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There's a hungry road I can only hope's Gonna eat me up inside; There's a drifting spirit coming clean In the eye of a lifelong fire. Tell Monday I'll be around next week, I'm running ahead of my days. In the shotgun chance that scattered us I've seen the error of my ways. Well we've wrapped ourselves in golden crowns Like sun gods spitting rain. Found a way home written on this map Like red dye in my veins. In the hardest times that come around, The fear of losing grows. I've lost and seen the world shut down, It's a darkness no one knows And I've poured out the pleasure and dealt with the pain, Standing in a station waiting in the rain. I'm starting to feel a little muscle again But love is lost like a runaway train Oh I'm out of control and out of my hands, I'm tearing like a demon through no man's land, Trying to get a grip on my life again, Nothing hits harder than a runaway train.

I generally hate bunting except in very specific circumstances (runner on 1B, 0 outs, 8th or later; and even then it depends on the score...you only have 27 outs, don't give them any free ones!) but yeah, if more guys bunted for base hits against the shift they'd stop shifting so much. It seems that instead of going to the opposite field to beat the shift they're trying to muscle it over the shift.

This day in baseball in 1973, Bill North's bat sails onto the infield when he swings and misses the first pitch thrown by Royals rookie reliever Doug Bird, who will be shocked when the A's center fielder, retrieving his bat, unexpectedly goes to the mound and begins to pummel him. The Oakland outfielder, who will be ejected, suspended for three days, and receive a $100 fine for initiating the brawl, was retaliating against the 23 year-old KC right-hander for an incident that occurred in a Class A game played in Waterloo (IA) three seasons earlier.

I'm no longer counting I'm not keeping scoreI could say my list of lovers doesn't matter anymoreBut some are always in my heartAnd some I'm not so sureEither way they all left their markAnd for some I found a cureFrom one you learn somethingAnother you learn, nothingAnd there's one who might teach you everythingBut before I learned to listenAnd if indeed someone said itThen I guess i must have lost it on the windBack when I was younger each one was a prizeLove just came along and hit you right between the eyesAnd one was just a trophy catchAnd one was like a curseSome would want to bleed you drySome might quench your thirst In cold water I went fishing in warm seas I cast a line And swore the heart I was reeling in was perfect at the time You couldn't tell me I was wrong, you couldn't tell me anything And if you did then I guess I must have lost it on the wind

"I can't just summon a maniacal laugh. I need to see something maniacally funny."

Doesn't everyone?

Yeah, there's destroying one's geek cred, and then there's an utter lack of taste.

Using the power of the Stones to create infinite resources, or some other such resolution, makes Thanos a sane, compassionate hero. That equals no movie. He's a villain with a somewhat-relatable motivation, but he's been unhinged by his decades-long obsession, as villains are wont to be. If they'd turned every Marvel hero into a villain by having them try to stop a guy who wants to save the universe with rainbows and bottomless cookie jars it truly would've been stupid. I envision a two-hour long committee meeting where Thanos gathers the Avengers to show them a Power Point presentation about how to stock all of reality's planets with endless fish and boundless forests. Captain Planet: The Movie. Blech.

Ironically, this is a spoiler... ?

Just saw A:IW. To tie that into this thread, DC should give Marvel all of its lunch money and slink home.

This was my thought exactly. I really enjoyed it. I think it might be the closest thing yet to a Marvel comic come alive on the screen. I'm probably too close to it yet to see the flaws, we just returned from the theater, but right now it's pretty close to my favorite comic book movie. I was surprised by the characters they chose to 'kill' (because we know they'll be back somehow). I tried to avoid spoilers and speculation these past few months but I still managed to hear people talk about how Stark and Cap would die, if for no other reason than they thought the actors were done with the franchise. Well, they were wrong, which just reinforces my opinion of the incessant geek speculation that precedes each of these movies. It is an epic event film. If I didn't have a lot on my plate to prepare for surgery on Tuesday I'd go see it again. And again.

And more Terminators, if I'm not mistaken. It's hilarious to hear that guy talk about "other stories to tell". Just shut up, James.

Didn't Steven Spielberg recently crap-talk comic book movies? Well well. Spielberg to make DC Comics' Blackhawk http://ew.com/movies/2018/04/17/steven-spielberg-blackhawk/

Several critics thought so. Bird himself has stated he's not even libertarian, let alone a follower of Ayn Rand (those two things aren't synonymous, btw). But then I've noticed that many critics of Ayn Rand have no real idea what she was talking about in the first place.

One (Normal) camera man, three cameras mounted in high-tech drones.

I've had a camera crew following my hero team around for over a year now for a FOX reality show. Not only is it fun to have a camera man and a boom mic operator to endanger in every single session (when the team can't manage to slip away from them, which isn't often), it's been fun roleplaying. They've had to adjust their tactics (and language) somewhat, now that they know the entire world will see a detailed breakdown of each battle eventually. Next I'll have them go on a press junket around the country to promote it. Lots of new villains!

I agree with RDU, my group has done something similar. We have three different teams of heroes based in three different cities, so we mix it up that way. It also helps to have more than one GM. I've run about 90% of our sessions over the past five years or so. When I start feeling the burnout one of the other GMs takes over for a session or two. Invariably that gets my juices flowing again. If for no other reason than they're not as good at it as I am.

I haven't watched it yet, still catching up on all the CW supershows after a surgery last month. I do think LoT is my favorite of all of them at this point. It didn't start off that way but the way the show has embraced self-deprecating humor and a rather tongue-in-cheek approach to time travel has won me over (still don't like Isis or whatever she's called, though). Arrow's become kind of a drag and while Flash is still fun I'm just tired of everybody being a speedster.

Awww...I was telling everybody after Opening Day that the Cubs' Ian Happ was on pace to hit 162 homers this year...

It's not just seeing MLB players on rehab (although I did catch Nomar while he was in town on rehab with the Pawtucket Red Sox several years back), but keep an eye on the coaching staffs as well. I was able to meet and get Ryne Sandberg's autograph a few years ago when he was managing the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.

If Circum keeps the map when dungeon crawling, does that mean Circum navigates?

Minor league ball is the best! I'm going in for surgery on May 1st, hoping to get downtown to see an Indianapolis Indians game or two before then. Their home opener was this past Friday evening. The team for years has offered a "Sixty Degree Guarantee" on Opening Night. If the temp isn't at least 60 by first pitch, everybody in the place gets a ticket to another April game. Wish I'd have made it down there, as the temperature at game time was right around freezing. It actually snowed.

Finally watching Six Feet Under. Halfway through Season 2. It's as good as I've always heard it was. Neat to see Dexter handling dead bodies without having killed them first.

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