Nothing like taking the kids out for costumed fun in a safe, indoor environment with planned games and activities. Big thanks to Compass Point Church, Burlington ON, for hosting the shenanigans. It’s got nothing to do with VS, but I’m going to make you all look at pics of my kids anyway
Well, golly gosh gee whiz, peeps, it’s time for our 23rd caption contest! I can tell you’re wetting your pants in anticipation, so I’ll just leap straight into the pic!
Hello, beloved Lost and other such participants of the Summer of Love.
Yes, the dust has settled, and now it’s time to take another chunk out of Lost Hemisphere’s budget by mailing a whole bunch of stuff around the world.
Not everyone was lucky enough to walk away with a bucketload of stuff (I’m looking at you, ‘hoops), but everyone who participated in the Prom and Gamblin’ Circle will receive cards, and then there’s some people who took part in neither but still managed to nab a door prize by commenting in the threads here at VSRealms, or in the posts at Lost Hemisphere.
Once again, I get to pout that I really can’t talk about the events of Hobby League without giving away what the Lost Hemisphere crew are bringing to Battle Of The Border… I mean, if you knew about Spud’s freakin’ intense Longshot Lock deck, or Pablo’s Monkey Magic deck, it’d completely undercut the surprise factor and the other Battlers would be teching against them all over the place, and we’d stand no chance. I’m keeping my Rubber Bullets deck to myself, you can bet on that.
Still… Battle of the Border is two weeks away, and I’m giddy. Not only because it’ll be the first event with more than a dozen participants that I’ll be attending since the DLS release. Not only because there’s a bunch of cool stuff in the prize pool, donated by cooler-than-something-cool folks like Matt Robertson, Scott Hamilton, and even that Chris Miller dude (watch out for him, I hear he’s a jerk). Heck, not only because I’ll finally get to meet VS community folks that I’ve known and respected online for years now and Steph’s promised to bake me some cookies (disclaimer: Steph hasn’t actually promised to make me cookies, but maybe this’ll confuse her and she’ll think she did!).
What makes Battle of the Border special is that we’re doing it ourselves.
Just a quick post, there’ll be no Gauntlet this week – Aside from the fact that we just had two decks at once from Aaron, our boy is still recuperating from the dreaded lurgey, so we’ll give him a break. Besides, he should be finalising his BYOT deck for BOTB. ROFLMAOBBQ.
Besides, all you wacky fools out there should be watching the Summer Of Love finale over and over and over again.
You’ve been oh, so patient… it would be a crime for me to do anything other than to present, with extreme pride and more than a little whimsical tittering, the 2008 Summer Of Love Finals!!! How awesome? So awesome we had to split it in two to avoid awesome overload!
Well, well, look who crawled out of his deathbed and sent me a couple of files… well, to be precise, look who’s still convalescing and having his lovely companion send me a couple of files…
Yup, Aaron’s under the weather, but like a good little thylacine he still managed to get his responses to the last two Gauntlets written up.
True, he’s still bound by the terms of the gauntlet to perform a Broadway chorus for us at BOTB, but at least he doesn’t have to refer to himself in the third person.
First we vintage Darkseid melded with DLS Legion, and then we take a look at DGL’s Anti-Matter… Read the rest of this entry ?
He commented that he liked my new shirt; I replied that the printing on the front was kinda rigid and scratchy, and made my nipples hurt.
To illustrate the point, I lifted the shirt and demonstrated the colour difference between the left nipple (unirritated, greyish tan in colour) and the right (irritated, hot pink at the tip).
I feel like this has really cemented our friendship; you cannot truly say that you know a person until you know what colour their nipples turn when painfully irritated.
Gday: “What kept you, Spud? We’ve been keeping our loyal fans waiting for over a week, anticipating the outcome of this one last match.
Spud: “I had…things to take care of. Let’s get this over with okay?
Gday: “Don’t get snippy with me, mister, or else I’ll take away your favorite “Sounds of the Killer Whale” relaxation tape.
Spud: “…fine.”
Spud picks up the Family of One deck, while Gday takes Adamantium Skrullmates.
Spud wins the dice roll and takes odds. Both players keep their opening hands.
Turn 1
Without a single 1-drop in his deck, Spud predictably passes his first turn. Gday drops his ideal opening character, Black Bolt, Enemy Within, and swings for one. First blood to Gday!