Saturday Morning Gaming: Herding Cats (Or Sorting Them, Anyway)
Cats Organized Neatly is a lovely little trifle of a puzzle game.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: The 20 Year Roof
19 years ago, we bought a house with a “20 year roof”. I didn’t give it much thought, at the time.
Sunday Morning! “The Cannibal” by: John Hawkes
I chose The Cannibal by John Hawkes because it was on a table of writers who are generally considered the “real deal” by other writers.
Weekend Plans Post: Let’s Get Ready To Rumble
The Royal Rumble is this weekend. On Saturday. That’s pretty much the big thing this weekend.
Weekend Plans Post: No Longer Batching It Rock And Roll Weekend
This weekend will be spent doing laundry, coming down from the insanity of work this week, and, yes, listening to some rock and or roll
Sunday Morning! Five short stories by Shirley Jackson
If you’ve felt that a large chunk of your society has gone insane-or YOU have-there’s much you might relate to in the short stories of Shirley Jackson.
Saturday Morning Gaming: God of War Available on Steam
God of War has a strong story, graphic violence, and they’ve given it enough of a moral center to make it so that you won’t feel like you’re going to have to apologize for recommending it.
Weekend Plans Post: The Holiday Hangover
The weekends will be spent recuperating from being on the team from heck, working on the system from heck, and getting back and seeing that all of my old stuff has fallen into heck.
Sunday Morning! “Hangsaman” by Shirley Jackson
Maybe stories about the post-war suburban idyll only really work if they’re dark and Gothic and frightening and by Shirley Jackson
Saturday Morning Gaming: Unravelling A Mystery On The Obra Dinn
The Return of the Obra Dinn: If you’ve been waiting for a game where you can *FINALLY* play an insurance investigator, your wait is over.
Weekend Plans Post: The Garden Gnomes That Weren’t There
Let me restate: We never purchased nor even ever expressed a desire for garden gnomes. We just sort of started getting them.
Sunday Morning: “Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street” by Preston Fassel
I did want to talk a little about the book “Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street ” by Preston Fassel, which just came out
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Year to Come In Video Games
You’d think that Cyberpunk 2077 would have taught me to not look forward to video games. But here goes…
Weekend Plans Post: Dodging the Covid
Okay. Dodging the Covid. So what, exactly, is the proper response for when a friend tells you that he has tested positive?
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Year In Review
Who wants to get hung up on the ones that stunk, though? Well, other than Cyberpunk. Let’s focus on the AMAZING games.
Sunday Morning! “Nightmare Alley” x 3
William Lindsay Gresham heard a story he never forgot. Guillermo Del Toro’s recent adaptation of his “Nightmare Alley” is the latest verion
Saturday Morning Gaming: More Fights In Tight Spaces
All in all, I’d say that Fights In Tight Spaces is the most surprising game in the genre of “Slay the Spire” that I’ve encountered yet.
Weekend Plans Post: The Week From Heck
My timecard for the last two weeks has 98 hours on it. We’ve got 3 days to go.
Sunday Morning! “The Razor’s Edge” by Somerset Maugham
Maugham’s story “The Razor’s Edge” is about a WWI pilot who heads East seeking spiritual peace resonates even with those of us who haven’t gone very far on the path to sainthood.
