Community plays Advanced Dungeons and Dragons

Here's last night's episode of Community - - they play a great game of Dungeons and Dragons.

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Ice Sculpture Chess Game

I love chess but this 15x15 board and 4ft. tall ice pieces have to be the coolest! Created to promote the Food Network series “Ice Brigade,” the game was played this morning in Grand Rapids.
via FoodNetwork

So pretty.

Link roundup

1. "Quentin Tarantino got into the spirit of Halloween by dressing as a Mexican wrestler and crashing a series of parties on a bus packed with hot women." Via.

2. Interesting interview with Sara Moulton about being fired from the Food Network. (She's pretty bitter about it.) (And she manages to emasculate her husband, too.)

3. I mentioned yesterday that Spin was giving away a Bad Religion tribute album. Well, the accompanying article, about the history of Epitaph Records is a great read. You can read the first two pages here.

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Link roundup

1. Wired interviewed Genndy Tartakovsky about Sym-Bionic Titan (which was excellent).

2. And the producers of Batman the Brave and the Bold talk about how much the toy company influences plot decisions: "The toy company wanted to see Starro as much as possible, because they were going to put a big push behind that character."

3. A restaurant in New York got a "B" and modified the sign to say "Best." Via.

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Link roundup

1. The NY Times editorial board opines that it's a good move to rename High Fructose Corn Syrup as Corn Sugar.

2. You can watch the season premier of Survivor Nicaragua online (yes, former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson is really part of the cast).

3. "The mystery Togo team that played Bahrain in an international soccer exhibition was made up of 'unidentified players and their shadowy handlers' and belonged to a 'mafia group' the country's sports minister told The Associated Press on Wednesday."

Link roundup

1. Rick Bayless says the Top Chef Masters producers really, really tried to get the competitors drunk.

2. Tyler Cowen explains why being interesting and responsible are more important values than happiness.

3. You're wasting your time stretching before running.

Link roundup

1. Slideshow of astonishingly high-calorie desserts at chain restaurants. Via.

2. Meet Larry Garrison, the guy news programs pay to feed them a steady diet of people to appear on their tabloid shows. For example, a "78-year-old retired propane inspector from Manheim, Pennsylvania, who thinks that he and his wife might have found Natalee Holloway’s remains while snorkeling off the coast of Aruba." Via.

3. The bizarre story of Dan Quayle's son. Make sure you watch the campaign ad.

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