The first career path to which I gave serious consideration was authoring fiction.  The driving motivation behind this idea - telling stories - drives a disproportionate number of my hobbies: independent film-making, movie/TV-watching  and game-playing (on the receiving end of told stories, in this case), role-playing games.  Every other career I ( Read more... )

Our friend Heather loaned Cody the NYT bestseller, Twilight.  Cody seemed to enjoy it, and being Vampire fiction I was interested by default.  I started reading it once she finished it…and finished the 500 page book in only two days.  This, for me, is nearly unprecedented.  On a normal night, if I chew through 50 pages before falling asleep, I’m ( Read more... )

Many GMs like to play in existing campaign worlds. One of the most popular was/is Forgotten Realms, which has all but become D&D’s de facto setting. Others play in an alternate version of the real world, such as is the case with many World of Darkness games. Then there are the ultimate crazies: the world builders. Count me among this bunch.

I’ ( Read more... )

I've embarked on the perilous adventure of exposing Cody to Star Trek. In all the course of my romantic history, I haven't actually done that, before. Firefly and FarScape are staples, as is Babylon 5. But Star Trek? Never happened before. So far, we've watched the six original series-era movies, and have worked our way through about half of ( Read more... )

This is entirely random, but I was reading the various wiki entries on Jesus yesterday (due to a discussion with dakabn). I had always known about the whole duality of Jesus as both the "son of God" and "God", and it was actually one of the things that I found rather laughable about the whole notion. But one particular passage in wiki clarified it in a ( Read more... )