Sometimes it&#39;s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

This makes me think that your friends are cooler than mine. I think mine would mostly wonder how they're going to continue the role-playing campaigns without me. :p

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Well, my roommates and my friends are not necessarily overlapping sets. :-) And I'm never ever going to understand anything so complicated as role-playing campaigns. :-) So perhaps my presence is not as invaluable to my friends.

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Don't underestimate your own abilities. Role-playing's easier than you think.

[makes mental note to come up with a one-shot adventure to run during Holly's visit]

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Oh, as if I'm not enough of a geek already. :-)

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It's possible to be enough of a geek? Doesn't that imply that it's also possible to be too much of a geek?

[looking a little confused and very concerned]

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Aww, don't worry. ::hugs:: Didn't I tell you I love you? :-D

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Yay! I am loved! [hugs back] As long as you don't think I'm too much of a geek, all is right with the world. ;)

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Too much of a geek? I don't think there's any such thing. Not for u>me anyway.

And I'm not afraid of your RPGs. :-) It's not something my friends have made me do yet, but I've watched anime and played DDR and seen all Peter Jackson's movies (I think) and learned Linux, so geekiness holds no terrors for this chica.

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[breathes sigh of relief] Oh, good. For a second, I thought there was some geekiness that was just too much for you to handle. Glad to hear that's not true. :)

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do you have that glenn tilbrook CD? i usually have to listen to that song through his website.

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She doesn't - I put the track on an MP3 CD for her.
It's actually only on the US version of the album - in the UK it's a B-side, to the Parallel World CD single...

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its not on MY US version of the record. the single is the only place i've seen it.

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Hmm... how odd. I was told that the US version didn't have the bonus acoustic disc that came with the UK version but *did* have the B-sides from the singles... I must have been misinformed...

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yeah, i really want that bonus acoustic disc, but don't want to buy the record again (at import price, no less).

the US version has 3 extra songs, two remixes of regular album tracks and "sunday breakfast treat."

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I don't have the CD, actually; I have it on mp3 on a CD that

stealthmunchkin, of all people, sent me recently. Most of the CD is comprised of whole albums, but this song is one of only three or four random tracks he added. It's the first I've heard of Glenn Tilbrook, though I've heard good things about him too.

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SQUEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yes I know, but that's different. :-)

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yes, but still excellent. maybe more so.
his new record comes out this month, i think.

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Yeah, it's out soon.
When Holly comes to the UK I plan to take her to a Tilbrook show in July... I've seen him around 20 times (including 3 Squeeze gigs) and met him briefly a few times. Lovely bloke.

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i've seen him 6 or 7 times, including one time he stood atop a park bench in a church courtyard and played for over an hour (after another show).

i also rip him off left and right in my own music.

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I just want to know if I can come with Thad when he flies to England to play kazoo at your wedding... ;-)

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Hey! My old band had a kazoo player, if anyone's going to play kazoo at our wedding it'll be him...

I've actually performed a marriage ceremony at which the bride walked down the aisle to her dad's harmonica playing...

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I believe an arrangement has been made between

kwakhead and

holly_lama for Thad to play a particular tune on kazoo at Holly's wedding. But perhaps there could be a kazoo duet! :-)

Actually, harmonica at a wedding sounds pretty nice... :-)

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See this for further elaboration. I can't find the one where

kwakhed volunteered to be one of them (if the dress was a good color on him, he said), but he did. :-)

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Actually it shouldn't be a kazoo duet, it should be Swanee Kazoo. Assuming none of the people on Holly's friends list are fans of old Radio 4 panel games, I shall explain. The radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has a regular feature called Swanee Kazoo, in which contestants duet, one playing kazoo and the other playing swanee whistle. It is funny.

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Oh dear... I spelled my own boyfriend's user ID wrong! That would be

kwakhed. *sigh*

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Nah, he's obviously spelling it wrong, and how can you be held responsible for that?

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LOL! You are so right! :-D

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It's creepy to hear (well, read) you say "our wedding," you know. :-)

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You're my wife now, Dave!

*wonders if any of Holly's friends at all will get the reference*

I won't be on properly for a few hours, BTW, just popped on briefly to check mail...

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You'd better come. You guys are so invited.

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