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Started reading Pamela Dean's The Secret Country last night on the way to sleep. My comment so far: Having five... (More...)

30 December 2009, 9:40 AM | Comments (6)

I recently saw Natalie Portman live (well, on a screen, but in realtime, from a nearby location). Which gave me... (More...)

5 July 2009, 12:01 PM | Comments (0)

Back in 2006, a guy named Shamus Young posted a couple of strips of a photonovel-style webcomic with the following... (More...)

8 February 2009, 1:59 PM | Comments (4)

Via one of those tangents that happen when you start poking around on the web, I just spent a while... (More...)

4 December 2007, 11:42 AM | Comments (3)

The last episode of my roleplaying game was this afternoon. I had an intermittently rough weekend, and was very late... (More...)

25 November 2007, 10:19 PM | Comments (0)

Third session of my roleplaying game (out of a planned total of four) was on Sunday. It didn't go as... (More...)

31 October 2007, 9:14 AM | Comments (2)

I just happened across something I wrote back in '99 in response to a friend who'd asked, "How [do I]... (More...)

21 October 2007, 5:11 PM | Comments (5)

A couple of people have remarked on my silence of late--I've posted only five journal entries in the past two... (More...)

1 October 2007, 11:44 PM | Comments (0)

Not unexpectedly, I only made it to one panel yesterday, and only about 15 minutes of that. It was a... (More...)

27 May 2006, 8:39 AM | Comments (1)

Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions. (More...)

11 February 2006, 12:39 PM | Comments (6)

Imagine you're an 18-year-old computer gamer in Chicago, and you're sitting around at home one evening when someone you don't... (More...)

13 January 2006, 8:48 AM | Comments (5)

Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to... (More...)

22 December 2005, 10:06 AM | Comments (1)

Today was, of course, the fourth anniversary of the September 11th attacks; I saw surprisingly little commentary about that... (More...)

12 September 2005, 1:18 AM | Comments (2)

Back when I was writing my zeppelin story, I said that I would talk about its origins at some point.... (More...)

6 June 2005, 9:01 PM | Comments (1)

The coolest thing I've encountered all week: A roleplaying game/collaborative-worldbuilding system called Lexicon, "in honor of its inspiration, Milorad Pavic's... (More...)

9 September 2004, 9:30 AM | Comments (6)

Brief things first: you can obtain a couple of replica Buffy daggers at Battle Orders Ltd, should you be so... (More...)

18 January 2004, 11:12 AM | Comments (2)

I've been thinking a lot about roleplaying lately, and had an interesting chat about gaming and GM and player styles... (More...)

9 October 2003, 4:31 PM | Comments (5)

Last night online people kept saying "All Hail King Torg!" So I Googled, and found that they were referring to... (More...)

19 August 2003, 8:57 AM | Comments (9)