Truth!
I feel somewhat self-conscious about being the “before I can tell you this story, I have to tell you that one” guy but, before I can tell you this story, I have to tell you that one. In Frank Miller’s… Continue Reading
Month: April 2012
Sunday!
I found out who the dagger belonged to (it’s a slow crawl because I find the book so very stressful). So that’s where *I* am. So… what are you reading and/or watching?
Saturday!
Oh, golly it’s early. Well, the game I’m spending most of my time with remains Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (I have no end of love for games where, besides the main story, you have to do things like “invest in bookstores”)… Continue Reading
Twitter!
In the comments to yesterday’s Weekend! thread, Dman and Miss Mary mention the phenomenon where you spend a good part of the day thinking that it’s a different day than it is. We’ll get back to that. Now, here on… Continue Reading
Wrong!
Mixing up the old Friday theme of “wrong” with the Movie Quotes Friday, as inspired by the morning I’ve had… here are 10 movie quotes wherein a character is delivering a line right after something went wrong. Well, from the… Continue Reading
Weekend!
Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already? Indeed it is. Well, now that the semester is, for all intents and purposes, over, we can finally have the weekend of Maribou’s birthday! Which, of course, entails waking up at O’dark-thirty on Saturday… Continue Reading
Arcade!
Okay, Jaybird’s recent post really got me thinking about old school uprights and what really ought to be in an arcade. So, if I won the megamillions one day, and could afford to both buy these things and upgrade their… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
There is a word that I am looking for. It’s when you swear to goodness a particular song came out 10 or 20 years before and, nope, the song only came out in the last few years. I had this… Continue Reading
Tommy!
Ever since I was a young man, I played the silver ball. There were definite stretches where I found myself preferring pinball machines to video games. The biggest ones that we played back in the early 90’s were The Black Knight… Continue Reading
What’s the Matter With… the NBA Draft?
(We’ve got another guest post from our very own Kazzy!) (Note: This article will not touch on the ethics of an amateur draft system only because I do not consider myself knowledgeable enough on labor, economics, and other related areas… Continue Reading