This was, in fact, a quote from our D&D game yesterday. (3.5, in case anyone was wondering.) Of course they weren’t actual murlocs; those are from World of Warcraft. But when you have a bunch of Warcraft players as your D&D buddies, and the GM just couldn’t resist making those murglgrglgrgl noises when deploying the Sahuagin minis (I’m looking at you, dear husband!), well… you end up calling them murlocs, even if you’ve all been playing D&D for a lot longer than you’ve been playing Warcraft.

And as for improper hazmat disposal… well, it’s one of those long stories, involving the exploration of a city that had been sunk beneath the waves almost 500 years earlier, and the magics that were loosed at the time, and the sea critters that were still pissed over the whole thing. Not our fault. Really!

But anyway, I have some reviews since the last time I posted links:

• First Blood is a paranormal erotic romance anthology by four authors, and it’s quite good.
• Private Places is a historical erotic romance antho by another four authors. It isn’t quite as good as First Blood, but it’s still definitely worth reading. Besides—it’s got a story by Shiloh Walker in it!
• Sea Fever is the devastating sequel to Virginia Kantra’s equally amazing Sea Witch.

Enjoy!

Okay, I didn’t get a review written yesterday. But I have two books read & ready to be reviewed for this coming week (one fiction, one non-), and a cookbook almost ready (cooked from, but I need to read more of it). Speaking of cookbooks, this week we’re cooking from Food 2.0, the cookbook from the chef who cooked at Google for years. Our first experiment from it—a smoothie—was awesome. In order to get everything we needed we made a rare pilgrimage to the Whole Foods Market. Usually the prices there are insane; however, the prices there don’t seem to be rising as fast as elsewhere in response to the higher gas prices, so it no longer seems quite so ridiculous to shop there now and then.

We went to see a movie today (Ruins? The Ruins? Whichever). It was definitely fun, if not overly new or different, and it had some nice touches to it. Mostly it made me curious to read the book, which at this rate will happen on the fifth of never. Sadly, the movie popcorn was so bad it made us mildly ill. I’m used to cruddy movie popcorn, but this went above and beyond. Blech.

I felt like doing something semi-productive this evening, so here are two more re-worked MMORPG T-shirt designs:

It’s our “Murlocs of War” and “Gnomes for Breakfast” designs (’Cry havoc! and let slip the murlocs of war’; ‘Gnomes they’re not just for breakfast any more, they’re also for between-meal snacks’).

Hopefully tomorrow I can get a little gardening done around chores, cooking, reading of review books, etc. Hope you’re all having a good weekend!