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100 Post Retrospective
Electroshock Boogie VII
Today is a damn good day. That’s what I love about being an unstable, emotion-driven member of the human race; sure you have inexplicable bad days, but you also have inexplicable good days. I woke up feeling like a millions bucks today: my kids are cute, my wife is amazing,… Continue »
Plaza Rats
I’ve been thinking a lot of New Mexico again lately. The last time this happened I had just learned of the death of my friend Robert Saenz, which I recounted in my post Legends of the Gate. From that, I’ve been able to reconnect with some of the people on… Continue »
Transformers: War for Cybertron
How long have we waited for this day? Really, sit back and think about it – kids these days have Transformers, but they aren’t really Transformers. They’re weird little versions of Transformers infused with anime, not the heroic (if not simple) characters we had growing up in the ‘80s. When… Continue »
Share and Share Alike
A few days back, Maggie went to the library. We both were looking for something good to read, and while money isn’t exactly super-tight, we don’t have a crapload of it to throw around. I got some McCammon books (only a couple – what I think I can read through… Continue »
Doctor Courage and the Time Dimension
At 999 words, this just barely made it under the limit for Chuck “Wangledangle” Wendig’s I wanna Do Laser contest. A little bit of pulp-hero fiction that I am a little proud of. This is a genre I may have to exploit in some way, it was a blast to… Continue »
Let’s Talk Gaming
Let’s talk games, motherfucker. This year is turning out to be a damn good one. I am making amazing contact and friends (to whom I am very grateful), I have picked up some freelance work (which I am overwhelmed about), and I really feel like I am getting my shit… Continue »
Don’t Be Ridiculous
Alright, I lied. I do want to post something. A few minutes ago, I made the following tweet: Honestly, Hollywood. Where is the movie adaptation of this? http://bit.ly/13uenA Way to fail. Oh yeah, make http://bit.ly/13uenA also. Moments later, the tweet stuck with me. I could not drop the idea. The… Continue »
A Week’s Vacation
Howdy all! This is just fair warning that there won’t be any updates to Wordasylum for this week – we hired two therapists for the boys, so our days are going to be pretty full as we get a schedule and working conditions all in place. To make sure that… Continue »
100 Post Retrospective
It’s that time again. My little blog has hit another milestone. It has advanced to triple digits. Dinged 100. Today I am going to take time off from teaching legless children to square-dance and look back over the last fifty posts, glance over where I think Wordasylum (and a little… Continue »
So, uh, yeah. Hi.
Today, my plan was to post some fiction. Sometime last week, I came up with an idea for a little story. I wrote the gist of the idea out and saved in a file dedicated to “shit I’ll get back to later”. I expected it to be a little flash… Continue »
Tabletop Games for 2010
For as much as I love table-top gaming, I don’t know a lot about what is coming out. There are a couple of companies I follow – the big names – that have treated me pretty good over the years, and those are the ones I tend to pay attention… Continue »
Electroshock Boogie VIII
Last night blew. Oh my god, did it suck. Maybe it is something in the weather. The kids did not want to sleep. Let me make this perfectly clear: the kids did not want to motherfucking go to motherfucking sleep on this motherfucking plane (I could totally do Samuel L…. Continue »
Cataclysm Looming: Concerns of the Oldcore
In the very near future, Blizzard will release World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the third expansion for the massive beast that is WoW. It’s an ambitious product, and a risky one; Blizzard is not just appeasing the elder players by packing on more maximum level content, they are also completely reworking… Continue »
The Gospel According to Ogre
The Gospel According to Ogre I took the weekend off. I needed it. Lately I have been setting up blog stuff, and just felt like I’ve been repeating, hitting from the same well of bullshit that is growing constantly more stale. This happens – I went on a streak of… Continue »
Hobbies: Where Self Esteem Goes to Die
Real life, quite often, fucking sucks. While the overall experience is punctuated with resplendent moments of joy, there is so much negativity that it is easy to drive the entire experience directly into the shitter. I’m not really one for living in negativity; I can’t be. If I allow that… Continue »
Nothing to See Here
There is no real update for Wordasylum today. At the end of seven interviews this week alone, we’ve decided on a couple of therapists and we are waiting to hear back confirmation from them. Therefore, on Canada Day, we have a lot of work to do getting the ball rolling… Continue »
Electroshock Boogie VII
Today is a damn good day. That’s what I love about being an unstable, emotion-driven member of the human race; sure you have inexplicable bad days, but you also have inexplicable good days. I woke up feeling like a millions bucks today: my kids are cute, my wife is amazing,… Continue »
Doctor Courage and the Valley of the Tiger-Women
That’s right, the return of Doctor Courage! I decided to take part in another flash fiction challenge over at Friday Flash Fiction, which must use the words “sculpture”, “cohesive”, “culture”, and “cult”. I decided to revisit the characters from Doctor Courage and the Time Dimension for two reasons – one,… Continue »
Legends of the Gate
There was this guy I knew in high school named Robert. We called him Rubba… another guy named Chad Ringer had a way with nicknames, and I can only assume he tagged Robert (he had people calling me Bubbles for the beginning of my sophomore year). When I first met… Continue »
Penguins, Autism, and Personal Stuff
Other Heads is a weekly shoutout to other sites around the Series of Tubes, with some random bullshit I write before getting to the smart people. Each week features two blogs and a website. I am doing something a little different for Other Heads this week: I am going to… Continue »
Cataclysm Looming: Concerns of the Oldcore
In the very near future, Blizzard will release World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the third expansion for the massive beast that is WoW. It’s an ambitious product, and a risky one; Blizzard is not just appeasing the elder players by packing on more maximum level content, they are also completely reworking… Continue »Video Game Picks for 2010
I guess I missed out on the rush of Top 10 lists at the end of 2009, huh? Shit happens – you live, you die, you eat cheap tuna and pray that fish are naturally that color. It doesn’t really matter though, because right next to these words is the… Continue »Lord of the Rings Online
Weekend Review is a catch-all review column every Saturday. There is no specific focus; it is just as likely to review toe fungus as it is books or music. Most of the reviews are for things that have long since passed their expiration date. Use only as directed. Originally this… Continue »
Doctor Courage and the Time Dimension
At 999 words, this just barely made it under the limit for Chuck “Wangledangle” Wendig’s I wanna Do Laser contest. A little bit of pulp-hero fiction that I am a little proud of. This is a genre I may have to exploit in some way, it was a blast to… Continue »
Dinobot Mountain: Chapter I
I should mention this is my first strike in a war with that bastard, John D. Kennedy over at Writing Incarnate. Click here to view his ambush attack, Twilight of Avalon. *** “But Prime!” “This is no time for arguments, Inferno,” the leader of the Autobots said. “After that last… Continue »The Baby Cometh
Random Junk is exactly that. Honestly, how much explanation do you need? To be clear, these children in these pics are not mine! I have three children. My eldest is my daughter, Deva Alyssa. She is almost eight now, and lives (primarily) with my mom in Alabama. She’s a great… Continue »
