Encountered via a passing mention in this week’s commute audiobook, David Hadju’s The Ten ¢ent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, an excerpt from President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s commencement address at Dartmouth College in 1953: Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence […]

Hey, my tens of readers, one of my little missions here in this space is to draw attention to the work of independent artists who make neat stuff. In the interest of fulfilling that mission, here are a couple of things I think you ought to take a look at, courtesy of my buddy Dan […]

The job upgrade has been the primary concern at the forefront of my mind for the last few weeks, but I did a couple of cool things this weekend worth mentioning, so I shall mention them. Friday night, I checked something off that’s been on the bucket list or whatever for the last seven years […]

As the battle with the traitorous drow priestesses and the assassins came to an end, a party of new drow descend from street level into the cavern. “Return to your pens, slaves! The glory of this victory is worthy only of drow!”, shouts the lead priestess, pointing to the goblins and dwarf, who are binding […]

After the reception with the leaders of the allied houses, Imogen felt restless with her thoughts, and needed some time to process them. So she walked, taking a long, indirect route back to the slave quarters. She felt secure walking the streets of Menzoberranzan alone: although she was a valuable piece of property, traffickers would […]

In what feels like the calm before the storm, Imogen finds herself and her companions (most of whom she’s spent the last several weeks adventuring with) in a well-appointed manor house reporting back to the leaders of the allied houses about their adventures, particularly the intelligence gathered about the growing rift between the priestesses of […]

I still buy CDs pretty regularly, because I have a CD player in my car that isn’t fancy like the aftermarket one we put in @fairiemom’s car with the USB port and external auxilliary jack and multicolored LEDs and all that other fun stuff you get with those things. I still need to feed it […]

I spent much of this weekend camping with the boy child and several of his peers at the local boy scout reservation for the fall camporee event. Given the weather (pounding rain Friday night, leading to local power outages and flooding), the senior cubs (which my kid is) ended up, due to both mobile phone […]

““My, my…haven’t you started a delightful little war!” Upon hearing those words from the well-dressed drow gentleman with the rapier pointed at her party, Imogen felt a moment of disorientation, and found the world around her once again shifted. The circumstances were the same, though her companions were once again those with whom she fell […]

This week I joined a “guitar ensemble”. It’s a short-term commitment, with a performance of a couple of instrumental pieces coming up in a couple of weeks. If this experiment is a success, there will likely be more performances down the road. It’s all very low pressure, and designed for players of all levels; it’s […]