I say unto Pharoah, "Let my people go..."

[uberreiniger]

...So we all set out for the Promised Land. Ready Set Go! (That's a joke that only dungeonwriter will get.)

This has, been, by uberreinigerien standards, a very wild weekend. I've actually been meaning to blog about it for a while now but just haven't had a moment's rest to do so.

Friday night I met some of Mel's friends for the first time (and have a slew of new LJ friends now as a result,) and celebrated a Pagan holy day by eating some of the best lamb I have ever tasted. After that we went out and this erotica writer got to see his first real live burlesque show. Apparently there's an art district in Kansas City which everyone knew about but me and once a month they have a sort of festival with live entertainment and open art exhibits. Anyway, so yeah, burlesque. And also tribal bellydancers, spoken word poetry, and an emcee who belted out the best version of "You Be Good to Mama" I've heard apart from Queen Latifah herself. I'll be honest, a lot of the dance acts were just sort of okay, but a few of them were really memorable and outstanding. Sadly Mel and I had to miss about half the show since we had about two hundred people crammed into a space that couldn't have been much bigger than our apartment. We had to spend a long time walking around outside or else risk fainting from the heat.

Saturday we continued our Gary Gygax Fairwell Dungeons & Dragons experience at kakita_shisumo and duendegrrl's house. It was another epic gaming experience complete with pizza, coke, and the infamous Bag of Devouring, a cursed magic item which all D&D players live in fear of, but that in all my years I have never actually seen in play until now. My character is currently trying to raise money to replace Mel's character's severed hand. The game session was also notable for the many puns on the names of Egyptian gods.

Between it all I've been very busy in World of Warcraft. I have started no less than five new Draenei characters this week and am leveling them all simultaneously. My Horde main isn't even to 70 yet so I don't know what I'm thinking. But I'm having fun and the beautiful cloven-hooved aliens are just so pretty to look at. They're like a kinder, gentler Satanic Winter Goat and the males sound like Sayid from Lost!

Today hasn't seen any social activity, although pinkfaeriestarsand family will be over shortly. Instead I've spent it grocery shopping and washing dishes. If there was a lesson to be learned this weekend it's that being social makes dishes really, really pile up.

On a sadder note, this weekend marks the passing of Charlton Heston; one of the last cinematic giants of his generation. A big, decadent epic film is nothing without an actor who can carry it and Heston's broad shoulders did it time and time again. I admired him as an actor and films like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur  are still amazing works of art even to this day. But they would have been nothing without the man who starred in them. Farewell to yet another legend. 

Comments

[fadedsecret.livejournal.com]

Walter in the television...I don't remember that.

I DO remember Walter's face in the picture in your room...while the telephone says, " I'm ALWAYS watching you!"

And the fucking heads floating past the fucking window...we were RIGHT about to look out the fucking window, so we were REAL close, and it just floats by...fucking head!

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I was mixed up. You're right. There is a seperate haunting in the television.