Category: Entertainment
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GenCon 2024 — day 003
Day 003 of GenCon was a very different kind of busy. I felt fried by the end. 4:50am — Well I woke up really early. After waking, I felt fried. I blame the glorious late night puppet thing. Wrote several hundred words and read a bit. 7am — I headed to a downtown meeting with a cinematographer…
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Pirates of Maracaibo board game review — Gen Con 2024
The fellas I’m staying with for Gen Con 2024 got a copy of Pirates of Maracaibo from their launch here in Indy (in addition to some con-specific promo bowsprits). It’s a nautical exploration game with a pirate theme. The mechanisms are dice rolling, increase value of unchosen resources, multi-use cards, pieces as map, and a…
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First time trying a puppet at Gen Con 2024 puppet workshop
This was the first time I’ve ever touched a puppet as an adult so thanks to everyone who encouraged me to try it and helped me get up the courage to get on stage. Thanks to the encouragement from the Sesame Street puppeteers (I don’t remember all of your names) and to the encouragement from…
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Legacy at Sea board game review — Gen Con 2024
Legacy at Sea is billed as “The Ultimate Sandbox Pirate Adventure” by DPH Games Inc. I had the privilege of playing it with one of the fellow staff members here at GenCon 2024. Since I’ve never reviewed boardgames here before, I wanted to go ahead and post my first board game review with my experience…
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Gen Con 2024 Day 002
Day Two of Gen Con 2024 — Woke at 4:50 am again. Looks like this is a trend. Got a letter written to my son and bride again. Tried to creep in to fry some eggs and sausage but turns out my housemates are sleeping at that time of evening. Morning. Whatever they call it.…
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Gen Con 2024 Day 001
Just landed in Indy for Gen Con 2024 and can I say that Indianapolis’s airport always feels very Exit Through the Giftshop to me? I love having a post/pre security section to chill if there’s some wait time involved. But this time did remind me of the Banksy piece. And a slew of other things.…
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Weeping Angel statue at Greenwood Cemetery
I snagged this weeping angel while I was at Greenwood Cemetery. As you know, I spent a ton of time there writing The Greenwood Poet:
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Garden with Sculptures
This picture of a garden with sculptures is actually from Greenwood Cemetery, the theme of my book of poetry.
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How You Know We’re Old: VHS Tapes in an iPod doc box
I found these on my walk and it’s how you know we are old: VHS tapes getting pitched inside an iPod dock box. Eras criss cross and once breaking tech gets lumped in and junked with its predecessor.
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John Vorhaus interview
Lancelot Schaubert — What was the impetus behind this book, John Vorhaus? John Vorhaus — In my professional life I have two classes of clients. One is, broadly speaking, writers and other creative types. The other is, unexpectedly, people trying to get into to business schools like HBS and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. I noted…
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Of the Making of Books there Is No End?
I grew up in a fairly conservative religious community that abhorred study and praised ignorance, in a way. From this assumption folks would often quote in my general direction of the making of books there is no end. They believed along what Asimov said of many Americans: that my ignorance is as good as anyone…
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Science Fiction 101 by Robert Silverberg
Thanks to Emily Munro for enlightening me about Science Fiction 101 (formerly Worlds of Wonder) by Robert Silverberg. Also double thanks to Emily for lending this book to me literally years ago and waiting all of that time for me to return it. This volume is a must-have both for superfans of the genre and…