As part of our family vacation at my parents’ place in Houston, I had the great pleasure of taking my daughter to the store that started it all for me: Nan’s Games and Comics.  Growing up in Houston, that was my one stop shop to feed my dual gaming and comics addictions (though gaming won […]

Fear the Boot, one of my all time favorite podcasts has been nominated for the prestigious ENnie Awards. The Gen Con EN World RPG Awards celebrate excellence in tabletop roleplaying, and the gang over at Fear the Boot has definitely given consistent excellence for over 61 episodes (not including bonus and interview episodes). […]

I realize it’s extremely poor quality because it’s a cell phone video, blown up to YouTube sizes, but I just had to share a few seconds of Brianna driving the Batmobile:
 
 

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Due to some construction that closed my office, I got a couple of extra days off following the Forth of July holiday. For part of that, I decided that Brianna and I needed to finally head down to Pauls Valley, Oklahoma to check out the Toy and Action Figure Museum. We have seen […]

Adam P. Knave always manages to find the best utterly bizarre stuff the internet has to offer. For example, try this Finnish Death Metal Squirrel:

That is the greatest squirrel metal video ever made, hands down.

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Studies have finally been done on the nutritional requirements of zombies.  As it turns out, much of the human body supplies some nutritional element to the zombie diet, but as we all know, brains must serve as the bulk of their daily intake.  A whopping six to eleven servings!  That’s 6-11 servings per day for […]

With the completion of the Scourge of the Howling Horde module, it fell upon me to take the reins as the dungeon master for the kids campaign. I, too, selected a premade adventure, the Barrow of the Forgotten King. Using the standard adventure hooks, it linked up well, and offered the characters the […]

This evening I was reading through the various sites and blogs I follow when I discovered that we’ve lost another of the world’s great science fiction and fantasy writers. Fred Saberhagen lost his long battle with with cancer this past weekend.
My father introduced me to Fred Saberhagen when I was a kid. He […]

Dustin, good friend that he is, called me today to gloat that he was off work today and spending time with his girls. But he also wanted to let me know there was a great sale going on at CompUSA; he had just purchased 2GB of RAM for his desktop machine for $79, and another […]