So this was, perhaps, my 18th consecutive Gen Con; I believe my streak started in 1995. This year, as last year, I boothed for IELLO Games USA. I had many friends among the nearly 50,000 attendees, a few of which Continue reading
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
This is part 2 of the interview with singer-songwriter Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum (Hannah Jensen and Geoffrey Wilson). I posted the first part a while back, but transcribing my audio files takes an incredibly long time. If you don’t Continue reading
In one of those serendipitous moments of webcomic synchronicity, today’s Pain Train: was followed shortly by today’s XKCD: So look to the skies! If you see evidence of an impending extinction-level event, post it to Instagram! (And check Snopes before Continue reading
Back in August, Reaper Miniatures had an insanely successful Kickstarter campaign to launch their “Bones” line of plastic miniatures. By the end of the campaign, the add-on stretch goals were enough to entice even me, who’s never painted a miniature Continue reading
The Miami Valley Restaurant Association partnered with Yuengling this past weekend to bring Dayton “Brews, Bands, & BBQ” at Carillon Park this weekend. I got there in time for Love and Theft‘s set (and for the closing bars of Parmalee‘s Continue reading
This is actually part of the the interview, with singer-songwriter Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum (Hannah Jensen and Geoffrey Wilson). This first part is almost exclusively Aly, though. Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum kicked off a tour of Continue reading
There’s a blog post out on Summation.net from a few years back about the erosion of online anonymity: “The Erosion of Online Anonymity (and How to Restore It)” Back then, I tweeted the blog post along and forwarded to the Continue reading
I’m still playing with the Pivothead Glasses, this time on a half-mile jog through Stubbs Park. This is a portion of the 3-mile walk-and-jog that I was doing more regularly last year, before tearing a tendon, and the glasses are Continue reading
So Aly Tadros, my close personal friend of several days now, started a tour of the Midwest right at Dayton’s very own Ghostlight Coffee, along with Jus Post Bellum. They played Ghostlight Afterhours on Wednesday night, to an inexplicably spartan audience. Continue reading