Friday Fiver calls it a week.

From the home3 office in a TGI Friday's dumpster, we get:

1. Any plans to watch the Super Bowl? Oh, yeah. Heading over to my mom's so we can both yell at the TV and scare the cats.

2. Friday or Saturday: Which is a better date night? Saturday. Assuming you don't work Saturdays, you have more time to prepare, and can bring more energy to the date.

3. Do you do anything special on the weekends that you don't do during the week? Other than sleep past 0500?

4. Where do you get your news from? sfgate.com, various other media sites, some blogs like Crooks & Liars

5. Kevin, Norm, Colin, Jimmy, Tina or Amy? Feh. Chevy, Jane, Garrett and Gilda!

I went down to the Crossroads...

This week's Suppressed Transmission is about Robert Johnson, the Blues great about whom we know less than we know about Shakespeare.

The legend, of course, is that Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49. Seven years later, the Devil collected and Johnson died, leaving behind less than 30 recordings. The article is great, going into all the neat occult possibilities, but it stirred something else in me.

For years I've wanted to run a game based on Friday the 13th: The Series. A group of characters hunting down cursed artifacts/magical tomes for safekeeping.

The item? Robert Johnson's guitar. Play it, and you become a great musician (no matter what your style.. a heavy metal artist would be a wizard with his Stratocaster as long as he rehearsed with that old acoustic before each show.) Of course, all the great artists suffer for their music. The guitar causes misfortune to befall those around the holder even as his skill and fame grows. Oh, the guitar is addictive. Even as friends and family suffer and die, the holder will do anything to keep playing. Until the guitar tires of him (or runs out of victims.) In any event, after seven years the guitar moves on.

It was last known to be in New Orleans in August, 2005...

Even better, what happens when a mild-mannered Juliard student gets ahold of Nicolo Paganini's violin?

I must own this shirt!

( Nope. Not a Clue )