wow - Tom Lyle. unless my memory has completely mislead me, he was the artist on the Will Payton Starman book in the late 80s and the Comet book from the Impact! line, both of which i enjoyed. i remember being kind of pleasantly surprised when Lyle became sort of a hit with the Robin book that gave the kid long pants…

high school friends and i used to play Illumi-nopoly using two Monopoly boards, so i can see how this would appeal… i always loved playing the inscrutable Dog Faction, mainly because i was able to keep my winning conditions a secret and screw with people's expectations by pursuing a few random victory paths before…

got to try a couple new card games with friends over the holidays - Guillotine was fun and fast-paced and Gloom was clever but took a little getting used to - it sounds like there's a fairy tales version i might like to try. was honestly surprised to make the connection between the game designer (Keith Baker) and my…

YAVIN TRUTHER!

You couldn't work "nerf herders" in there somewhere?

i never joined facebook and probably never will. that means i miss out on some photos and daily updates from people i know and love but it also means i'm not getting drawn into endless arguments with in-laws or one of my old college roommates, who turned out to be a Tea Party guy the last time we caught up. life is…

i'd watch it. it's painful in parts (i mean, i'm crying on thanksgiving) but one of several messages that come through loud and clear is the band is going to continue to try making music people love and enjoy. i understand the world also needs people to do plenty of jobs that are unglamorous and boring but we'd all be…

probably gonna play Ticket to Ride with the in-laws after turkey - i got them the basic set for Christmas a few years ago and, after a little hesitancy, they really liked it. followed up with a couple expansion boards and that alien/king kong monster thing, which was greeted as sort of an odd curiosity. i know my…

well, to be fair: simpson's character (Nuke) was pretty one-dimensional in the comics, too - pathos out the ass, but he's not exactly deep.

TRUE FACT.

i hear tell of how in olden times days people would just use something like "/sarcasm" or, if they were "hip" to the language of the streets and/or webs, /s.

…what?

i don't mean to be hyperbolic or invoke Goodwin's Law or anything but i honestly started wondering a few weeks ago if this was what things were like in Germany in the 1920's - i mean, there had to be Germans who thought the shit coming out of Hitler's mouth was idiotic garbage, right? people who couldn't believe their…

Constable Benton Frasier from the Due South TV show would have made an excellent paladin.

let's see… i read a couple more stories in the latest Stephen King collection - enjoyable but most so far have been less horrific or fantastic than i expected; i mean "fantastic" in the larger sense, being of fantasy and the strange - a lot of the stories in the first half of the book are very slice of life even when…

i thought you meant Bree Olson, which would have been more suprising…

one of the easiest slow cooker desert recipes i ever came across was as easy as heating up some canned sliced pears with a scosh of brandy along with some cinammon and nutmeg. heat it up and then serve in a bowl with some ice cream or (if in season) egg nog. we used a couple of the big cans of pears and dumped it in…

the only thing i would add to destructive recovery's excellent advice would be to check the natural foods part of your grocery store (what we used to call the hippy section, where you find all the non-dairy milk and soy meats) for bulk spices - packaging is often one of the biggest factors in the pricing of spices and…

nice, but x10 funnier when i imagined the voice of your avatar saying it.

haw! yer sister don't say shit while she's got my dick in her mou-