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OUT CON  
Florida's first LGBTQS oriented CONVENTION! 



I'm playing it's inaugural year and will having a table there to have some T-shirts, CDs, AND a brand new poster for sale.

You can also hang out and spell sling some Magic The Gathering if you're looking for something to do in between panels!

Show's at 3 PM, and you can see the rest of the schedule here:
http://www.outconvention.com/schedule-2016.html

 

THIS WEEK'S JAM:


I've been on a They Might Be Giants kick recently, listening to Flood before I delve into the 33 1/3 book about said Flood. Then I remembered they did the theme song for the show "Malcolm In The Middle", which I remember liking back in the day, mostly due to it coming out at the right time, since the show was about Malcolm, smart teenager who was constantly crapped on, which a brainy 13-year old RB can relate to.

Boss Of Me is kind of straightforward for a TMGB music video: they're action figures that get screwed around with. I've seen weirder and more conceptual videos from them, but this is still a fun watch. 

After AV Club posted a link to an article about TV's Dwindling Middle Class, it got me thinking about MitM and just how destitute the family was. It's very curious how you don't see shows about people in that position anymore, because with all the issues of income inequality and such, you really need a public platform where we can empathize with people struggling to get by, not in a "oh, those poor rich people", but like "Hey, we're dealing with a problem the people at home can deal with" and the benefit of TV is that the characters can either have little victories that fill us with hope or fail so spectacularly they can laugh and say "At least I'm not THAT guy!"


MTG GAME DAY
I went 3-2 running a U/R goggles deck focused around Thing In The Ice that Todd Anderson ran. I made the Top 8, but lost in the quarterfinals. I had to borrow a lot before the event itself, and replaced a couple cards at the last minute. I liked the look of the deck because there are a lot of fun things you can do with control and comboing off spells to flip Thing In The Ice.

I was expecting to go against a lot of Token, Bant Company and BG Aristocrat Decks, but those were few and far between. Basically, anything running Green screwed me over, since it would either ramp into something huge I couldn't burn out or play Sylvan Advocate which gets too big for me to burn out or defend against. Plus, only running 2 Jaces left me a little underpowered. I feel that if I went with my original plan to play Stormchaser Mages, I would have done a little better, since I wasn't going up against a lot of flying creatures.

My deck:
Creatures
4 Thing in the Ice
3 Hangarback Walker
 
Instants
2 Fall of the Titans
2 Fiery Impulse
4 Fiery Temper
4 Lightning Axe
 
Legendary Artifacts
3 Pyromancer's Goggles
 
Legendary Creatures 
2 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
2 Jori En, Ruin Diver
 
Planeswalkers
2 Chandra, Flamecaller
 
Sorceries
3 Magmatic Insight
4 Tormenting Voice
 
Basic Lands
4 Island
8 Mountain
 
Lands
3 Drownyard Temple
3 Highland Lake
4 Shivan Reef
4 Wandering Fumarole

Sideboard: 
3 Fevered Visions
2 Dispel
2 Kozilek's Return
4 Negate
3 Rending Volley
1 Chandra, Flamecaller