The last few weeks, I’ve been running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It’s my first time as a DM. None of the players had played before. They’ve played console RPGs before, like Skyrim and Fable, and they’ve recently had an absolutely unhealthy obsession with Catan, but this is their first foray into old-school pen and… Read More Tabletop Gaming and Fantasy
I was nine years old when you first appeared. I was on a family vacation when I learned of your existence. I demanded my parents call our cable company the instant we got back home. I loved you. You gave me Twilight Zone marathons and two hours of Dark Shadows every day. You introduced me to Night Stalker… Read More An Open Letter to SyFy
It’s been a minute since I’ve been here. At least you know I’m not one of those writers who hires someone else to keep their blog… Anyway … work work work. Voidstrider 3 is coming along. About 20,000 words into it now. Planning to pick up a little speed over the summer months and, barring trouble,… Read More Checking In
Everything you know about James T. Kirk is bullshit; transhumanism is a religion; and Google is doomed. Just a few things I’ve been reading lately.… Read More Some Things I’m Reading Lately – 5-18-17
A few nights ago I had a dream. It unfolded in the typical way of dreams, disjointed events unfolding without conscious direction. At one point I was given a beer. I looked down at the bottle and saw it was a Miller Lite, at which point I rejected the narrative of the dream and went hunting for… Read More Lucid Dreaming with Awful Beer
Got a new phone this week, the Moto G4 from Motorola. Let me provide some context here. I was an Android early adopter. I couldn’t wait for the Future – as long as the Future wasn’t built by Apple, mind you. But the first five or six years of smartphones were a consistent disappointment to me.… Read More New Phone and an Old Anecdote
