Number6's Journal

So, Weird Al's got his new album out and I was inspired:

(To the tune of "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons):

Paperback Addict

Whoa, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh
Whoa

I just picked up a brand new book
Starts out okay but doubt I'll get hooked
Wait, oh my god, a shocking twist (gasp, sounds of pages turning)

Should pack it in, getting late,
Just wanna see how this part turns out...
I just hit a suspenseful bit,
Whoa...

Can't put it down, the story's just too great,
and the hero's tempting fate...
I'll stop right after this page... after this page...
Maybe just one more page.. just one more page...
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm a
Paperback addict, paperback addict
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm a
Paperback addict, paperback addict

I'll go to bed, but I won't sleep
My brain's already in it too deep,
And there's a light, in easy reach...
Whoa...

Should pack it in, getting late,
Just wanna see how this part turns out...
I just hit a suspenseful bit,
Whoa...

Can't put it down, the story's just too great,
and the hero's tempting fate...
I'll stop right after this page... after this page...
Maybe just one more page.. just one more page...
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm a
Paperback addict, paperback addict
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm a
Paperback addict, paperback addict

Fine I'll head out... I can read while I walk
Don't bug me at lunch, I've no time to talk...

Can't put it down, the story's just too great,
and the hero's tempting fate...
I'll stop right after this page... after this page...
Maybe just one more page.. just one more page...
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm a
Paperback addict, paperback addict
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm a
Paperback addict, paperback addict

Time for another edition of the XET Diaries. Looks like this’ll probably be the second to last, so I’m going to go even more self-indulgent than usual on this one…

Of all the plots we’ve done, I think my favorites were the Hastur related plots, based on the modified Hastur mythos in Delta Green (specifically, the sourcebook Countdown). We did a number of plots where the Columbia Branch got involved with them.
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And so now I present, for the first time anywhere, the Hastur Plot Musical Homage to ‘Once More With Feeling’, Once More With Hastur!
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Aside from the Buffy musical homage in the Hastur plot, I’ve done a bunch of other filkish songs celebrating XET over the years. The first few were done as a dubious treat for the XETty awards, or hidden in secret commands on the game as an easter egg, but a couple never made it anywhere but in my own files. So, behind the cut, the full song parodies of XET!
( Magneto as the Modern Mutant General! Xavier’s private Copacabana! Under Da Sea (Cthulhu Lies Dreaming)! and more! )
Next up is our final planned entry, where I’ll just throw out a bunch of loose character concepts and plots that didn’t fit in any other entry.

Today is my Grandmother's birthday. This one is the big 8-0. She's 80 years old today. Surprisingly, we're not really doing anything. We saw her on the weekend, and I'll give her a phone call today, but that's it. Well, she is going on a trip to Jamaica this week with my aunts. Still, no big celebration. I guess, as healthy as she is and young as she looks, we expect to be celebrating 90, and 100, too. ;)

Anyway, I did it last year, but here's to her.

And, in honor of her (well, not terribly, but it involves Grandmothers and has been stuck in my head a while)
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