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Titan entrepreneurs take first, third place in D.C. contest
T.C. Williams High School senior Aisha Cooper won top honors during the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurships 31st semi-annual Regional Business Plan Competition last Thursday, wowing judges with her plan for a dog-walking service called PuppyLOVE.
T.C. junior J.D. Bautista earned third place for his idea for Thermo Threads, a company specializing in color-changing T-shirts.
Cooper, 17, edged out four other teenage entrepreneurial peers from Virginia and Maryland to win a $1,500 cash prize of seed capital investment to jumpstart her business, which employs local teens to offer dog-walking services to help working and busy dog owners. She also won two round-trip Southwest Airlines tickets and an all-expense-paid trip to New York City this fall to compete in a national competition for up to $10,000.
Bautista, also 17, received $500 for his third-place finish, as well as a $250 Entrepreneurial Spirit Award presented to the student who best embodies the essence of a young entrepreneur.
T.C.s Chicago nominated for two Cappies
The T.C. Williams drama department has earned two nominations for this years National Capital Area Cappies Awards. Madeline Bryans performance in Chicago earned her the nomination for Best Female Dancer and the song Mister Cellophane from the same show is up for Best Song.
Winners will be announced on June 13 at the 11th Annual Cappies Gala at the Kennedy Center. The event recognizes outstanding performers, shows, technical crews and critics from the 2009-2010 performance season at high schools throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington.
Mason fourth-grader wins award in national writing contest
Sam Landa, a fourth-grade student at George Mason Elementary School, earned an honorable mention in the national Exquisite Prompt writing contest sponsored by D.C.-based Reading Rockets and AdLit.org.
Landas work will be published on the two organizations websites and his name will also be entered into a grand-prize drawing for an authors visit to his school via Skype.
Berkowits visits ACDS with message of hope
Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits, author of The Boy Who Lost his Birthday, visited Alexandria Country Day School to address the sixth grade students in Jessica Silvermans world cultures and religions class on Monday morning.
The Holocaust survivor described his experience growing up as a boy in rural Hungary, his triumph over Nazi oppression while in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, his education in Sweden and finally his role as the founding Rabbi of Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church.
Berkowits reminded the ACDS audience of the importance of human dignity and said that, despite his experiences, he has no room in his heart for hatred.
God gave us two gifts: The brain our ability to acquire intelligence and free will the ability to choose how to use that intelligence, Berkowits said.

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One foot equals 12 inches, to convert 29180 feet to inches we have to multiply the amount of feet by 12 to obtain the width, height or length in inches. 29180 feet is equal to 29180 feet x 12 = 350160 inches. The result is the following:
29180 feet = 350160 inches
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Tuesday 24 April 2012
Sepia Saturday 123 : 28 April 2012
34 comments:
- Postcardy said...
I don't remember ever seeing a maypole but I have a postcard of one.
- 25 April 2012 at 16:06
- Barbara Rogers said...
Maypole dancing is a tradition that is carried forward still.
- 25 April 2012 at 18:45
- North County Film Club said...
I went from maypoles to Mayday and related to a Titanic survivor for this week's post. Stop by and meet Aunt Lillian.
- 25 April 2012 at 19:46
- Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy said...
Hello Friends! I did this post on May Day, and even found a picture of one of my Grandma's best friends as May Queen in 1930. I might do another one using the store theme, not quite sure yet.
Can't wait to see your posts,
Kathy M. - 25 April 2012 at 20:06
- Mike Brubaker said...
No May poles from me, but some musical spring time traditions from another country.
- 26 April 2012 at 03:59
- Little Nell said...
May 1st seventy years ago is remembered in my post this week. I have a second post up my sleeve that I need some help with on translation. Coming soon......
- 26 April 2012 at 13:38
- Tattered and Lost said...
May is the month to dance. No doubt about it.
- 27 April 2012 at 01:31
- Kristin said...
No May Poles but a couple of demonstrations and what's May Day without demonstrations?
- 27 April 2012 at 04:57
- Bob Scotney said...
May Days over the years.
- 27 April 2012 at 09:25
- Alan Burnett said...
One of the nice things about having theme images rather than theme titles is that you can built tenuous connections with nothing more than a spider-thread of suggestion. Say hello to Miss Chambers.
- 27 April 2012 at 10:01
- Wendy said...
Beautiful girls and a literal interpretation ~
- 27 April 2012 at 11:53
- Little Nell said...
Second entry this week, more in keeping with the theme. I've been going round in circles of my own - can anyone help?
- 27 April 2012 at 13:18
I have been holding onto this photo for months! I found it last year at *the* antique shop where I find so many great photos and it is perfect for this week, on theme and everything. :-)
- 27 April 2012 at 17:08
- 21 Wits said...
What a fun theme this is for me! Where I grew up there were still some May Day celebrations, but I never ever experienced some of the grand celebrations I had such interest in digging up! Amazing what and where May Day has been! Thanks for brightening my world Alan!
- 27 April 2012 at 17:10
- Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardens said...
I went back to the Australian Federation Celebration which took place In 1901. Unfortunately the picture is not very sharp, a stereotype photograph from 1901 gleaned from the Museum of Victoria.
- 27 April 2012 at 22:12
- Howard said...
A bank holiday themed post from me this week
- 27 April 2012 at 23:30
- North County Film Club said...
Hi Alan,
Oops. I posted #15 by mistake. Could you please delete it.
Thanks so much.
Helen - 28 April 2012 at 00:15
- North County Film Club said...
Hi again,
Helen is here right now and we're doing this comment on my computer.
Hope this hasn't been too confusing.
Nancy - 28 April 2012 at 00:17
- Christine H. said...
This photo seems unusual to me in that men are included in the ritual.
- 28 April 2012 at 00:47
- Unknown said...
We are preparing to depart again for about 3 weeks and so I will not be posting to Sepia...but as time allows on this trip, I may check in to see what others share.
- 28 April 2012 at 02:34
- Unknown said...
Maypole dances and May Processions honoring Mary the Mother Jesus are still held in this neck of the woods every May.
QMM - 28 April 2012 at 02:49
- Bruno Laliberté said...
Not an obvious theme for me, but I did gather a picture, an ad, some illustrations, some music and a vid from the archives of the province next door.
When there is a will,
there is a way!!
SS125, in 2 weeks, is heading me in a weird direction. Better brace yourselves as I'm having way too much fun with that one.
:D~ - 28 April 2012 at 06:10
- Bob Scotney said...
I've posted a second time as my first link disappeared!
- 28 April 2012 at 07:07
- Nancy said...
No May Pole photographs, though my mother once commented that when she was a child she and others danced around a May Pole.
- 28 April 2012 at 07:10
- Wibbo said...
Completely off topic this week - a family photograph instead.
- 28 April 2012 at 11:58
- Teresa Wilson Rogers said...
I just entered my May Day/May Pole entry on Saturday this time!
- 28 April 2012 at 15:59
- Sheila @ A Postcard a Day said...
I have to apologise for not having visited many people last week but I promise to do better this time.
- 28 April 2012 at 16:06
- L. D. said...
Off theme as usual for me but I am on board for a change. I have missed out with getting my postings up and running.
- 28 April 2012 at 16:48
- DougVernX said...
I've gone as far off topic as anyone can get. Let's just say I had a craving for green cheese this week. :)
- 28 April 2012 at 17:19
- dakotaboo said...
It's almost May, but unfortunately we are not enjoying the same May weather that's shown in my posting this week.
- 28 April 2012 at 18:16
- Howard said...
I have added a few more pictures to my post
- 28 April 2012 at 22:59
- Linda said...
A day in May, c. 1964. The gang gathered round the pole...
- 29 April 2012 at 01:46
- Unknown said...
Sorry, no theme for me this time....but it certainly is sepia - and a big one at that!
- 29 April 2012 at 04:10
- Jinksy said...
How I wish this could have been a video! Can you imagine this staid lot on the move? LOL Love the photo...
- 30 April 2012 at 11:08


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On Friday morning, Deanne Komlo was tiptoeing through the memorial on Church Hill Road, repositioning teddy bears — wet, matted and facedown from the morning's showers — one by one against the base of each of the 27 angel cutouts on the grass hill. Some of the stuffed bears tumbled down as soon as she walked away, but she returned and gently placed them on their backs with their arms outstretched, as if they were waiting to be hugged.
Another woman was going around picking up each candleholder and emptying the rainwater that had collected inside. It would rain again before sundown. When the two women reached the bottom of the hill, they hugged through tears for several seconds. They had never met before, although Komlo has spent several hours at this memorial since it first appeared in the weekend after the shootings. They discussed what more they could do to help: a bake sale? Snowflake crafts? Prayer? While they talked, a third woman went around straightening any angels that had started to lean, trying to resecure them in the softened, muddy ground.
(MORE: The Remaking of Newtown: Will Tragedy Make It Stronger?)
In Newtown, Conn., memorials to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history have sprouted up wherever there is open grass or sidewalk space. The piles of offerings along the streets leading to Sandy Hook Elementary School have grown 3 ft. tall and several feet wide, spilling over and blocking sidewalks. Everyone knows that the piles — filled with sealed letters, new toys, candles and flowers — cannot stay there permanently. But even while Komlo accepts that the memorial she tends will eventually have to come down, she continues to maintain it. Like many in the town, she doesn't know what else she can do.
It's been more than a week since 27 people — including 20 children, six school employees and the mother of the shooter — were killed in Sandy Hook, and the community is slowly trying to find a path toward closure. On Friday, a moment of silence, led by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, was held at the town hall to mark the one-week anniversary of the tragedy. That evening, a vigil at the Fairfield Hills Campus drew more than 1,000 people.
On Saturday, Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra announced that the meticulously maintained memorials would be "gathered and processed into soil that will serve in the foundation of a future permanent memorial." On Sunday afternoon, the flag at the intersection of Church Hill Road and Main Street was raised to full mast — a position it had not occupied since the shootings on Dec. 14.
(MORE: The NRA Responds to Newtown: America Needs More 'Good Guys' with Guns)
It had been a long week for the town residents, and particularly for the families of victims. More than a dozen motorcades have passed down Church Hill Road since the shootings. While many families had asked that their funerals be private, mourners showed up anyway, waiting in the cold and rain, even if they did not know the victim personally.
Everyone in Newtown knows someone at Sandy Hook Elementary. Their mom worked there. Their friend ran an after-school daycare for some of the students. Their former teachers taught there. No one in the town is untouched. "When someone asks you, 'Did you know someone involved?' … It's Newtown — everybody knows everyone," resident Jeffrey Keating, 20, says.
In the time since the shootings, Sandy Hook has been inundated with offers of aid. Within hours of the shooting, police officers from across the state raced to the scene, unbidden, to help in any way they could. Just a day after the tragedy, counselors and teachers from nearby states arrived to see if anyone needed advising. Trainers traveled with therapy-certified "comfort dogs" from six states away. Someone from Hawaii sent 26 lei necklaces on ice. High school students baked cookies and delivered them to police officers stationed at the town's flagpole. Newtown residents raided craft stores in search of green and white ribbon — Sandy Hook School's colors. One man ran 26 miles Friday morning — a mile for each of the victims from the school. People from across the U.S. donated money to local restaurants, requiring that they give Newtown residents free cups of coffee.
(MORE: Sandy Hook Victim Dylan Hockley: A 'Beautiful Butterfly' Whose Life Was Cut Short)
Doll donations have flooded local churches. "Tons of teddy bears," Keating, who volunteered to help sort the stuffed toys, said. "Literally, we have rooms in the basement of the church that are stacked 8 ft. tall by 20 ft. deep. I've never seen anything like this in my life."
The last of Sandy's Hook's victims was laid to rest on Sunday. Unlike the memorials, which people crowd around daily, the graves of the children do not gather hordes of visitors or gifts. Indeed many of the children and teachers who shared a classroom just 10 days ago have now been buried far apart. Teacher Victoria Soto, reportedly killed while trying to defend her students, was buried in Stratford, Conn., 20 miles to the south. Six-year-old Dylan Hockley's services took place in Bethel, Conn., while his teaching aide Anne Marie Murphy — who died with her arms wrapped around him, trying to shield him from the bullets — was buried in her hometown of Katonah, N.Y.
On Saturday afternoon, firemen hung a banner outside of St. Rose of Lima Church, where Monsignor Robert Weiss conducted services for several victims this week. The banner quoted the Gospel of John 1:5: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
(MORE: Twenty Brighter Stars: Shocked Connecticut Town Mourns Its Slain Children)
No decision has been made about the future of the Sandy Hook Elementary School building. Some residents call it a "sacred" spot, while others just want it torn down. (Students from the school will resume classes in January in the neighboring town of Monroe, in a building reportedly being set up as a close replica of Sandy Hook Elementary — where students can find their pens, crayons, notebooks in the exact location they left them on the day of the shooting.) And as the traffic gets lighter and the camera crews and out-of-state cars leave Church Hill Road, Newtown residents hope to return to some kind of normal — although a return to how things were before the tragedy seems far out of reach. "I don't think we'll ever get back to normal so long as all of us who live in town remember," says Matt Cole, 24, one of the organizers of Friday's vigil. "Maybe three or four generations down the road, the town will get back to normal."
Just after noon on Sunday, as a final police motorcade passed through town, patrons of the Sandy Hook Diner on Church Hill Road turned away from the counter and looked out the window. Pedestrians stood still and waited, not moving until the vehicles passed. Later, after the last recorded church bells had rung and the rumbling of police motorcycles had faded away, high school musicians set up on the street outside of a downtown coffee shop and began to play Christmas carols. Across Church Hill Road, a man dressed as Santa Claus stood near the comfort dogs — both, presumably, providing the same service. Mourners still arrived with toys and flowers Sunday night to add to the memorial piles, before they are taken away.
MORE: Sandy Hook Shooting: The Speculation About Adam Lanza Must Stop


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Baker unknown - anyone recognize it?
I love the colors! And that harlequin pattern is one of the smoothest I've ever seen.
And here's one of the best support columns I've ever seen:
[Update: Eagle-eyed reader Jim A. just pointed out the column is actually this resin cake stand. Now I feel silly. It's still a gorgeous cake, though!]
This one, too, if you have topsy-turvy dreams:
Sub'd by Vanessa M., made by Ron Ben-Israel (?)
Or, if you're feeling a little blue:
Imagine the time it took to make each of those little flowers! And I love the textured icing here; sometimes the smoothness of fondant is just a little too modern.
And finally, let's go out with a bang.
Meaning more daisies.
I mean, I know this was for a pair of one-year-olds, but a thirty-something can have one, too, right?


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Could buttons on our Windows Phones be a thing of the past?
Nokia brings up an interesting question. Do smartphones need physical buttons?
We've seen physical buttons on our Windows Phones slowly disappear from the days when they were powered by Windows Mobile. Capacitive buttons replaced physical buttons and physical keyboards are now on-screen. But should it go further?
What remains is a power, volume and camera button. You could make a case where on-screen volume controls could replace the physical volume button and we already have a screen tap feature to capture photos. The power button may be the one physical button we can't live without but BlackBerry's Z10 shows how even that is not needed (they turn on the display by swiping the screen up, no power button).
I think our physical buttons have been scaled back about as far as you can go without hurting the functionality of our Windows Phones. A physical volume keep is convenient to adjust the volume while on the phone. You could create a swipe gesture to adjust the volume but to do so, you'll have to move the phone away from the ear.
The Lumia 920 without buttons?
Okay... that might be a little weak but how about the camera button? Could you live without a physical shutter button? It would be awkward for me to not have the ability to have one. Many people half-press the shutter button to lock focus and then compose the image. While you can do just about the same by tapping a select area of the screen to focus on, there's something about doing so with a physical shutter button that's satisfying.
Then again, the Alcatel One Windows Phone has ditched the camera button and Microsoft's new OS update doesn't require it either. Notice the trend, folks?
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So what about it? Would a future Windows Phone with only a power button appeal to you? Is three enough or would you like to see more? Maybe bring back the slide out keyboard?
Let us know what you think in the comments and then head over to Conversations Nokia to take their poll.
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5 Things To Expect In Obama's State Of The Union Address
As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union speech Tuesday evening, he does it against a backdrop of some of the lowest voter-approval ratings of his presidency, with a divided Congress that has largely stalled his second-term agenda and with Washington's collective focus starting to shift toward the midterm elections and beyond.
Here are five things to expect from the president in his fifth State of the Union speech:
Income inequality -- Obama has made the populist issue of the ever-growing income gap between the superrich and everyone else the overarching theme of his second term. So this message will get major minutes Tuesday — especially since Democrats see it as helpful to their goal of keeping the Senate.
Democrats have pushed for two congressional actions they say would help struggling Americans in the near term — increasing the minimum wage and further extending long-term jobless benefits. Republicans have resisted both policies. Expect the president to argue that Congress needs to move forward on both and soon. Meanwhile, the president is likely to talk about the actions he can take on his own, like his recently announced Promise Zones initiative to ease some federal rules to encourage job creation in low-income communities.
Congress-tested themes -- Michael Waldman, who directed former President Clinton's speechwriting shop, expects that Obama's speech will have the same road-tested quality SOTUs typically have. Presidents who hope to get anything done with Congress try to avoid surprises.
"A State of the Union speech, whether something goes in the speech or not, is not just about what sounds good to the audience, but political choices like, 'If we do that, it might make it harder to pass what we want,' " said Waldman, who's now president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. "It's a negotiation with Congress often about what goes in the speech. Clinton used to talk with [Speaker Newt] Gingrich all the time about what would be in the speech."
Immigration — This will provide a chance for the president to talk up the bipartisan possibilities that 2014 could bring. House Speaker John Boehner has raised the idea of a Republican approach to overhauling the nation's immigration laws instead of the comprehensive bill that passed the Senate and which Obama supports. Despite those differences, with both Democrats and many Republicans eager to do something on immigration this year, this could be one of the rare moments where we see applause on both sides of the aisle.
But expect the president to proceed with care, says Waldman, who assumes the president really wants a new immigration law passed this year. The president has to "raise the temperature" enough to show he's willing to spend whatever political capital he has left on getting it done — and enough so that if it doesn't happen, blame can be more easily affixed on Republicans. Yet he can't raise the heat so high as to drive away too many of the House Republicans who will be needed for passage. Obama recently changed his White House team on Capitol Hill in order to improve his chances of threading the needle.
Affordable Care Act -- In past SOTU speeches, the president hasn't mentioned the "Affordable Care Act" by name. But with the worst of the fiasco of the federal HealthCare.gov website rollout behind him and the need to sign up as many young "invincibles" as possible for the economics underlying the law to work, Obama can be expected to make a pitch to those who haven't signed up for coverage: Do it soon.
Afghanistan and Iran -- Foreign policy and national security typically get much less time than domestic affairs in the SOTU. But that doesn't diminish the importance of what the president will say on those issues. U.S. troops will end the nation's 13-year military odyssey in Afghanistan this year, something Obama will no doubt remind his audience of. He'll note that he's the president who ended two wars — the other in Iraq — that he inherited.
Iran is trickier, though. The president wants Congress to avoid imposing new sanctions that could throttle current negotiations. It's another issue on which he will need to tread carefully.


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Sunday Bengali Mutton Curry | Robibar er Mangshor Jhol
This quintessential Bengali Mutton Curry is synonymous to Sunday lunch. This recipe of mutton curry or panthar manghso is from my Mother-in-law and has a thinner curry or jhol than my Mother's. Mixed with rice and some salad it is a very flavorful meal
Bengali Mutton Curry (Panthar Mangshor Jhol)
Goat Meat Curry in the Oven
This post is not about clouds.
It is about Manghsor Jhol -- Mutton Curry. The Sunday one. The Bengali home staple that has reached a mythical proportion simply by virtue of us bragging about it. And Robibarer Manghsor Jhol does give us bragging rights, the whole gamut of it. We have nostalgia woven with it.
Bengali Mutton Curry
But I have written paeans about it in my earlier posts so today I will talk about clouds instead.
Not that I know much about them. The only times I actually watch clouds is when I am stuck in traffic or more specifically when I am stuck in traffic with two kids in the back seat. Also when there is no traffic but a never ending road and two kids in the back seat, I often suggest that they watch clouds. Somehow it makes me feel like a very free spirited kind of Mother, the one who makes blueberry jam and then spreads it thick on coarse rye bread handing them over to her children who play in the meadows by brambles and thistles.
Sadly I am not that kind. I have never made blueberry jam and my kids refuse rye bread. And we will not even discuss brambles. But I digress.
So anyway this random "cloud watching" thing inspired a desire in Little Sis to spend an entire afternoon watching clouds and nothing but clouds. And she wanted it to be done in a proper setting. Not from cars. Lying down on a sleeping bag(no grass mind you) set out in the deck on some balmy summer afternoon, LS wanted to watch them clouds.
Amazingly two summer months almost passed us by and we never got a chance to do that! So when summer was drawing to a close, I grabbed a late afternoon with a good measure of clouds and we watched. No proper setting, no sleeping bag, not even grass. While BigSis was attending one of her classes we sat on the ledge by the sidewalk outside her class and watched.
"Wow. Doesn't that one look like a teddy bear?", I said trying to be at my excited best.
"No. It looks like a monster", said LS.
"Now that one is like a cute little doggy", I said all cloying and sweet.
LS who was now more interested in the rocks on the sidewalk than any cloud, glanced and said "Nope. It looks like a big dragon".
"Come on. This one surely is like a magic fairy's hair", I blurted out trying to salvage a sweet cloud watch moment.
"Oita dushtu lok er moton lagche (That one looks like a mean person)", concluded LS.
And with that we closed our "cloud watch' chapter and concentrated on rock tricks,
Today hearing her Dad's voice over the phone, she declared "Baba sounded very girl-ish on the phone. Maybe he drank too much pink lemonade"
Back to the mutton curry now which is my Ma-in-law's recipe this time. Her Sunday Mutton curry recipe is different from my Mother's Sunday mutton curry recipe and yet they largely taste the same with finer points to be debated on. The mother-in-law's recipe involves marinating the mutton with mustard oil, all the spices, tomato, onion, garlic and ginger that makes the curry. If you can manage to do this single step of detailed marination, the night before, the actual cooking happens very fast the next day.
Now on days when you are rushing and a simple mutton curry will do you can side-step the "kashano" or "bhuno" part of this recipe and directly make the jhol in the Pressure cooker. That jhol is a bit runny and akin to something that the famous author Syed Mujtaba Ali would refer to as "Bangali'r Mangshor Maacher Jhol" which means a Mutton Curry which is as runny as plain as an everyday fish curry.
Ma-in-Law's Sunday Mutton Curry
Wash and clean 2lb of goat meat.
Make a paste of following
2 cups of chopped red onion
6 fat clove of garlic(12 regular)
2" of ginger peeled and chopped
Roughly pound 5-6 hot Indin green chili.
Chop 1 medium sized tomato. If the tomatoes are the tough. commercial kind just puree them or get a better tomato.
Chop 3 potatoes in half
In a bowl marinate the meat with
onion+garlic+ginger paste
the tomato
1 tbsp Cumin Powder (sometimes I replace this with Meat Masala for a richer taste)
1 tsp Red Chili Powder or Kashmiri Mirch
1 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tsp Mustard Oil
1-2 tbsp yogurt
salt to taste
Ideally overnight marination is good but even 3-4 hours works well.
Half an hour before cooking toss the pottaoes along with the meat in the marinade.
When you are ready to cook, get your pressure cooker. If you don't have one, do not panic, we can also do it in a regular heavy bottomed pan, only it will take longer.
Heat about 2tbsp Mustard Oil in the cooker. Add a tsp of sugar and caramelize it.
Next temper the oil with
4 Green Cardamom/Elaichi
4 Clove/Laung
1 Bay leaf/TejPatta
a 2" stick of cinnamon
Once the oil is flavored add the marinated mutton and the potatoes. Add the pounded green chilies.
Mix everything well together and let it cook for some time. Stir intermittently so that the meat does not stick to the bottom of the cooker. The meat will also release some water. Wait for the water to almost dry up and for the meat to change color.
For a richer version of this curry, the meat is kasha-oed for about 25-20 minutes till you see the oil surfacing. But in my Ma-in-law's everyday version, we do not wait for the oil to surface. Once the meat has changed color and no longer looks raw, we give a good stir, and add enough water so that the meat pieces are submerged. Then I adjust for salt and spices and close the Pressure Cooker lid.
Once the Cooker starts going "Phissssssshhh", I wait for about 8 minutes or so and then switch off. I have a Futura cooker and it does not whistle so I am not sure of the number of whistles.
Make a wet paste of
2 green cardamom
2 clove
small stick of cinnamon
in a mortar-pestle
Once the pressure has been released, open lid and add this fresh garam masala paste(kaaNcha garam mashla bata) along with little ghee. Close the lid again and open only at time of serving. Thanks UshnishDa for this tip.


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"You're going to Target today, right? I wrote a list of some things I need."
"Good. Yeah, I have some things I need to get too."
I added my items to the list on the partly-crumpled page of notepad paper. Hers were Health & Beauty items and some cat litter; mine were "I don't want to go to the grocery store today so I'll stretch out our pantry for one more day with a little supplementation" items. I wanted milk, bread, and maybe something to drink.
I pocketed the list, dressed Erin, and took off with her while Emily went to work. On the way to an unfamiliar Target (I had some other errands in that area) I was distracted by racks of clothes outside a Sears to which I'd never been. I remembered that both of my pairs of jeans, more accurately both of the pairs that were comfortable and stamped with measurements that did not make me feel guilty about that resolution to cancel my gym membership, had holes in the right knee and in the crotch.
"A-ha!" says I, "I should finally explore this Sears and see if I can buy a pair of jeans for less than $40," the exorbitant price of jeans being the main reason I wore two pairs into holey oblivion.
The only shopping I really like to do involves either ill-lit bookstores in the countryside, or grocery aisles under radioactive lights. I go to the mall at Christmas because I like Christmas-y things, but I don't like the shopping aspect. I don't like the mall at all, really. I don't like shoe shopping, preferring to wear a pair down to muddy latticework before going to the store to find, hopefully, a pair that looks almost exactly like the pair I was sending to a haz-mat disposal site.
I especially don't like clothes shopping.
And thanks to Abercrombie and Fitch I really hate jeans shopping.
(Begin Long Aside About Abercrombie and Fitch)
Once, on a trip to Portland, I spilled something on the one pair of jeans I brought with me. I decided to add to my wardrobe, so I went wandering around looking for clothing stores. I walked into that sensory date-rape, Abercrombie and Fitch, drawn along by the mannequins modeling denim in the window.
"A-ha!" says I, "here is where I will find jeans. And I will, apparently, have to wear them until I am dead because holy-mother-of-god-on-a-skateboard these are expensive."
My optimism was matched in its vastness only by my waistline. I haven't been a skinny rail since high school graduation, but by the time of this Portland trip I had been steadily accumulating girth, a process accelerated drastically when I stupidly quit smoking (for, what? Health? Bah. All of those years smoking takes off your life come at the end anyway). I was hefty. Solid. I think the clinical description was "obese", although I don't think it's fair to just throw that label around if there are no cranes involved in getting oneself into and out of bed. But I wasn't thin, although I didn't view myself as particularly large.
Abercrombie held me down while Fitch punched me in the (over-hanging) gut over and over again. As I was looking for a pair of jeans that would encircle my waist in anything approaching comfort it struck me that there were no numbers in sight that I recognized.
"Who are these men with 32-inch waists?" I wondered. "Where are the real pants?"
"You. Are. Too. Fat. To. Shop. Here," the labels taunted as I grew more frantic in my search for pants.
Fuck you, Abercrombie. Fuck you, Fitch.
After Erin was born I dropped about 40 lbs. For the hell of it. I felt like riding my bike all the time and I didn't have any classes and Emily was on maternity leave, so I had all of this time to just exercise and think about food and cooking. Every few months I would go to the mall to buy a new pair of jeans. And my first stop would be Abercrombie, where I'd try on a pair, note the new reduction in my waistline, and then walk over to The Gap to buy my jeans there instead.
Fuck you, Abercrombie. Fuck you, Fitch. You weren't there when I needed you.
(End Long Aside About Abercrombie and Fitch)
I was wearing a pair of those Gap jeans as I spotted the Sears. I needed jeans badly enough that I was willing to overcome my intense dislike of clothes shopping to actually enter the Sears, browse the aisles, and try on about six pairs, all with Erin in tow in a cart.
Erin was less and less excited about her predicament as each new pair made an appearance, so eventually I rushed the decision a bit (but not before noting that no matter what the labels say, two "identical" pairs of jeans can fit remarkably differently) and brought three pairs to the counter to buy. With sale prices in effect I spent, for those three pairs, what you might spend on one pair at (fuck you)Abercrombie and (fuck you)Fitch. They fit fine. Maybe a little more loosely after wear than I'd like, but they aren't going to fall off of me.
Then I took Erin to our actual destination, Target, that magical land where $200 always seems to disappear out of my wallet, stolen by the Target elves.
Looking down at the list I read that Emily's first entry was some kind of facial cleanser, explicitly named for ease of locating. But I couldn't find the bottle she appeared to want. To use a car analogy, if she wanted a Toyota Camry XLE, then all I could find were Toyota Camry LE's, or Toyota Highlander XLE's. Not knowing which alternative she'd have preferred had she been there herself I bought both. (It is likely I would have been inclined to do the same thing with the cars.)
This took a while (since I was pretty damned thorough in this search for the mystery car, er, cleanser), and Erin, already unhappy about being in her second shopping cart in as many hours, was making her dissatisfaction known. A box of diapers on an end-cap display caught my eye and I thought "A-ha! I remember noting that we are out of diapers at home, but I didn't write it down on the list. I will purchase these diapers now and be ahead of the game!" So I added them to the cart. The same thing happened with the toothpaste I saw while walking along. Not on the list, but added to the cart.
There didn't seem to be a pet care area, nor a grocery section at this strange Target, but I was a little distracted by screeching coming from the mite in the cart. I rushed through checkout, and unloaded the cart into the trunk where the diapers I bought joined a completely full box of diapers that had been in my trunk the entire time.
After leaving Target with the exhausted, annoyed Erin I took the list out of my pocket and it occurred to me that the reason I hate shopping is that I'm just not good at it.
Do you know what it means to not be good at shopping?
It means being capable of going out in the morning, spending $150, and buying not one damned thing on a list you are carrying with you and ALSO buying things you already have.
"A-ha!" says I, "I am terrible at shopping."


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SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1956
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen
An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Trina Higgins, an employee of the Trial Court.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to establish forthwith a sick leave bank for a certain employee of the trial court, therefore, it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the trial court shall establish a sick leave bank for Trina Higgins, an employee of the Dorchester division of the Boston municipal court department of the trial court. Any employee of the trial court may voluntarily contribute 1 or more sick, personal or vacation days to the sick leave bank for use by Trina Higgins. Whenever Trina Higgins terminates employment with the trial court or requests to dissolve the sick leave bank, any remaining time in the sick leave bank shall be transferred to the trial court paid leave bank. Sick leave bank days shall not be used for absences unrelated to the illness or disability that necessitated the establishment of the sick leave bank as determined by the trial court.


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Friday, March 30, 2012
Open Friday: Four Years
So, for today, feel free to use the comments to post your memories and thoughts about the last four years as it pertains to old school gaming. I'm especially curious to hear from people who were involved in preserving and promoting the Old Ways prior to 2008 and if they ever imagined that their preferred style of RPG would even experience a revival, let alone a renaissance.
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I wanted to get into the old-school d&d because of these blogs, particularly this one. Those old gaming stories like Morgan Just and James Calvert were really, I don't know the word, inspiring or immersing or something. They seemed like great stories and that's what I wanted, to have stories like that. So I started with OSRIC then Labyrinth Lord and then Swords & Wizardry. Now we're using some really simple rules I cobbled together but it all started because of this blog.
I also play Thousand Suns after reading about here and it's a really great system. Maybe Imperial Sci-fi's not my thing but I still play it in my own universe and my group gets into it (I have some posts about it on my blog).
So thanks for a blog that talks about a lot of subjects with intelligence, doesn't engage in pointless new school bashing and introduced me to the great retroclones.Congratulations.
My best recollections -- I started with B/X back then and played more 2E than anything else. But I was a 3.5 convert for a long time when it came out. Even so, I never ran that many third edition adventures. Whenever I needed inspiration I found myself going back to my shelves of 1st and 2nd edition Dungeon magazines and Basic D&D adventures.
Even though I've moved on to other games, I find that the old school blogs are some of my favorites to read and keep up with... and as the circle turns, I'm considering a summer game this year using Adventurer, Conqueror, King System...
Here's hoping for another four years of Grognardia.Congrats James, I've gotten lots of food for thought out of this blog. It kind of resembles the post or pre session gabfests we had way back when.
4 years ago I stumbled on Grognardia after looking for OOP RPGs and found Labyrinth Lord. I printed it out at work on the sly, then still looking around I found Chogwiz, Society of Torch, Pole and Rope, you and James Raggi among others. I've only been able to get into patchy Cthulhu or 4E games out here, so reading you guys scratches my itch for the Old Ways.
Thanks.So, after some digging, I see that the first classic Traveller I had played since the 1980s started in December 2004. (And it was the first time for me to run cT.) My first classic D&D campaign since the 1980s started February 2006. Hard to believe that my "back to basics" era is approaching a third of my gaming history.
(Also of note was a AD&D2e game sometime in the mid-1990s that was a precursor of it.)
Since then, I've had the opportunity to introduce at least five new people to the hobby. Three of whom have become regular members of my group.
For three of them—regular World of Warcraft players aged from 20 to 40yo—I used classic D&D as their first system, and I was pleasantly surprised by how they grokked the differences from the start. While they were surprised with all the things they saw that WoW had taken from D&D, they didn't expect D&D to be WoW.
My son—in fifth grade at the time—ran some classic Traveller for his friends, which was a big hit. He has also joined my regular group now. He's thinking about running another game for his friends now, and he's thinking he'll just make up the system.
I credit Gary Gygax himself with sending me back to basics. It started with his columns in Dragon after 3e came out. His stories of the early days were so inspiring. His web site at the time had a link to Dragonsfoot. I was so surprised to find people still playing games I thought were obsolete. I had to figure out how that could be.
Then there's North Texas RPG Con. Having only been to a couple of cons before, I tended to think poorly of con gaming. It's amazing to see strangers come together and get along nearly as well as a weekly group. To get to experience so many different games and GMs. To get to put some faces with names from the internet. And to get to meet some of the names gracing many of the books on my shelves.Heh, no, I had no idea that it would become the next big thing. Prior to 2008, I was lurking/sometimes posting over at ENWorld (I think around 2002 or so) and prior to that, I just basically would look fondly at my 1e books (I didn't game in the 90's because I wasn't really interested in 2e at the time and that was what everyone was playing). Anyways, I guess I started to realize with folks like Dialgo over at ENWorld, there were a few active Old Schoolers participating in the Internet Forums. I support Castles and Crusades as well as Goodman Games and Necromancer Games products as they came out but as good as they were/are, they didn't FULLY scratch that itch for me.
I found out about Dragonsfoot and then the K&K Alehouse forums. When the whole talk of OSRIC started as a tool for legally publishing Old School content, I was exstatic and was happy to contribute (I think this was around 2005/2006). Not being much of a writer but having a little bit of drawing ability, I did as much art as I could for what would become OSRIC 2.0 (the new current edition). It is interesting that the clones have become as big as they have. I know the original intent was not for OSRIC to replace the 1e books, but only a tool to legally publish old school content (such as Expeditious Retreat Press' Advanced Adventures). There was a heck of a lot of mud slinging back then about OSRIC being of dubious legal nature and a lot of naysayers being outright hostile (I guess there are some, but it is different now).
I know some people are still skeptical of the clones (why do I need one when I still have my 1e books?). I can see the point of that argument, but back when Matt Finch and Stuart Marshall really started going down this road, there was (or at least it was a perception) no legal way to really create any 1e/BX/OD&D compatible commercial content. OSRIC was only meant initially as a vehicle to allow folks to commercially produce that content (I know, it can be argued that the OGL allowed for that anyway) and have a banner to rally around (OSRIC compatible let everyone know that it is essentially 1e compatible).
At any rate, I remember it starting off with a handful of us malcontents over at K&K and has become something more. I was excited when Joe Browning asked me to illustrate one of his Advanced Adventure modules based on my work for OSRIC 2.0. I've now contributed to quite a few of those and various other old school projects as well and it has been a blast. I'm not too voiciferous on the forums or blogs cause I'm usually too busy doing art for more OSR projects or gaming, or trying to write my own gaming material. Yeah, it has been very cool to watch this thing grow (there is a pretty active Old School Gamers group on Facebook), a ton of blogs, many conventions (I was thrilled to be a guest at the OSR Booth at GENCON 2012), and even WOTC seems to have taken notice that there is sizable support for the Old School stuff out there.
Thanks for creating a solid blog presence James, you among many, many other have made this a really fantastic time to be an Old School Gamer. Oh, and I'm looking forward to Dwimmermount!Wow, yeah, things have changed. I started Goblinoid Games in 2006 not long after the first version of OSRIC was released. I was contributing to the expanded OSRIC and then wrote Labyrinth Lord and released it in 2007. Back then of course the predominant internet debate was whether OSRIC was "legal" or not, and possibly more people than not wondered what us knuckle heads were doing trying to preserve out of print versions of the game.
The audience for old-school games has grown a lot. In the beginning I was excited to sell a dozen PDFs of something. We were still having the conversation about whether there really was an audience, because across the board sales were not great. I think more than the release of 4e, the unfortunate passing of Gary Gygax brought a lot of people back to old-school D&D and with the increase in the number of bloggers the "OSR" as we know it today emerged.
It was a big challenge getting Labyrinth Lord into traditional distribution. I was able to raise some meager funds through a limited distribution sale drive and bought my first small print run of LL in 2008. I signed on as a client of Key20, but after a short few months they went out of business. Luckily I took the money I made from the books that did sell, and sold off the remaining books online, and was able to send the revised LL into distribution in 2009.
If there is one negative aspect of how things have developed I think it would be that some people still misunderstand the purpose of the first clones. Some people talk about how now we need to "progress" in the "next wave." But there is no true next wave unless you count all the D&D spinoffs starting in the 1970s. The urge to create "D&D but better" has been around since day one.
I'm not saying there is anything bad about that necessarily. But some people forget that the whole point of the clones was to preserve the original rules as best we can under the OGL, not to "innovate" for the sake of it. I'm a big supporter of open gaming and open content, so I hope no one takes all of this the wrong way. But the clones were created as a response to constant tinkering and revisions, we wanted the original rules unchanged and available forever, so there is some irony when people say we need to "progress" away from the clones.As far back as '96 is when I started setting up a Traveller campaign. I decided that the original rules were still good enough and I would use them. I also started re-reading my 1st ed AD&D books again. I would have run a game with them if there was more interest at the time. So I was old school before it was cool.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, Congratulations James!
My Story-
I was living in San Francisco for about six months last year and bored one afternoon on the BART I was browsing the web on my iPhone. For reasons I can't remember, I just typed in 'vintage dungeons and dragons' into my browser. The first link brought me here. Holy ^&*$^*, a Vault of the Drow retrospective I said to myself and memories started flooding back about this little hobby of ours.
I hadn't played or purchased any tabletop RPG in years, but I had very fond memories of them. I went back and read your ENTIRE archive and I was hooked. Then I started reading other blogs, forums, et cetera. I exchanged an email with you in which you recommended Labyrinth Lord and I dutifully went out to the only real FLGS in San Francisco proper and purchased their only copy.
Flash forward. I just got back from GaryCon and have my tickets ready for the NTRPG Con in Texas in June. I am writing my own module (which I am quite proud of, but which has grown considerably in scope no thanks to the high quality of projects produced by others :) ), I vote with my wallet and buy a huge amount of OSR products, have begun collecting First Edition and earlier TSR products, and have met with both the old luminaries and tons of other like minded gamers. To be honest, I am better for it. I have a life threatening illness and finding my way into this has given me great pleasure and improved my life drastically.
So long story short. Thank you James and may you have many more years pontificating and celebrating the hobby.
Very Respectfully,
Zach GlazarI'd been frozen in carbonite since 1985 - whenever Unearthed Arcana came out. For the next five years I recycled old modules, played by the old rules, occasionally joining in another Group's also unchanging Iron Crown Enterprises games... to a diminishing circle of players.
By 1992, I was stranded: the old game and I fell into such obscurity that, by the time of my 20th high school reunion, not one of my old pals even vaguely remembered (or, more likely, admitted to remembering) even ever playing the game, a game that consumed my imagination and my Friday nights for more than a decade.
Then, one gray and bitter day in March, 2008, amidst howling winds and the first public signs of a global economic collapse*, three words were typed into the internet:
What's a Grognard?
And my frozen eyes flickered to life.- AnonymousMarch 30, 2012 at 12:46 PM
Happy anniversary, James! I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. I entered the hobby a couple of years after you, and experienced pretty much the same era and fell away for many of the same reasons. My folks visited a year or so ago and brought with them a box of some of my old junk from their shed. Inside was a motley sample of my old RPGs (B(Moldvay)EC, 1E DMG, PH, FF and a couple of modules as well as pages of handwritten notes and scenarios, Star Frontiers, VG's James Bond, Top Secret, Paranoia, even TMNT (yes, that TMNT – what can I say, I was curious)). Where the rest of the old stuff is now (and there was a lot more), I'll probably never know, but what was there was enough to send me into a tailspin of nostalgia. (Not knowing this side of me, my wife was appalled to learn that she had somehow wound up married to "one of those guys".) I discovered your blog through a Google hit of your review of Dungeon's list of the 30 Greatest D&D modules of all time. I was immediately hooked on your POV, your style, and your experience in the hobby (so similar to, though decidedly deeper than, mine). After that, I systematically read through your archives, learning much and developing some new ideas of my own on the way. A few months ago, I decided to put it all into practice by introducing my own kids to the Old Ways. After a brief introduction to the hobby through Moldvay Basic, I was primarily a pre-DL 1E guy (Ravenloft and DL conspired to ruin my gang back in the day, but that's another story for another day), but I've chosen to re-enlist with BEC. I handle most of the mechanics as DM (though my oldest daughter – yes, I even got the girls hooked – has been absorbing more and more) and just let the kids' imaginations flow. B2 has never been better, and I'm even carving the start of a megadungeon out of the Cave of the Unknown. Seeing how engaged the kids are and feeling left out of the fun, my wife (!) even asked the other day if she could roll up a character and join us next time. I can't wait to see what happens, and look forward to some future Bond missions and Rider Haggard-inspired Gaslight CoC. Thanks for everything!
ReplyDelete I actually sold off my Menzter B/X set and gave away my AD&D when 3E came out as I never played them and could never completely wrap my head around THAC0 (much as I still can't understand Mutants and Masterminds) in the 15+ years I owned them. As 3E continued and gave way to 3.5 I became more disenchanted with the products of WotC/Hasbro and the rumors of a 4th edition just sealed it for me.
Then I stumbled across the Troll Lords (as I recall because of Goodman Games). I immedicately took to it because it preserved some of the quirkiness and flavor of 1E but was more easily understood. While at the Troll Lord forums, I read veiled references to OSRIC which, at the time, was verboten as possibly an illegitimate use of the OGL. Investigations into the C&C material at Dragonsfoot also led me into contact with more references to OSRIC the Labyrinth Lord.
I tracked down OSRIC first and it appealed to a sense of nostalgia. It also showed me that one of the problems I had with AD&D was the organization of the books.
Well, since then, I have collected Labyrinth Lord, Advanced Edition Companion, Original Edition Characters, Realms of Crawling Chaos, OSRIC, OSRIC Unearthed, Hackmaster Basic, Spellcraft & Swordplay, Basic Fantasy Roleplaying, Old School Magic, Old School Psionics, Dragons at Dawn, and Spellcraft & Swordplay with Monstrous Mayhem. Oh, I have also preordered DCC RPG.I'm not a big fan of D&D-related games, but I'm a big proponent of both the Chaosium BRP system and T&T -- both from the 70s.
I remember being the sole owner of a BRP-dedicated web-site in the second half of the 90s and in the beginning of the 00s... It felt like a flickering candle in utter darkness. Then all of a sudden we had the BGB, Mongoose RQ, OpenQuest, RQ 6...... There's today more BRP stuff than I can read or buy yet I still have fond memories of those lonely days when I was at the centre of the BRP fandom :)Happy anniversary and may there be many more! I'm not sure what keywords I put into Google in early 2010, but they brought me here! Grognardia was my jumping-off point for my exploration of the OSR. After reading just this blog for a few days, I used your Links of Interest to start exploring other similar blogs. Then I was inspired to start my own blog in order to get into this little community of ours! You and the rest of the crowd led me back to an appreciation of the many OOP incarnations of D&D as well as a new appreciation of the in-print clones. Now, I'm about to embark on a Labyrinth Lord campaign and I can't wait for the adventures to come! I'm thankful to have had Grognardia as a stable foundation from which to explore the roleplaying blogosphere!
ReplyDeleteI was simply looking for roleplaying blog when I stumbled across this sit, not even a year ago. I'm a new schooler, grew up with 3.5.
But as I read more and play more and even run games more often I find that the some new rules make things almost ridiculous. I've been following the OSR ever since (mostly due to this blog's influence), trying to convince family and friends to give it a try.I was already running games for a brand new group (after near a decade off from gaming) when I stumbled across the OSR. My delving into it physically with some local groups and doing some con sessions has had its ups and downs, but it has been fun to appreciate the older stuff with other aging gamers of yore. I never thought about blogging myself, until I heard you on some podcast or another 3 years ago or so, and took a look here. I got inspired and got involved.
To some degree the nostalgia has worn off a bit, I've blogged less, and have recently put my efforts into focusing on the incredible group I run for/play with on an almost weekly basis now for 4 years. I ran one of my best Call of Cthulhu games ever Wed night, and my players seem to be blown away (once again I had to pull teeth to get my players to try Cthulhu, and as predicted they love it), so I am going to put even more focus on the actual games and less on arguing with people on forums.
But for good or bad James, you inspired me with the blog and I got more invovled online. Thanks, congrats, and here's to another four years.In March 2008 I was living in the Outer Hebrides, hadn't played any RPG for about a decade, and was writing an AD&D campaign and a BRP conversion for Skyrealms of Jorune - just for fun, not really imagining I'd ever get to play them.
The news of Gary Gygax's death made me nostalgic for the early days and I started looking for old D&D adventures online, which led me to Dragonsfoot and thence to the OSR corner of the blogosphere. Grognardia taught me about Labyrinth Lord. At first I was amazed that someone would still want to play a version of B/X D&D, and then it was as if a light came on and I realised that's where my heart (and head) lay too. Now I run B/X Stonehell Dungeon for a regular group and it's a blast. And I buy more OSR goodies than is strictly sensible. (How many megadungeons does one man need?) Oh aye, and I'm still writing the Jorune thing.
Congratulations and thanks.
P.S. *cough* Petty Gods *coughcough*I had been growing increasingly dissatisfied with my gaming when I stumbled upon Grognardia two years ago.
Your blog has been a real eye-opener and ultimately, immersing myself in the OSR scene has led me to start a Warhammer FRP 1e campaign last year. I'm having an absolute blast.
Thank you!Congratulations, James! Your blog has been boon to me, first as a resource for learning more about the early days of the hobby, and later by sparking my interest in the OSR. I was already a huge fan of indie, DIY publishing (e.g., the Forge), and seeing a similar blossoming w/r/t classic RPGs was a joy.
I think the OSR is one of the most important things to ever happen to the hobby, and you are its leading light. Thank you!There was a Renaissance? <grin>
Seriously, regardless of what actual rules you use, I think the heart of the so-called Old School philosophy is using your imagination to create your own worlds/campaigns, rather than accepting what you have been given as canon. [Not to forget stealing the bits and pieces that other people come up with that you like, and ignoring the stuff you don't. As I started doing nearly 35 years ago and am continuing to do today.]
After all, everyone knows that hybrids have greater vigour than a monoculture...Congratulations. Well done. A blog I enjoy even if I'm out of the overall gaming loop. I actually stumbled across it while I was looking for information on Tolkien. It was a post on his birthday that talked about his influence on the game. I had recently started to play D&D 3rd edition with my boys, since they were into the whole fantasy environment complements of Harry Potter and the LoTR movies. I had tried AD&D a couple times in its day, but not being a big fan of fantasy, it never stuck.
After a few months of 3rd, I was less than impressed. Something about it left me with the impression of chewing on tin foil - the sensation of eating but not being satisfied. Once I started reading here, I thought I might dust off those books I bought in the day and start there, and so I did. Not only I, but my family as well, have warmed to the hobby since.
It also didn't hurt that there continued a steady stream of discussions and links to a variety of topics relating to that period in the hobby on this blog, as well as helping with its fantasy literature roots. That's how it went with me.Just glad that there are other people my age out there who remember and are nostalgic for the golden age of RPGing.
They say tabletop RPGing are dying and will one day be on the same plane as Faro, tomahawk throwing and Bear Wrestling, but as long as there are blogs like this, and old gamers pining for the old days, those dying days will be pushed back.Long time fan of the blog. For me, I started digging out my B/X Basic book when 4e was announced. I was pretty burnt out on 3.x by then, and wanted something to fool around with until the 4e rules were unveiled. But I got hooked. I ordered copies of my long lost BEC books and the B/X Expert book and fell back in love. We also broke out the old Marvel rules (although it never enjoys the longevity D&D has for us).
When 4e finally did come out and we started playing, I found I didn't care for it at all. We played BEC and had a blast. Don't get me wrong: 4e has grown on me as an occasional board game/family night affair, but it didn't feel the same.
I've been enjoying an LL/AEC game on Skype for the last few months.
Viva la OSR!I'm not exactly a grognard (seriously, I first got into D&D via Pathfinder. THAT'S what I call late Oo ), and just a few years ago, I was rather amused by the idiosyncrasies of older RPGs. Then I stumbled upon your blog and learned to look at these "antiques" from a different perspective - one I rather like, as I must add.
Now, your blog is basically my No. 1 blog for anything rpg-related (okay, maybe not the newer stuff, but you get the idea).