The eldest of our clowder died yesterday afternoon after a fight against kidney failure. Kidney failure, sadly, won. Baseball put up a heck of a fight, however. Today, both Maribou and I discovered the current incarnation of the flu. We… Continue Reading
I don’t know of any Ravens, Pats, or Falcons fans around here, so we can all agree on “Go Niners!”, right? Observations: The Seahawks need to do something about that slow start. They can’t always make up for it… Continue Reading
Well, I saw Django Unchained yesterday and, I suspect, I won’t need to see any movies for a while. Well, I *AM* intruiged by the upcoming Tom Cruise “Oblivion” film. (When in the heck did Tom Cruise become the Big… Continue Reading
I don’t recall there being any Ravens fans around here, but there are certainly Packers, Broncos, and 49ers fan in some abundance, with only the last having a reason to be pleased. A few observations on the day’s events: I hate to… Continue Reading
Asked to play something somewhat less noisy and ‘splodey than Spec Ops: The Line, I realized that I never got around to beating Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. So I started playing that thinking “oh, it’s a nice evolution of Tomb… Continue Reading
Our assignment this week is to read the next two issues of Season of Mists: Chapters Two and Three. As awesome as last week was, know that this story gets EVEN BETTER. We need recappers for these two issues. As always,… Continue Reading
(This is a guest post from our very own RTod!) It is difficult to know exactly with what genre to label Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker. Is it crime noire? Is it existential musing? Is it steam punk? Is it satire? Is… Continue Reading
Well, this week was the first “rough” week of the new job. Not in the “they gave me hard things to do” sense of the term but… well, in my old job, I would regularly have people come up to… Continue Reading
Our assignment was to read the first two issues of Season of Mists: Prologue and Chapter One. Jaybird will be reviewing both this week. Glyph’s introduction to Sandman, in three parts, here, here, and here. Preludes and Nocturnes recaps here: Glyph… Continue Reading
I’d read that the Baseball Hall of Fame voting results will be announced today at noon EST (that is, half an hour ago as I write this), so we turned on the car radio at 9 AM on the way… Continue Reading