In case you haven’t been paying attention to Retro TV (and, um, who has?) the good folks there want you to know that the first seven incarnations of the Doctor are waiting for you there right now.
Yeppers, feast your imaginations on William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy so you can fully participate in all that fine hipster convo at your friendly neighborhood bar coffee shop. Tell the barista TVWriter™ sent you.
Are we just glorified dungeon masters? Or are dungeon masters just glorified writers? The New York Times has a cool view on the subject:
A Game as Literary TutorialWhen he was an immigrant boy growing up in New Jersey, the writer Junot Díaz said he felt marginalized. But that feeling was dispelled somewhat in 1981 when he was in sixth grade. He and his buddies, adventuring pals with roots in distant realms — Egypt, Ireland, Cuba and the Dominican Republic — became “totally sucked in,” he said, by a “completely radical concept: role-playing,” in the form of Dungeons & Dragons.
Playing D&D and spinning tales of heroic quests, “we welfare kids could travel,” Mr. Díaz, 45, said in an email interview, “have adventures, succeed, be powerful, triumph, fail and be in ways that would have been impossible in the larger real world.”
The wit and wisdom of David S. Simon (MAD ABOUT YOU, THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR, THE WAYANS BROTHERS, etc).
Did that sound snarky? It wasn’t intended that way. How can TVWriter™ help but love the man responsible for this spot on description of showbiz achievement: “Failure is just ‘sucksess.'”
Here’s the plain, simple truth: most of us fail like unbroken clockwork most of the time. In fact you could say that the only thing that we succeed at with any regularity is failure.
And this time around we can see her. Web video. Ooh!
We carried a similar post earlier in the week. But that was just, you know, writing.
…And maybe, just maybe, life too. Uh-oh:
More of this great daily comic strip here