Sep. 19th, 2007

And thanks to [livejournal.com profile] fragbert for pointing this out (by way of [livejournal.com profile] shinywen)

So, for those of you who remember what a Flumph is and why it's pretty freaking lame, I give you DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF VERY STUPID MONSTERS.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe.

And if you're like me, you'll remember which books or supplements most of these came from...
Avril Lists Her Own '10 Commandments' (link goes to a scan of the article)

DEAL WITH IT. Selling 24 million albums hasn't really affected me, but it has changed things. I can't walk into a room full of people any more without everybody turning their heads, and I can only eat in certain restaurants where I know I won't get hassled. But that's OK. I was born to do this, and so I've learned how to cope.

DEVELOP AN IMAGE. Someone like Kelly Clarkson is beautiful and has a pretty voice, but with me you get a much stronger image. I'm tough, I have a look that girls want to copy, and I sound a particular way. It's good if you're not easily ignored. And I'm not.

DON'T GET MAD, GET EVEN. I was 17 when my first album (Let Go, 2002) came out, and all of a sudden I had to spend my days doing interviews. Listen, when you are 17 you don't know how to hold a conversation with an adult, and you pretty much don’t want to. But I learned to channel that annoyance into my music.

PARTY HARD. BUT NOT TOO HARD. When I go to a party, I am the party! I'm the girl doing shots, jumping on tables, screaming and getting wasted. Am I advocating drugs? No! When I say get wasted, that doesn't mean go crazy. Drink in moderation. Be responsible, yeah?

PRACTISE GOOD KARMA. I am a very giving person. When the hurricane thing happened (in New Orleans, August 2005) I went to my close, filled six boxes of stuff and said to my assistant, "take it to Katrina!" I also like to give stuff to people who are my "workers", especially if they don't make much money.

BE GRATEFUL. It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water — well, ok, not people in the developing world. It's important to remember where we came from and just how lucky we are to be here.

ADVOCATE SPIRITUALITY. I'm not particularly religious, but I am spiritual. What kind? Feng shui, mostly, and energy. I'm good at picking up people's energy, like I'm receptive or something.

FINDING MR RIGHT. I got married last year (to Deryck Whibley of Sum 41) simply because I was lucky enough to find the right guy. Did I tame him (Whibley once confessed to a fondness for mushrooms and ecstasy)? Hey, we were both party animals once, so we've tamed each other.

EXTEND YOURSELF. I want to get into movies next, a lead role in a super cool indie flick. I've been looking at scripts for the past two years now and most of them have been shit, but I know I could be real good at it. I have an agent now, and everything.

LOVE YOURSELF. People love me and people hate me, but I'm comfortable in my own skin and that's what counts. And anyway, if you do hate me, you're the loser, not me.


Ok, see, my problem is that I don't find this at all WTF. Except maybe, maybe, the audacity to call them "10 commandments". Actually, in a number of ways, more people can stand to live by some of these rules. Dealing with it, Being grateful, extending yourself, loving yourself, practicing good Karma - all traits that need to be more prevalent in today's society, IMNSHO. Doesn't matter who is saying it, the essential truth remains the same.
Costumes from BlizzCon '07

I think you'll appreciate them
So, here I am, waiting for this stupid server to finish doing it's checks, and have little better to do at the moment than continue my role as Captain Posty McPostalot today. However, I have a few thoughts in mind.

1: Gaming. B. has played in, I think, 3 RPGs to date. The first was a home-brew thing back at TCEP 12 where the gentleman running it had all the players as animals, trying to stop some sinister human plot. She, of course, played a cat. The second was at TCEP 14, where she sorta played with [livejournal.com profile] mousecat0 in a game of Witch Hunter. The third was last weekend during a game of Chivalry & Sorcery set in Mystic Station Design's Living World of Alquennas. She enjoyed the first two, but it was very obvious to me that she was bored last weekend. Not because the adventure was boring, but rather because of 2 factors:
  • The overall complexity of what was going on
  • The number of players (10, IIRC, including she & I)

Neither of the above should be taken as a criticism of the game itself, which was well run and enjoyable. Hell, the GM's and other players tried to make sure she got involved and had things to do. But when you don't understand what is going on... well, you get the picture.

So, where does this leave me? The answer is: About to start my own AD&D game, likely fairly vanilla 3.0/3.5 Forgotten Realms. Why do I mention this? Well, I have a few players in [livejournal.com profile] mousecat0 and F. & B., but one or two others might be nice. If interested, let me know. Remember that my campaigns tend to be of the sort where high fantasy & low humor mix. And this, too, is ok.

2: Home projects. I tend to become a football couch potato on Sundays. I am, after all, a rabid football fan. So, I'm trying to devote Saturdays to doing things around the condo. One of the larger projects on my plate is to paint the dining room. The only catch to this is that if I paint the ceiling, I have to do the ceiling in the LR & DR & K. Which is a lot of space. Which means that this will take a fair bit of time. But we really want to do this before Thanksgiving. We shall see. Other projects include replacing the large plastic shelves I currently use as a computer rack with the wire-frame ones I actually want, and finally replacing the screen door. We shall see how this all plays out.

Ah, the server has finished it's checks. Back to work for me.

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