This is a change from my usual content, a very personal remembrance. It's now almost 1:00 on the morning of Feb. 20. Forty-three hours ago, my life changed drastically when I got a call from the Sault Area Hospital telling me that my wife Pam had died. (She hated euphemisms like "passed away," so I choose not to use one here ( Read more... )

Which Firefly Character Are You?

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(OOC: It's been almost two weeks since our last session of Supernatural. Here are the notes I took about Ace's new locked-room mystery ( Read more... )

The McGillivray case is twisted like one of those macrame plant hangers the hippies used to sell. Not only do the murders go back even farther than we had suspected, which was 1977, but it turns out that the victims are all kin, not only to each other, but to our suspect Brandon Masters ( Read more... )

Talk about coals to Newcastle! We have enough spooks, haunts, witches and other weirdness in New England. Salem is just sixteen miles away, accessible by US 1, rail or a freaking ferry. We get tangled up with a slasher from the West Coast instead ( Read more... )

"Criminy, Brandy! You were never such a whiner before. I'll need some solid dope on the scumsucker before I can get a warrant, and you know it." The scrawny middle-aged man in the rumpled jacket puffed furiously on his Dutch Masters panatella. "If I try to tell anybody that my old partner Eddie Brand keeps bringing me cases for his new spook ( Read more... )

For those who don't know, serendipity is that wonderful event when something works out way better than planned, particularly when it comes out of left field. This has hit our Wednesday night gaming group in the best possible way ( Read more... )

It has been a hectic couple of weeks, to say the least. The Monday game never got past the first session for a variety of reasons not related to gaming, but one of those has also put Bryan's Dark Heresy on the shelf, so we'll be moving two of the three characters to the Wednesday slot for the duration. Lene will be adding a third character, and ( Read more... )

Things have settled down to a waiting game, so your GM finally had a free hour or so to check the numbers on the new Champions characters for the Monday game. In two cases, the discrepancies were minor. In the third, OMGWTFBBQ ( Read more... )

It's been a little over six years since my father died. I faced that event with the quiet calm on which I generally pride myself. Frankly, although he played a big part in shaping my tastes and personal views, we were never as close as we might have been, certainly not as close as he was to my brother and sister. I regret that, but I don't dwell ( Read more... )