My wife and I are home, sick, again, as we’ve been all week. It’s been a shitty week. We just finished watching Arrival. A few quick thoughts: 1. One of the problems of being parents who are afraid of hiring babysitters… Read More ›
non-gaming
here / not here
1. [cross-posting from my secret blog, but bear with me] So every once in a while I get overwhelmed by whatever it is that overwhelms me about people, and so I publicly announce that I’m taking a Facebook hiatus, and… Read More ›
Prep To Move
If all goes according to plan, we close on our house this coming Friday, and we move the following Saturday, August 1. I left for work this morning and as I walked down the street I started becoming hyper-aware of… Read More ›
Further Adventures in Real Estate
1. In last week’s entry, I wrote that I was incredibly distracted and overwhelmed by the very real possibility that the house we’d fallen love with was going to be ours within a matter of weeks, and that the speed… Read More ›
Skip Tracer
I’ve been waiting 20 years to post this, even if I didn’t have internet access 20 years ago. … The guitar guy played real good feedback And super sounding riffs With his mild mannered look on, yeah he was truly… Read More ›
SFTC Mach II: Jazz Odyssey
1. Since I decided to shut up the other day, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. And one of the things I’ve been considering is to widen the scope of this blog to cover books, films and music. (Well,… Read More ›
Random Ramblings: October edition
1. What I’m about to write may very well turn you off from reading this site for the rest of your internet-using life, but it’s the honest-to-goodness truth: I have never been a fan of Halloween. I love fall foliage,… Read More ›
on nostalgia, prog rock, and games
Nostalgia is the enemy of all great art, rock and roll most of all, since at its best it is a celebration of the now. – Jim DeRogatis, “Ode to the Giant Hogweeds” I’m sure I don’t need to explain why… Read More ›
The Books I Read in 2012
I just finished a great book last night – “The Way of Kings”, by Brandon Sanderson.* And it occurs to me that I’ve read a lot of good stuff of late, and this is as good a time as any… Read More ›
