The New Clear Option
I’d like to make a quick pass of today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip: First, I think it’s funny. I get the joke, and it’s a good one. SMBC is a great comic, and one that I read regularly through Continue reading
Category Archives: Writing
Throwing in the Vowel
If you’re a native English speaker, you probably learned in elementary school that there are five or six vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. The letters that aren’t vowels are consonants. It’s a nice enough rule of Continue reading
XO Box: A Different Kind of Palindrome
Thanks to hanging out with some puzzling people on Facebook, and growing up playing word games in general, I noticed oddities of letter arrangements while I’m writing. Like say I was figuring out how to make the past tense of Continue reading
Minor Anagram Book Titles
These are from my contributions to a two-year-old Twitter meme #minoranagrambooks: The Lord of the Grins The Little Pincer Anne of Green Bagels The Scrotal Web Harry Potter and the Holy Lad’s Wealth The Very Hungry Cellar Tapir James Clavell’s Continue reading
Monsters on the Virtual Prowl
Another of my GURPS books made the jump to PDF from e23: GURPS Monsters can now be yours in instant download from: http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG30-6418 It just went “live” on April 25 and has been selling briskly, as far as my experience Continue reading
The Return of Shakespeare for Life
Free Shakespeare! is back in downtown Dayton. All this week (24×7), Chris Shea and a parade of volunteers are down at the Dayton Visual Arts Center for Shakespeare for Life, reading the complete works of Shakespeare. You should be too. I’ve Continue reading
Latin-style plurals in English
Recently on Facebook, Thomas J. Kwiatkowski Jr. called me on my usage of the word “scleras”. The sclera is the white part of the eye, and it’s taken from the Latin. In Latin, its plural would be sclerae, and that it how Continue reading
… Or What?
Sam: I mean how much for the whole thing? Coach: Oh, six hundred bucks Sam, but the salesman said, the salesman said satisfaction guaranteed. Sam: Or …? Coach: Now, that would have been a good question. I was reminded of Continue reading
Sidekicks! author reading event at Epic Loot
I got to hear some short stories read by their authors this past Saturday. A Dayton publisher, Alliteration Ink, and a Centerville retailer, Epic Loot, brought some area authors (and their editor) together for a two-hour event in Centerville to Continue reading
At the Orc Butcher
An orc cook goes to the orc butcher and asks for some prime elf steaks. The butcher says “It’s not ‘prime’ these days. Elfmeat went to ‘good’, ‘plusgood’, ‘doubleplusgood’.” “Oh. Okay, gimme some plusgood elf steaks and some doubleplusgood pixie Continue reading