. Baffling. So yeah, nice to have a civil thread without crap. My gaming and bisexual history is so tiny that I don't have much to prattle about. Suffice it to say there seems to be a bigger issue with ideology in our gaming groups than sexuality per se. It's pretty darn hard to be a feminist without having a couple of manchildren get uppity and condescending about it. Same goes for academia, I guess. I get more "huhs" and "whys" about Butler than I get about Joshi. Yeah yeah, I know, he's a pretty big name when it comes to Lovecraft, but the guy's a bibliographer fer Thor's sake. Doesn't have too much to offer when it comes to hybridity or identity either. People. Anyhow, nice to be here. Sorry for rambling. :P
Men also objectify other men.
If he or she is purposefully with intent encouraging it, then I'm not going to feel any shame in returning such. The difference is to be intelligent enough to know when it isn't wanted and to cease such activities. It isn't just humans. It's primal in nature. There's a reason there's plumage on a peacock. The males, I might add. 
.... Oooookaaaay.... I realize this is a rant, but it seems less aimed at promoting interest in mutual understanding and more at making heterosexual men feel bad about wrongs that they may or may not have committed. Any bigotry on the part of women is quietly brushed aside and the thrust seems to be that whole treating anyone poorly is wrong, it's only really really wrong when a man does it. I'm getting a planet of the apes vibe here re: the word "no". 
Meh. Straight or gay, when it comes to fun sexytime, people (mostly, but not limited to, men in their teens and tweens) act like douchebags.As ever, I find it fascinating the blinders both genders put on when it comes to feminine douchebaggery. Yes. I would like to amend my statement to the following: Meh, straight or gay, male or female, about sex or not, most people are douchebags. 
I created a character for some super-hero game way back in the day (I forget if it was for "Villains and Vigilantes" or TSR's terrible "Marvel Super-Heroes" game from the '80s). It was a game where you rolled your super-powers randomly, then had to somehow fit them together into a playable character. I rolled "superleap," "power punch", and "extradimensional storage". So I decided the character was a rich industrialist who built a suit of power-armor... and became Captain Kangaroo! 
My PFS Character a Kellid Rogue working out of Quadira and based partly on the young Conan. Ahnalt Neiger of the clan of Svarchen Yes he is Anhalt of the Svarchen Neigers 
Mexican, Thai, Indian and Vietnamese. You mean Chinese. It's all just Chinese by my definition...
Kids are people? They talk intead of babbling? Since when? Yeah turns out they're just smaller versions of us... I found this out when I tried to drop mine off at the Humane Society last month. And you've met mine, you know good and well they not only talk, but they NEVER stop. ;)
On another note I was playing LIFE with the kids, and when our daughter got to the part where you get married I put the little blue peg beside her little pink peg in her car. She gives me this look and says "Daddy, I want a pink wife, not a blue one."
Voice-over actors crack me up. The best was when I was in Quebec and I saw an episode of the Simpsons translated into French. Marge sounded like some sort of elderly Parisian prostitute. She was née Bouvier ;) 
Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-) This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-) You are the master and we are but the students. ;-) 
Seconded.Holy crap someone mailed me an actual banhammer!!Pics or it didn't happen. I brought it in to work today, slung across my shoulder. Felt good, like a masterwork tool should. It's a tool, you know, not a weapon. You don't just flail about in battle, it's meant to be used carefully, with precision, after much careful consideration.* Pics will have to wait because Sara is sleeping and I depend on her to post pics to the intarwebs. (The only way I know how to put stuff up is to write a bunch of code and put it on paizo.com....) * 
Karelzarath
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Battles Case Subscriber)
Aaargh! I've been trolled...and by Mr. Shiny! [Makes note to pull out his skronky free-jazz and African funk records] EDIT: Next time I'll link the ones where she's playing a ukelele!
Happy birthday, Mikey!
FAWTL salutes you Gary, and we salute Sara Marie and a hearty HUZZAH!! to Teter Tot! :D P.S. Lots and lots of love to Sara, Teter Tot, and you Gary, let the adventure begin.
Did I mention that I ran into Steven Tyler again? Celebrity sitings are one thing, but what does it mean when it's the same celebrity repeatedly? We were walking down the street past a sidewalk cafe, and he pulled up in a rare $2M Mercedes sportscar and climbed out of the gull-wing door right in front of us. It wasn't even a ritzy area, but the restaurant looked tasty. You're his Angel, dude. shivers
The ONE DAY I don't want it to snow...*sigh* Not sure how I'm going to get our new living room set from Queens into Brooklyn. Y'know this is why so many of us down here drive pickem'up trucks, right? 
Quietly considering the teachings of Saint Moorluck has never steered me wrong. 
Ah, but I'm not an edition warrior type. Us hipster RPG players don't have any trouble in that regard. Aussie hipsters? I think I injured myself.
Cassidy from The Preacher's recipe for quiche: Spoiler:
You make the quiche, right, an' then you cook it, an' then you throw the stupid f+#+ing thing out the window, then you grill yourself a t-bone an' eat that instead.
Read that. You're alright... . ;)
Slightly political observation. Spoiler:
santorum (san-TOR-um) n.
1. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex. Talk about a "bum" candidate. O.o 
Probably posted this before, but long ago in college, a discussion of my membership in the Religious Society of Friends and how I could be a gamer at the same time: Me: (playing computer games) Die die die die die die die!
So, today at work they had a Christmas thing, complete with a Santa Claus and choir. Some dude singing downstairs reminded me of an old term I once heard wrt musical ability - strangling the cat.
Aberzombie's Really Grim Fairy Tales The Knight and the Fairy Princess Once upon a time, the brave knight Sir Brandon was travelling through the ancient, mysterious Forest of Charms. He came upon a clearing, in the midst of which was a clear pool of water. As he bent to take a drink, from the water rose a beautiful fairy princess. So dazzling was appearance, that Sir Brandon was blinded! Unfortunately, once blinded he stumbled and fell into the water, where the weight of his armor dragged him down to the bottom. As he struggled against drowning, the fairy princess swam down to help him. In his panic, he stabbed her with his dagger. They both died. The end.
This is an incredibly slow day in Paizoland. What's up, FAWTLies? It's not okay. It's cathartic.
This is an incredibly slow day in Paizoland. What's up, FAWTLies? Summer/Christmas holiday in two days. Trying to get two weeks of work done in those two days. Then it's Sea World, Movie World, and Santa Claus.... Sitting on the back verandah of my parents house looking at the pool. Alternatively it's floating in their pool with a Bundy and coke looking up at the verandah from the pool watching dad throw some steak and snags on the BBQ . It's watching cricket on dads mega 3D TV and bone shattering surround sound system. Drinking beer and making fun of New Zealand.
The kids are watching The Care Bears, I was doing a pretty good job of ignoring it until I heard; Girl Bear "How do we get it up?" followed by ; Boy Bear "Try pulling on it." O.o
Oooh! Cybernetic upgrades? I can be rebuilt, better, faster, and stronger than before! You misspelled "stranger". 
Hey PMG -- I'm not a big fan of the change to "reply". I like to see the conversation entirely (or at least mostly) so I know what I'm replying to. (Just sayin'.)
Watching the best movie ever f*~$ing made right now. Spoiler:
The Blues Brothers
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