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Zathras

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on: January 14, 2009, 09:51:56 PM


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Reply #1 on: January 15, 2009, 01:38:40 AM
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"


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Reply #2 on: January 15, 2009, 08:15:26 AM


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Reply #3 on: January 15, 2009, 01:25:35 PM
turns out my grandma made it to 1/1/09 soooo she don count :P

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?

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Reply #4 on: January 15, 2009, 03:02:15 PM
Quote from: Bdoomed on January 15, 2009, 01:25:35 PM
turns out my grandma made it to 1/1/09 soooo she don count :P

This is the 09 thread.

My condolences.


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Reply #5 on: January 15, 2009, 04:58:32 PM
Quote from: Bdoomed on January 15, 2009, 01:25:35 PM
turns out my grandma made it to 1/1/09 soooo she don count :P

I'll put in a good word for her.


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Reply #6 on: January 15, 2009, 07:35:46 PM
aah so it is, ha thought it was 08, mah bad... so she counts here :P
thanks Nash for the good word :P

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?

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Reply #7 on: January 16, 2009, 01:35:37 AM
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Reply #8 on: January 28, 2009, 09:01:33 AM


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Reply #9 on: February 25, 2009, 09:16:23 PM


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Reply #10 on: February 26, 2009, 01:27:06 AM
I found out this morning via Neil Gaiman on Twitter, who directed us to this amazing tribute from his great-nephew:  http://madwriter.livejournal.com/665805.html

He will be missed greatly.   :'(


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Reply #11 on: February 26, 2009, 07:27:56 PM
Indeed, he wrote some great stuff.  I loved the Riverworld series.  I also adored his "Venus on the Half Shell", written in pastiche of Kurt Vonnegut's style, and originally published under the byline of the fictional Killgore Trout.  The novel reads like a precursor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and is really funny.

Anyway, Fare Thee Well.  91 years isn't a bad run on this planet.  And may you wake up in a pleasant location without any grail-slavery.


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Reply #12 on: March 05, 2009, 08:21:19 AM
Bummer.  :'(
Somewhere else along the river-valley now.

I feed The Pod.
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Reply #13 on: March 29, 2009, 02:17:56 PM


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Reply #14 on: March 29, 2009, 02:27:46 PM
I think Natasha Richardson deserves mention because of her work in The Handmaid's Tale.  I turned this one on with no idea what I was going to see and found myself in the middle of a dystopian near-future tale.  It was a bit of a surprise.


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Reply #15 on: March 31, 2009, 10:17:02 AM
I guess this goes here but if not moderators my apologies and feel free to put it where it belongs...
That said
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b106789_Angel_Star_Andy_Hallett_Dies_of_Heart_Failure.html

33 and dieing of heart disease is really sad.  He was the best part of Angel IMHO


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Reply #16 on: April 10, 2009, 08:39:35 PM
Quote from: Heradel on April 10, 2009, 07:53:38 PM
Quote from: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/10/us/AP-Obit-Dave-Arneson.html?hp
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said Thursday. He was 61.
Arneson's daughter, Malia Weinhagen of Maplewood, said her father died peacefully Tuesday in hospice care in St. Paul.

Arneson and Gary Gygax developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys. It eventually was turned into video games, books and movies. Gygax died in March 2008.

''The biggest thing about my dad's world is he wanted people to have fun in life,'' Weinhagen said. ''I think we get distracted by the everyday things you have to do in life and we forget to enjoy life and have fun.

''But my dad never did,'' she said. ''He just wanted people to have fun.''

Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity. [...]

He kinda gets short shrift next to Gygax, who, let's face it, has the name for D&D, but both of them left an indelible mark on many of our childhoods.


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Reply #17 on: April 11, 2009, 02:40:43 AM
Donald E. Westlake passed in January and I never noticed!?  :(

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Reply #18 on: April 15, 2009, 09:23:16 PM
January 27, 2009: Charlene "CKTC" Sun, founder and original webmaster of the C.J. Cherryh fansite Shejidan. 

(hautdesert knows who I'm talking about.)

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Reply #19 on: April 19, 2009, 11:21:43 PM
JG Ballard

some of his books have been made into movies including Empire of the Sun and Crash




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Reply #20 on: May 06, 2009, 01:23:28 PM


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Reply #21 on: May 06, 2009, 03:26:13 PM
Dom Delouise


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Reply #22 on: May 06, 2009, 03:33:15 PM


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Reply #23 on: May 06, 2009, 04:10:08 PM


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Reply #24 on: June 04, 2009, 05:42:37 PM
RIP David Eddings!

:(

I just found this out. Very sad. :(

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=31896


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