Me to Jessie. “You collect Wine + Spices + Food, that’s worth 7 resource points. And with that, you can buy stuff.”Jessie to me. “So, a price list?”Me to Jessie. “Kinda. I mean, if you want a ten foot poll, bang, there’s a ten foot poll. You’re a friggin’ baron. You can get a hundred…
(Two points to the one who recognizes the reference.) Over eight thousand words written today. Good, strong words that’ll stand up in a court of law. It was good to write like I used to. 3k a day was my goal. I’d hit it before noon. Today, I wrote, I ate, I napped, I saw…
First big wow. Spider-Man 3. Big wow. I enjoyed it very much. Felt like Raimi trying to close everything he opened with the first movie. I thought he did it very well. Yeah, it had too much. I don’t think that was entirely under his control, thus his desire to leave the franchise. That’s a…
In Alice Hoffman’s novel, Practical Magic, she spends a lot of time talking about love. In Hoffman’s world, love is not an entirely beneficent force. In fact, it can be a destructive force. Something that wrecks you. Ruins you. Destroys you. Love is something that must be approached with humility. Patience. Reverence. The beauty of…
The first movie I remember seeing. Two years after it’s released, still running in the movie house, my dad finally schleps out with me to go see it. I’m seven years old. My dad and I stop for cheeseburgers before we head into the theater. He hates the concession prices, but we get popcorn anyway.…
May 5th is Discordia Day! Hot dogs! Carmel apples! Games! Games! Games! I’m throwing a party. More details tonight.
In Minneapolis, there’s this great bookstore called Uncle Hugo’s and right across the street is the sister store, Uncle Edgar’s. Hugo’s sold new, used and rare science fiction and fantasy. Edgar’s sold mystery. In those stores, I stumbled on Micheal Moorcock, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), and Robert Anton Wilson. It was RAW…
Earlier this week, Bill Moyers and PBS released “Buying the War,” a documentary about the run-up to the War in Iraq and the media’s complicity in that decision. (Click on the link and you can watch it yourself.) I don’t think it is any secret how I feel about the current administration or its policies…
Tonight, the game played the way I’ve always wanted it to play. I’m giddy. Very tired, but giddy. I have a shit ton of writing ahead of me. I’ll have an ashcan for Gen-Con. The complete game… just without art. Damn, I’m excited.