Genocide Engines!

I have come to an important - albeit completely non-serious - realization.

America is the evil empire, and the world is in deep shit.

Consider it thusly: we have a charismatic moron for a leader, but he is manipulated by shadowy manipulator types, as personified by his mysterious and grumpy second-in-command; we are expansionist, attempting to spread our hegemony, if not our direct rule, all over the globe; our own society is deeply unjust, with a definite elite and a definite underclass, and increasingly little upwards mobility; and we're religious! We're an evil empire dominated by a triumphalist religion!

Does anyone see where I'm going?

And to top it all off, our machines run on death. That's what gasoline is, liquid death. Dinosaurs and their ecosystem died, and the biomatter got squashed and heated and turned into gasoline.

All we need now is for gasoline burning engines to start moaning in pain or for Bush to reveal that the military has a new recipe for supersoldiers that involves dunking men in tanks of gas for several months to give them magic powers, and that's it. It's all over, folks. You're living in the United States of Mordor now.

[Anyone who takes this post seriously deserves what they get.]

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And... I totally forgot to post about what I actually wanted to post about!

I'm doing a lot better. Thanks for all the support everyone gave, and thanks to all of you who have been my friend through this, whether or not you've been commenting on my lj. I think I'm through the worst of it, but it remains to be seen for sure, and I'm sure I'll have bad nights and lousy days. This is going to be a process, and it hurts like hell, but eventually it ends.

In unrelated news, Abby has finally gotten me into eBay. Right now, I'm bidding on a copy of Wraith: the Oblivion. I've been wanting a copy of that game for so long. If I manage to get my hands on it, I'll have at least the corebook for every White Wolf game I'm really at all interested in right now (that is, from the oWoD: Changeling, Mage, Werewolf, and Wraith; and from the nWoD: Mage and Promethean; and of course, every Exalted 2 book published except the Blessed Isle, which Abby and I will trek up to Gator Games to pick up one of these days).

So, if I win, who's up for a celebratory Wraith one-shot? Now that's an oxymoron: celebratory wraith. Anyway, I think my chances are pretty good. People with greater eBay experience than I feel free to burst my bubble, but I've done some research, and it looks as if the two other people interested in Wraith are bidding on the other two books for sale. One is going to win each of them for something like $10 apiece, leaving me to win the one I'm bidding on for $7!

In other knews, Abby has taken up knitting again, and made me an Exalted-style dice bag! It's really neat. It's red with yellow caste marks - all five of them - and a yellow drawstring.

[Hey, life turned on its head here. I reserve the right to be perky about silly things.]

I've taken up knitting, too. I'm working on a green scarf. It's gotten very wide, somehow. I managed to add stitches. I didn't even know that was possible, but I managed it.