25 Years of W40K, Tron Plaza & Leverage RPG

Warhammer 40,000

Is it really the 25th anniverary of W40K?

I feel old. Good job I've got shares in Games Workshop.

Finsbury Avenue Square

While walking back through the City the other day I passed through Broadgate and encountered this:

It's like a Tron grid. Now where did I put my Lightcycle!

Leverage Role Playing Game

My sister is into the TV series Leverage. There's an RPG for virtually everything, this being no exception, and I found one at DriveThru RPG:

It's one of the quick start ones, rather than the full core rule book which is £20 or so.

Laid Low and Sanjuro!

Being laid low by a bug (of which there seems to be many going around at the moment), I thought I'd watch one of my favourite Kurosawa/Mifune movies, Sanjuro:



It's easy to see this as inferior to The Seven Samurai or Yojimbo, of which is was meant to be a sequel, but I think it stands well on it's own and is a classic samurai movie.

Spy Story

I've just been watching Body of Lies, which is a not-half-bad spy story set in the Middle East, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Strong and Russell Crowe.



What's interesting is that the original author of the story, David Ignatius, who is also a Washington Post columnist, started a competition, writing the first chapter of a spy novel and running a competition to write the rest.

Snow Joke

Yes, folks, like the rest of the UK, Chez Lemon and BasVegas have been hit by a gigantic snow fall:

It started last night and it looks like it's about three or fours inches. Luckily, this hit on a Sunday, giving public transport at least a day to think up excuses for things not working. Looks like it could be fun on Monday morning! Normally I'd rely on Calvin and Hobbes to express my feelings on the subject, but I thought I'd give Zippy a try this time:

Mmmm, perhaps a bit too obscure? Oh, well: