Monday stuff

So, as some of you may know, Atlanta had an ice storm this weekend. And unlike the Ang Lee movie, this didn't have fun stuff like sex with Sigourney Weaver or Elijah Wood dying. Just lots of closed roads, loss of power, and other fun stuff. karlita and photognome, who live two blocks from us, lost their power in the afternoon on Saturday, and we had them over at our place that night to enjoy the electricity-based necessities, like the Internet. Of course, our power then blew a little after Midnight. It came back on early in the AM, but we had another outage yesterday evening. *grumble* Lack of bloody buried cables.

Went to jet_li_wannabe's last night for the first gaming night in a while, and discovered a very nifty game, Avalon Hill's Betrayal at House on the Hill. A nice game for any horror movie fan, with some very nifty game mechanics. My character turned out to be the betrayer, and attempted to lead my cannibal freaks against the heroes, but was thwarted.

Speaking of gaming, a note for jet_li_wannabe and lots of other folks on my FL: Java-based Ricochet Robots! Not as much fun as the real game, but still nifty.

Obligatory Kingdom of Loathing update: I'm at level 7, and finally have a boat! I've also got three familiars, I've joined a clan, and I've got a car and a boat. Woohoo!

Weekend TV included this week's Gilmore Girls, finally, and the latest JLU, which may be my favorite episode of a cartoon ever. They've done amazing stuff with Batman this season.

Finally, there's a nice (if inaccurate, since it implies he drew Flash and Maxx, when he actually wrote them) article on William Messner-Loebs that's been hitting all the blogs. Nothing in it's new to comic fans (I linked to an article about him two years ago), but he deserves any mainstream press he can get, if it can help him out. Such a talented creator -- I was just flipping through some Wasteland backissues this weekend.

Alton Brown report

hangingfire has this report of an Alton Brown speech/signing.

The man remains one of my heroes, and I'm so writing The Food Network and telling them to get their bitch asses in the studio to produce the venison and rabbit shows.

The remakes continue

Oh my god. They're remaking Terror Train.

The original, as some of you might know, is one of my favorite guilty pleasures of the late '70s (technically, it came out in 1980), combining so many fun elements of that era (transgendered killers, vanishing bodies, the use of not-so-subtle dramatic irony as people assume the killer under the mask is the friend/lover/whatever, and, of course, the ubiquitous Jamie Lee Curtis). Oh, and hey, it featured David Copperfield, playing (get this) a cheesy magician!

I can only hope the remake offers as much as the original.