Posted in Culture, Video Games, Opinion on Jul 17th, 2007 7 Comments »
E3 has come and gone and it seemed a good time to muse on an issue of personal interest to me: the time commitment required to be a “gamer”. I participate in a number of gaming related communities, and universally I find that in those groups I’m typically the individual that actually participates in the […]
Posted in Culture, Board Games, Video Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
A recurring theme for me in the last few weeks has been the notion of tolerance, specifically in tolerating those around me that indulge in pursuits to what I perceive to be an unreasonable degree. It is utterly coincidental that I do this during the NHL playoffs when Canada, as a whole, becomes obsessed with […]
Posted in Family Time, Culture, Board Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
Previously I outlined a deep concern I had with the state of modern board games: that the industry is being driven by an unreasonably hardcore fan community. This is not a premise supported by any objective, measurable phenomenon. Instead I draw this out of my distilled experience with the BoardGameGeek site, and drew some specific […]
Posted in Culture, Board Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 9th, 2007 12 Comments »
Ever since The Dice Tower started I was haunted by a feeling that something was wrong with it. If you didn’t know, The Dice Tower is a prominent podcast about board games authored, primarily, by Tom Vasel. (Hi Tom. Despite what is to come I love the show). Weekly for most of its run, and […]
Posted in Movies, Culture, Reviews on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
On Saturday night the wife and I curled up in a ball to watch Shortbus, the controversial new film from John Cameron Mitchell. If you are savvy with films you might remember him as the mind behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but truth be told I didn’t see that and you probably didn’t either.
Shortbus […]
Posted in Culture on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
So we saw Angels in America : A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part I: Millenium Approaches last night. It was performed by the local University theatre department. Good god, what a fucking mouthful that name is.
It was surprisingly competently acted for University theatre, but the star performer was without a doubt the script which […]