Today, for the first time in years, I explored Blogger's back end and found a moderation tab. Curious, I opened it to find several comm...

Today I spent some time washing dozens of little resin miniatures and terrain pieces to prepare them for priming. After that...many hours of...

Earlier this afternoon I assembled a Sentry Bot miniature from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. This model is made of resin, which allows for gre...

So close, and yet so far. I have ordered a third package of green stuff. Hopefully that will be enough to fill in the remaining pits. Once t...

 

The New Mutants (Josh Boone, 2020) isn't the complete disaster I expected. Blending the superhero and horror genres makes the difference...

 

One day in the future, when it's safe to gather in restaurants again, I'd love to try the following gag:  Before we enter the restau...

Paul Gross’ Passchendaele (2008) starts off strong with a gripping, evocative, and even artful small-scale battle in the muck and rubble of ...

Yo ho ho, the pirate with a heart of gold, Dread Pirate Rogers. This one did not come out nearly as cleanly as I had hoped, but on the other...

During its all-too-brief golden age, Atari produced some pretty evocative artwork for its hardware and software products. The most visually ...

Caverns of Khafka took seemingly forever to load on our Atari 410 Program Recorder, but it was worth waiting for the software to load from m...

We retired the Atari 400 after several years of yeoman's service, replacing it with the more powerful Atari 130XE in the summer of 1987...

Miner 2049er was a top-tier game for the Atari 8-bit line of computers. Sean and I and our cousin Darwin poured hours and hours into this c...

  The Lurking Horror also included this double-sided map of the catacombs beneath G.U.E. Tech. Beware all ye who enter here...

Even though I wasn't clever enough to do more than scratch the surface of Infocom's 1987 text adventure The Lurking Horror , the gam...

Here's the manual for the software that got me through the first two years of university: Paperclip . Paperclip was pretty primitive com...

Here is all that remains of Sean's copy of Autoduel for the Atari 8-bit computers. It's a thick manual rich in complexity and lore, ...

This morning, Sylvia informed me that I've been talking in my sleep again. According to her, this is what happened:  "Do you really...

I finally watched The Lion King today, expecting greatness given the film's position on many best-of lists. But the film left me cold. I...

What do you call a footlocker that's been filled with hands? A handlocker? A handy storage solution? The digital error? 

Muckraker Peter Kent. My friend and colleague Meric Moir has another podcast up; this time, he shepherds a band of adventurers through a bon...