(You can play the same game with big stretches of the southwest as well: lots of movies claim to take place in AZ but are filmed anywhere between SoCal and Oklahoma.)
I'm going to disagree with Mark. SD had way more trees because of the Black Hills. ND has shelter belts and some forest around Devils Lake and that's about it.
But the Plains know no border and this landscape stretches way up into Canada.
I was stationed out at Ellsworth AFB, S.D back in 88-94. S.D is a barren waste land. I worked the Missile fields, its a lot of nothing, and most of the trees are scrub bushes in the badlands and Black Hills.
This post made me think about the long long ago - but what if Al Gore was right and the internets was melting the ice caps and polar bears were gaining sentience and SkyNet replaced our NORMAL coffee with Folgers crystals... and... and...(http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fieldtrips/guidebooks/NWKS/figs/geo.gif) and then I was like "OMG Smokers!" and then Kevin Costner was drinking his own pee and I had to toss my hands way up in the air (and wave them all around like I just don't care).
Originally shared by Jonathan Tweet Tonight, my "Lethal Damage" 13th Age campaign draws to a close. Meanwhile, the guys are work have talked me into running a couple D&D sessions for them. That was the day 13th Age was announced, and they're happy to play 13th Age instead. That will be my "Great Center" campaign, based in the imperial capital of Axis, the center of the world. It's my opportunity to explore the setting from yet another perspective.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
I can almost see the blood soaked wood chipper in the distance.
ReplyDeleteThat's in Brainerd, MN, Paul. C'mon.
ReplyDeleteDude it's all the same frozen wasteland.
ReplyDeleteAlso Canada.
ReplyDeleteYeah that looks like Ontario to me. I think I'll be making that drive on the number 3 bypass out to Kingsville in about 2.5 hours.
ReplyDeleteReminiscent of Saskatchewan, only with more topography.
ReplyDeleteJust like South Dakota except N.D has more trees.
ReplyDeleteSee!? I claim vindication.
ReplyDelete(You can play the same game with big stretches of the southwest as well: lots of movies claim to take place in AZ but are filmed anywhere between SoCal and Oklahoma.)
I'm going to disagree with Mark. SD had way more trees because of the Black Hills. ND has shelter belts and some forest around Devils Lake and that's about it.
ReplyDeleteBut the Plains know no border and this landscape stretches way up into Canada.
Oh yeah, Black Hills is gorgeous. Spent a couple weeks hiking around in there.
ReplyDeleteI was stationed out at Ellsworth AFB, S.D back in 88-94. S.D is a barren waste land. I worked the Missile fields, its a lot of nothing, and most of the trees are scrub bushes in the badlands and Black Hills.
ReplyDeleteThey always put missile silos in the worst places.
ReplyDeleteBest proximity to Moscow, fewest civilian casualties for a counterstrike.
ReplyDeleteThis post made me think about the long long ago - but what if Al Gore was right and the internets was melting the ice caps and polar bears were gaining sentience and SkyNet replaced our NORMAL coffee with Folgers crystals... and... and...(http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fieldtrips/guidebooks/NWKS/figs/geo.gif) and then I was like "OMG Smokers!" and then Kevin Costner was drinking his own pee and I had to toss my hands way up in the air (and wave them all around like I just don't care).
ReplyDeleteSo to summarize: I can't remember if I took my medication today.
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