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Oct. 13th, 2006 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynJolt Cola's got some new formulas.
I've ordered the blue just to see what it's like. Will let you know when it comes in.
CNBC this morning said that the engine from the plane that crashed into the apartment building on East 72nd landed in the home of the woman who got hurt by one of the balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade back in 1997. That's got to be a bit like being that poor guy who held the world's record for being struck by lightning (seven separate occasions). I just hope they don't make a Saturday Night Live skit out of her or anything.
Hundred mile bike ride coming up on Sunday. I believe I've got $335 in pledges for the race. If any of y'all want to add to that let me know and I"ll repost the link. It's for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Good people.
ETA: Click here to donate via credit card. It leads to a web page that handles online fundraising so I don't have to keep track of everybody's pledges.
Let's see, what else... Oh, yeah.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daniidebrabant gave me a CSI: Arkham hat this week. It is lovely. I am hoping my package from Chaosium arrives soon so I can wear it with my Innsmouth EMS t-shirt ("We've never lost a patient permanently yet!"). Also, I have found that my RPG participation has actually done more for my learning about my native city's history than most of my schoolteachers ever did. Why did no one tell me about the Revolutionary War prison ships in Brooklyn? How come nobody ever gave us the information about Ward's Island when we were in history class? I mean, honestly, it was like bla bla INDIANS bla bla PETER MINUIT bla bla HENRY HUDSON bla bla bla LOOKIT PETER STUYVESANT HAD ONE LEG bla bla HERE COME THE ENGLISH bla bla YAY BIG CITY NOW. In fifth grade one of the teachers handed out coupons for free ice cream from the cafeteria to students who could give the 'official' names of all five boroughs, but I don't think anyone even ever told us that up until relatively recently Brooklyn was its own @*&!)(&*!) city! That, I had to find out from reading The Alienist- but most of the rest of this stuff is coming out of research I've done for Ghostbusters and Call of Cthulhu plottage. Ghost stories are best done when they're linked to the local history, I tend to feel... and I think it's kind of hard to beat those ships anchored out in Wallabout Bay (which some of y'all know these days as the Brooklyn Navy Yards) when it comes to a source of seriously aggro ghosts of the Revolutionary era.
One of these days I"m going to go down to Fort Greene Park and pay my respects. Up until I started working on this plot I had no idea that the Prison Ships Martyrs Monument even existed.
Bloody educational system.
I've ordered the blue just to see what it's like. Will let you know when it comes in.
CNBC this morning said that the engine from the plane that crashed into the apartment building on East 72nd landed in the home of the woman who got hurt by one of the balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade back in 1997. That's got to be a bit like being that poor guy who held the world's record for being struck by lightning (seven separate occasions). I just hope they don't make a Saturday Night Live skit out of her or anything.
Hundred mile bike ride coming up on Sunday. I believe I've got $335 in pledges for the race. If any of y'all want to add to that let me know and I"ll repost the link. It's for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Good people.
ETA: Click here to donate via credit card. It leads to a web page that handles online fundraising so I don't have to keep track of everybody's pledges.
Let's see, what else... Oh, yeah.
daniidebrabant gave me a CSI: Arkham hat this week. It is lovely. I am hoping my package from Chaosium arrives soon so I can wear it with my Innsmouth EMS t-shirt ("We've never lost a patient permanently yet!"). Also, I have found that my RPG participation has actually done more for my learning about my native city's history than most of my schoolteachers ever did. Why did no one tell me about the Revolutionary War prison ships in Brooklyn? How come nobody ever gave us the information about Ward's Island when we were in history class? I mean, honestly, it was like bla bla INDIANS bla bla PETER MINUIT bla bla HENRY HUDSON bla bla bla LOOKIT PETER STUYVESANT HAD ONE LEG bla bla HERE COME THE ENGLISH bla bla YAY BIG CITY NOW. In fifth grade one of the teachers handed out coupons for free ice cream from the cafeteria to students who could give the 'official' names of all five boroughs, but I don't think anyone even ever told us that up until relatively recently Brooklyn was its own @*&!)(&*!) city! That, I had to find out from reading The Alienist- but most of the rest of this stuff is coming out of research I've done for Ghostbusters and Call of Cthulhu plottage. Ghost stories are best done when they're linked to the local history, I tend to feel... and I think it's kind of hard to beat those ships anchored out in Wallabout Bay (which some of y'all know these days as the Brooklyn Navy Yards) when it comes to a source of seriously aggro ghosts of the Revolutionary era.One of these days I"m going to go down to Fort Greene Park and pay my respects. Up until I started working on this plot I had no idea that the Prison Ships Martyrs Monument even existed.
Bloody educational system.
