finally just caught up on S10 this week and i have to say (a year late!) i thought the white people of texas came off as way more stereotypically hateful than the muslims DESPITE the fact muslims are shown making bombs and even carrying out terror attacks! you've got all the asshole rednecks in the opening tease, the…

hope you like it! my rule of thumb for music that doesn't immediately grab me it to try to find time to listen to it at least three times in a row - there's nothing magic about the number but i've found it reflects my personal ideal amount of marinating in something different… i'll either wind up loving it by that…

anyone who'd sleep on stuff like Bill Withers, Al Green or The Pharcyde just because it came out before they were born is only depriving themselves of good music.

about two weeks ago me and the wife joined some friends at this sprawling house deep in the mountains of west virginia, one of those places where you spend two hours traveling the first 150 or so miles on the interstate and then another two hours going up and down mountains to cover the last 50 miles.

Toad the Wet Sprocket. somehow i only just (well, last month) learned they got back together a few years ago and, since 2013, have put out a full length album, New Constellation and an EP, Architect of Ruin.
i'm enjoying the new stuff but also taking the opportunity to renew my appreciation for their earlier work - Pal…

SHIT! i thought this was The Wasp FACTORY at first and i was totally jazzed that Iain Banks was gonna get a bunch of new eyeballs checking out his books and, hopefully, create enough interest to get a multi-season HBO treatment for the Culture books.

HEY, G of EE - this is AMERICA, okay?! if bettlejesus wants to have discourse with a Congressperson, all he/she/it has to do is write a fucking check like anyone else.

check out Roll20.net - it's a free online "game table" that will give you everything you need to call up some friends wherever they live and get online at the same time to roll some dice and explore some dungeons.

sounds like the one i'm going to is on the 10th - i'm not religious and it isn't my faith, but it's important to my wife and i enjoy sweet wine and asparagus, so i've come around to it. i actually started to enjoy it once i realized i could just replace (in my mind) all the references to Israelites with the Fremen of…

the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign for 5E was essentially an update of Temple of Elemental Evil and in a lot of ways a definite improvement on the original. last year, our high school gaming group got together to run through an extremely truncated version of the fire and earth nodes using updated versions of our…

you could try using the internet and something like ROLL20, a free online "game table" that i've been using for about three years+ to schedule a monthly game with friends across the country - we've got players in Kentucky, WV, Wisconsin and California.

i would buy a coffee mug or T-shirt with this printed on it. just sayin'…

huh. why did i think it meant "Anal Vapors"?

in my mind, i "heard" this as Vin Diesel in the first F&F movie when he's talking about his caged animal need for freedom speech, the one where he growls something about livin' his life a quarter-mile at a time, MAAAN!

more famous for the anticipation/delays surrounding its release and then largely ignored when it finally saw the light of day?

i just find it hilarious, in this day and age, that anyone would censor themselves while using a swear as weaksauce as "DA*N" - what the fuck is this, kindergarten? ZMF would faint dead away at such behavior, i'm sure… especially coming from a fan of what i have to assume is some kind of teeny lite-punk rock? i…

K-2 didn't die - he downloaded his droid consciousness into the computer and used the modem to beam himself into a TIE Fighter that took off into space before the planet blew up.

his book about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals, The Church That Forgot Christ, was worth reading too - well, if you could handle getting that infuriated by the things you read.

Lane DeGregory, who used to work at the St.Petersburg Times (i think it changed names and not sure where she is now…) used to have a similar style of spinning stories from ordinary people and won a Pulitzer about 10 years ago for one of the most heartwrenching stories of child neglect i've ever read.

jesus, i'm jealous of you guys - i can't begin to imagine how cool it would be to have ORIGINALs of his work hanging on a wall - i have a portfolio of some of his prints somewhere that i never got around to framing and considered myself lucky enough to find those.