Apr

10

The Secret Lair Episode 0009: No Fools Allowed

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Overlord KrisDue to an unfortunate accident, The Secret Lair’s official stenographer was eaten by a crocodile last week.1 While our search for a replacement continues, it has fallen to me to provide show notes for The Secret Lair Episode 0009.2 Unfortunately, I’m a very busy overlord lately and rather than delay release of the episode and further,3 I’m going to post the scraps4 I’ve got now and fill in the rest once I get an hour or so to myself.

April Fool’s Day

WordPress 2.5

  • …has a new administrator interface. Chris isn’t a fan.
  • …has a new image/media management system…which doesn’t seem to work on The Secret Lair.
  • …has a redesigned Write Post screen. We don’t much care for it.
  • Kris has more to say about WordPress 2.5 on his blog.

Unquiet Desperation

Minion Recruiting Board

  • Thanks to P.G. Holyfield and Scott Sigler, we have a number of job openings at the Lair.
  • Fill out our super-secret minion application form, if you can find it.

The Secret Library

  • Our current novel is The Sky People by S.M. Stirling.
  • Our current graphic novel is Shooting War by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman .
  • NEW! At the request of our minions, we have decided to add a podiobook section to The Secret Library. Our first selection is The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey. Subscribe at Podiobooks.com.

RPGs

  • The Dresden Files RPG bleeding edge beta continues.
  • Gunnar scored some WarHammer RPG 2nd Edition sourcebooks and Half-Price Books recently.

Movies and Television

  • Kris saw Spider-Man 3 and wishes he hadn’t.
  • Chris says it was worse than Batman and Robin.
  • Check out How It Should Have Ended. (YouTube)
  • The Spectacular Spider-Man is on the Kids’ WB and is far more entertaining.

Housekeeping

  • We have a feedback address, where you may send us feedback. At The Secret Lair. Dot Com.
  • There’s also a contact form, which no one has used yet. Will you be the first?
  • It is entirely possible to join our official community, should you be so inclined.
  • Our theme music is “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Intertroubadour extraordinaire, Jonathan Coulton.
 
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  1. Let’s not be concerned with who may or may not have forgotten to engage the magnetic couplers in the holding environment. Pointing fingers isn’t going to get us a new stenographer and playing The Blame Game isn’t helping morale. [↩]
  2. Writing the show notes is not punishment. As co-overlord, I’m above punishment, even if you could prove conclusively that it was me. Which you can’t. [↩]
  3. What’s that? Maybe I should have delayed release of the crocodile? Oh, great. That’s very mature. How about this: maybe you should think twice before you go hiring your relatives, okay? People get eaten, gassed, disintegrated, mutated and shunted to other dimensions around here all the time, but when it’s your cousin it’s suddenly a big deal. [↩]
  4. Shut up. Just shut up! [↩]

Feb

5

We have BRANDING. Let the Evil Begin.

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Your Overlords would like to publicly thank Natalie Metzger for her fine work on the logo for The Secret Lair. She has been named the Secretary of Artistic Propaganda, will be give one of the office near the cappuccino machine, and has a boy on order from Barbados to serve as a personal assistant. Bow to her, and give her the respect she deserves.

-The Mgmt.

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Jan

10

Villanous Quote #1

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“Infidel Defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood.”
- Thulsa Doom

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