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...Vampire blob" is a tag game. Anyone tagged, with a mock bite on the neck, joins hands with the biter and becomes part of the monster. "The lap game" is even simpler: a crowd forms a huge ring, and everyone sits down simultaneously on the player behind. Though "blob" and "lap" may seem like innocent cavorting, they are serious business to San Francisco's New Games Foundation. An offshoot of a 1973 New Games Tournament, staged by Whole Earth Catalog Creator Stewart Brand, the foundation is now a growing national enterprise. Its goal is nothing less than to change...
...Cheviots and fixes their apparent leader with a mesmeric stare. As MacGregor yells directions ("way to me, way to me,") meaning circle to the right, Rob Roy nudges the flock of Cheviots our way. They have a tendency to fly apart and reconverge like a big blob of mercury dropped on the floor. But Rob Roy finally herds them through three gates, across a narrow bridge and into a pen. All the while an English collie, Rob's distant cousin, watches through the fence with no apparent interest. "The English collie has been ruined," declares MacGregor...
...host is auditory. "What the hell are you doing here?" asks a disembodied voice somewhere over my head. This is something of a stumper, and having no response ready, I introduce myself to the stairway. For a moment the steps sit undisturbed but soon a small dark blob detaches itself from the effulgence above and comes waddling down the stairs towards me. The blob quickly congeals into a very interesting looking human being. He is a fairly small man, no more than a few inches over 5 feet tall, with an enormous belly which billows out in front...
...Blob. Friday at 8, 10 and 12 in Dunster Dining Hall. Special added attraction: Bambi Meets Godzilla...
...people Gene encounters on that trip add nothing. This undistinguished group includes Barnes, a writer of insipid mysteries with titles like Death of a Deb; Flash, sports entrepreneur and president of the North American Curling League, Stella the Divorcee, an oversexed blob usually clad in "Omar the Tentmaker" originals who does things Erica Jong is afraid to even dream about; and Lizzie, a confirmed epicurean who thinks truck stops are the "best places...