A new friend of mine asked me last Friday what was my favorite that I’ve seen recently. Being an avid cinemaphile and generator of opinion (as you may have noticed), this caused a mental lag akin to calculating pi to the power of pi on a watch calculator. (Me: “Duuuuuh …”) I came out of [...]

So I’m perusing the threads at one of my favorite game forums, Fear the Boot, skimming topics and looking for places where my brilliance can help inspire/inform my brother’s in RPGing. I come to a poll written by an Irish GM trying to decide where to set his occult themed crime campaign. (the Dresdan Files series [...]

Often times on gaming forums you’ll see someone post asking for story ideas for their next RPG session (because they’re novice GM’s and too cheap to buy a module).
A poster on RPG.net wanted to know how to handle the loss of two players in his Firefly game. After suggestions to quickly kill off their characters [...]

Wuv, twue wuv, is a mysterious, magical thing. Even Oprah, with her demi-goddess powers, is unable to find it for herself — though she’s felt it firsthand from maddened celebrities and will be seeing it again. I myself have sought it out in many places: clubs, Internet sites, street corners, Lane Bryant changing rooms (voluptuphile [...]

Dungeons and Dragons Fourth edition is about to come out and already gamers are dividing on the implications: posting blood-vendettas against strangers over the net based on their “opinions”, cursing the eyes of the first born of it’s writers/designers, and generally displaying the kind of obsessive past-time passion that makes us so popular with the [...]

Any show that lasts three seasons on Fox has to be pretty good, given their flighty nerves regarding programs that may not have mass appeal. As punishment for canceling Firefly, The Tick, and Family Guy the first time; We (royal we) don’t recognize Fox save for Sunday nights, 24, and Hell’s Kitchen. ( “You can’t cook pasta, [...]

Star Trek XI (11 for the latin impaired) is a bit more than a year from release and I’m eager like a cranked-out beaver for it!
Some  casting choices are great: Zach Quinto as Spock (Sylar on Heroes, the only TV villain I actually hate) and Karl Urban (Eomer of Rohan and the MacBethian Vaako in [...]