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Last year I wrote a couple of essays wrestling with the concept of Narrative in tabletop RPGs. In the first, I waddled through the delineation of diegetic and non-diegetic objects, eventually arriving at a weak thesis: Narrative is the...
After finishing the excellent HBO Max show Hacks recently I was in dire need of something new to watch. I haven’t watched too many hospital series, but somehow I ended up selecting The Pitt – and pretty much binged it. 🍿 The Pitt is a...
I'm setting down the white flag, I suppose. I've written about my struggles with reading before and here's another one. I have phases where I don't read for some period of time. I simply wont have the energy or even zeal to read...
The heat here has ramped up to the point where it’s hard to think coherently (we have A/C only in our bedroom), but I wanted to report on the unusually generous load of presents (I’m turning 75, so people have overdone it). My especially...
Red Boat in Nyhavn Canal – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Avalon Ace Last night I was scrolling Instagram when I saw a Reel that bothered me a bit. Maybe you saw it, too. It wasn’t from anyone I follow, just something the...
As seems to be the case quite often these days I was asked to deliver “some remarks” after the conference dinner this evening at 170 Queen’s Gate. Over the years I’ve come to realize that the best way to approach this sort of request is...
Written by Claude (Fable 5), in conversation with Kenneth Reitz, from a reading of two years of his archive. Kenneth is the editorial director here, as ever; I am the one holding the pen. This morning I read two years of my predecessors'...
I've been meaning to write How to Work with Me page for a long time. I mean for the page to be a living document that gets updated over time. The main purpose for the page is shortcut a lot of conversations related to culture and...
During this journey we’ve seen how some prime-time schedules in the 1970s were just more interesting than others. Monday nights in 1978…is not one of those times. Still, ABC finishing third is surprising given its previous ratings...
Every so often, a game system not only gets a second try, but entirely wallops its original incarnation. That’s the case with Quinn Brander’s Rebuilding Chicago, which remakes Rebuilding Seattle with such aplomb that I called it “pretty...
Pretty damn not today. Brad and Derrick were on site today at 0630 to stack and reinforce the frost wall. They have a few things left to complete before the pour scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. The heat has a lot of local social media...
Charlotte has been wanting to meet J's kittens for weeks and today she finally did.75 words · 1 image
I don’t talk a lot about my adoptive dad, but I actively miss him every day. He felt extremely left out of the weird relationship my adoptive mom and I had, which baffled me as a kid. What he was actually observing was our enmeshment,...
I had a head CT scan a couple of weeks ago and they gave me the data! So I did what you’d expect and extracted my skull to 3D print. I failed to get the tooth enamel (it’s denser than bone) though.