Google Me, Baby!

Yeah, I know, I've been posting like crazy lately. Blame the sleep deprivation. When I don't feel up to doing much of anything else, I sit down and spew forth words.

So, this blog has experienced a considerable increase in hits of late. I actually seem to have acquired some new readers. (Hello, new readers! Welcome to the inside of my head! Be afraid.) But I'm also getting more and more hits from search engines. Which, I guess, is why I seem to be posting them more and more often. Some of these are amusing in themselves (at least in my own easily-amused opinion), and some of them, I freely admit, I only list because they give me an excuse to make smart-assed remarks or ramble on about things they happen to remind me of.

Thus:

"what if the lord of the rings" campaign: Search request missing verb.

bohemian rhapsody partition: What are we partitioning it into? Individual notes?

everything about oz on buffy: What, everything? That seems like kind of a tall order, especially given how little the guy actually, you know, talks. About himself or anything else.

bound naked in the woods: Thank you, now I'm going to have "Dueling Banjos" in my head for the rest of the day.

Download Buffy Sex Game: Sex game? Geez, I'm afraid to ask how you go about scoring points...

farscape nude sex free: This one is mainly interesting when you contrast it with the possible alternatives. Farscape nude sex for sale? Well, I'm sure Chiana would be glad to negotiate. If she weren't, you know, fictional. Farscape fully-clothed sex for free? Well, Scorpius does seem to leave his cooling suit on, as far as I can tell, and apprently Braca can be convinced he just had amnesia-inducingly good sex just by unzipping his jacket. (Or at least, he can be convinced not to ask questions about it, which I guess is supposed to be one of the things he's good at...)

weird pictures of legolas: What, like, wearing a party hat and Groucho Marx glasses? Actually, that sounds kind of fun...

pictures of fish having sex: Would it be too obscure a reference if I made a Troy McClure joke here?

trailer trash thumbs: Thumbs are somehow trashier than the rest of the anatomy?

buzz lightyear nude: Um, I hate to break it to you, but his clothes don't come off. See, he's made out of plastic. Hope that helps.

farscape fetish: Look, if you and your partner have to dress up like Peacekeepers to get it on, hey, go for it. I just really don't want to be involved, OK?

Willow Rosenberg nude: No, no, no. I am only collecting search requests for nude Farscape characters. Not Buffy characters! Sheesh.

Where can I buy a 2003 TOS Star Trek calendar?: Make me a high enough offer, and I might be willing to part with mine.

nude pictures of black players: Players of what? The piano?

grayza nude: There we go! That's one to add to the collection! Let's see, that gives me Grayza, Chiana, Crichton, Zhaan, and Sikozu. Not too bad, so far. Although it seems highly unlikely that I'll ever manage to collect the whole set. Honestly, do you think anybody's going to be googling around looking for nude pictures of Noranti? Shudder.

farscape bondage: I suggest watching "What Was Lost, Part 2." If you want more than that, write the missing scene yourself. I am so not going there.

thought you might like this soap box exam: Um, thanks. Did I pass?

maximum over sex: If this is a porno version of that Stephen King thingy, I really, really don't want to know about it.

farscape music video +scorpy mean one: Ah! That one actually makes perfect sense to me! Just in case you happen to wander back, O Googler, the video you seek is here. The title is "You're a Mean One, Scorpius," and it's fun.

vocabulary word: copycat and coincidence: Those don't seem like very hard vocabulary words to me.

rpg banik farscape: Ah, this reminds me... I picked up a copy of the Farscape RPG over Christmas, and I was going to talk about it a little bit here and never did. (Don't know if I'll ever get to play it, alas, as the people I know who are into Farscape aren't particularly into the d20 system, and vice versa, but it's very nice to have around as a reference book, in any case.) Actually, I found the writeup on the Baniks particularly interesting, because we learn next to nothing about them in the show, and what we do learn is, well, kind of difficult to make sense of. All in all, I'd say they did a pretty good job putting together a species writeup from what we do see, though. One thing I especially like about the species writeups in general is the fact that they manage to avoid making the easy mistake of taking the characters from the TV show and assuming that every other member of their species must be, basically, just like them. Which would be an especially big mistake in Farscape, since the characters are all such quirky individualists. This is particularly relevant to the Baniks, since we only see one example of the species, but it's pretty darned clear that he's not a representative sample. You can't generalize to the entire species from Stark, because Stark's nuts. So what they do is base the Banik writeup on what he says about his species, rather than the way he himself behaves. E.g., Stark says at one point that people think the Baniks don't have emotions, because they're good at hiding their feelings, so that's how they're described in the writeup, despite the fact that Stark himself has all the emotional control of a four-year-old. And, in fact, the game designers appear to make a deliberate effort to discourage thinking of characters in terms of species stereotypes. For instance, in the description of the Luxans, it goes on quite a bit about their reputation as warriors, their strength, and their general sort of Klingon-like qualities. And then, elsewhere, they make a very deliberate point of mentioning that you're quite free to play, say, a geeky Luxan tech if you want, and strongly encourage doing that sort of thing. Good attitude, that. One of the things I've always found annoying about D&D is the way it's pretty much set up to encourage cookie-cutter characters...

Um. That last really got off on a ramble, didn't it? Well, it's OK. I'm done now. Really.