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Sun Aug 12 12:04:34 EDT 2018
Slept from one to nine. Woke briefly once in the night.
High of eighty-four today. 30% chance of thunderstorms.
Goals:
- Clean apartment
Done.
- Email maintenance request for stuck door latch
Done.
- Read
A bit.
Listened to NPR and played Card Crawl in bed for a couple of hours after I woke up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features
> Creature Features was a generic title for a genre of horror TV format shows broadcast on local U.S. television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The movies broadcast on these various shows were generally classic and cult horror movies of the 1930s to 1950s, the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s, British horror films of the 1960s, and the Japanese "giant monster" movies of the 1960s and 1970s.
> Creature Features usually aired on Friday or Saturday night, around eight or nine o'clock. In some cities it aired on Saturday afternoons alternating with Kung Fu Theater and/or Bikini Theater. Because it aired after the traditional Saturday morning cartoon time block, it introduced many teenagers to classic monster movies.
http://www.atdetroit.net/forum/messages/107211/111437.html?1192476772
> Anyone remember the intro to the Channel 20 Thriller that they used for years?? LOL. Or the bumper for the scary films on Channel 50 with the screaming man, where the screen would bleed orange?
> I remember channel 20 using a cut of Led Zepplin's "Whole Lotta Love" for station identification. When I was a kid, that whining eerie noise scared the crap outta me.
https://www.facebook.com/thrillerdoublefeature/
> Thriller Double Feature was broadcast on Saturday afternoons, in Detroit, on WXON TV20 from the 1980...
Possibly there was also a "Kung Fu Theater" show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJOR6hhAYY
Vacuumed, watered plants, put away laundry, cleaned the bathroom.
Didn't walk outside, but paced around the apartment for half an hour.
Hm. LibreOffice Draw has gotten much better since the last time I used it.
Did a wee bit of revision for Zerapis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystara
> Mystara originated as a fantasy world developed by Lawrence Schick and Tom Moldvay for their own Dungeons & Dragons game sessions from 1974 to 1976. Their original setting consisted of a large continent with fictionalized nations that were based on real-world historical cultures. Inspired by author H. P. Lovecraft and his work in creating a fiction shared universe, Schick and Moldvay named their setting as the "Known World" so it could be expanded upon by other players.
https://www.blackgate.com/2015/02/07/the-known-world-dd-setting-a-secret-history/
> In early ’74 Tom came back from an SF convention with Dungeons & Dragons in its original white box edition. He DMed a session, I DMed a session, and suddenly we knew what we were going to create together: a fantasy world setting for D&D.
> We had both read widely in world history and mythology, and enjoyed a lot of the same fantasy fiction; we traded Lin Carter’s Ballantine Adult Fantasy books back and forth until we’d read them all, as well as everything we could find by Howard, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Merritt, Haggard, Harold Lamb, Dunsany, Hodgson, Machen, and Zelazny.
> We were both nuts about Clark Ashton Smith, Tom was a Michael Moorcock and Philip José Farmer fanatic, while I could quote chapter and verse from the works of Jack Vance and Fritz Leiber. So we knew what we wanted to create: a single world setting that would enable us to simulate the fictional realities of these, our favorite authors.
Started reading Snow Crash.
Lunch: coffee, carrots, spinach, macaroni
Dinner: chip, ice cream, beer, chicken pot pie
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