If you play World of Warcraft, then you will know how ridiculous the following image is:

Hint: Use the times tables your teacher taught you in the second grade.

One of the nice things about having a new pet is that I can now begin pet blogging in earnest.

This is Scotty waiting to be let out so that he can infiltrate the laundry baskets and root out all the socks.

It’s been quite a while since I last blogged in any serious sense. This post is my attempt to explain what’s been happening over the past three years, where I’m at now, and where I’m headed over the next couple of years.

One of my favorite places online to buy things is from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. According to the group’s history, it was founded to support a live action role-playing game called “Cthulhu Lives”. I don’t quite know the game, but I do enjoy what the group creates.

In a nutshell, the HPLHS produces a variety of adaptations of Lovecraft’s work in a variety of media. In the film realm, they produced an adaptation of “The Call of Cthulhu” and are currently working on an adaptation of “The Whisperer in the Darkness”. In the audio realm, they created three dramatic adaptations of “At the Mountains of Madness”, “The Dunwich Horror”, and “The Shadow Out of Time”. The thing that makes these adaptations so interesting is not that they attempt to situate them in the modern world, rather, they create movies and radio dramas as they would have been in HPL’s own lifetime. “The Call of Cthulhu” is a black and white silent film, while a fictitious tobacco company sponsors the radio shows.

The cumulative result of these products is an “air of verisimilitude” surrounding the universe in which the HPLHS plays “Cthulhu Lives”. The nice thing about the high-quality products that they share with the rest of us is that it allows people like me to play along in our own small ways.