Writer, Dabbler In Things
Reay I mentioned recently that I was entering the NYC Midnight Microfiction contest, wherein writers have to write no more than 100 words for a story the organization assigns rand0mized genres, actions, and single words for. Well, the results came in, and I was in the top 20 of my group, so advance to round 2. … Read more
There may be no genre I enjoy as much, but can be so disappointed by, as science fiction. Any genre has its good and bad, of course, but I find the best science fiction of certain stripes really strikes a chord with me–Blade Runner is my favourite movie–while the worst of it is particularly bad. … Read more
The Family Edition of Trivial Pursuit is effectively the Junior version of the original game: Here, as you roll the die to move around the spoked wheel of the board, every correct question–broken down into the same original coloured categories of Science & Nature, Entertainment, Sports & Leisure, etc.–gets you a coveted coloured pie wedge. … Read more
I’d heard the name Josh Gondelman for years off and on, but particularly recently on various comedy podcasts I started seeking out as some levity to working in a news environment where I hear close to four hours of (almost entirely negative, often demoralizing) news a day. And lately I’ve heard his name more often, … Read more
If there’s one thing that this pandemic isolation has done, it’s made people want to bake. And I don’t mean just in a kind of idle way, but it seems people are baking their asses off. The first thing that went to the hording mobs, as we all know, was toilet paper. Don’t get me … Read more
As I’m having some sporadic issues uploading photos–and honestly it’s probably close to as fast for me to just type this up anyway–I’m trying a new approach with this list and writing it out here instead of posting a photo of my phone’s screen shot that takes a few steps to get onto here anyway. … Read more
I’ve written previously about the importance, as I’ve been reminding myself, of finishing creative projects I start. There are times that it’s easy. (Hello, handful of haiku about some inspiring or topical experiences.) And there are times when it just isn’t going to happen, at least not in that form not now. (Hello, first novel … Read more
I like coming across new words in the material I read. While it can get a bit tiring at times to have to look up, say, a few words a page (*clears throat loudly and looks pointedly at Lovecraft*), it’s always good to learn new things, and words are included. What I don’t like is … Read more
In Lord of the Fries, players are employees at a chain of zombie-operated fast food restaurants. One menu from a variety is selected for all players to play from, and players must use their dealt cards–a variety of simplified fast food components such as “Bun”, “Fries”, “Cow”, “Bird”, “Drink”, etc.–to piece together the food order … Read more
Rhino Hero is a fun, quick and unusual tabletop game, in that it stacks upward instead of spreading out on a table. Players are dealt cards that act as ceiling/roof dividers, and they take turns laying a card on top of upright “walls”, a communal stack of squares folded in the middle to allow you … Read more