Five Things Make a Post

Occasionally I open something in a tab, meaning to do a post about it, and then forget about it for a while. (In one case, over a month. Oops.) This is me, cleaning out a bunch of tabs. Some of these aren't really events, or necessarily related to the Northeast, but I think they're interesting, so what the heck.

1. SLAW is next weekend at WPI! [Correction! SLAW is TWO weekends from this upcoming weekend, ie. Nov. 9-11. My apologies. -ed.] There are still games with openings on the schedule! (Also if you're five deep on a waitlist, now's the time to consider switching to a different game.)
   
2. Lizzie Stark posts her own reactions to Mad About the Boy and links to others'.
   
3. Norper has some thoughts on the differences between Nordic freeform and US indie tabletop games.
   
4. There's a "Zombie Infested Obstacle Course" in Maryland this Saturday and Sunday, but registration is closed. (Apparently this is a 5K run where people dressed as zombies come chase you and scare you into running faster. Works for me!)
   
5. Watch this man destroy a car with a giant flaming sword:
   
   
   
   (The intro's a bit long, skip to 0:40 for the carnage.)
   
   It's a long story how this happened, but the filming of this involved your humble correspondent standing on top of a ladder with no support for the pivotal scene where the car runs into the stump. And filming from inside the car when the sword comes through the window. I didn't end up with too many bruises!
   
   Also it's totally LARP-related because the form he signs is actually a Legends waiver form, that having been one of the top Google image hits for "waiver form". Really. *nods seriously*