Ten things I've done
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kayshaperoThat you probably haven't. A meme I've seen on about five journals by now so what the heck.
1) Thumbed my nose at a President of the US (George Bush Senior). Not realizing the guy was in the neighborhood, I drove down Lincoln blvd. towards home at just the wrong moment and was two cars shy of an intersection when a rentacop pulled up and blocked it, in anticipation of the motorcade. By the time it actually arrived 15-20 minutes later I was a triffle Annoyed. I was on the left southbound lane, and thus the presidential limo drove right past me maybe 20 feet away, the occupant clearly visible. So I grabbed the opportunity to give him a thumb-to-nose salute. Dunno if he saw it - he looked rather sour but that could have just been from being stuck INSIDE that motorcade for goodness knows how long.
2) Strolled into the middle of the party at a tabletop D&D session. That was Nicolai's fault - we were playing with the "funny doors" in StormGate Dungeon - you open them, see someplace strange, recognize it from fiction or fact sometimes, close the door, open it again and see something different. He described the scene through the door as the room around us complete with people rolling funny dice, and on a whim I got up and walked THROUGH it. Just added another figure to the board and kept playing. :)
3) Studied Politicial Science texts at the top of an avocado tree. Hey, it was ONE place I was unlikely to be interrupted. Hmm.. wonder if the magnolia tree out of the parkstrip is climbable these days. Haven't checked for awhile, and it was a glorified sapling when we moved in.
4) Sat on the couch reading a book and sharing sunflower seeds with a rat. Who, once she learned not to grab the lot and stuff them down the back of same (for one thing, she found she couldn't retrieve them later), did just fine.
5) Entered a SF convention masquerade as the back half of a sehlat (Vulcan sabertoothed cat). Nearly got heatstroke from the TV cameras after leaving the stage. Did NOT lift one leg as I passed the podium - probably just as well I didn't think of that until later. :)
6) Assasinated my way to the top of the chain of command in the Klingon Star Empire. No, really - we had this club by that name, complete with a table of organization, so I picked a thread, and started putting ads in the personal's column of the local paper in which various folks on the chain expired in a rather Dr. Phibes fashion, all signed "Your Successor". Finally got the Emperor, and revealed "Your Successor" was actually Kor. Then stopped posting. Had fun over the next few years individually informing the other Klingons whodidit. Hey, it DID give them something to talk about rather than endlessly bragging about how great their individual ships were. :)
7) Bought my pet rat a membership in the PTA. Y'see, Mom was a life member, Dad wasn't interested, and they'd sent me home with this membership application at the beginning of the school year which nobody needed. Rikki Tikki Tavi was only a year or so old, but that's adult for a rat, so I filled it out, turned it in with the fifty cent dues required, and in due course received a PTA card for Miss Rikki T. Tavi. Considered bringing her to a PTA meeting, but never actually did it.
8) Gone dredging for hermit crab parasites off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, in a converted tuna boat belonging to the marine biology department at USC (Velero IV iirc - it's been awhile.)
9) Lectured orcs on tactics. I think it was an early DunDracon - anyway there was the first attempt I'd seen at a live D&D game, in which I was not involved, and I happened to wander into a room containing a double handful of "orcs" who were just sitting there. I organized an ambush, then wandered out again. Never did find out if the room got bounced or what happened thereafter. DID manage to take a photograph of what you can see from the back of the party in a corridor (nothing useful), to show players who asked what their characters could see.
10) Watched a squirrel chew out a young kestrel, in Griffith Park. Seems it obviously realized that squirrels were edible, but had not yet figured out that you don't catch them by fluttering up and pecking. The result was hilarious.
1) Thumbed my nose at a President of the US (George Bush Senior). Not realizing the guy was in the neighborhood, I drove down Lincoln blvd. towards home at just the wrong moment and was two cars shy of an intersection when a rentacop pulled up and blocked it, in anticipation of the motorcade. By the time it actually arrived 15-20 minutes later I was a triffle Annoyed. I was on the left southbound lane, and thus the presidential limo drove right past me maybe 20 feet away, the occupant clearly visible. So I grabbed the opportunity to give him a thumb-to-nose salute. Dunno if he saw it - he looked rather sour but that could have just been from being stuck INSIDE that motorcade for goodness knows how long.
2) Strolled into the middle of the party at a tabletop D&D session. That was Nicolai's fault - we were playing with the "funny doors" in StormGate Dungeon - you open them, see someplace strange, recognize it from fiction or fact sometimes, close the door, open it again and see something different. He described the scene through the door as the room around us complete with people rolling funny dice, and on a whim I got up and walked THROUGH it. Just added another figure to the board and kept playing. :)
3) Studied Politicial Science texts at the top of an avocado tree. Hey, it was ONE place I was unlikely to be interrupted. Hmm.. wonder if the magnolia tree out of the parkstrip is climbable these days. Haven't checked for awhile, and it was a glorified sapling when we moved in.
4) Sat on the couch reading a book and sharing sunflower seeds with a rat. Who, once she learned not to grab the lot and stuff them down the back of same (for one thing, she found she couldn't retrieve them later), did just fine.
5) Entered a SF convention masquerade as the back half of a sehlat (Vulcan sabertoothed cat). Nearly got heatstroke from the TV cameras after leaving the stage. Did NOT lift one leg as I passed the podium - probably just as well I didn't think of that until later. :)
6) Assasinated my way to the top of the chain of command in the Klingon Star Empire. No, really - we had this club by that name, complete with a table of organization, so I picked a thread, and started putting ads in the personal's column of the local paper in which various folks on the chain expired in a rather Dr. Phibes fashion, all signed "Your Successor". Finally got the Emperor, and revealed "Your Successor" was actually Kor. Then stopped posting. Had fun over the next few years individually informing the other Klingons whodidit. Hey, it DID give them something to talk about rather than endlessly bragging about how great their individual ships were. :)
7) Bought my pet rat a membership in the PTA. Y'see, Mom was a life member, Dad wasn't interested, and they'd sent me home with this membership application at the beginning of the school year which nobody needed. Rikki Tikki Tavi was only a year or so old, but that's adult for a rat, so I filled it out, turned it in with the fifty cent dues required, and in due course received a PTA card for Miss Rikki T. Tavi. Considered bringing her to a PTA meeting, but never actually did it.
8) Gone dredging for hermit crab parasites off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, in a converted tuna boat belonging to the marine biology department at USC (Velero IV iirc - it's been awhile.)
9) Lectured orcs on tactics. I think it was an early DunDracon - anyway there was the first attempt I'd seen at a live D&D game, in which I was not involved, and I happened to wander into a room containing a double handful of "orcs" who were just sitting there. I organized an ambush, then wandered out again. Never did find out if the room got bounced or what happened thereafter. DID manage to take a photograph of what you can see from the back of the party in a corridor (nothing useful), to show players who asked what their characters could see.
10) Watched a squirrel chew out a young kestrel, in Griffith Park. Seems it obviously realized that squirrels were edible, but had not yet figured out that you don't catch them by fluttering up and pecking. The result was hilarious.
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Date: 2005-03-16 01:52 pm (UTC)There were quite a few Klingons that hung out at S.T.A.R. San Diego meetings in Daze of Yore. Was that the group you're talking about?
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Date: 2005-03-21 02:10 am (UTC)PS
Date: 2005-03-18 12:56 am (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2005-03-19 08:06 pm (UTC)COLONEL F: Would you please ask that blonde with the atrocious manners to stop following me in his red sportscar? Our paint jobs clash. Lyth'n
(No idea if "blonde" for "blond" [male] was my typo or the Reader's.)
Alas that was before I started noting dates in the file, so I've no idea exactly when it appeared. I do recall that by the time we'd practically taken over the Personals column, the Reader got so confused that they sent someone out to interview some of us about the ads. They never printed the interview - I think they were just trying to find out if we were dealing drugs or something. Anyway, they started losing and rearranging ads and that was when Pearl and I started Intercepted. (btw - I'm usually months behind in updating it, but I've been posting text-only versions of the current Intercepted on my website.
I met Nicolai at the San Diego ComicCon in August of 1974, as DM of my first D&D game. In fact it had just come out so this is no big surprise. Much fun was had by all. I moved north sometime in 1976.
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Date: 2005-03-19 08:08 pm (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2005-03-19 08:34 pm (UTC)I remember all that. Fun times.
The first D&D game I played in (still remember the fighter I gen'd - named him "Arglebargle IV" after an obscure reference in B.O.T.R.) was in the Mid-Kemia game universe that later grew into the Magician series of books by Raymond Feist. That was in '74 at SDSU. I was amused to read "Magician" and the rest years later, and recognize references to old-time Calafians, as Feist was also active in the SCA back then. (I wasn't, until 1980.)
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Date: 2005-05-30 08:43 pm (UTC)