I repeat: do not watch this when the game is on (12:01 am Black Friday through midnight of Dec. 23) unless you and everyone within earshot are already out. It contains LDB and will kill you and everyone near you deader than dead.
OK, you’re sure the game’s not hot and there isn’t anyone around who you might take out?
Look again. Still sure?
Cool. Watch this.
Did an appearance with my pal Cody Stark and team Good Day Sacramento to talk about the carnage of this year’s Challenge. [Warning to the people of the future: this contains LDB, so if the game is in progress when you see this, do not watch it. It will kill you dead.]
Cody Stark and the good folks at Good Day Sacramento were foolish kind enough to put me on the ‘lectric television, as a cousin of mine used to call it. We talked LDBC and the new “Hoist with His Own Petard” rule: Click to watch.
WARNING, PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE: If you’re scrolling down to read old posts and found this one, do not play this video during the game; it contains LDB and will kill you dead. Happy Holidays.
I did my final 2015 check-in with Cody and Melissa at Good Day Sacramento this morning.
I’m still waiting a few days past the holidays for folks to fill out the official reporting form and post their victory LDBC-elfies to the Facebook wall so that I can do the official tally and game-end wrap-up. However, right now, as I say in the interview, it looks like we have about a one-in-five win rate (around 19 percent for you sticklers). And the deadliest environmental categories are home, retail/restaurant, car, and work.
Once again, for easier reporting, I’m embedding the form below. And since I’ll give it a while for the more casual LDBCers to report in, the final wrap-up may not appear until a week or so into the New Year.
Speaking of which, Happy New Year! (I like to get these things out of the way early.)
Click to watch: Good Day Sacramento video
Just checked in with my pals at Good Day Sacramento, live from the LDBC Florida satellite office (better known as my mother’s house). Here’s how dangerous this game we play is: when I spoke with them, there were 30 LDBCers down. As I type this, we’ve added four more—and that’s only the people who’ve filled out the form. Never mind those who’ve only reported in via Facebook.
As we’ve already mentioned, Ringo Starr claimed our First Fallen, Craig Barker, this year. So let us never forget the battle cry. (Or never forget it ’til next year, anyway.)
For Craig!
Click to watch: Good Day Sacramento video
The good folks at Good Day Sacramento, continuing our tradition (now in its second year!) of inviting me on to talk all things LDBC, plastered my mug across the screens of California’s capital this morning. Thanks again to Cody Stark and Melissa Cabral for the hospitality. (They were even kind enough to let me plug my non-LDBC-related novel.) Here’s to another season of holiday fear cheer. May the odds be ever in your favor!
In a sweat lodge years ago, I saw a man-sized turkey, a beauteous Miles Standish, and hordes of people running in terror from a small child. I refused to tip my spirit guide, insisting that it was nonsense.
I really need to trust my visions more.
It all turned out to be true, thanks to my appearance with the good folks of Good Day Sacramento this morning. (And apologies for the extra click to their site to watch the video; I’m not able to do the embed here.)
Black Friday’s just around the corner, people. Let’s be careful out there.
Little Drummer Boy Challenge 