November 28, 2024
I’m a Tolkien fan. I used to be a Tolkien fanatic, but now I think I’m settled down into a fan. There’s a difference. It wouldn’t exactly be wrong to write that I wasn’t excited about Rings of Power, the Read more…
November 26, 2024
This isn’t the first Police single I remember, but it’s the first one I bought. I later ended up getting all the Police’s albums—and if I remember rightly, my sister had a few also. It was a year or two Read more…
November 21, 2024
When writing a fantasy RPG setting, I think we all borrow to some degree. There is borrowing from other creative works, and then there is borrowing from history. When borrowing from history, we are also often borrowing from other cultures. Read more…
November 19, 2024
I’ve been on a kick with singles and songs from my earliest days, but taking a detour this week as Fazerdaze has a new album out and a new single—”So Easy.”
November 14, 2024
Mr. Inbetween is an Australian TV series following criminal Ray Shoesmith who both works security at a club for a low-level boss and doing freelance assassinations—while also delving into other crimes. It follows not only his criminal escapades but also Read more…
November 12, 2024
Apparently, this song was only a middling hit in Canada—Wikipedia says its peak position was 56—but somehow I found it. And in 1980, that means I heard it on AM radio. This is a song that introduced me to a Read more…
November 10, 2024
So, I’ve already pointed out my dislike for the “Points of Light” campaign concept. Protecting the status quo might be somebody else’s idea of a good time, but I’d prefer to organize that underclass of goblins and help them start Read more…
November 6, 2024
I am way, way late on this. I play a lot of computer games but I never buy them when they come out. I pick them up two or three years later when they are 75% off. Rarely am I Read more…
November 4, 2024
Top 40 in Southwestern Ontario—basically, the area reached by Toronto AM radio—was really. . . eclectic. There was no other way I would have been exposed to Split Enz and “I Got You” any other way. The singles chart I Read more…
November 2, 2024
Campaigns in which the PCs are supposed to be ‘evil’ certainly can be bad, but not necessarily so. ‘Evil’’ might mean fighting the status quo instead of committing horrible acts on innocents. In a Facebook thread (I have broken down Read more…