I'm about to head out for the Harrisburg, PA region--specifically, to work in the US Army's archives in Carlisle for three weeks. As is my wont, I also plan on squeezing in some gaming and game store visiting. One of the game stores, "That Game Place," has one of the most amazing logos I've ever seen: A wizard riding a tank firing a die. I mean, how do you top that? You might have a meeple riding the tank, sure, but a wizard's not bad. I would become a fan of any sport that had a team with that logo.
ALSO, AND UNRELATED: Anyone out there a Gathering fan? The band, I mean. I've been listening to their latest, The West Pole, which is the first (in many years) without their longtime frontwoman, Anneke van Giersbergen. Every review I've read tells me it's magical, but I'm not hearing it. I mean, it's not bad, and I don't want to compare it to the AvG period, but it's not grabbing me the way a really good, four-plus star album should. (And I really don't get the claims that the new singer, Silje Wergeland, will be able to handle songs like Rollercoaster and Shot to Pieces in live shows. Totally wrong voice for those songs, imho. And AvG would be wrong for the TWP songs. They're very different voices, and very different songs were written for them.) Just mildly venting...if there's some level of appreciation I'm missing, then do tell. I'm giving it two or three stars at the moment, aka "pretty good."
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