Exalted 2 came out yesterday. Buy it. Love it. Cherish it. The first person who finds the tiny piece of weirdness I inserted in the book gets a fun prize.

I reviewed Exalted 2 for Gamegrene.com. I worry that I was overly critical, as is my wont; I tried very hard to be fair, and not to cater too much to my own fandom of the game. Whatever. ( Read more... )

Whilst sorting through marketing materials, I came upon this little gem by Jason Schneiderman from "InQuest" #44:

... the world of wrestling and the World of Darkness cross over with Gangrel, a new professional wrestler based on the Gangrel clan from White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade roleplaying game ( Read more... )

Passive-aggressive! It's a major buzzword for our generation. No one want to be passive-aggressive, and it seems like everyone gets accused of it at some point ( Read more... )

It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to. I stroll about Buenos Aires and stop, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance or an iron gate. News of Borges reaches me through the mail and I see his name on an academic ballot or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, ( Read more... )

There's a new intern in the Marketing department. He seems nice enough; he sent me an email warning me about his pirate cannonballs.

Sudden Poll!How should I treat the new intern ( Read more... )

Step 1: I send postcards to a number of my friends, including Monsieur Padraic J. Burns the infinitely awesome, for whom I have only an antique address that I figure is probably out of date. The one for him is anonymous, and includes the message, "I bet you can't tell who sent this." I think I can get away with this because (a) he's never seen my ( Read more... )

Notwithstanding all my tough talk about not owning too many books because they take up space and I'm a nomad, baby, or trying to cut down on my clothes (good luck), or my assertions that if my room was burned to the ground I wouldn't miss much besides my computer, I am having a difficult time cleaning out my room in my father's apartment. Perhaps ( Read more... )

Lorien Feanturi (6:06:01 AM): tostitos are quite tasty when consumed in the morning ( Read more... )

Sudden Poll!

Which is more difficult: biking or rollerskating? (Not rollerblading, rollerskating. Like with multiple rows of wide little wheels.)

I got an invitation earlier this week to go to a game of "Tombstone Poker" in the Oakland Cemetery. I don't particularly like poker, but when I looked at pictures and suchlike the game appeared less pokerlike than one might think, and anyway I didn't have anything much to do this afternoon, so today (a fine, warm, sunny day -- that's right, you ( Read more... )