No, no, don’t worry. I am not about to break my self-imposed restriction on political posting. I got all my ranting done on the old incarnation of the blog, and I’m not looking to start that shit again. Lo’s comment on my last post had me thinking, though. It’s both wonderful and a little sad […]
R.I.P. Gary Gygax (1938-2008)
I was very saddened to hear that Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, possibly the greatest game ever, died yesterday. He was 69. Some shoddy business deals cheated Gary out of much of the financial success of his work, but the gaming world never failed to give him his proper respect, and that’s more […]
Fight Quest
Fight Quest on the Discovery Channel is an amazing show. Two young American mixed martial artists travel from country to country, studying each region’s traditional martial arts style with its masters, and then fight an exhibition match in the style. Each episode is like a mini-documentary on a different martial art, highlighting its uniqueness and […]
Paperback Writer
I’ve been thinking a lot about Paperback Writer while I work on the line edits of my book. For those infants and philistines amongst you who don’t know, Paperback Writer was a song by the Beatles, a mop-topped bunch of British hippies who would probably be the world’s greatest rock & roll band if it […]
Welcome Olivia!
My sister Maritza gave birth on Monday to my first niece, the beautiful Olivia Zoraida Torres, after a whopping 29 minutes in the delivery room. Dani and I went to visit the little bundle of joy yesterday, and took a few pictures. I held little Olivia for about an hour while she slept peacefully. Even […]