I just remembered....

why I prefer Beverly over Palanski. Palanski was kind of witchy...(and I still hate Wesley!)

As I write this my son is playing with his current favourite toy. It is something that you stick pieces of vehicles in and the case you place it in identifies the vehicle and colour. If I hear "Un train vert..." one more time, I may end up saying that as the answer of every question I might receive lately.

My son loves music, you should see the way he intently stares at the TV whenever a theme song is playing.

The book of LOTR deals with Saruman so much better after his defeat at Isengard. I know the movie went on a different tack, but I think that by not including the Scouring of the Shire, the movie has truly lost something, especially since they added the Mirror of Galadriel, which previews the Scouring. Also, if they did that scene, we probably would have had some really cool cards made in the Decipher LOTR card game.

Speaking of that game, just like the Star Wars one, the company really dropped the ball deciding to change the rules after the first sets for all the movies were done. This was a really good game for the first 6 sets. Then the rules they added for the Return of the King and it kind of destroyed the synergy that the game had built over the previous two years. Then of course, when they decided to change everything after set 10, it massacred the game. None of the old cards, let alone strategies were viable anymore. I had a friend who made a seriously wicked halfling/Nazgûl deck that was very difficult to beat (this deck had about 68 cards in it). Once the new rules kicked in, he was only able to use about 13 or 14 of the cards in it legally. After the time, cash and effort that went into this deck, to have to change; he decided to stop playing, and all my other friends stopped shortly thereafter. They did the same thing with Star Wars (and the Star Trek CCG), but as they lost the license for that game, it wasn't completely ruined at the time the game stopped.

Isn't the concept of aliens cool? We can imagine them to be anything. The Greys of Zeta Reticuli seem to be the most common depictions of aliens based on alleged abductions, but anything is theoretically possible. It would certainly keep the scientists here on Terra busy for a long, long time...

With no Scrye magazine anymore, who decides what Magic cards are worth in any given market? And, whatever happened to the singles dealers? Sealed deck, as a marketing ploy has done its job, but at the destruction of the secondary market.

A recent experience at a store has again reminded me why I hate old people. We will leave it at that (check your lottery tickets at home like everybody else!)

Until next time...