One dang time, we played For The Queen! THIS dang time, we invited Amy! ENOUGH PREAMBLE. Phase I: Constitutional Monarchy We’re offered three options for Queens by choose-a-number draw, and because Amy is the newest player and she uh, has a type, we have chosen the BATTLE QUEEN (Q19): Phase II: The Reading Of The...

in which there seems a non-zero chance that I become the first person to have a grand mal seizure while playing Mewgenics1 Okay I’ve tried for two weeks to write a whole post about this, but I get kind of overwhelmed and upset and lost in the details so here: two Fridays yon, I did the Big Ol’ Shimmy-Shake,...

Hi, I’m experimenting with short-form audio The sound at the 45-second mark is NOT my wife snickering, it is my cinnamon waffles popping up in the toaster, THANK YOU VERY MUCH I famously get a little antsy about my site names after a few years; I’m considering switching to ‘Bit And Run’, which I recently adopted for...

So hey I owe you all1 a larger update about several major life-events in the past two weeks but right this second we’re watching a movie called The End Of Oak Street (which is a BLAST btw) where, No Spoilers, it’s a Suburban Neighborhood in The 80s, Something Happens, and Circumstances Change Rapidly And uh Our...

Antecedently: SUDDENLY SEMOR (has a new way to bug people); the Man With The Golden Nose sticks it into our damn business; Dani takes a level in Ron Swanson while examining a Resident Evil-ass woodén box Pregame miscellany: I regale the gang with the tale of my mother-in-law’s robot vacuum, Roberto the Roomba, and...

(The characters on this are completely asemic, I was just makin’ cool letters) (A calligram I came up with some years ago that reads ‘bismillah’ in a constructed alphabet I’ve been using since 2003) (Included for the benefit of those who were intrigued by the bismillah bird’s explanation)

Content warning for MATTERS GASTROLOGICAL, for WRISTBAND-EMOJI-STICKERS BEING A DICK, for THE SOBE FLAVOR SO WHITE AND HATEFUL THE RNC SHOULD BOOK IT AS A SPEAKER, and for LOSING THE DEPOSIT ON MULTIPLE BOUNCY-CASTLES. Also it’s also little too long, but c’mon, nobody needs this to be even more posts. Antecedently:...

Content warning for MATTERS GASTRONOMICAL, for SAFEWAY GAS-PUMPS BEING A DICK, for HOPEFULLY UNFOUNDED FEARS OF CANCER, and for POTIONS OF CRAP-YOUR-ENTIRE-SKELETON Hiya! So you may recall some time back—exactly how far I can’t recall, for time has become a flat circle under whose edge I am ground like so much...

I. Well It’s About Damn Time You cut that out. You stop it right now. This article isn’t saying anything new to most of us, but it is saying it, and that’s something most voices in a position to reach the horizon aren’t bothering to do. The basic mechanics will be familiar to anyone that’s worked for a—checks...

This is now, it appears to transpire, a blog about karate. I’VE BEEN TRYING A LOT OF NEW HOBBIES AND SIMILAR LATELY. As a 37-year-old white American male (even one who exercises regularly and has largely given up red meat), statistically speaking I’m damned close to my actual life median if not past it already1, and...

HAHAHA WHAT IF I DIDN’T REMEMBER HOW TO DO THIS WOULDN’T THAT BE FUNNY HAHA WOULD YOU ALL STILL LOVE ME Playin’ Resident Evil Village: Now with native 3rd-person mode so I’m-a don’t get-a da barfs! Everything everyone said about this game is true, it completely rules, and was a refreshing followup for me after the...