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I’m adding a new category to this blog: the interesting and unusual cuisine that I run into during my busy lifestyle. I’ll try to make this fast and sweet. As a native English speaker I am repeatedly disappointed to find … Continue reading →

It’s that time of the month again. Time for Tex-Mex and short films. It’s up at the Nueva Onda restaurant, near Oltorf and S.Congress, this Wednesday at 8. Here’s what I ate at the last Nueva Onda movie night. Beef … Continue reading →

Here’s the more complex summary of the game that you’ll see on the Wii platform: TITLE: Mushroom Men – The Spore Wars PLATFORM: Wii DEVELOPER: Red Fly Studio GENRE: Action Adventure RELEASE DATE: October 2008 An ichorous green meteor plummets … Continue reading →

For those of you chomping at the bit to write a Mushroom Men story, here’s the summary of the Mushroom Men geo-political situation. TITLE: Mushroom Men – The Spore Wars PLATFORM: Wii TITLE: Mushroom Men – Rise of the Fungi … Continue reading →

Here’s some of the backstory for the "Mushroom Men" contest. TITLE: Mushroom Men – Rise of the Fungi PLATFORM: DS DEVELOPER: Red Fly Studio GENRE: Action Adventure RELEASE DATE: October 2008 An ichorous green meteor plummets through the Earth’s atmosphere, … Continue reading →

So you know how they say that no one ever makes money on a literary magazine? That may be true, but someone out there is going to get a Wii game console out of it. Here’s the official announcement for … Continue reading →

Have you ever found out something really neat about something you already owned that you had never expected? Well, I just discovered that the elephant nose fish that has been living in my aquarium for months has been talking this … Continue reading →

I moderated the steampunk panel at Apollocon. When Chris Roberson brought up the idea that any vision of the future from the past ought to qualify as steampunk, I brought up the counter-example of 50s-style futures. I mean sure, they’re … Continue reading →

So I got some hot-tub time in this morning before checking out of the hotel, which was clearly the icing on a very pleasurable Apollocon weekend. I really enjoyed hanging out and talking with old friends and all the extended … Continue reading →