Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

What’s more annoying than getting a coupon for a free kids movie rental at Rogers and then forgetting to use it before it expires? Well, at least I didn’t leave a package of strawberries in the fridge for so long that they went MOULDY! CHRIS!!!!

I’m starting a habit of putting a batch of stuff on ebay every week. To supplement my income. This week I put a lot of old Arkham Advertisers (Official Magazine of the H.P. Lovecraft Fan Club of the Miskatonic University Press) up. Anghold’s shoes end in an hour or so, and the bid is only up to about ten bucks. That’s sad and alarming, as Ang was hoping to get 30-40 bucks for them. I set the reserve price at $36 so if it doesn’t go up, we don’t have to sell.

Today and yesterday will be forever known as The Two Days of Zombies. In a strange flash of synchronicity, I was invited to a new roleplaying game by Palle, the gm of that Call of Cthulhu campaign that I was in for oh…almost two years. The game is described as “Punk Rockers versus armies of Zombies. 1983. A punk rock dance club in a bad part of East LA, on a hot Friday night.” They system we’re using is FUDGE - which I’ve never played before but apparently used a lot of d6’s. Tonight we’re making up characters. Mine will be modelled after Igby from the movie Igby Goes Down.

The other part of the synchronicity is that last night we had a Zombie-themed TV marathon. We watched the zombie episode of Buffy, the zombie episode of Spaced, the zombie episode of Kolchack, Shaun of the Dead (which I liked a lot better when I saw the whole thing all the way through), Day of the Dead, and the zombie segment of Treehouse of Horror IV. And there were donut holes and watermelon slices, amongst other things.