Dorknado
My mom sent me my high school yearbook. Yes, I was starring in the SyFy original movie Dorknado. As pretentious as it was to use a Nietzsche quote . . . I still like the quote!
Don’t finish shitty books
At 36, I can expect to live another 45 years or so, barring any surprises. Before getting a Kindle I was reading maybe a book a month (in recent years; I used to read more often). Now I’m reading a book every week or so. A book a week for the next 45 years is
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Dooly Knob
Here’s Lark at the summit of Dooly Knob (5,278 feet), not the mountain we set out to climb. We couldn’t make it up Frary Peak, and turned around when we hit a snowy patch that neither of us felt comfortable attempting. It was a good lesson, and we had a great trip. I decided Frary
Albion Basin
We just got back from a camping trip in Albion Basin, which is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. Moose are common up there, and we saw not one, but four, in the same evening. The shot below is from Cecret Lake, at about 9,700 feet, with Sugarloaf in the background (11,000
Reading Appendix N: The Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
My high school girlfriend introduced me to the Amber series back in the early 1990s, and shortly thereafter to Amber Diceless Role-Playing (paid link), the RPG based on the books. Zelazny, like a lot of Appendix N authors, writes with economy and punch. Nine Princes in Amber grabbed me with its opening sentence, “It was starting
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Charlie the hound
Our dog Charlie died today at age 17. My wife got him as a puppy, I entered the picture when he was 9, and our daughter has known him for 4 years. He fell asleep in my wife’s arms while I was on the way home, and she passed him to me to hold when
Grognard Games’ introduction to Appendix N
Martin Brown from Grognard Games produced a great short video introduction to Appendix N, the influence the works therein in had on D&D — from thieves and paladins to plane-hopping and alignment — and the inspiration those works can provide today. It’s a bit surreal for me, though: He’s called Martin as well, and is
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Appendix N: 20 down, 80 to go
I finished Fritz Leiber’s The Swords of Lankhmar this morning — my 20th Appendix N book. I’m not a fast reader, or perhaps more accurately I’m not a hurried reader, so tackling all 100 books of Appendix N is going to take me a while. “Swords” took longer than the other Lankhmar books to date
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A whole hamburger!?
My dog Charlie’s thought process when I gave him a whole hamburger on the way back from the vet: There’s a hamburger right there! I’m going to grab it! I GOT IT! Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod there’s an ENTIRE HAMBURGER in my mouth! Wow that doesn’t fit at all! Quick eat the rest before the fat
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Other Appendices N
Since I first posted about Reading Appendix N, I’ve been pointed to several similar reading lists that are either contemporary with Appendix N or related to it in some other way. None of them are additions to Appendix N — to date, Gary’s 2007 additions are the only ones I’ve found — but they’re all
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