I am a writer, musician, gamer (both tabletop rpg’s & video games) and life-long geek.
Tomorrow is the first day of X-Con World 2010 in Myrtle Beach. It will be my first X-Con, and the first time I’ll be “running” games at a con. I’ll be facilitating Fiasco all weekend. I’m really looking forward to it, though with some trepidation. I’m just having a little “stage fright” since this will [...]
The following is a short story I wrote for this week’s Flash Fiction Friday. Enjoy. — Mama said I was gonna be somethin’ one day. It was just a bullshit deathbed guilt trip, but she said it. She was layin’ there in the bed, starin’ off into space, lookin’ for her man Jesus to show [...]
As a blog writer (some would shorten that to “blogger” but I like the full “blog writer”), I read other blogs. I read them as much as possible. I have my favorites. There are some blog writers who always seem to be on their game, or at least know how to gut through a post [...]
Everybody loves a good story, right? Stories are part of the human existence. Imagine for a moment, the first storytellers. We don’t know exactly who they were, but I’m guessing that among the earliest was some semi-upright guy, or girl, standing in front of a fire, in a cave, with all of the young people [...]
“You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin’ Donuts, call a cop.” – Leonard Smalls, Raising Arizona Take a collection of individuals connected in the most tenuous of ways, throw in something that they want, concoct an ill-conceived plan, then toss in some unfortunate circumstances. Bring to a [...]
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the influence it has had on the video game industry for the past nine years. I’m talking, of course, about Halo. Bungie released the first Halo game, Halo: Combat Evolved, in November, 2001. Since then, there have been four more games in the franchise (including an RTS, [...]
The Second Volley in the Geekcentricity Console Wars… About a week ago, my friend and fellow Geekcentricity writer Jonathan wrote a nifty little post about the gaming consoles he owns and why he chose them. He had some excellent things to say about his chosen systems. He also had a few things to say about [...]
And now, for something completely different, I present to you a partial transcript of an event which will henceforth be known as the Inquisition of Johannes Cabal. What’s that? You weren’t expecting an inquisition? NOBODY expects an inquisition! Except, I’m beginning to think that Mr. Cabal did expect his inquisition. He seemed to anticipate each [...]
Vampire. The mere word conjures up terrifying creatures of evil intent and unspeakable desire. Creatures that could be brilliant and cunning or bloodthirsty monsters. Creatures that could be stunningly beautiful or of disgustingly horrifying countenance. Wait… It doesn’t do that anymore? I missed that memo? Hang on… What? Now it conjures images of beautifully waif-like [...]
Last week, I introduced you to the Geekcentricity writing crew. There was one writer I neglected to mention, because she hadn’t submitted anything yet and was out of town visiting that hell hole known as The Pitt (or Pittsburgh if you’ve never played Fallout 3). Since that changed when Carmen indoctrinated us forcibly into her [...]
