Joellen and I keep bagged salad greens around. Neither of us is big on food prep, and anything healthy and convenient is a boon. I favor a blend of baby spinach and the stuff they call "spring mix," or something along those lines.
So, this afternoon, I throw a wad of salad greens on a flour tortilla, drizzle on a little salad dressing, and wrap it ( Read more... )

Here's a recent picture of Riley from a friend's Flickr account:

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If you're like me, you remember a time when MTV played music videos. And, if you're like me, you responded like a finely-tuned lab rat to the intermittent reinforcement schedule MTV fed you. You waited in rapt attention for the handful of videos you wanted to see while they played a mushy cocktail of youth-oriented commercials and videos you ( Read more... )

RILEY TURNED ON MY CAPS LOCK THIS MORNING. WHO AM I TO ARGUE WITH THE CUTEST BABY IN THE WORLD?

Did you know Eugene is having a board game convention the first weekend of February? No? We are!
It's called Eugene Games Gala, and it's the first con (not counting last year's one-day EGG event) we've had in the Eugene area in more than ten years. I don't know about you, but I would love to see it flourish!
I have my own opinions about how EGG ( Read more... )

I like the idea of holidays having "eves." In the case of New Year's Eve, it's really more the focus of celebration than New Years Day itself. But in the case of Christmas, it feels, at least in the modern world, like a warning buzzer: it's your last friggin' day to get ready, boyo.
Thanksgiving could use a designated eve day. Easter Eve works ( Read more... )

Somebody published a novelization for the Beowulf movie.
When somebody writes a novelization of a movie based on a book, it signifies that the world will end in six months. It's in the Bible. Look it up.
If you'd like to experience Beowulf as close to how it was intended as we're likely to get without a wayback machine, check out Benjamin Bagby's ( Read more... )

Life is good. I haven't had any wacky changes that make me wanna write an entry, but in general the family and job and gaming are all even keel, steady as she goes.
We weathered the recent wicked Northwest storm without a scratch. For the first year we lived here, we lost power when somebody sneezed, but since we got our power outage kit stocked ( Read more... )

A month ago I wrote about how and why the feel of horror fiction is tough to capture in a horror RPG. It felt a bit like I was trying to explain that good horror roleplaying is impossible, but that's not really true. I'm the sort of guy who likes to outline the problem before I go looking for a solution, and that's really what I was doing.
( Solutions galore... )

I've been reflecting recently that I've never really played a horror RPG that felt like horror. That's led me to consider what the horror genre is, what makes it feel like horror, and why that's hard to translate into an RPG.

( Long, long pondering behind the cut... )