Saturday Morning Gaming: The Black Knight 2000
If you’ve never heard the song, you’re in for a treat.
Category: Culture
POETS Day! William Makepeace Thackeray
Financially and domestically, promise and hope were dashed. The world did not unfold as hoped. He wrote several poems along the same lines
Series! Recap of World Series of the 1920s
Why not go back to the Roaring 20s, the age of flappers, bathtub gin, and the Babe? It was 100 years ago now, but that hardly matters in baseball.
Top 10 Films of 2024
Last year saw fewer releases from the old guard – the master filmmakers – but that provided an opportunity for new voices – or voices new to general audiences – to emerge.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Sizeable
A little zen game where you manipulate a diorama. Oh, and it’s 90% off! Just a buck!
POETS Day! Leigh Hunt
From what I’ve read, Hunt seems fun loving, blithe, and inconsiderate, but not malicious. Impish.
Weekend Plans Post: The Tootsie Roll Pop Indian
We just told each other “the Indian can be traded for a free Tootsie Pop” and listed off the rules and daydreamt about a second Tootsie Pop
Kansas City wants to Score the first Threepeat against the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans
I hope you have enough queso.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Thunder Road Vendetta!
It’s a fun game that rewards ruthless aggression and everybody will have a hoot when the chain reactions start.
POETS Day! John Keats at Last, Apparently
Young and tragic opens doors. Today he’s considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
The 97th Oscars’ Best Picture Race: As Wide Open As It Gets
Breaking down all ten nominees; where I think their chances stand on Oscar night, along with some personal observations on their potential legacy
Saturday Morning Gaming: Just looking for something *FUN*
There have been a bunch of games that require the knitting of brows and the occasional situation that could easily result in a rage-quit.
POETS Day! A Few Poems by Kingsley Amis as Pretense to Discuss One of His Novels
All the references to Welsh habit, Welsh ways, all the references to Wales and Welshness.
Weekend Plans Post: Time for Spaghetti Sauce Again
You don’t need to drive to Sandusky to wirehead properly.
Fannie Farmer, Mickey Mouse, and the Virtues of Cheating
It’s important to know that running on automatic, acting without thought is something we are capable of.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Menace from the Deep
With slowly dawning horror, I realized that Menace from the Deep was a pretty good Slay the Spire clone.
POETS Day! Poems Found While Reading an Essay by Anthony Hecht
I found “Beauty Extoll’d” as an alternate title so I put it in brackets, but Hecht says “Gaze Not on Swans,” and Hecht is Anthony Hecht.
Weekend Plans Post: Was Last Year This Cold?
Good golly, it’s *COLD* This weekend should be a little less cold before cold snap #2 comes down from Canada.
