As some of you may know, I’ve been spending my Wednesday nights for the last couple of months taking part in a fun bit of participatory storytelling with thousands of others across the country via Wizards of the Coast’s “D&D Encounters”. Encounters is a promotional organized play program that Wizards, the publishers of Dungeons and […]
50 years ago today (more or less), a poorly-selling anthology comic published it’s final issue, Amazing Fantasy #15. That book featured a story about a teen super hero by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. You might have heard of it. I’ve been a comics fan for most of my 37.997 years, and one […]
Not feeling particularly profound today, but I thought since I was getting back into the routine everywhere else, I might as well do it here by posting something. The routine was disrupted last week, as I was off for a week. I needed some time, and some things needed done. Didn’t get quite as much […]
So, somewhere in the last couple of days, my Windows 7 install decided to go ahead and eat the GRUB sector on my dual boot Win7/Ubuntu desktop. My lovely wife tried fixing it, and despite her normally amazing competence at fixing that sort of thing when linux is involved, she couldn’t make things work. So, […]
I’ve recently had some people tell me they enjoy what I’ve been writing here lately, and (in what I take as a great compliment) that it makes them think. Hearing this stuff makes me happy; I like that my particular flavor of “old man shouting at clouds” is capable of connecting with someone occasionally; despite […]
Another review: A Dog’s Life: No Shenanigans!!!, by Chris Otto There’s an adage that you often hear from others (often from others who aren’t particularly creative themselves, in my experience) when you’re engaging in a creative project: “Write what you know”. Even though it’s possibly an empty cliche, it’s also often pretty decent advice. I’m […]
a review: Adam and Eve: Bizarre Love Triange in the Zombie Apocalypse, Vol. 2 I’ve been watching Dan Nokes’ comic output for several years now, ever since I picked up one of his books at the VA Comicon many years ago. It’s been fun watching him grow as an artist and storyteller through works like […]
Rather than ride my usual NoVA trails this afternoon after work, I tried someplace new. Turns out there’s a small National Park just a short drive up the road from my office neighborhood, Great Falls Park in lovely McLean, VA. It’s situated along the Potomac River as it “builds up speed and force as it […]
There’s an image cropping up on the social net that, at first glance, seems to suggest that geek culture provides much better role models for girls than does mainstream media. However, as Amanda Marcotte points out, it’s a bit more complicted than that. While the idea Kaylee and Zoe are better role models than Kardashians […]
