Asura Star

I have launched a new blog: Asura Star. It’s going to be my gaming scratchpad, and I intend to fill it with odds and ends of swords & sorcery, space fantasy, and eldritch horror. Pretty much any good ideas I have that I’m not sure if I’m ever going to actually use (as I basically never game anymore), but are too good to just be forgotten. Or at least someone else may get some use from them.

Anyway, check it out if you are interested.

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A God Has Died

Ronnie James Dio, a heavy metal legend, died today of stomach cancer. The world will be a worse place without him. If there is a rock and roll heaven, he will definitely be there.

I was just talking to my brother about how Pete Steele from Type O Negative had just died, and i was thinking about Ronnie and the picture of him I saw in Revolver from the Golden Gods awards–he did not look good. I thought to myself “how much longer before I’m talking about how Dio is dead too?” And as soon as I got off the phone I checked my feed reader and saw the news. It hit me hard.

I’m glad I got to see him live with Heaven & Hell last fall; it was an amazing show. And I’m glad he was able to record an album with those guys again before he died. The Devil You Know is an amazing record and a fitting last testament: Ronnie James Dio in top form, just doing what he always did best.

Thamus, are you there? When you reach Palodes, take care to proclaim that the great god Pan is dead.

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Another Basic Theological Tenet: Rock And Roll Heaven

If Heaven turns out to be anything other than Rock and Roll Heaven, I’m pretty sure I’m not interested.

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A Fundamental Piece Of Theological Reasoning

1. I only like things that are awesome.
2. Beer is awesome.
3. I have no interest in a god that is not awesome.
4. Forbidding things that are awesome is not awesome.
5. Therefore no awesome god would forbid beer.
6. Therefore, a god that forbids beer is a god that is not worth bothering with.

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