Villain Stories – Another Movie Comparison
Through some combination of whims and serendipity, I watched two villain-led movies in the last two days: Reservoir Dogs and Venom. If...
Fitting Homage vs. Exploiting Nostalgia – A Comparison of Sequels
There are a pair of 2018 movies that I watched recently: Halloween and The Predator. Both of the original movies (1978’s Halloween and...
Exercise Experimenting
As mentioned in my last workout recap, I saw a personal trainer to evaluate where I'm at with my fitness level and talk about how to get...
COVID-19, Crab Buckets, and Rule 303
I'm no expert on psychology, but I have been taking a course related to it. One interesting point from there is that the human mind's...
Living in Interesting Times
There is an old (though far older in apocrypha than verifiable records indicate) veiled insult/curse: "May you live in interesting times"....
Authors Give Back
I've skirted around talking about COVID-19 a few times, because there isn't much that I can say about it which hasn't been said better...
Alignment Embodiments
Over on Monsters and Manuals, noisms has prompted people to take part in another iteration of the old navel-gazing exercise from the end...
Using Vampires (and Other Symbolic Monsters) in Fiction
After doing some modicum of research and seeing that Joe Manganiello had acted on the show True Blood, I started thinking about why I...
E-Book Links
Dan Collins and Paul Siegel of The Wanderings DMs YouTube channel have been gracious enough to give my e-books a shout-out on their show,...
On 2 Years of Shouting into the Void
I'm a fan of The Alexandrian. Justin Alexander's Gamemastery 101 posts on designing robust scenarios, interesting dungeons, satisfying...
