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Monday Missive – September 16, 2019
Back in the Groove — In August 1998, the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back made its debut. Based on Terry McMillan’s 1996 novel of the same title, this film had a great opening weekend, and it went on to become one of the most successful romantic comedies from the 1990s. Shortly after the release of the film, I started hearing more and more people saying the word “groove,” and this pleased me. I like the word “groove” because it...
Hugo Chávez Drug Policy & U.S. Intervention
In 2005, Chávez convened a small group of his top officials to discuss plans to ship cocaine to the U.S. with help from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said a participant in the meeting who, at the time, was a justice on Venezuela’s supreme court, according...
HUMANITIES
Monday Missive – September 16, 2019
Back in the Groove — In August 1998, the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back made its debut. Based on Terry McMillan’s 1996 novel of the same title, this film had a great opening weekend, and it went on to become one of the most successful romantic comedies from the 1990s. Shortly after the release of the film, I started hearing more and more people saying the word “groove,” and this pleased me. I like the word “groove” because it...
Aesthetics and Horizon in Possibilist/Post-Probabilist Neoliberalisms
NATURAL SCIENCES
Old School Dungeons & Dragons: Part 8
It’s a quiet night, and I’m feeling great, so here’s old school D&D, part 8!
Chronomancer (1995), by Loren Coleman. Chronomancer is one of the oddest AD&D supplements I’ve come across yet, and highlights how much TSR was willing to experiment to keep players engaged in the 1990s.
Chronomancer introduces a new wizard class, the Chronomancer, who has access to what is known in the book as “Temporal Prime,” the dimension of time....
Old School Dungeons & Dragons: Part 7
Almost caught up on my old school Dungeons & Dragons posts from twitter! So here’s part 7!
UK4: When a Star Falls (1984), by Graeme Morris. We start today with another of the UK-produced modules, which tend to have a very different flavor and welcome quirkiness when compared to their US counterparts.
The fact that this module is written by Graeme Morris is a good sign: Morris was an author or co-author of many excellent modules from the TSR UK office, including Beyond...
