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Lesson one was a success... frittatas made and eaten. Yum yum. I am looking forward to further education in the magical magid multitasking method.

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I have finally been reading the D&D3E Player's Handbook (maybe 18 months after purchasing it) and absorbing the new rules. The only things I knew for sure going in (picked up from overhearing local and online conversations about the game) was that multiclasses are wacky, clerics can use swords, and everyone loves that one illustration of the half-orc girl. (Seriously... that's one of the first facts I picked up from alt.sysadmin.recovery chatter when the book was brand new, and just last week, two separate individuals (both girls themselves, though not necessarily half-orcs) said to me, "You know what's my favorite illustration in the new book?" And I said: "Yes, I do.")

I read the book now because N&M's friend Justin is trolling for new players. I might end up being a cleric, as usual. However, in a departure from the unremarkable cure light wounds-slingers that typically sullied my character sheets throughout the 1990s, I have a fairly nifty character idea, inspired by a minor character from The Sandman.

Looking forward to trying these rules out... it sounds like a lot of fun, and this group will, from what I know of the probable players, have the play style that I like... role-playing without role-playing. I like cooperative storytelling with friends, guided by a clever GM and a capricious set of dice. I don't like to see ordinarily sane people writhing in pretend drama and making me feel weird.

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Saw The Sweet Smell of Success tonite at the Brattle, the first film of their Monday Nite Noir series. It had Tony Curtis and some other famous fella and was from 1952. I really have to either repair or replace my Palm so I can start taking notes in movie theatres again. These were the only lines that stuck in my head:

"If you're funny, then I'm a pretzel!!"

"I'd like to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie... filled with arsenic!!"

Also one guy had his career ruined after being framed as a COMMUNIST POT-SMOKER!!