It was pretty obvious where they wanted you to focus on the map, given then requirements for expansion, and we were doing a fairly good job there. I read a user post on BoardGameGeek a while back that makes me think we misunderstood a rule and were advancing that outbreak tracker too quickly.

There’s a thing you find at some point in Season 2 that brings it from nearly impossible to merely challenging. Part of the problem with the game generally is that even though the setup made it seem like you had a lot of freedom to explore, they really wanted you to do stuff in a particular order, and you were…

Ran through Pandemic Season 1 with some friends over the course of about a year - we had a great time, developed a rhythm to our play where we knew our roles and what everybody was capable of doing on a given round, and managed to wrap up with the second-best ending possible. We were pretty pumped to move on to Season…

What a blessing to have that kind of support! 

That same scene in There Will Be Blood, except it’s the steak that makes me want to butter baste a NY Strip.

Nil - When you bid to win 0 books. If you bid a nil and achieve it, you get 100 points.

whatever the fuck the blue shit is in ‘Hook.’

This seems as good time as any to once again say that Alien: Isolation is an underrated gem. Is it perfect? No. The story is nothing noteworthy and the game drags longer than it should, but it does so many things so very right. The retro future look. The creepy mannequin robots (who are incredibly polite with their…

I’m plowing through my Jean Pierre Melville collection right now, and just last night I was watching “Un Flic”(The Cop). From the early seventies.

This is the ticket I wanted!

Alice’s Restaurant because you can get anything you want there.

Dennis Miller’s time on Monday Night Football made about as much sense as Jerome Kern negotiating the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on behalf of the 1976 New York Islanders...

My general reluctance/aversion stems from when I was in grade school with a loose baby tooth. I was eating a crunch PB&J...and then no tooth 👀

Peanut butter and pickles. Dill chips. Go a little heavy on the pickles because the PB is thick and tends to overpower everything else.

Mountain Goats song titles, ranked by their efficacy as D&D spells: 

I want to be cremated and have my ashes blown into my best friend’s face as my second-best friend attempts to scatter them into the sea.

The first recipe is overly complex and not worth it. The second is close to what I do, but still makes it a little more cumbersome than it needs to be.