Oh, crap!

This weekend's Mage game was cancelled. It would not have sucked so much if I had caught the e-mail announcing the cancellation, but I didn't. So instead of seeing Sky Captain with my friend Elizabeth (because it started at 2:15 and I thought I had to be in Philly at 4:00), we watched my video of Seven Samurai. Then I took the train to Philly, found nobody home, concluded the game was cancelled, and moped for a while.

I decided not to make a complete waste of the trip, so I saw Sky Captain myself. I liked it, mostly, except for Gwynneth Paltrow's (lack of) acting and one deus ex machina near the end. The movie manages to be forties "weird science" sci-fi without the camp. The scriptwriters made good use of humor at unexpected moments to sabotage anything cliched or oversentimental. It was a nice trick.

Well, I guess I should get some work done, then maybe play a little (or a lot of) Civ 2. That abandonware site I found should keep me entertained for a while yet.

A question for anyone with the Crossgen Illustrated Guide

Hi. I am, as some of you may have gathered, a first-time poster. I've read all the Sandman books, some Crossgen titles (Ruse, Route 666, Negation, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), a little of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, some Hellblazer, The Dark Knight Returns, and a bit of Lone Wolf. That's all I can come up with off the top of my head.

I'm actually putting out a question to Crossgen fans who've read the Crossgen Illustrated Guide (or Illustrated Guide to Crossgen, I can't quite remember the title). I skimmed through it once but I don't own it. In the section on Ruse there's a bit of information about the gargoyles, where they originally came from, who brought them to Partington and how long ago. I kind of need this information for a fanfic.

Speaking of fanfics, is anyone here interested in being a beta reader (a.k.a. Suck Detector) for the Ruse fanfic I'm writing, when it's done?