The Self-Interviews

What It Is

Sometimes when I watch or listen to one of these shows, I imagine how I might answer the interviewer’s questions.
— me

I’m embarking on a new series in which I answer the questions that some of the great interviewers of our time typically put to their guests.  If you’re interested to know why I’ve decided to do this, feel free to read “The Motivation” down at the bottom.  But it’s not required.

Here’s a list of of what I’m planning to do; I’ll update these so they’re links to the posts once I write them.  Note that I’ve actually already written one of them: it I have a post from nearly 5 years ago that fits right into this theme, so I’m retroactively declaring it to be part of the series.

I may add more later, as they come up.

The List

• Variation on the Pivot Questionnaire (James Lipton, Inside the Actor’s Studio)
• The Colbert Questionert (Stephen Colbert, The Late Show)
• One Question (Chris Hardwick, Talking with Chris Hardwick)
• Rapid Fire (Mayim Bialik, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown)

The Motivation

So, it’s occurred to me that my blog is a bit like a diary.  My kids absolutely don’t read it now, but perhaps some day they will.  Now, I don’t know if any of you other readers much care what my answers to any of the questions posed by famous interviewers are, but I think that my children may find those answers interesting, one day ... maybe after I’m gone.  Not that I expect to be gone any time soon, but I do fully expect to be gone before my children ever get around to reading any of this stuff.

It’s a weird thing that we often want to try to connect with people after it’s too late to do that in person, instead of doing it while they’re right there next to us.  I’m sure there’s some aspect of human nature that explains this, but I have no clue what it is.  I just want my children to know that I did the same thing when I was younger—hell, I’m still doing it, though I’m finally old enough to realize I need to do better—so, you know ... don’t feel bad about it or anything.

Hopefully these posts give some insight into what I thought and felt, about life and living and all that jazz.

Caveats

I’m sure most of these questions are designed to be answered with brief responses.  I don’t do brief.

Also, there will be cursing.  Because, of course there will.

Gaming Series

Lately I’ve started a bunch of series related to gaming, in particular my love of D&D and similar TTRPGs (tabletop roleplaying games—sometimes, in older posts, you may see me refer to them as PnP RPGs).

D&D and Me

My personal story about how I came to love the game and my formative experiences with it.

• Part 1: The Time Beforetimes
• Part 2: Mapping Out the Territory
• Part 3: Playing the Roles
• Part 4: If I Could Talk to the Animals
• Part 5: Multiple Personalities
• Part 6: The Contemplative Life ... of Punching the Crap of out People
• Part 7: The Next Generation
• Part 8: Resurgence of the Game
• Part 9: All in the Family

GM Philosophy

These are posts which outline my personal tenets as a GM (game master).  This is mainly to have a formal place to point players to if they want to know what to expect in my games.

• Roleplaying is Storytelling
• Character Is King
• I Don’t Kill Characters
• (the fine print)
• Playstyle Matters

Multiclassing

One D&D topic that’s near and dear to my heart is multiclassing: the ability for one character to advance in more than class.  I started a series exploring how this was handled in various editions of D&D, hopefully to culminate in some ideas about what the perfect multiclassing system might be.

• History of the Multiclasses (2nd edition)
• History of the Multiclasses (3rd edition)
• History of the Multiclasses (4th edition)
• History of the Multiclasses (5th edition)

General D&D 5e Musings

Occasionally I write something more general about fifth edition D&D in particular.  There’s not a lot of throughline for these.  It is, by its nature, an open-ended series.

• The Starting Level Dilemma
• Meet Arkan Kupriveryx (Concept)
• Meet Arkan Kupriveryx (Execution)
• Minor Magic Items
• Rotating Through the Gaming
• 5e vs Pathfinder: A Dance of D&Ds
• Perception, Investigation: a Perpetual Imbroglio
• We All Need a Little Guidance Sometimes

General Pathfinder Musings

Before D&D’s fifth edition (affectionately known as 5e) came out, I was pretty big into Pathfinder.  I have some musings on that too:

• The Path to Pathfinder (part 1 of 2)
• Destination: Pathfinder (part 2 of 2)
• Looking Forward to Pathfinder’s Next Iteration

General Heroscape Musings

Outside of TTRPGs, my other big gaming love is Heroscape.  Here are some thoughts about that game:

• Why Heroscape Is Cool
• Heroscape Forever
• Assault on the Ice Tower (posted on Heroscapers.com as “Xotli”)
• Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map (short)

General Fantasy Musings

Sometimes I just like to talk about fantasy gaming in general, storytelling through TTRPGs, etc.  Like these:

• The Expression of Tension
• Gaming the Grey
• Improv at the (D&D) Table

Gaming with my Family

Of course I sometimes game with my family, and I sometimes write about it.  Here are some samples:  (Note: Most of these are about D&D, but some are about Heroscape.)

• Roleplaying After the Fall
• A Game for a Younger Man
• War for Father’s Day
• Genethlian Cartography (quickie)
• Why I Play D&D
• Quiet week, just a few demons to deal with ... (short)
• Another proud father moment (quickie)
• No Time Like the First Time
• Kicking off the Family Campaign
• D&D Story #1: The Demon Doll

Heroscape tournament reports

Most years, I attend an annual Heroscaper tournament with a group of folks called the SoCal League.  Typically I take at least a human child or two along for the ride, so here’s a family subcategory consisting of those posts:

• Tourney the First (NHSD 2012)
• National Heroscape Day 2013 (short)
• Tourney prep (short)
• National Heroscape Day 2014 (short)
• National Heroscape Day 2015 (short)
• National Heroscape Day 2016
• NHSD 2017: Quick Results (short)
• SoCal ‘Scapers Summer Gameday, 2019 (short)

Carryover post

I really, really tried to make sure you got a proper post this week.  My fervent hope was that I would complete the next round of work on my Perl module, since it’s been a month since I updated over on my Other Blog.  However, I ran into a couple of crises (one computer-but-not-work related, the other child-and-sickness related) that have conspired to keep me from being prepared to do that.  I’ll have it next week if it kills me.

My next thought was to quickly crank out the next post in my music mix series, because I rather thought I’d already started it, and therefore it would be pretty easy to polish it off.  But, alas: I had the barest shell of a post ready, and there was just no way I was going to be able to fill that out in a reasonable amount of time.

On the other hand, I would once again point you at the post that I updated last week with: Why I Left the C3V.  It really is about way more than Heroscape and the C3V; plus it’s long enough to count for two weeks’ worth of posts anyway.

Until next week.

Series Listing: The Other Blog

I have two blogs: this one, and a technical, Perl-based blog.  When I refer to “my Other Blog”, it just means whichever one you happen not to be on at the moment.  I occasionally do series over on the Other Blog as well, so here’s a listing of those.

YAPC Reports

The first one of these was actually posted on this blog, as it was written before The Other Blog was created.  The remainder are over there though.

These are not terribly technical; mostly what I talk about are traveling, the social interaction, dragging family members along for the ride, etc.

• On Conferences and Travel (YAPC 2011: Asheville)
• YAPC Reflections 2013 (YAPC 2013: Austin)
• Remnants of a Deeper YAPC (YAPC 2014: Orlando)
• Breaking the Fourth YAPC (YAPC 2015: Salt Lake City)
• The Fifth Element (of YAPC) (YAPC 2016: Orlando again)

Perl and Me

This is probably the series that I’m proudest of (and the one that more people have actually read than any other, I would guess).  It’s moderately technical, in spots, but it also contains a lot of philosophical ponderings and more abstract points.

• The Road So Far
• The Power of OOP
• A Møøse Once Bit My Sister
• A Worthy Program, Exceedingly Well Read
• Speaking with the speech of coders
• Perl is Engineering and Art
• The Most Powerful Weapon Which You Can Use to Change the World
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Wonderful
• That’s Why I Failed Recess
• What We Talk About When We Talk About DWIM
• Please Mr. Perl, Will You DWIM?
• The End of the Beginning
• Here’s to Future Days

Not part of the series proper, but perhaps a fun read nonetheless: this post (not on the Other Blog) discusses the origin of all the titles I chose for this series.

• What Morris Wrought

A Date with CPAN

This describes my attempts to design a new Perl module to make dealing with dates easier for most Perl scripts.  It won’t work for every possible use of dates, but it should suffice for the most common cases.  It’s more technical than “Perl and Me,” but I think it has value for just about anyone who is a programmer, even if Perl is not their primary language.  It has a lot about general design that will apply in any language, and a lot about dates that is also language-agnostic.

• State of the Union
• Target First, Aim Afterwards
• Paving While Driving
• Construction Time Again
• Everything’s Relative
• Time Won’t Give Me Time
• In the Zone
• (commercial break) And Now, a Word from Our Sponsor
• Curse You, Daylight Savings Time!
• Composition Defeats Inheritance Yet Again
• Cleanliness Is Next to Timeliness
• Sweet Release

Series Listing: The Informals

An “informal series” is when I don’t really set out to make a post series but end up doing it sort of accidentally.  Generally it comes from revisiting a certain theme periodically.

The Mother

Meaning “the mother of my children” rather than my own mother, I often write posts about The Mother on, appropriately enough, Mother’s Day.

• The Mother (sort of an introduction)
• Three + One
• Another Mother’s Day
• Mother’s Day Mix
• A Developing Biannual Traditon
• Sentiment for the Day

Happy Holidays

Often times around the end of December I wish you a “merry whatever” or occasionally a merry “christmahannukwanzaakah.”^*  Usually these are labeled “partial,” meaning that they’re not what I consider a full-length post.  But some of them have interesting tidbits in them anyway (especially that second one there).  So they may be worth checking out anyway.

• Happy Holidays (2010)
• Happy ... Whatever (2011; includes the Yuletidal Pools mix)
• Sabbatical Report: Christmas (2012)
• Perl blog post #22 + Happy Holidays (again) (2013)
• Merry Yule (2014)
• Ruminations of the Season (2015)
• Blessed Be (2016) (also: Yuletidal Pools II)
• There’s a Kind of Hush (2017)
• Season’s Greetings (2022)

Animals

As I’ve always had a huge love of animals, I often find myself writing about it.  None of these necessarily relate to each other, but they all touch on that common topic.  I’ve arranged them in sort of a sensible order.  I think.

• whence cometh my love of animals?
• living with animals (a.k.a. ”pets”)
• whither animals nowadays?
• animals in my world of make-believe, and thence to my early D&D characters
• animals in my current D&D campaign with my kids

Quotes

I collect quotes, and occasionally write blog posts about them.

• exploring quotes and what they mean
• ruminations on a ship in a harbor
• ruminations on how little things add up
• quotes that lead to cynical romanticism
• exploration of individuality
• exploration of self-contradiction
• the quotes of H. L. Mencken
• the quotes of MLK
• a meandering exploration of even more quotes

Nothing to Say

Sometimes I don’t do a full blog post because Real Life got busy and I ran out of time.  But, occasionally, rarely, I find that I just can’t think of anything good to write about.  I often use these opportunities to reflect on the blog so far (e.g. number of posts, number of words, is anyone really reading it, that sort of thing).  These are all partial posts, but I think they’re interesting nonetheless.

• Nothing to Say
• Nothing to Say ... Again
• Nothing to Say Again ... Yet Again
• Something to Say
• Something to Say (But No Time to Say It)
• Something to Have Said

Agile Development

There are 3 posts in this 2-part series, which is sort of about agile software development, but also sort of an open letter to managers and other businesspeople who are trying to implement some form of agile at their company (and mostly not succeeding).

This series is completed.

• My Theory About Agile
• Pitfalls in Agile
• The Care and Feeding of Code Monkeys

__________

* As always, credit goes to Jon Sime for inventing that excellent word.

Series Listing: Saladosity

This a list of posts in my series about salad: why I’m eating it more often, how I manage to keep it interesting enough to eat several times a week, and what specific salads I’m eating.

This series is currently unfinished, but it has a definitive stopping point.

1. Introduction
2. The Nutritional Tribes
3. My Chosen Path
4. Choose Your Veggies
5. Further Adventures in Produce
6. Picking Nuts
7. The Savory Proteins
8. Some Condiments, You Just Want to Buy
9. The Rest of the Cold Stuff
10. Dry, but Good
11. The Right Equipment
12. Always Be Prepared
13. Bleu Cheese and Pecans
14. Sweet Tuscan
15. Autumnal
16. Mexican
17. Chef’s
18. Egg

Although not technically part of the series, I also did a one-shot post on salad way back when.  You might also find it interesting:

• Salad Days

Series Listing: The Barefoot Philosophy

Barefoot Software was the business I ran for 12 years.  This series explains the culture of Barefoot, why it was radically divergent from most other businesses of its time, and how it dovetails with many of the newer business philosophies we’re seeing emerging today (in particular, comparing and contrasting to Netflix and Valve).

This series is completed.

• An Introduction
• Cornerstone #1: Financial Transparency
• Cornerstone #2: Merit-Based Pay
• Cornerstone #3: No Salaries
• Cornerstone #4: No Org Chart
• Cornerstone #5: Employee Ownership
• What Employees Want
• Final Thoughts

Series Listing: Guides

This a list of posts in my series about people who have influenced my life in some way, whom I refer to as “guides.”  From the intro:

But the point is, these are the people who were my guideposts, my compasses, whether from exerting a strong magnetic force on me, or just from jerking a thumb over their shoulder and indicating a better road.  Both are important.  Both have had significant impacts on my life.  Both make interesting stories, and that’s what it’s really all about.

This series is an ongoing one, meaning it will never be truly “finished.”  I sincerely doubt I’m ever going to run out of people who’ve influenced my life in one way or another.  I also do these very infrequently: basically whenever I’m reminded of a particular person from my past.  So be prepared for long gaps in between installments.

• Those I Owe (introduction)
• Bernice Pierce
• Willie Vadnais
• Marion Burden
• Benny Millares

Series Listing: Music Mixes

This a list of posts in my series about my music mixes.  You should probably start with the introduction.  The mixes themselves are listed in a spectrum order from most upbeat to most downbeat, although of course these are generalizations and indidivual tracks may buck the trend.  As explained in the introduction, each mix is divided into several volumes, and each post covers one volume.  So the volume subtitles are the links.  Where a mix has no volumes listed, that means I haven’t gotten around to doing a post on it yet, so the inclusion of it here is just a teaser.  I’m cruel like that.

Here are some phrases I use in these posts, their definitions, and links to the posts where I talk more about them (if any):

mix: A collection of songs, arranged in a particular order, that share a common theme.  Can be infinitely long.  Has a name which I invented.

volume: A subdivision of a mix, usually 60 to 80 minutes long.  Has a title, generally drawn from one track in the volume.

mix starter: The song that inspired a particular mix.

transition: The flow from the end of one song to the beginning of the next.  Very important to a mix’s integrity.  The reason why you must never touch the “Shuffle” button on your player.

bridge: A short song, almost always under two minutes, interposed between two other songs that don’t have a very good transition.

hardening: The process by which the transitions of a mix, while perhaps not perfect at first, grow ingrained over time through repeated listening, until I can’t imagine breaking them.  Contrasted with transitions that are perfect out of the gate.

No Reuse Rule: The rule that says that any given song can only ever appear on one mix.  Well, not a rule so much as a guideline, really.  There are, naturally, exceptions:

• If I make mixes for other people, they are not subject to the No Reuse Rule.  For instance, my Mother’s Day mix may very well contain songs on one of the mixes here; likewise for any of the mixes I made for my eldest child when they were younger.
• Also, if I were to make two different mixes for The Mother or any of my kids, I might be willing to use the same track as a previous mix for that person.  Which is subtly different from the above exception (and probably worse, so then again I might not).
• Every once in a while I just screw up and accidentally break the No Reuse Rule.  Generally I try to rerrange things in order to fix the mistake once I find it.  Sometimes this can be difficult if the song has “hardened” (see above) in both mixes.
• Certain mixes are just different, and they’re not considered part of the main series, so they’re allowed to use the same track as one of the main mixes (but not to repeat a track on that mix, no matter how many volumes it goes).  The prime example of this is the 80s My Way mix.  I also have 3 “mood” mixes (which is a dumb name for them, as all of my mixes are really mood mixes) called Dreamtime, Darktime, and Pasttime which used to fall under this exception.  Lately, however, I’ve been re-examining that decision, and starting to move some things around so that those mixes will also follow the No Reuse Rule.  I also have a “gaming” mix which originally I didn’t consider part of the main mix series, but it has also since come into line.
• “Bonin’ in the Boneyard” by Fishbone is exempt from the No Reuse Rule.  It can be on as many mixes as it wants.  It’s just that good.

modern mix: A mix that was developed as a digital playlist.

pre-modern mix: A mix that was developed as a mix tape.  Any pre-modern mix in this series is actually a recreation of the original.

proto-mix: A collection of songs that was sort of randomly jumbled together on a mix tape; proto-mixes were what preceded pre-modern mixes.  There are no proto-mixes in this list because they were all crap.

transitional mix: The mixes that came between the pre-modern mixes and the modern mixes.  They were developed as digital playlists, but not with the full rigor of modern mixes.  There are 3 of these in total, and at least 2 of them are being updated to follow the moden mix guidelines.

moderately obscure band: An artist with an entry on AllMusic but no bio, and either no page or a stub page on Wikipedia.

really obscure band: An artist that can’t be found on either AllMusic or Wikipedia.

cover image: A faux CD cover generated for a mix volume out of my fevered imagination using the Gimp.  Only a few volumes have this.

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In addition to the mixes themselves, I also have a few personal stories of music discovery that I’ve written:

• Music Discovery Story #1: The Reject Box
• Music Discovery Story #2: Found Cassettes
• Music Story #3: Into the Groove

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The mixes are arranged from most upbeat to most downbeat.  I’ve tried to provide a super-short summation of what each mix conveys; these are necessarily oversimplifications and may not capture the full range of emotion the mix provides.  Mixes with no descriptions or volumes listed are still under construction.

Most Upbeat

⇓      Thrashomatic Danger Mix

loud and hardcore, to work out your aggression

• I. Dog Will Hunt

⇓      Cumulonimbus Eleven

powerful songs that should be cranked all the way up

• I. Devastate the Night Forever

⇓      Funkadelic Bonethumper

⇓      Creeping Rageaholic

songs that start out mellow, then break into aggression

• I. Set Shit on Fire

⇓      Totally Different Head

punk meets new wave

• I. The Devil Take Your Stereo

⇓      FasterHarderDarker

⇓      Distaff Attitude

female vocals with attitude

• I. Warm Us Up and Watch Us Blow

⇓      HipHop Bottlerocket

party mix

• I. Saddle Up Your Salamander

⇓      Tsunwave Tsunami

⇓      Salsatic Vibrato

brassy and upbeat

• I. Step Up Ladies
• II. King of the Monkeys
• III. South of Hell’s Borders
• IV. Hot Ginger and Dynamite
• V. Love’s a Big Witch Doctor
• VI. Dinner at Seven, Martinis at Five
• VII. The Devil in Your Eye
• VIII. Jump Into My Caddy

⇓      Solar Superposition

⇓      Apparently World

upbeat worldmusic

• I. The Universal Language

⇓      Snaptone Glimmerbeam

happy-making mostly instrumentals

• I. All I’m Sayin’, Pretty Baby

⇓      Yuletidal Pools

Happy Christmahannukwanzaakah!

• I. featuring Michael Bublé
• II. Baby Jesus, Born to Rock

⇓      Tripping Flibbertigibbet

⇓      Honeysuckle Bubblegum

⇓      Stumbling Locomotive

songs that roll along, sometimes after a hesitant start

• I. Keep A-shovelin’ That Coal

⇓      Sirenexiv Cola

female-fronted alterna-pop

• I. You Sparkle and Burn
• II. Sneaky Like a Fiery Fox

⇓      80s My Way

my tribute to 80s music

• 0: introduction & explanation
• I: There’s a New Wave Coming, I Warn You (1979 – 1981)
• II: And Now You Find Yourself in ‘82 (1982 Part 1)
• III: On a Wavelength Far From Home (1982 Pt 2)

⇓      Fulminant Cadenza

rock and alternative with an operatic bent

• I. Thunderbolt and Lightning

⇓      Cantosphere Eversion

inside-out songs

• I. Where Time Becomes a Loop

⇓      Paradoxically Sized World

inspired by LittleBigPlanet

• I. The Whole World Is Yours
• II. Burning Holes Right Through the Dark
• III. Are the Stars Out Tonight?
• IV. Darkness to the Light
• V. If You Can Remember the Tune
• VI. I Can Dream the Rest Away

⇓      Midnight Synthesis

darkly sparkling synthwave

• I. The Moon Is Shining in the Sky

⇓      Bleeding Salvador

mid-tempo featuring surreal lyrics

• I. The Night the Creature Came Ashore
• II. Happy and Dopey and Dirty in Places

⇓      Penumbral Phosphorescence

mid-to-high-energy goth music

• I. And Death Scourged Her

⇓      Eldritch Ætherium

music to inspire gaming creativity

• I. The Chase of the Black Beasts of Zephirus into the Caverns of the Demon King
• II. Welcome to the Lost Road across the Empire of the Daggers of the Dead
• III. To Moon and Stars: Heart of the Lord of the Undermountain of Gilead & Ashkeeper
• IV. Tales Around the Desert Crossroads between Aribeth and Anauroch, over the High Seas, beyond the Druid Grove

⇓      Candy Apple Shimmer

shimmery, ethereal, but still upbeat, dreampop

• I. If All You Dreamed Was New

⇓      Gramophonic Skullduggery

mischievous songs with an old-timey vibe

• I. White Spats and Lots of Dollars

⇓      Moonside by Riverlight

jazzy lounge

• I. Far Beyond the Stars
• II. Fuckin’ Posh Like Dave Beckham

⇓      Loungeomatic Dangly Mix

⇓      Pasttime

⇓      Slithy Toves

slinky, sinuous tunes ranging from mellow to mildly upbeat

• I. Here to Eat Your Apple to the Core
• II. Magicians Never Tell

⇓      Primeval Rainlands

⇓      Ataraxic Rattatto

⇓      Zephyrous Aquamarine

desert island inspired chill-out

• I. Out Upon the Islands on a Cool Summer Night

⇓      Smokelit Flashback

druggy trip-hop and dreampop with a noir feel

• I. Fortune Teller Eyes
• II. In a Half-Lit World
• III. Sniff Me Out Like I Was Tanqueray
• IV. This Labyrinth of Poems
• V. In My Dream I’ll Catch You
• VI. Snow-Coated Thought Cage

⇓      Classical Plasma

an orchestral melange of classical, neoclassical, and soundtrack music

• I. The Night Aquarium Is Closed

⇓      Incanto Liturgica

celebrating chant, both religious and ethnic

• I. After the Clouds

⇓      Mars de la Morte

⇓      Irie Vibrations

⇓      Porchwell Firetime

folksy songs which tell a story

• I. I Came Here from Nowhere

⇓      Tumbledown Flatland

western-tinged songs with the feel of a lonesome prairie

• I. I Have Water, I Have Rum

⇓      Dreamtime

surreal and psychedelic music that suggests a dreamlike state

• I. We Came Out from the Deep
• II. Colourless and Dangerous

⇓      Dreamscape Perturbation

surreal dreampop with a mildly disturbing vibe

• I. Dark Twisted Fantasy

⇓      Smooth as Whispercats

alterna-pop with a smooth jazz feel

• I. Copper and Snow
• II. Looking So Bereaved and So Bereft

⇓      Dreamsea Lucidity

lofi and trip-hop with a pschedelic bent

• I. But You Dream About Islands and You Go to Them

⇓      Mystical Memoriam

pretty instrumentals that suggest magic and memory

• I. Behind the Purple Stars

⇓      Plutonian Velvet

creepy alternative with unsettling lyrics

• I. Ministers of Night

⇓      Phantasma Chorale

creepy, childlike music inspired by the soundtrack to Coraline

• I. Shadows Are in Hiding
• II. Her Fatal Charm

⇓      Darktime

dark ambient tunes that suggest nyctophobia

• I. My Shadow Will Cover
• II. All the Devils Are Here

⇓      Rose-Coloured Brainpan

downbeat with a nostalgic feel

• I. Billion Year-Old Carbon
• II. Felt So Lonely in Your Company

⇓      Darkling Embrace

love songs with dark overtones

• I. Welcome Your Nightfall

⇓      Shadowfall Equinox

contemplative and autumnal

• I. Mystery Dwells Deep
• II. This Town of the Dying
• III. Five Fathoms Below You
• IV. It’s Dark and It Looks Like Rain
• V. Keep the Dark Inside
• VI. The Hungry Ghost That Lingers
• VII. The Garden, by Moonlight, Turning Dark
• VIII. Oceans of Storm Clouds

⇓      Numeric Driftwood

to drift off to sleep by

• I. Sail on a Silver Mist
• II. Did I Dream I Dreamed About You?
• III. Shadows Fall So Blue
• IV. Hints of Lilac Light

⇓      Wisty Mysteria

wistful, with a touch of mysterious

• I. Silent Sunset Orange Cloud
• II. Smoke a Cigarette and Lie Some More

⇓      Tenderhearted Nightshade

poignant and contemplative

• I. You Bleed Just to Know You’re Alive

Most Downbeat

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Special Mixes for Other People

Mother’s Day

for The Mother

• I. Every Little Thing Gonna Be All Right

In the P!nk

the Church of P!nk

• I. I’ve Been a Bad, Bad Girl
• II. You’re Gonna Have to Catch Me

Numeric Princess

Disney music for my little princess

• I. Fairy Tales Can Come True

Heroscapers post #1

Remember how, just after Thanksgiving, I said I was going to post something on my Heroscape forum about the big game the boys I played?  Well, I never did.  But today I finally decided to put some time into that, and produced this post.  Check it out, if you’re so inclined.  It might not make a huge amount of sense to those not steeped in the game, but it might be mildly entertaining nonetheless.