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Essential

There always have to be three for some reason.  Any list I make. So, in RPG idea space there are as of this moment for me the following: The original 3 volume D&D little brown books. The Legends, Tombs and Towers of Krshal. The Vaults of Vaarn. Disagreeing with this is not only required but an almost existential crisis point, so don't bother.

Photos

 It occurs to me that photos are not art. I have had people show me photos to convince me they are art or perhaps that they are artists I'm not sure. I have had people take me in a car to a building to look at photos. Not once have I ever not thought that here I am staring at a photo. It occurs to me that the young girl smoking a cigarette on the cover of Dinosaur Jr's album Green Mind is one of the few photos I liked as maybe art. I did not find out until 30 years later that the photo actually is art. Five seconds later it occurred to me that the photo on the cover of Tad's first album had to be changed because the people in it did not want to be on a Tad album. Tad or one of his band mates or friends had found that photo at a garage sale or something. These two photos are at opposite ends of the art spectrum used for the same thing and having the same impact. The fact that an art critic could argue persuasively that one or the other is better is hilarious.   I think a clu