Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable History Breaching Space and Time.

It’s the Second Anniversary of The Vocate today!! Swing on by for all the jokes about 15th century theology that you can stand!!
And as to other things that are rad and ought to be stood, on Saturday we celebrated my birthday in our usual fashion, and Lust for Freelance’s Madeleine Graham came by with some piano trio arrangements of Final Fantasy music that she worked up. She on Cello and The Countess on violin did lovely thing, and I thumped along drunkily on piano in my own fashion, proudly representing a good 70% of the notes. In any case, THERE ARE JUST TWO DAYS LEFT to Madeleine’s Kickstarter. I can tell you from first hand experience, she KNOWS how to arrange video game music in an eerie and beautiful way for strings, and I really want to see this cd happen, so swing by, convince your friends to swing by – commit rampant financial fraud – the world NEEDS this!!
In other news from the party, we tried out a new cooperative game, Shadows Over Camelot. Our usual standby for this genre is Pandemic, which is still much beloved, but this is a great addition – I’ve only played it through 3 times so far, but each game was totally different – it’s great at taking you out of your Comfortable Solution zone and making you really think together to optimize your actions because, at each turn, something Entirely Awful might happen. We just barely pulled out two victories by flagrantly ignoring the You Have To Be At The Round Table To Fight Siege Engines rule. In any case, if you’re like me, and like to end an evening of acrimonious board gamery with a coop game, it’s a really nice addition.
– Count Dolby von Luckner

I remember when I went to CalTech for PreFrosh weekend (I was put up in Blacker House, though I ended up being a Lloydie, for those to whom that means anything at all), and being so excited to go into the bookstore and see what Feynman stuff was there – I picked up the famous poster with him holding a picked lock in one hand and a Feynman Diagram in the other, as well as two cd’s in red jewel cases featuring Feynman telling stories and playing the drums. These were the dark days of 1997, a full six months before I saw my first ever Downloaded Song, so those discs were treasured items, and a good way to tell that I Really Really Liked You back in high school was that I made you a mix tape featuring Feynman ad-libbing the Orange Juice song. Of course, now you can SEE him performing this modern classic on your phone whenever you want- and I recommend you do.
On another note, as I’m sure you’ve gathered, I’ve never actually been inside a strip club, which is why the club here looks like a cross between Circus Circus and The Muppet Show.
– Count Dolby von Luckner