Ollin Sword Design, the shop that made my spear, put up some interesting detail photos and wax molds of the spear, and listed it amongst the other great work on their custom shop page. Check it out. Best gift I ever got.
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 […]
Friends, They Are Jewels
I had a helluva birthday this year. Well, actually, I didn’t do all that much on Friday, my actual birthday. Went to yoga class. Did a 2 mile walk. Worked a little on UK marketing for The Painted Man. Dani gave me a plastic Spider-man web shooter, and the cats chewed up all the webs. […]