View From the Bushes

I just got done reading the new entries at one of my favorite sites, www.snopes.com. The newest entry concerned a technical glitch over at CNN which ended up making several "obituary templates" available for public view. Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro and Dick Cheney were among the people whose templates were included. I doubt I'll be famous enough for some news organization to pre-write my obituary, but that doesn't mean I haven't thought about what it might say.

When I was younger, my obituary always had phrases like "heroic astronaut" or "best-selling novelist" or even "rock and roll messiah." These days my goals are more modest, "computer game addict" or "occasional cyclist" or "unrepentant curmudgeon." I'm not a big reader of the obituary section, in fact, I don't even take the paper, because my vague desire to recycle combined with my compulsion to never throw anything away soon creates a situation analogous to Europe in 1942 with the newspaper playing the role of the Nazis. But I have yet to see a URL included in an obituary. Something like, "Go to www.x-cise.com to read Bob's ironically titled blog, 'Exercise Never Killed Anyone'".

Anyway, when I started doing this, I wanted to make sure I didn't spend too much time doing this to the getting new adventures out. So I told myself I could only spend 15-20 minutes on each of these. I'm (well) over my time so I'll end here. But make sure to check back on Friday when we publish our next adventure, "Legacy of Horrors" by Don Mappin, best known for his work on the Star Trek RPG. I should also mention that adventure snippets should be up later this evening, so check back!

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross