My uncle once told me that the best advice he ever got from my mom, his several-years-older sister, was to learn to like black coffee when he went to college. Because cream & sugar wouldn’t always be available. I wish she had ever told me that! But no. So now I take it like a cup of hot melted coffee ice cream, to the…

I thought he looked absolutely beautiful.

Gee, Kate, when are you going to share a recipe for a cocktail that includes hot beer and a whole egg?

FOUR dollars??!? They’re five here. I need to move.

If you haven’t figured it out already, maybe this will help: a tutorial video for TM was just posted this week by my favorite of the video-based game teachers, Rodney Smith of the Watch It Played channel. I hope you can get this great game back to the table!

Ha, probably so, it’s not that big a town. Between Gen Con and Who’s Yer Con, I feel like a lot of the local gaming crowd gets to mingle a bit.

I’ve only been into Game Time once, just stopped in to see what it was all about, and they were hosting a M:tG tournament. So it’s like it was cosplaying “a trashy game store” in the middle of a trashy game store, LOL; that was probably the worst possible time to visit.

Will be curious to see how much of it is *game store* vs. *gaming space*. Books & Brews is very gamer-friendly, but it’s BYOG, and I’d say the food is just OK. Game Preserve does have that small back room behind the store, although I’ve never played there. Game Time has an absolute ton of play space and a decently…

This is my first choice for adding to the turkey chili recipe that calls for a beer. (I also add a bag of frozen corn 30 mins before serving.) The malts are just perfectly suited for this flavor combination.

Just finished Sue Burke’s Semiosis—loved the premise, but found the execution lacking. Many people disagree with me on that.

This movie was such garbage that I couldn’t even watch it in one sitting, I had to stop and take a nap. Its worst crime is that it was boring. I did finish it, for some reason I can’t explain. Thank the gods I only got it from the library, and didn’t pay actual money to see it!

Happened to me. I lost the ability to speak for about 10 minutes; was at my office but literally almost nobody was around, so I had nobody to alert (and for some reason, I felt quite calm?). I had no pain. Speech came back, I waited a while, then went home (reading every street sign along the way, out loud) and…

I think you’re right about the pre-haunt state. But I do enjoy its growing sense of dread.

I think you’re right about the pre-haunt state. But I do enjoy its growing sense of dread.

Looks like he has ungrayed a bunch of them now, am glad to see it. (Will also help their chances at some Amazon affiliate fees.) There’s some excellent stuff in here, it’s put me in a boardgaming mood!

Looks like he has ungrayed a bunch of them now, am glad to see it. (Will also help their chances at some Amazon…

This is a great game! My copy (in the narrow Silver Line box) is worn from use, we love it so much.

This is a great game! My copy (in the narrow Silver Line box) is worn from use, we love it so much.

It’s a shame that every single reply here is in the grays, because there are many good holiday gift/family time suggestions that deserve to be seen!

It’s a shame that every single reply here is in the grays, because there are many good holiday gift/family time…

I second this nomination, Azul is super fun. I’m also a more serious gamer than most of my fellow players, but we all have fun with this one.

I second this nomination, Azul is super fun. I’m also a more serious gamer than most of my fellow players, but we…

You may also like World Championship Russian Roulette, but it’s out of stock at Amazon. It’s also better with more players (you can add more boxes, it scales perfectly).

You may also like World Championship Russian Roulette, but it’s out of stock at Amazon. It’s also better with more…

Duel is a great 2-player implementation of a great 3+-player game.

Duel is a great 2-player implementation of a great 3+-player game.