Just in case anyone’s interested:

I subscribe to a couple of e-mail lists for modern-occultish/paranormal RPGs. As plot and background ideas they tend to throw around some links to the stranger and more intriguing subject matter out there. Some of it’s definitely true. Some is more speculative, theoretical, or incredible.

For my own reference I’ve started a webpage to collect some of the more interesting links brought up. Mostly it’s from the “Delta Green” and “Unknown Armies” lists, but some stuff is gleaned from other sources though (the “Camel Spiders” were referenced by Penny Arcade for example).

I’m trying to keep it updated as the information trickles in (usually once or twice a week). Those interested can find it here.

Is is possible to synthesize the element plutonogen? If not, what is the most “powerful element ever” not yet listed on the periodic table?

I have provided a chart that will hopefully help clarify last week’s question.

Charts, links and quotes are acceptable in your answer.

The Ameviathan script we will be shooting will be “The Green Machine”. Though we are still looking into filing for profit or non-profit status for the film-making future, “The Green Machine” will not receive third-party funding.

There are a couple reasons for this. With a 20 to 30 minute length video, there isn’t any sort of shelf life for the current incarnation of “Ameviathan” outside of the realm of television show. And with the the heyday off Sid and Marty Kroft (rather sadly in my mind) behind us, there also isn’t any real hope of a major bidding war for airing rights breaking out any time soon.

As such, “The Green Machine” will be S.T.I. (straight to internet), and see release here exclusively on Protozoic. However, none of this means that the our goals for “The Green Machine” are any less lofty. Technically, “The Green Machine” will represent the most complicated thing we’ve done to date, in terms of the writing process, pre-production, production and post-production.

This week, Tim and myself have started with a thorough read-through of the the screenplay, making some appropriate decisions. Next, I’ll start story-boarding and Tim will look into lighting. Meanwhile, Brian will harvest ants from our yard.

As for the future: We will continue to look into filing for non-profit or profit status and I will continue working towards the completion of a feature length script. At the current time, I am still working on producing treatments for potential ideas, though I think I’ve landed on the idea I’ll be developing. Brian’s plans for the future will remain steadfast: the ant-opian dream.

My boss grew a bunch of zucchinis in his garden a couple weeks ago and managed to foist them upon the staff. I ended up with one that sat in our refrigerator for quite awhile. Sadly due to our poor eating habits many vegetables sit in our freezer until bad things happen to them (other foods sit there for a long time too but happen to have a higher endurance).

Fortunately a recent visit to our relatives (just before the too-brief NJ stop) netted us several of grandma dragon’s recipees including a bread that actually involves zucchini. Attempts on my part to prepare a sustaining loaf of the same returned various results.

Recipees and commentary on the attempt follow:

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“Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The forgoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe?”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”, Selected Essays, New York, 1985, page 35.