Part of a series of fiction concerning a Falls Society D&D game. Drexxa was born at dawn. She was a healthy baby and her parents were happy. They didn’t concern themselves much with the fire in the woods. They couldn’t see the flames were bright green. *** Years before she was born, two fighters were introduced and fell in love.…
Art & Music
Round Table: Pick Your Seven
V-Day: You’re being banished to an island with no means of communication. You’re allowed to bring 7 movies, songs and books each. What will be your choices? We’re assuming that there’s a Lost style bunker where you have everything you need for basic survival and can watch movies. DP: I was just falling asleep in my office. Finally something interesting to do!…
300 Albums: Tool – Opiate
Tool – Opiate Opiate is a badass album, and it was my first real introduction to Tool. I distinctly remember purchasing Opiate in the electronics section at our local FRED MEYER when I was 16 years old. It was only $10, while most CDs at the time (including the other Tool albums on the shelf) were $15. The reason it…
300 Albums: Social Distortion – Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Social Distortion – Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll I’m not sure why I ever owned this album. Social Distortion has never been one of my favorite bands, and this album was released in 2004- long after the bulk of my CD buying was done. If you were to take a poll of my friends and ask them what bands…
Roundtable: Christmas Songs
TIG: The right speaker on my headphones goes out now and then. When it does I make an annoyed growl, that I recognize as Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s Monster. The old Universal movies are something I remember watching frequently and with great relish with my mother as a child. Which made me think, again, of Boris Karloff singing, “You’re a Mean…
A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request
The late great Steve Goodman and a song that rings more true with each passing year that the Cubs don’t make/win the World Series. The line about the last time the Cubs won the National Pennant was when we dropped the bomb on Japan, still true today, 30+ years after this song was written. Cubs haven’t won the World Series since 1908. With the Cubs out of the playoffs, my fellow faithful can lament: “There’s always next century.”