Where "friends" is defined as "people who I actually know in person". I know it's a wildly retro concept in the age of TMI ( Read more... )

Right about now 50 years ago an airplane crashed killing four people. They were pilot Roger Peterson, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Richie Valens, and of course Buddy Holly ( Read more... )

The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more.A new Star Wars RPG book arrived for me today. I've flipped through it briefly, looking over the new playable species, and reading the table of contents. After doing that I set it aside and don't know when I'll be bothered to pick it up again. A scant few months ago a new Star Wars RPG book was ( Read more... )

This is taken from episode 174 of the webcomic Darths and Droids. It's from the author commentary that accompanies each episode.There is, by the way, for anyone who doesn't know, a canonical explanation for how space fighter pilots can hear stuff going on in space around them. In the novelisation of A New Hope (or simply Star Wars as it was titled ( Read more... )

The first two episodes of The Clone Wars series aired last night. I'd seen the movie, so I knew what to expect. I wasn't disappointed ( Read more... )

I'd planned to wait a week or two to see The Clone Wars, but I changed my mind and decided to go this afternoon instead. Since there were only about twenty-five people in the theatre on a sunday afternoon that may have been a smart choice ( Read more... )

Last week I quit the 4th Edition game I was in ( Read more... )